Business Mandate fountainhead of excellence
RAMYAA RAMESH
T
he journey to the coveted C Suite is tough for all but even more so for women, given the
social and patriarchal barriers they have to overcome. However, over the years, the number of women breaking the glass ceiling and confidently forging a new path has been encouraging. The career journey of such women makes for an interesting study, and I have tried to showcase the stories of ordinary women who have had extraordinary lives and have achieved a lot with pathbreaking career milestones. Roshini Bakshi is one such extraordinary woman whose achievements have been truly inspiring. “My parents taught us the value of education very early in life. For them, performance only meant something if we topped the class. Therefore, my siblings and I grew up to be ‘type A’ people. We wanted to be the best at each stage, competing at home with each other as much as we competed outside,” Roshini explains. Roshini Bakshi has always been an achiever, a typical studious girl who started her schooling in Good Shepherd, Chennai, and went on to do her MBA from the most soughtafter BSchool in
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