Meena has over 25 years of experience working across industry sectors specializing in public policy, strategy and programme design as well as marketing. She has worked closely with senior management in leading organizations around the world advising them on change management strategies and supporting the implementation. She has worked on several case studies at Harvard Business School, INSEAD and IMT, Dubai. She has a double Masters in Biotechnology and Management, and a certificate on Social Entrepreneurship from INSEAD.
Hobbies:
She is an accomplished vocalist and loves to travel and cook. Her favorite travel destinations are food and wine trails. I have done 13 major vineyards around the world so far.
Unique skills:
She believes in being a hands-on professional and switches easily between boardroom discussions and working on the field.
Fun fact:
Her fridge magnet collection was featured in the Hindustan times Sunday magazine Brunch in 2012.
Ruchi is a Chartered Accountant and diploma holder in Systems Design from NIIT. Her intrigue made her experiment with process design for cost optimization and efficiency in her corporate roles. A sabbatical led her to dabble with social work and eventually move to the development sector in her second career stint. Her experience in content development, M&E in niiti gave us the confidence to initiate program implementation with our non-profit organization – Questera Foundation. Presently she is engaged in running Questera and leading M&E projects at niiti.
Hobbies:
Shei loves to crochet, dance, swim and cook. Her love for thrill gets her to experiment with adventure sports.
Unique skills:
Her ability to be hands-on makes her a very resourceful person.
Fun fact:
She can entertain kids endlessly and competes with them at board games.
Vaishali is a Chartered Accountant turned Development Consultant, owing to her passion to do something meaningful for the society. She completed her graduation from Shri Ram College of Commerce and has worked with PwC for 3 years in Statutory and Social Audits. In the social sector, her areas of work have involved Project Management of development projects, Action Research, Impact Analysis, M&E, Report writing, Pilot study for technology platforms and so on. She has an inclination towards contributing to social issues like livelihoods, women empowerment and mental health. She has volunteered for youth-empowerment and COVID-relief programs with Art of Living.
Hobbies:
Vaishali enjoys dancing and talking to people- from friends to absolute strangers. If eating and meditating can be considered hobbies, then those are the most preferred ones (sometimes together). She considers herself as an old soul in an upbeat millennial body.
Unique skills:
Visually representing complex subjective data in simplified, logical & understandable form, Getting people to timely work towards a common goal, Empathetic & Appreciative.
Fun fact:
In school, she was recognized as “Student of the Year” in the year in which she gave her personal worst performance of all times.
Ramya is a typical MBA, who did her time in marketing and business consulting, before taking an unexpected route through magazine editing to the social sector. She is an Action-Research and content writing wizard, whose ability to synthesize patterns from data and putting them into appropriate words, make it easier for the decision makers to clearly understand the status quo and take the necessary next steps.
Hobbies:
She loves collecting Indian textiles and reading.
Unique skills:
Bringing clarity to chaos, dealing with ambiguity, bringing out the best in people
Fun fact:
She has two left feet.
