Priyanka Khurana Goyal – Mrs
India 2015
Shortlisted for the ‘50 most
powerful women in India’ by world renowned Fortune magazine
By Dinesh Kamath
Priyanka Khurana Goyal, Mrs India 2015 has truly had a
remarkable journey. Earning 1st Rank in Delhi University while graduating in
Bachelors of Information Technology in 2004, Priyanka’s determination to make a
name for herself was unwavering. Her next step, took her to the prestigious IIM
Calcutta from where she completed her MBA in 2006 ranking 3rd in her batch.
Since then Priyanka has been steadily climbing the ladder at one of the largest
investment banks in the world, Nomura. Currently holding the post of Executive
Director, Priyanka is one who firmly believes that life after marriage holds
limitless opportunities. Priyanka is mother of a 2 year old son and thoroughly
enjoys motherhood and the challenges it brings. She is also a keen follower of
yoga and meditation.
Priyanka enjoys dancing to Bollywood tunes and loves
cooking and hosting people. She believes that both dancing and cooking gives
her a medium to let the creativity out and express herself. She is also a keen
traveller and enjoys adventure sports like snorkelling, sky diving, river
rafting and various others.
A wife, a mother
and a working professional, Priyanka decided to take a step forward and work
towards empowering & encouraging other married women in India to take up innovative
work. To do this Priyanka took part in the prestigious Mrs. India Queen of
Substance pageant organized by the Handicapped Children and Women’s Aid (HWCA).
After successfully gunning through 7 rounds of qualification, Priyanka beat 24
other finalists to be crowned “Mrs. India, Queen of Substance”.
The title empowers Priyanka to promote different
community services to help underprivileged and disenfranchised women in India.
Priyanka is currently touring across India educating herself in the sociology
and anthropology of India’s diverse people and traditions. Empowering women is
something that is very close to her heart as Priyanka believes that India has a
lot of talent which needs visibility to move to the next level of success. She
greatly supports the young women entrepreneurs and uses her title to be the
catalyst to take their business and confidence to the next level.
Priyanka is also brand ambassador for Smallvoice, an
initiative by 2 women entrepreneurs to support and provide visibility for
social entrepreneurs who are doing business with an underlying social cause
like waste management, providing employment to needy, environmental
conservation among others.
She is also involved with a few NGOs and initiatives that
promote environmental causes including but not limited to radiation awareness,
tress planation drives and creating awareness among children on issues
affecting our environment. Being a young mother, Priyanka feels very deeply for
autistic children and hence is involved with a Mumbai based NGO Khushi to
promote autism awareness among parents and general public. She has done fashion
print shoots for the many popular brands.
Given her presence within the corporate community in
India, Priyanka has recently been shortlisted for the ‘50 most powerful women
in India’ by world renowned Fortune magazine.
Priyanka Khurana Goyal’s secrets to success:
1. Take care
of yourself, including your mental health.
2. Keep the
priorities right: In your mind, you should have clear priorities and use that
order for quick decision making.
3. Hire the
right staff at home or office where you can delegate regular tasks so that
majority of tasks are run on autopilot.
4. Don’t
hesitate in saying NO and leaving certain things.
5. Organize
your home life better.
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