Awakening the Rainmaker: A Guide to Gender Equality

How do women establish themselves in the workplace besides juggling it with home? Can they really have it all? Nishtha Anand breaks down the issue of poor gender diversity at Indian workplaces and offers solutions in her debut book, Awakening the Rainmaker - A Guide to Gender Equality for Individuals and Organizations. Join us as she reads excerpts from her bestseller and answers audience questions! 

About The Speaker

Investment bankers are often revered as rainmakers – smooth-talking people who travel widely and fashionably around the world holding myriad meetings to snare wealthy clients and score a bevy of deals. Yet jet-setting investment banker Nishtha Anand could hardly find any women in her field throughout her tours and meetings leading her to realise there were no women rainmakers she could look up to.

Years later as she became a mother, this experience among other things prompted her to turn into an author and write a book about promoting gender equality in corporate India. She named her book Awakening the Rainmaker: A Guide to Gender Equality, which features anecdotes of working women sharing their challenges and interviews of eminent women executives including AZB Partners’ Zia Mody and JPMorgan’s Kalpana Morparia. Nishtha is also a TEDx Speaker, and veteran Strategy Professional.