The Good Glamm Partners with Project Naveli and Workverse

The Good Glamm Group, South Asia’s largest beauty and personal care conglomerate partnered with Project Naveli and Workverse to launch the second cohort of the Nimaya flagship programme which helps girls from under-served communities build aspirational careers.  

The Good Glamm Group Co-founder, Naiyya Saggi along with Navya Naveli Nanda, founder Project Naveli and Samyak Chakrabarty, founder Workverse hosted an inspirational session on entrepreneurship and critical thinking for 30 young women pursuing engineering at the group’s Mumbai office. 

Naiyya Saggi, Co-Founder, Good Glamm Group said, “It was such a pleasure to be asked to address young women on workplace skills. Across the Good Glamm Group we believe that If we are to become a nation where women play an equal part in the economy, it is critical that we help our young girls with critical workplace readiness skills, especially in STEM. As a woman in tech myself, I believe what Navya and Samyak are building is an extremely critical part of democratizing skills and ensuring more bright young women get the opportunity to meet their potential. At the Good Glamm Group we too are passionate about accelerating potential across communities of women across India.”  

Navya Nanda, Founder Project Naveli, and Samyak Chakrabarty, Founder, Workverse shared, “21st-century workplace skills are a platform for women to lead in the new world of work. Many sought-after skills like emotional intelligence, creative thinking, and critical thinking are innate in women. Our goal is to train our cohorts to harness these superpowers for career success. For the Nimaya programme, our vision is to democratize access to high-quality exposure and opportunity - required to achieve growth in a fast-paced and transforming business landscape.” 

Also speaking at the event were mentors and leaders from the The Good Glamm Group - Sukhleen Aneja, CEO, Good  Brands Co., Deep Ganatra, Group CTO, Kartik Rao, Group CHRO, Avani Shah, data science expert and Deep Bajaj, Founder and CEO, Sirona. They shared their professional journeys with the young women and highlighted real-life leadership challenges, learnings, advice on critical thinking, and building problem-solving skills. 

This was followed by an address by Amisha Gonsalves of Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues College of Engineering, a Nimaya alumna. She shared her journey of growth and skill development at the Nimaya program. 

The Nimaya flagship programme, jointly run by Project Naveli and Workverse, is built on the philosophy that skills such as critical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, and storytelling are just as important as technical skills and are highly preferred by employers. In fact, the World Economic Forum lists these skills amongst the top 10 must-haves for jobs of the future. Recognizing their importance, the government of India has also laid special emphasis on them in its new National Education Policy.

But the hard truth is, access to such high-quality exposure is limited largely to students from elite-tier institutions even though they aren't in most of the job-seeking pool even in the organized sector. Therefore, the underlying principle behind Nimaya is to democratize access to 21st-century skills. The region, type of college, gender, and family background should not be a barrier in having access to meaningful opportunities and in learning the skills required to qualify for them. They have specifically chosen to focus on women as they believe proficiency in these skills can enable them to achieve leadership positions in the corporate world. 49 percent of India's population being women, their efforts could impact the compounded economic growth to a great extent.