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 Anindita Garg is the first woman parenting coach in Maharashtra with 19 years of overall experience including over 10 years of transformational coaching. She is the Co-Founder of Pune based Mindware, a multiple intelligence based assessment and counselling company which was established in 2005 and reinvented in 2010. Mindware was incepted with the purpose to reduce and stop the suicidal trends among teenagers under stress.
It was always Anindita's dream to become an entrepreneur. At a young age of 17, she started doing part time jobs to earn pocket money and continued to do various jobs with different companies till the age of 23. But she always wanted to do something unique and creative and so she started her firm Exotica - a proprietary company in corporate gifting from 2004-2010. Though it was a profitable venture, Anindita felt that her business should be beneficial and must contribute to transform human lives. So, along with her existing business, her husband and she started Mindware in 2005 - a corporate and HR training organization. After attending the ISB training, where she was coached by her mentor, she realised that mere monetary benefits in a business does not bring mental satisfaction unless you contribute to the society at large. A sense of giving, gives greater pleasure than receiving. She was deeply influenced by her mentor's coaching and fully dedicated herself to Mindware.
As a young coach, the biggest challenge she faced was at the beginning when she did not have enough credentials. Various challenges that women entrepreneurs face today include: family members doubting their abilities and lack of support, getting a fair chance as their counterparts, creating work-life balance and the sense of lack of security in work-place, among others. Due to family responsibilities, women easily go on a guilt trip whenever they have to choose between her family commitment and leadership commitment. "The woman within" is the biggest strength and the biggest challenge of women leadership.
Anindita had to face failures right from clinching a deal, developing credibility to establishing a brand. Failure came in the form of fund crunches.
She believes that success gives you moments to celebrate but failure polishes you and sculpts you as a master in your field. Failure does not define you; it refines you as a human being and tells you what you did not know yet. Integrity, passion and commitment are the key ingredients to long-term success. At the same time, it is very important to set up short-term goals and monitor it on a regular basis. It is very important to celebrate every small success as it provides one with the right fuel to go further.
After venturing into professional life, Anindita has become more alert about the quality of her personal life. She consciously spends quality time with her family.
The most important thing she learnt from her mentor and the ISB Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Programme is the courage and wisdom required to say 'no' to bad business. Saying 'no' creates workability in life as everyone has limited time. She advices readers and budding women entrepreneurs to convert the negatives of life to make you unstoppable. Only thinking and dreaming big does not help. What actually helps is to take action.
Mindware is currently established in Pune, Nashik, Hyderabad and Sawantwadi. Till now, it has transformed the lives of more than 40,000 people through counselling, life-coaching and transformational training. They plan to venture into five new cities in India in the next two years and two international destinations, to spread its unique school of parenting coaching. Anindita wishes to transform 60,000 lives in the next 5 years.
For more information, please check: http://www.mindwareindia.in
We wish Anindita the very best in her future endeavours!
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