Lean In Bangalore

For the longest time, I thought leadership presence was synonymous with being the person who turned heads. From Meryl Streep in The Devil…

All of us would have come across “the one” who carries charisma, grace, and a dollop of gravitas as they enter into a space.

How do you get a group of women to talk unabashedly about their workplace? Ask them about “the one” in their office. “The One” who steals…

Confidence is a sublime quality. It elevates us in visible ways, helping us make a more lasting impact. It shows up in the big things and…

In Part 1 of this conversation, I spoke about the ambivalence women like you and me feel when coming back to work. So much has changed for…

You have been a fabulous career woman so far, acing it at work, navigating deliverables through your pregnancy, and managing to be…

The month of March marks Women’s History Month, and while a lot has changed over the decades, some things have still stayed the same. After…

Lean In Network Bangalore’s pro bono Coaching Initiative for women: In Collaboration with Navgati’s Coaching Collective

In Collaboration with Navgati’s Coaching Collective

“Main apni favorite hoon” (translation: I am my own favorite) said Kareena Kapoor famously in a Bollywood movie; and it struck a chord…

We celebrated International Women’s Day in March, the theme for this year being #choosetochallenge.

Consider this: There’s a new position in your company to lead a team overseas. Leadership is contemplating whom to select for this role…

We take career breaks for various reasons: child-care, elderly-care, pursuing side-hustles, travelling to see the world, soul-searching or…

Work-Life balance is a cliché: there is no golden ratio that holds true for everyone. As life happens- and we discover love, family, and…

While discussing books in our Lean In Bangalore Women In Tech community circle, we had one of our members, Vidya, share a great list of…

When you wake up to days that feel the same as yesterday, when you cruise on autopilot through your daily routine, and when to-do lists…

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life….??Fixing This Misnomer

Vidya (V)is a queer woman with a history of gender transition from male to female. She is an academic researcher with degrees from IIT…

“Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder…look for opportunities, look for growth, look for impact, look for mission. Move sideways, move…

The Covid-19 pandemic has reset a lot of things in our lives: from turning a globalized world into locked down pockets to making working…

“What does Negotiation mean to you? What are some scenarios you have encountered at work?” We started the Power Chat on Negotiations with…

This month, we at Lean In Bangalore (LIB) were delighted to host the wonderful team from Lean In: Rachel Schall Thomas, Co-Founder and CEO…

-Sphoorti Kumar