Dr Annuu Gupta

Dr Annuu Gupta is a weight loss consultant, radiologist, author, and a thought leader in the fields of nutrition and preventive medicine. Her pioneering work in the prevention and treatment of overweight and obesity, and addictive and binge-eating disorders has been published in leading newspapers of the country.

After having successfully dropped the extra 25 kgs from her body, she runs a thriving international weight management practice. Her liberating approach to weight loss draws on cutting edge techniques from neuroscience, cognitive behavioural therapy and psychology. Her book Weight-Wise Revolution has been the Amazon bestseller for over a year, and has changed lives across the globe. 

Dr Gupta – trained Weight & Health Coach, and Master NLP Coach from San Diego, USA – has helped busy professionals, working moms, CEOs and business owners take control of overeating and stress, and add more ease, success and joy to their health, businesses and lives. She has also led many workshops on topics like: her unique behavioural blueprint to manage the mind-body, nutritional and fitness challenges associated with weight and body composition management at any age, perimenopause and menopause, binge eating, addictive eating, and the metabolic syndrome. She is a mother of two beautiful kids, a voracious reader and a runner. She has also been practicing Vipassana meditation since the age of 12.

Dalia Feldheim

Dalia Feldheim, founder of Flow Leadership Consultancy, draws on her own extensive corporate leadership experience and her passion for championing others, to enable organisations promote a more authentic, happy and psychologically-safe working culture. Before founding Flow Leadership Consultancy, Dalia spent over two decades as a C-suite global marketing executive where she led work on some of the world’s most iconic ad campaigns – two of them being ‘Tampax Mother Nature’ and ‘Always like a girl‘.

Dalia holds an Executive Masters degree in Consulting and Coaching for Change from INSEAD business school (Organisational Psychology) along with a Happiness Facilitator diploma from the Happiness Studies Academy.

She teaches ‘The Science of Happiness and Suffering’ as an Adjunct Professor at the Singapore Management University, is an executive coach and an international speaker including Tedx Dec 19.

Dalia’s book ‘Dare to Lead like a Girl’ is scheduled for release end of 2020.

She is a mother of three and wife to an entrepreneur husband; and finally in order to keep her life in Flow, she is
also a certified yoga instructor. To find out more, pls visit her website.

Jo Wagstaff

I spent almost 20 years working in senior leadership roles in the Australian financial services industry, obtaining all the material things and achieving all I thought I needed to achieve to be ‘happy’, before realising that I wasn’t.

As a woman in my 40s I have spent much of my life ‘searching’. When I look back I am not even sure what I thought I was searching for – at different times money, control, validation, success, excitement, freedom, power, safety, family, love. But most of the time what I was really doing was running away – from myself, from my feelings, my fears, my hurts, my reality, my sense of unworthiness. And often denying my true self, including my values, dreams, purpose, femininity, strengths and talents. Eventually I hit an emotional, mental and spiritual rock bottom and I stopped. I stopped running and searching.

As I began to take off my many masks and defences, unravel my past patterns and tap into an inner wisdom, I began the real journey – to meet my authentic self (as well as my not-so-authentic self!) and learn, very gradually, to show up in this world authentically. Perfectly imperfect. It is a daily practice.

I retrained, studied psychotherapy and coaching and became a Search Inside Yourself (Born at Google. Based on Brain Science) Accredited Teacher. I am now an executive coach, facilitator and keynote speaker, and work with many leading Australian and global companies to support them to develop mindful and authentic leaders and compassionate and engaged cultures. What I am most passionate about is inspiring and supporting myself and all women to find their inner voice – to feel confident, calm and connected. To care for themselves as much as they do others. To live a truly authentic and meaningful life.

I am a mother of a wonderful 15 year old teenager and have faced many of the struggles that come with juggling a successful career with that of a family and creating meaning, fun and authenticity in my life. I love to dance, meditate, be in the ocean, travel, be in nature and spend time with friends and family.

Payal Nanjiani

Recognized by the media for redefining leadership, Payal Nanjiani is a globally acclaimed Indian-American leadership expert and executive coach. Her keynotes, workshops, coaching, and books have inspired millions of people around the world to develop a leadership mindset and succeed – no matter what. She is the founder of ‘Success Is Within Leadership’ and has been instrumental in introducing the concept at many corporates and universities.

Payal’s work has been embraced by corporate America and organisations across the globe ranging from Fortune 500 Companies, mid-size organisations, and management institutions to celebrity CEOs, entrepreneurs, government officials, and universities. Her advice gets you to your next level no matter what. 

Her books, which are published by leading publishers in New York, are popular worldwide amongst leaders and corporates, making her a truly global phenomenon. She has been featured on television, global magazines, newspapers, podcasts, and more. She is a regular speaker on America’s 88.1 FM.

​Payal lives with the philosophy that leadership starts and ends with us, and believes that success can be achieved with both speed and serenity. You can know more about her and her work through her official website.

Pooja Shahani

Pooja Shahani is a recognised and respected diversity, equity and inclusion executive with over 10 years of experience with multinational organisations and nonprofits in India, Hong Kong and the US. Over the course of Pooja’s career, she has advised, designed and implemented inclusion strategies across organisations using a research driven and creative approach.

In her previous role, she was leading the Diversity and Inclusion strategy of Goldman Sachs, Bengaluru, where she was responsible for conceptualising the firm’s inclusion strategy, and implementing it firm wide. Prior to Goldman Sachs, she worked as the Country Manager, India for Community Business, a corporate social responsibility and diversity & inclusion consulting practice headquartered in Hong Kong.

