Women Leaders

  The Simply Suparnaa © Media Network has been awarded through the United Nations Women Empowerment Principal Awards supported by the European Union. The network has been acknowledged as an SME Champion in the community. Featured amidst the biggest and brightest companies and initiatives of the country! The Network consciously works towards creating a positive

The Wisdom of Big Data A Simply Suparnaa Perspective Big Data is the buzzword in the digital world with innumerable numbers mapping infinite trends of a multitude of consumer behavior. A gold mine for marketers to strategize, position, and market their brands. But where is the wisdom in all that buzz? Havish Madhvpaty is an

Choose to Challenge International Women’s day 2021 Women’s day 2021 saw invites for representation of Woman Endangered, our nonprofit initiative, from as far of as Finland, inviting to share perspectives, quotes, and sessions on sustainable menstruation. And most importantly on what WE choose to challenge.   The fervor started with Birlasoft Limited’s request to address

Interview A global brand acknowledges Suparnaa Chadda also popularly known as Simply Suparnaa, as a woman of substance. Volvo recorded Simply Suparnaa’s story in the hill city of Mahabaleshwar while she drove their luxury brand Volvo XC90, which is known to be the safest car in the world! Autocar India published her story on Women’s day, for their one million-plus subscriber

Interview Meet Geeta Goel, Country Director Michael and Susan Dell Foundation. A mother of 2 boys and a classmate from school. In 2017 she was nominated as the top 30 most powerful women in the country and rightly so. She chairs the impact investment council in India and is heading the international foundations that has

Interview Meet Chhaya Sharma, the erstwhile DCP South Delhi and the woman who cracked the Nirbhaya case. IPS officer Chhaya Sharma got a call in the middle of the night about 2 estranged bodies lying stark naked on the side of a road in Delhi 6 years back. She went ahead and nabbed the criminals

Interview ‘Be your own Mahatma Gandhi or Rani Lakshmi Bai. Don’t expect someone else to bring about change, Be the change’ I was introduced to Abheena Aher through a common friend Sharif Rangnekar. Her reputation precedes her and she lived up to every bit of it. I had approached her to be on the jury

Interview Sid & Eika Bannerjee Meet Sid & Eika, leaders of the corporate world, she is a CEO & he a marketing head. Childhood sweethearts, married for twenty years, with 2 teenaged daughters, they’ve invented a unique way to keep each other intellectually stimulated through the year, every week! Intrigued? I was too, especially with

Interview Nandini Dias ‘I rarely get asked questions relating to my work as a CEO instead most people want to know if I have traded my family for a leadership role’ Nandini Dias , CEO Lodestar UM. The most influential woman in the advertising world as ranked by brand equity through a recent survey. Married

Interview Geetanjali Pandit Gupta A seasoned HR Professional managing talent in media organizations unfolds a surprising fact about the insecurities of humans that creep into the work place. ‘In my 25 years as an HR Lead, I have seen people don’t want to hire people better than themselves.’ Geetanjali Pandit Gupta author Buddha at work

Interview Startups, leadership and gender equity Courage, conviction, passion along with a good business sense to know when to call it quits are a must have for all startups says, Kanika Mittal. A corporate honcho with a keen eye on the entrepreneurial space in India, she ardently promotes community building especially for women entrepreneurs. A

Interview Vani Gupta, Marketing Director Pepsico India Woman can’t have it all. It cuts through all socio economic barriers. A lot of debate has ensued on this and we still continue to grapple. Not because women can’t, but because we, you and I that make this society, won’t allow her to. The idea to meet

Interview This was amongst the very first few interviews (second to be precise) in the short trip to Mumbai, when I decided to take the plunge and record some interactions for the Simply Suparnaa series. Through the extended weekend in Mumbai, I was staying with a friend in Khar West. Her pad became our studio,