Aspire For Her

Aspire For Her motivates women to enter and stay in the workforce to unleash India’s huge economic opportunity. Our vision is to add 1 million women to the economy by 2025 and 10 million by 2030.

Founder & CEO

LivingMyPromise

Have pledged to give 50% of my net worth for reimagining Indian philanthropy led by a group of the most inspiring thought leaders.

Promisor

IDFC FIRST Bank

As a part of the founding leadership team of IDFC Bank, set up a new-age HR function successfully at IDFC Bank.
Employee Experience is a new concept of HR and defines the employee as the best customer.

My role included 

- People Operations (for IDFC Group) 
- Setting up all HR processes and systems in the new bank
- Creating and managing a HR Shared Services model to manage end-to-end employee life cycle
- HR Technology (for IDFC Group)
- Compensation, Benefits, Performance Management 
- Employee Policies 
- Employee Relations and HR Compliance (for IDFC Group)
- Contingent Workforce Management (for IDFC Group)
- Internal Communication

Played a leadership role in the merger of IDFC Bank and Capital First Limited. Worked closely on the harmonization of organisation structure, compensation, benefits, HR technology, HR compliance, Employee Relations and all people-related operations and all employee policies to create a new-age bank.

EVP - HR, Head - Employee Experience

CREATE Foundation

CREATE Foundation is a not-for-profit focussing on social integration through inclusive education

CEO - Project Integrate

Standard Chartered Bank

Member of Consumer Banking MANCO, South Asia.
'Chief Customer Officer' : responsible for excellence in customer service and process design across 2 million customers, all channels and all products.

Head, South Asia - Customer Experience

Launched the redefined Priority Banking Proposition in 2009 and the Preferred Banking Proposition in 2010. 
Managed the P& L of the high value segment, successfully doubling revenue from 2008 to 2011.

Director - Premium Banking, Consumer Banking

Led the India Priority Banking business to be adjudged the globally best performing unit, with the 'most productive' Relationship Managers across geographies.

Business Head - Priority Banking & Capital Markets, India

Reported to the CFO of Consumer Banking, handling finance and strategy for Wealth Management, Liability, Branch Banking, Priority and Preferred Banking.
Handled strategic projects on setting up branches / ATMs/ low cost liability generation / network optimization etc.

Senior Manager - Finance / Strategy - Consumer Banking

Led three of the most visible branches in the Standard Chartered network, including one operating 24x7

Branch Manager - 90 MG Road / Breach Candy / Santa Cruz

ANZ Grindlays Bank

Developed the Direct Sales franchise and successfully doubled the Personal Loan business in West India.

Regional Manager - Personal Loans

Business Analysis / Planning / Institutional Sales / Customer Service / Network strategy

Management Trainee and Assistant Manager - Regional Office

Philips India

Worked in the Luminaire Business Division in Innovation and Service Quality

Engineer

There are 3 chapters in my life. 


And clearly the last is the most exciting. 

The first chapter was about school, engineering college and B School. The boring precision of academic monotony was broken by meeting my best friend - Subhajit - who later became my husband. 

The second chapter was about banking - in ANZ Grindlays and Standard Chartered. I loved banking. But I was tired of being a small decimal point in a global bank and delighted to be part of building a new bank at IDFC - where I was the fourth employee to be hired. The best part of this chapter, though, was welcoming our daughter, Proteeti. 

The third chapter in my life is about aspiration. 

Building Aspire For Her has been the most fulfilling part of my career. When we launched, I drew a line in the sand - of adding a million women to the economy by 2025, 10 million by 2030. 

Every day we are a little closer to unleashing the trillion dollar potential of our country. I am grateful to meet some of the most inspiring leaders in the country and play a small role in stories of courage and resilience - women who make us proud every day. 


This chapter is getting written. 

I would love to see your name in it.

For a moment, I genuinely thought it was a prank.

Aspire For Her had been nominated for the 𝐁𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭 𝐍𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 at the Making India Employable Conference & Awards - MIECA 2025!