Pooja is a sought-after speaker and facilitator at industry conferences. She partnered with NASSCOM to deliver workshops across India on LGBTQ+ inclusion in the workplace. In addition, she has received the “Global Diversity Leadership” award by the World HRD Congress for her contribution in the diversity space in 2015 and 2016. She is the co-author of a publication called “Diversity & Inclusion: Building the Business Case – Stories from India”.

Pooja holds a Bachelors of Liberal Arts from Middlebury College, USA. She has also completed the Stanford Graduate Business School Ignite Program on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. She is also a certified StrengthsFinder coach, and is currently pursuing her coaching certification with the International Coaching Federation (ICF).

Savitha Nanjappa

Transformational Success Coach, entrepreneur, ex-corporate woman, wife, mom and feminist dedicated to helping you succeed. Success With Savitha a global coaching platform found by Savitha that primarily helps budding entrepreneurs launch their brands and strengthen the bottom line of their business as they scale.

Savitha, the founder of Success With Savitha, completed her MBA in Marketing from T.A. Pai Institute, Manipal and proceeded to make her mark in the corporate world, where she supercharged the growth of brands like Airtel, ICICI Prudential, Telenor, Novo Nordisk, and Tata Docomo. After taking a break to deal with a challenging pregnancy in 2013, Savitha decided to take the entrepreneurial route instead. Armed with her corporate experience of 17 years, she started her image consulting agency in 2016 to help young women and men take confident steps in the corporate world (She is also a certified Image Consultant from the Image Consulting Business Institute, India and Conselle, USA).

However, she soon realized that personal image is only a part of the whole, so she launched her flourishing coaching business Success with Savitha to orient young folks for well-rounded success. Currently, Savitha works with clients across 6 countries to equip them with practical knowledge to launch their brands and scale their business sustainably. She also frequently shares her knowledge with ambitious and impressionable young folk at corporate training programs and business retreats, panels, and talks.

Ekta Kumar

Ekta Kumar, Country Lead – CSR, Shell India, has been on a journey of purpose-led career and mindful living for the last few years. She possesses 20 years of social impact and change management experience spanning a wide spectrum of industries from banking, consulting and telecom to energy, where she has held global, country and regional leadership roles.

Apart from being skilled in corporate social responsibility; circular economy and sustainable development; brand and reputation management; community and stakeholder engagement; change and program management; customer experience and business excellence (lean six sigma black belt) – Ekta is passionate about building a more sustainable world by leveraging current skills, and continuously learning new ones.

She is an alumna of Indian School of Business, and has previously held leadership positions at ICICI Bank, Deloitte and Airtel.

Dr Joan Rosenberg

Dr. Joan Rosenberg, a cutting-edge psychologist with over 35 years of clinical practice, is known as an innovative thinker, acclaimed speaker and trainer. As a two-time TEDx speaker and member of the Association of Transformational Leaders, she has been recognised for her thought leadership and influence in personal development.

Dr. Rosenberg speaks on how to build confidence, emotional strength, and resilience while achieving emotional, conversational and relationship mastery. She is a professor of graduate psychology at Pepperdine University and her latest book, 90 Seconds to a Life you Love: How to Master Your Difficult Feelings to Cultivate Lasting Confidence, Resilience and Authenticity, was released in February 2019.

Dr. Rosenberg has been a featured expert in multiple documentaries and seen on CNN’s American Morning, ABC, CBS, FOX, PBS, and OWN networks; seen in Forbes, Inc. and Women’s World and has made appearances and radio interviews in major metropolitan markets.

Irina Ghose

As the leader for Microsoft’s Cloud Solutions in India, Irina is responsible for empowering Cloud Adoption and Digital Transformation by engaging with customers and partners to envision and architect their digital growth strategy.

She leads a team of Cloud Specialists & Technical Evangelists with diverse capabilities across Microsoft’s five solution areas and, additionally, she heads the India Microsoft Technology Center, an experience centre that provides customers access to innovative technologies and
world-class expertise.

A Microsoft veteran for nearly two decades, Irina has held a variety of Strategy and Sales leadership roles across our Enterprise and Education segments, focusing on Business management, Operations, Partnerships, Innovations and New business initiatives.

She is an Electrical Engineer from IIT BHU and an MBA from XLRI. A proponent of Women in Business and Technology, she is a recipient of the ‘Inspirational Women’s Award’ at Microsoft. Besides being a marathon runner and a music lover, she is a strong champion of Diversity & Inclusion. She is the founder of MyLittleBit, a philanthropic foundation focusing on education and employment for underprivileged girls. She’s also actively engaged with startups with ‘Microsoft for Startups’ and as a Trustee with ‘SonderConnect’, a foundation for women entrepreneurs.

Poonam Vijay Thakkar

Poonam Vijay Thakkar is a Mentor of Change for NITI Aayog (GOI), Founder of SupportSaturdays, Life Wellness Coach, and Head – Analytics & Digital Communications with a leading large NBFC. With close to two decades of rich experience and leadership, she is an award-winning, 360-degree surround marketing, customer and digital leadership champion.

A highly self-driven professional from the BFSI domain, with deep-rooted knowledge of the industry and the customer, Poonam enjoys building brands through honed business expansion led marketing strategies carved alongside directional and operational efficiencies, while simultaneously keeping a sharp eye on the top line of the business. Her brand marketing consultancy portfolio includes OTT platforms, NGOs, infrastructure (mining), sports fitness brands, business channels, advertising agencies, and digital startups.

Poonam is an alumna of IIM-A, Google certified Ad-Word specialist, BBA-MBA with dual specialisation in Marketing and HR, a certified Six Sigma Green Belt, and an internationally certified (ICF & CAA accredited) life wellness coach.