7 Women Leaders Extraordinaire And Their Leadership Idea

Women today are unstoppable, and their power and influence is rising. March is a month to celebrate women and the contributions they make every day. Here is a list seven women Extraordinaire who are leading in their field of work.

1. Priyanka Anand, CEO, Vedic Sadhana Foundation (Parent Company: Sadhana App)
Women Extraordinaire Priyanka Anand is the CEO of the Vedic Sadhana Foundation (parent company of the Sadhana App), a global movement merging Faith and Tech-nology together. Priyanka is a woman extraordinaire , young leader who holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Technology, Sydney and a Bachelors in Medical Science from the Western Sydney University. Uprooted from her culture, she felt lost and questioned her identity and belief systems. As a gen Y modern mil-lennial mother, she struggled with the confusion of where to start and how to impart the wisdom of core Vedic scriptures like The Bhagāvad Gita to her young daughter. This was a turning point in her life.

On her spiritual quest for answers, her guru and mentor Om Swami led the way forward. She quit her successful corporate career at its peak, to lead the Vedic Sadhana Foundation as its CEO. “At Sadhana app, we have gamified the entire experience and used artificial intelligence (AI) to create 3D elements giving our users an absolute real time and place experience", shares the very proud CEO of the Vedic Sadhana Foundation, Priyanka Anand.

2. Shreya Sharma, Founder, Rest The Case
Shreya Sharma is an ambitious young entrepreneur, lawyer, mediator and Tedx speaker, pursued International relations at the prestigious Harvard university, Cam-bridge, Massachusetts and graduated from the Cardiff University, Wales with LLB Hons. Although Sharma came from an affluent family of the city, she always knew that she was to make her own mark in this competitive world. After a lot of ponder-ing, introspection and hard work she successfully built a legal aggregator platform "Rest The Case". This award winning company Is an online platform that gives a smart and convenient edge to bridge the gap between the courts and the people. From starting her own company at the age of 21 to being a recipient of India 5000 women achiever award 2021, she left no stone unturned. 

" Rest The Case is the one-stop so-lution for all your legal worries. Legal matters are very personal and very confidential and gaining the trust of people to use our services was one of our biggest challenges. To overcome this we have ensured that all the lawyers on our website go through a verification process. I totally believe that having a team who can support you in your idea is key to any company's success." says Shreya.

3. Natasha Jethanandani, Co-founder and CTO, Kaleidofin
Natasha Jethanandan is focussed on making financial services inclusive, especially for the unbanked as a CTO of Kaleidofin. At Kaleidofin she is driven by a strong per-sonal motivation to use her learnings to make a social impact on lives. Natasha be-lieves that encouraging entrepreneurship and ideation within teams is key to real in-novation. Kaleidofin is a fintech platform whose mission is to make the customers’ life goals a reality by providing intuitive and tailored financial solutions. It has over a million active transacting customers on the platform of which 98 per cent are women. 

Na-tasha's dedication towards her work and her team has made her an inspiration for many women who want to create an impact. "We create room for people to share their ideas and also conduct an annual cross-functional hackathon to enhance our roadmaps with ideas that originate from the team. I believe learning and expanding an individual’s scope of work should be a constant. It has a direct impact on the firm’s growth as well as on the individual. We have well-laid-out policies for all our employees for lateral learning within the firm and through external resources." says Natasha.

4. Shweta Aprameya, Founder and CEO, ARTH
Shweta Aprameya, built fintech services for nano entrepreneurs way before they be-came a norm. Shweta is the Founder and CEO of fintech startup ARTH, which pro-vides financial access for the livelihood and upliftment of nano-entrepreneurs , with a focus on women entrepreneurs. Shweta turned towards entrepreneurship post a suc-cessful career at NCR in a global business role; Shweta has st-up Fintech ventures for expanding & delivering of financial access, choice & control to millions of under-served people in India – YTS, Arth Foundation, Arth, HAPPY. She has also served as Digital Finance Advisor to IFC clients in Srilanka & India on large scale digital trans formation projects and was the founding team member and COO & SVP of Airtel Payments Bank. 

