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Lalana has over 19 years of experience in the areas of Operations and Leadership Development.
She currently works at Navgati as a facilitator and trainer, conducting leadership workshops.
Before joining Navgati, Lalana co-founded Printo, a retail business that started in 2006 with one store and today has 20 stores across India. As Director of Operations, she led a team of 160 people, and her work involved developing and training on customer-centric processes.
Prior to this, Lalana has worked in diverse industries and company formats, from her family business in Bombay to the multinational company, Xerox Ltd.
Lalana is an MBA from Nottingham University Business School (UK). She is also a Green Belt in Six Sigma and has been a guest lecturer at IIM-B and other business schools on the topic of entrepreneurship. She is a certified MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) practitioner and is currently under training to be a psychotherapist.
She serves on the board of two companies – Printo (mentioned above) and Cividep, an NGO that works in the space of labour rights and human rights. She is also a mentor with the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women Entrepreneurs. Outside of work, Lalana enjoys playing the piano and writing fiction.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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