YOUNG LEADERS COLLECTIVE
AN INITIATIVE OF THE AKSHAYAPATRA FOUNDATION
Young Leaders Collective(YLC) is a year-long fellowship for exceptional individuals across sectors & aims to provide a platform to harness and augment the fellows’ skills while enabling Social Change. This fellowship will run concurrent to the existing vocations of the fellows. YLC will offer curated opportunities & formats for driven, young leaders to leverage their skills & network, beyond their work place, to engineer positive social change.
NOTE: Accounting for public health realities, all engagements/orientations for the 2021 cohort will be in virtual/regional formats.
We are looking to induct 25 exceptional Leaders in the founding Cohort
All applications are evaluated basis the criterion listed below and the eventual choice is made by a Selection Panel post virtual one-on-one interviews.
For any queries, please reach out to sarabjeet.g@akshayapatra.org
Aditya is a management graduate currently working with Crompton Consumer. He specializes in Operations and Supply Chain Management. He is married and lives in Mumbai with his wife. He is inspired by the socio economic change bought about by Amul and belives social enterprises are the way forward to lift people out of poverty and bring out a positive societal change.
I currently work in a leadership position at HDFC Life and have previously worked with leading Fortune 500 MNCs and marquee startups. My non-profit experience includes launching a ‘fundraising & resource mobilization’ program at Pratham & managing tie-up between Novartis & St. Jude Childcare centers. I have extensively traveled across India and I am passionate to work on social causes.
I work as Vice-President Human Resources at Fisdom. I have been associated with many Volunteer Organisations, the most prominent one being the art of living. I have been responsible for skill building initiatives as a part of ICICI Skills Academy. I love my work and love giving back to society. I believe in being good and doing good.
Lakshmi Krupa Jeyaganesh currently serves as an HR Head for Education and Stationery Products Business at ITC Limited. She is an Associate Fellow in Talent Management from The Wharton School and has over to 14 years of HR Experience. She specializes in Strategic HR Business Partnering, Top Talent Management, Performance Frameworks, Learning & Development, Organizational Design & Transformation. Lakshmi brings onboard a diverse industry experience across Telecom, FMCG, Captive IT, Global B2B and Automotive Industry domains. Prior to her current role, she has worked with Renault-Nissan, Tata Coffee, Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages and Reliance Communications.
Hello! I am Madhuri Chandra Anchuri, Risk Manager by profession working with MSCI for clients located across the globe to onboard risk and analytical solutions. I am also a social entrepreneur at heart, globe trotter by curiosity and mother of a naughty toddler!
The two words that have always fascinated me are ‘media’ and ‘society’, having followed them till date in life I have been educated and working in fields related to them. I have Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Lady Shriram College and Master’s degree in Media Governance from Jamia Millia Islamia. With 7 years of professional experience spreading across media firms, NGOs and corporates, I have gained expertise in strategic marketing planning, organizing events, communication, media planning & PR coordination, training and monitoring, developing training modules, capacity building, skill training, research and project management.
Ruchi is a former management consultant at McKinsey & Co. She has an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad and holds several national level ranks (99.99%ile in CAT, AIR 8 in CA-Foundation, B.Com Gold Medalist). She is now an entrepreneur and has founded her own startup, and is also writing a book.
Santosh is a marketing and customer experience professional with a career spanning over a decade in Manufacturing and Telecom. A graduate from IIM Bangalore, Santosh has keen interest in consumer psychology and socio-economic matters. He believes that access to good education is the most effective lever for community upliftment.
I am Shreyans Mehta, working as a senior associate at BlackRock. I have more than 5 years of experience in data science, technology and finance. My hobbies include reading, writing, and playing badminton. I have been following Akshaya Patra for more than 5 years now, and am super excited to be starting this journey.
Vaibhav works with Visa where he leads fintech engagements to digitise small merchants in India. He has 8 years of diverse experience in consultative sales, strategy, product and operations. With Masters from MIT and MBA from IIM Bangalore, he brings to the table the best of both technology and business worlds. He graduated as an Institute Silver Medalist from IIT Roorkee, and is an aspiring theatre and improv artist.
Celebrity Chef & Padma Shri Awardee
Co-founder & Senior Partner Mundkur Law Partners
Co-Founder MINDHOUSE, Zomato.
Founders & CEO, Delhivery.
EX Managing Director of Compass Group (India)
Partner, Bain & Company San Francisco
Board Member – IIM Bangalore, CRISIL, Titan Industries
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