Empowering Women Biz Leaders

Ameera Shah, Promoter and Managing Director of pathology and diagnostics services chain Metropolis Healthcare, is also a financial investor and a business mentor. Passionate about women leadership and empowerment, she supports budding women entrepreneurs through ' Empoweress'. It is a not-for-profit platform for women-led businesses to find advice, mentorship and microfunding. Launched in 2017, the platform has incubated more than 50 women-led businesses already.

The term empoweress is a mix of the words empower and empress that signifies women of worth, power and status, says Shah. Empoweress has a panel of experts who mentor selected women entrepreneurs through peer-to-peer network, goal executivetive setting commuetting and leadership communication, different ways too achieve the desired results.ults. They also guide through and womenen direct their entrepreneurs entregh them experiences exdirect to the right resourcesurces to help them take their most critical decisions.s. Aspiring candidates havee to send a non linep resent at ionnt at io n with details, includingg business ideas, market insights, sights, competitor analysis,ysis, sales and marketing execution plans, five-year projections and revenue models.odels. An expert projects panel for select sect selig ia a year-long eligible mentorship programme gramme with one- on- onee sessions and help for firmingming up funds to run businesses. sinesses. –