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Bhavna Toor is the founder and CEO of Shenomics, a mindful-leadership coaching platform to help women live and lead from within.
Bhavna has been mentoring women and impact entrepreneurs for the last 4 years, most recently as an entrepreneur-in-residence at the GSF Global Accelerator and previously as the CEO and Director of the National Social Entrepreneurship Forum in India.
Prior to transitioning to impact entrepreneurship, Bhavna led a successful 8-year long corporate career in finance, most recently as a Vice President and Client Portfolio Manager at Lazard in New York, where she managed product and business development for various hedge fund strategies on its $7 Billion+ Alternative Investments platform.
Bhavna is a passionate leadership coach and motivational speaker and has spoken widely on topics related to leadership and women’s empowerment, including at TEDx. She is the founding member of the Womensphere Global Network and a mentor with Sheroes.
Bhavna has an MBA in Social Innovation and Impact from the NYU-Stern School of Business. She’s lived in 6 countries, and brings a global perspective and sensitivity to her work.
Bhavna Toor is a lead speaker at the Breaking Barriers To Business Growth Step Above event at Mumbai and Bangalore and will be conducting a session on key internal hurdles that stop entrepreneurs from achieving their full potential.
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Neena was the sole caregiver of Amma and though one would think that Amma was dependent on her, Neena felt otherwise.
Neena inhaled the aroma that emanated from the pan and took a deep breath. The aroma of cumin interspersed with butter transported her back to the modest kitchen in her native village. She could picture her father standing in the kitchen wearing his white crisp kurta as he made delectable concoctions for his only daughter.
Neena grew up in a home where both her parents worked together in tandem to keep the house up and running. She had a blissful childhood in her modest two-room house. The house was small but every nook and cranny gave her memories of a lifetime. Neena’s young heart imagined that her life would follow the same cheerful course. But how wrong she was!
When she was sixteen, the catastrophic clutches of destiny snatched away her parents. They passed away in a road accident and Neena was devastated. Relatives thronged her now gloomy house and soon it was decided that she should be married off.
Being a writer, Nivedita Louis recognises the struggles of a first-time woman writer and helps many articulate their voice with development, content edits as a publisher.
“I usually write during night”, says author Nivedita Louis during our conversation. Chuckling she continues,” It’s easier then to focus solely on writing. Nivedita Louis is a writer, with varied interests and one of the founders of Her Stories, a feminist publishing house, based in Chennai.
In a candid conversation she shared her journey from small-town Tamil Nadu to becoming a history buff, an award-winning author and now a publisher.
Nivedita was born and raised in a small town in Tamil Nadu. It was for schooling that she first arrived in Chennai. Then known as Madras, she recalls being awed by the city. Her love-story with the city, its people and thus began which continues till date. She credits her perseverance and passion to make a difference to her days as a vocational student among the elite sections of Madras.
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