Fearless, a risk taker yet leading with sensitivity and empathy. Meet Shreyasi Singh, Founder & CEO of Harappa, a learner-centered institution of the future committed to empowering its learners with Thrive Skills—an essential set of cognitive, social and behavioral skills to enable individuals to continuously succeed, at every stage of their career.Shreyasi’s journey to entrepreneurship, and education, is itself symbolic of the diversity and opportunities of modern careers. She began her career as a journalist, and spent more than 10 years in media. In this innings, she worked across broadcast and print the highlight was being the editor of the Indian edition of Inc., the iconic American magazine on entrepreneurship. She’s also written two books on entrepreneurship, including a bestsellser, The Wealth Wallahs, for which she was recognized with the Young Woman Author Award by India’s Women Enterprise Awards; and a children’s book on a woman entrepreneur. A few years back, she switched from business journalism to higher education, driven mainly by the opportunity to help build a women’s-only management program. In this episode she talks about:How they started, what went well, how being led from a place of empathy and wanting to help, led to Harappa giving free access to a program that would help people in the pandemic cope led to an explosion in the B2C space, what she wishes she could do better on and so much more in this episode. 

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