She etablished ARTH in 2018, an impact-led Micro MSME Fintech Company with the objective of providing access to affordable financial ser-vices to millions of under-served micro -entrepreneur’s, in India. Shweta is surely a women Extraordinaire who has proved her worth with her work. “From the very be-ginning of my career, I have followed the philosophy of, ‘It’s the team that succeeds and the leader who fails’. At ARTH we empower our teammates to think, plan and execute the best solutions for customers. This is especially important for a growing firm like ours where we are re-imagining the way financial services have been of-fered to the nano-enterprises. A unique idea can come from anyone in the team, by reducing the fear of failure, we encourage a more open environment for growth.” says Shweta.

5. Tejal Amin, Chairperson, Board of Management, Navrachana University & Chairperson of Navrachana Education Society
Tejal Amin, Chairperson Navrachana Education Society, has driven its qualitative expansion from a single institution to one that has initiated 8 more institutions, in-cluding 3 leading schools, affiliated to state, national and international education Boards, focused and innovative programs, covering sports coaching, a schooling pro-gram for underprivileged children, a skill-based program for girls and women, and most recently, the Navrachana University.

Tejal Amin is a director of Jyoti Ltd. and a full-time director of JSL Industries, Mogar, both leading engineering Companies in India, manufacturing high technology engineering products.“The United Nations is celebrating International Women's Day 2023 under the theme DigitALL- Innovation & Technology for Gender Equality. Study after study has revealed that even Artifi-cial Intelligence is gender biased! This is simply a reflection of the overwhelming gender bias in society itself. The first step for a real solution is to make society per se gender neutral through awareness of our subconscious gender stereotypes amongst men and women of all ages across the socioeconomic and cultural spectrum. I am happy to share that Navrachana University in association with Udayan Care and Sa-haj will launch a training program for gender sensitization on the occasion of interna-tional women’s day this year.”

6. Batul Motiwala and Bhoomi Kenia, Co-founders, Perky Souls
Women Extraordinaire Batul Motiwala and Bhoomi Kenia, co-founders of Perky Souls, have always been passionate about creating their own brand and helping busi-nesses with theirs. Started their journey with travel and food blogging, as the name says it all, they are the souls who love to explore unexplored places and eat to their heart's content, trying different cuisines and places. Later, with the increase in de-mand for digital marketing and agencies charging a bomb, they saw a need to extenda helping hand to brands that wish to grow with a budget friendly proposal, and for-tunately, they succeeded in doing so. 

They have always known being a leader, a boss, comes with huge responsibility and they enjoy it in all true sense. They always be-lieve in transparency and creating a fun and healthy environment with their people and that's because they follow this simple ideology - "Company growth and personal growth should always go hand in hand”. They always go for a SWOT analysis to set the future goals because they believe this will help create a great organization and work environment, where each individual will be self-motivated to push themselves to achieve the goals. https://instagram.com/perkysouls?igshid=wwufa82ljjxb 

7. Ms. Shraddha Soparkar Founder Trustee, Madhuram Charitable Trust with 7-year-old beneficiary
Women Leader Shraddha Soparkar is the Founder Trustee of Madhuram Charitable Trust which is working to create a positive impact in the lives of the marginalized, specially-gifted, and physically challenged persons. Soparkar is a lawyer by qualification and completed her BSc LLB from ILS Law College of Pune University. 

She is the mother of a special kid and has established the Madhuram Charitable Trust which works for specially-abled persons. In just four years, the trust has made a no-ticeable difference in the lives of more than 800 special children by providing them with various therapies, hearing aids, prosthetic legs, etc.Mrs Soparkar shares “I try to emphasise on inclusivity of special people, so that they bring a similar impact that a normal person would bring to society. For all such special women, financial inde-pendence is foremost important and since women are restricted to certain social envi-ronments, they face problems to become financially independent. Once women get financially independent, she gains the confidence to work on the accomplishment of their goals and dreams”. “Women who achieve financial independence are more con-fident to strive towards realizing their goals and objectives.” She added.