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Mission:
To help South Asian women achieve their goals to become inspiring leaders and to develop their potential through a foundation of support and mentorship. The spirit of IWL is about excellence in leadership, advocating for change, educating, and raising awareness.
As South Asian women, we have accomplished a great deal in spite of the many challenges we face, both individually and as a group. We benefit by sharing our similarities of culture and gender, and our differences in professions, life stages, and perspectives. By drawing upon shared learning, we reach our greatest potential as a community, thus providing a foundation for future South Asian women leaders.
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San Francisco:: What IWL Means to Me: Part 1 of Several |
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In July or so of 2005, I was dragging my way through a sweltering Washington, DC summer. You know what I'm talking about. It's so sticky and nasty that it hurts. Just out of graduate school, I had recently accepted a position as an analyst with one of the federal government agencies. I got a call from my masi (aunt) in California. You should check out this group, she told me. Indus Women Leaders. Visit their website -- I'll get you in touch with them -- and go to their next meeting. It's a great organization, a professional association of South Asian women. They're a very impressive group of women, she added. My masi is not one to throw around hollow compliments. Every lazy, sticky, 90-degree, I-already-have-friends-I-don't-need-no-professional-group molecule in my body protested, but I went, and never looked back.
Masi was right; I too was impressed. The women I have met through IWL are individually driven, passionate, innovative, creative, and thoughtful. Collectively, they work tirelessly to reach out to others and bring them together, to connect with like-minded individuals on a variety of topics for discussion or activity. After that introductory meeting in DC and after each IWL event I have attended since -- whether on the East Coast or the West -- I have walked out feeling inspired and empowered.
Inspiration and empowerment. That's what IWL means to me. It means I leave IWL gatherings with new knowledge, approaches, techniques, or ideas. It means I am not alone when I wonder where to begin my personal financial planning, how to incorporate a healthy diet into a busy lifestyle, how to merge my parents' spirituality with my personal philosophy, or how to begin collecting art. And it means I can learn. It means that there is a comfortable space within which I can share concerns, articulate questions, and develop solutions. IWL means imagination and a growing network of opportunities, which -- in terms of my personal and professional development -- are all I need to keep moving forward.
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San Francisco:: Managing yourself to your highest potential – IWL Google Panel Discussion |
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The IWL-Google panel was our first event of 2009, and we could not have asked for a more inspiring panel or better turn out. On February 11th, more than 65 women gathered to hear the panel of distinguished South Asian women discuss their life experiences and share tips and advice on “Managing Yourself to Your Highest Potential.”
Puja Sehgal Jaspal kicked off the event with an introduction of the panel. The panel included Google’s most senior South Asian women leaders:
- Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, President, Asia Pacific and Latin America Operations
- Sonal Shah, Head of Global Development Initiatives and Member of Obama’s Transition Team
-Radhika Malpani, Senior Staff Software Engineer
-Anjali Joshi, Product Management Director
Each panelist, an accomplished leader in her own right, shared her thoughts on how she had maximized her potential to reach the present stage in her career, and how she planned to move to the next steps.
During the discussion, Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, President, Google Asia Pacific and Latin America Operations, emphasized the importance of recognizing and accepting your own strengths and weaknesses to maximize potential. She elaborated on the process of understanding your signature strengths and then using them to your advantage.
All of the panelists concurred on the importance of networking, but cautioned against using networking events as “business card exchange programs”. One of the panelists offered a unique analogy for networking. She compared the process to banking: people deposit and invest in the networking “bank” on a regular and ongoing basis before eventually withdrawing favors from the same pool of “funds.”
Anjali Joshi, Product Management Director, brought up a very relevant point about being true to yourself and accepting that it is ok to not be able to please everyone and be everything all at once. The panel discussed tradeoffs in the form of omnipresent work-life balance issues, and stressed understanding the fact that friends and family will always have emotional needs, and that negotiation is a proven and effective tactic, even on the domestic front.
When the panelists were prompted to talk about the proudest accomplishments in their lives, Sonal Shah, Head of Global Development Initiative and Member of Obama Transition Team, spoke about the importance of cultivating and developing your team and engaging in its success, even when you have moved on. Radhika Malpani, Senior Software Engineer, added that she defined success as helping others develop – whether they are your team members, associates, or relatives. She described that being a mom is one of her proudest accomplishments, and talked about the pride and satisfaction she achieved from watching her daughter flourish.
The stimulating and passionate discussion of the evening left the attendees with thoughtful insights that will hopefully help them maximize their potential, both in the workplace, and on the home front.
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San Francisco:: Google Panel Discussion |
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Happy New Year Ladies!
We are really excited to invite you to a panel discussion IWL will be hosting at Google with Google's most senior South Asian women leaders:
-Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, President, Asia Pacific and Latin America Operations
-Sonal Shah, Head of Global Development Initiatives and Member of Obama's Transition Team
-Radhika Malpani, Senior Staff Software Engineer
-Anjali Joshi, Product Management Director
Please save the date, more details to come shortly.
Google Campus, 6:15PM
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway,Mountain View, CA 94043 US
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San Francisco:: Annual IWL Fund Raiser |
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Indus Women Leaders invites you to our Annual Fundraiser and Celebration
Join us for an evening filled with an interesting discussion on the dynamics between men and women, a comedy routine and more!
Everyone is welcome to our event - bring a friend, your husband or a colleague. Light appetizers will be served. Speakers include:
- Tina Paikeday Shah, Founding Chairwoman of Indus Women Leaders
- Dhaya Lakshminarayanan, Comedian At-Large
- Jasbina Ahluwalia, a Lawyer turned Professional
Matchmaker and Founder of Intersections Matchmaking
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San Francisco:: Women in the Arts, Kathak at Aicon Gallery. |
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IWL SF invites members to the Aicon Gallery, one of the Bay Area's most amazing contemporary Asian art galleries, for a spellbound evening with Farah Yaseen Shaikh. The evening will begin with Indian appetizers and networking followed by a brief demonstration and discussion of Kathak by Farah.
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San Francisco:: SFMOMA Museum Visit, Reduced Admission! |
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SF IWL members visited the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s featured summer exhibition on the art of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. The SFMOMA is one of the world's most innovative museums of modern and contemporary art, and is one of San Francisco's must-see destinations.
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