Then I saw the jury: Dr. R.A. Mashelkar, Roma Balwani, Chenraj Roychand, Dr. Siddharth Pai… and the disbelief slowly turned into pride for the movement we’re building.

It was surreal to see the one and only Mohandas Pai walk up on the same stage to receive his Lifetime Achievement Award. 

But the most emotional moment for us?

Receiving the award from Dr Anil  (D) Sahasrabudhe, former Chairman of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), and one of our earliest believers, who partnered with us long before anyone knew our name. 

The MIECA platform is special because it acknowledges a truth we all live with:

 • everyone wrings their hands, saying our graduates aren’t employable
 • educational institutions work incredibly hard
 • corporates try their best to bridge the gap

 …yet the twain rarely meet.

MIECA is one of the few genuine efforts to bring thought leaders from both sides onto the same table - with honesty, insight, and shared purpose. Thank you, Shantanu Rooj, Kavita Rooj, Jaideep Kewalramani, and TeamLease Edtech team for creating a bridge over the tears of unfulfilled dreams. 

And a special mention to Roma Balwani, who moderated one of the finest panels I’ve ever witnessed: sharp, warm, and deeply grounded, featuring Prasanth Nair, Vinkesh Gulati, Prof. Satyakam, and Dr. Sahasrabuddhe.

Grateful for this recognition.

Even more grateful for our #MillioNaari community that makes it all real. 💛

India Education Forum India Employer Forum Digivarsity - The University of Work Vijaytha Ail Uditendu Bose Ruchita Tandon ANURADHA SRINIVASAN Hiral Rai Suganya Mani Subha Sriram Capt. Shanthi S Manisha Verma Manisha Saboo Santosh Abraham Rohith Vishwanath Adrita N. Nishant Pandey  Manish Sabharwal Geetika Kohli  Rohit Dogra Pradyut Misra Anshul Gupta Mrunal Samant Swarup Bhattacharyya Dr. Jayashri S. Patil V MAMIDALA JAGADESH KUMAR

Madhura DasGupta Sinha

Founder & CEO | Aspire For Her | UN Awards | Stanford Seed | Adding 10 million women to the workforce

Bangalore, we’re here - and the EntrepreNaari spirit is already in the air! 

Thrilled to welcome you to the EntrepreNaari Mela 2.0 on December 3/4, 2025, at KTPO, alongside Grace Hopper Celebrations. 

This will be a celebration of ambition, creativity and the unstoppable power of women entrepreneurs from across India.

You’ll meet founders who have built extraordinary products and powerful stories, from rural innovators to urban creators — each one charting her own path to financial independence.

This is a space to discover, to collaborate, to support, and to spark ideas that can change the trajectory of women-led businesses in our country.

At Aspire For Her, we believe that when women rise, economies rise. And this week, Bangalore becomes the meeting point of that energy.

Come be part of the movement. Explore. Cheer. Buy. Invest. Mentor.

Let’s build the future - together with some of the best brands walking with us on this journey.

Welcome to the Bangalore EntrepreNaari Mela 2.0!

Ruchita Tandon Puja Kanwar Moulshree Mathur Abha Bagroy Soumya Prasada Neeraja Ganesh Shraddha Jain (aiyyoShraddha) Archana Dutta Divya Sampath Poornima Shenoy Hepsibha V Priya Mohandas Farisha TP Shreya Krishnan Vetri Subramaniam UTI Mutual Fund Ayush Gupta, HFIMA Gas Authority Of India Limited (Gail (India) Limited) NSRCEL Ankita Pegu Anand Sri Ganesh Shobitam, Inc Aparna Thyagarajan Capt. Shanthi S Poulomi Pal GAME - Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship Sirona Deep Bajaj Habuild NPCI BHIM Lalitha Nataraj Amit Mehta Amita Sagar Pallab Mukherji Sonali Jha Cunomial Mamta Bakliwal FICCI FLO BANGALORE

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