Aparna Jain

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Aparna Jain
Born (1970-02-08) 8 February 1970 (age 54)
New Delhi, India
NationalityIndian
Occupation(s)Author and certified Integral Master coach ®
RelativesArjun Jain (brother)

Aparna Jain is an author and an executive leadership coach. She is the author of four books - Own It: Leadership Lessons From Women Who Do, which was shortlisted for the Tata Lit Live Festival's Business Book of the Year category in 2016, Like A Girl (2018) and Boys will be Boys (2019) - biographies on inspiring men and women from India. She also authored the 'Sood Family Cookbook'. Aparna advocates equal rights for women in the workplace and is a periodical contributor on the issue and many publications.[1][2][3][4] Jain runs her own consulting company Zebraa Works.[5]

Early life and education

Jain was born in New Delhi, but grew up in Bangalore in Karnataka. She has studied in different schools including Sophia High School in Bangalore, and Rishi Valley School, Madanapalle, Andhra Pradesh. Jain then moved to Switzerland where she studied at the Alpina School of Hotel Management and received a Diploma with a double specialisation in Sales & Marketing and Food & Beverage in 1993. She moved back to India to pursue a post graduate programme in Hospitality at the Oberoi School of Hotel Management in New Delhi. Jain is also certified as an Integral Master Coach by Integral Coaching in Canada.[6]

Career

Jain has worked with a number of companies which include Sasken in Bangalore to the erstwhile Unimobile in Silicon Valley, and then in media with the India Today Group, where she was marketing head for magazines Cosmopolitan and Good Housekeeping. She also worked with Tehelka and was an executive director of their annual event, Think Fest, in 2011 and 2012.[7][8] She has consulted with HarperCollins Ltd and was the consultant country head for the self-publishing division of Penguin Random House in India – Partridge.[9][10] She writes guest columns on coaching and women in the workplace for newspapers and online media and also occasionally writes restaurant reviews for the newspaper Mint and Brown Paper Bag.[11][12][13]

Books

Jain's first book is a cookbook on her family's traditional recipes called the Sood Family Cookbook, published by HarperColllins in 2013 [14] Variously called a compilation of a Pahaadi family's story, and a family food recipe memoir, the book has garnered rave reviews from food reviewers and bloggers alike.[15][16]

Jain's second book, Own It: Leadership Lessons From Women Who Do, was published in 2016 by Harper Collins India.[17] Based on interviews with over 200 women professionals in senior managerial and leadership positions in India, the book takes a thorough look at women's problems in the workplace.[18] The book has been reviewed positively as ‘a resource for inspiration for women struggling with issues’ such as bias, bullying, sexual harassment, and impact of motherhood, and as a ‘go-to book for those chief executives and HR heads who are serious about fostering a gender-neutral workplace’.[19][20]

Jain's third book, Like A Girl features stories of 51 women of varying fame—while some, like Kalpana Chawla, Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle, are household names, many others are practically unknown outside their home territories or professions, such as sports journalist Sharda Ugra and chef Ritu Dalmia.[21] The book was also nominated for the Crossword Book Awards - Popular Shortlist.[22]

Her fourth book, Boys Will be Boys: Inspiring Stories for Smart Kidschronicles the lives of 45 Indian men who followed their heart and dared to be different - soldiers (Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, 2nd Lt. Arun Khetrapal), a sailor who circumnavigated the globe (Commander Abhilash Tomy), a designer who took Indian fashion to Paris (Rahul Mishra), a doctor who revived rivers (Rajendra Singh), a barefoot artist (M.F. Husain), rocket scientists (A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Homi Bhabha, Vikram Sarabhai), entrepreneurs (J.R.D. Tata, Azim Premji), engineers (E. Sreedharan), sportspersons (Bhaichung Bhutia, Vishwanathan Anand), journalists (P. Sainath, Josy Joseph) writers (Perumal Murugan, Vikram Seth, Anant Pai) and activists (Sunderlal Bahugana), among others.[23]

Awards

2015-16

  • Jury Appreciation Certificate for 'Own it' under the Non Fiction category
  • South-Asia Laadli Media Awards for Gender Sensitivity 2015-16 [24]

References

  1. ^ "Words that capture the dreams and thoughts of women". 17 February 2017.
  2. ^ "Backing Pachauri is like saying women's safety doesn't matter: Aparna Jain - Times of India". The Times of India. 14 February 2016.
  3. ^ "Aparna Jain". Archived from the original on 2017-04-07. Retrieved 2017-04-07.
  4. ^ "#PachauriHatao: For those who ask why women delay harassment complaints, remember the TERI case". 10 February 2016.
  5. ^ Aravind, Indulekha. "A look into what can be done to bridge India Inc's gender gap". The Economic Times.
  6. ^ "ICC Coaches | Integral Coaching Canada".
  7. ^ http://www.vedicascholars.com/the-faculty/aparna-jain/ [permanent dead link]
  8. ^ https://people.bayt.com/piyal-sen-18262108/
  9. ^ "Bestselling Authors Podcast | Aparna Jain | Tips for First Time Authors". 6 June 2016.
  10. ^ "Golfer Rashid Khan aims for more Asian Tour titles". 27 January 2015.
  11. ^ "Lounge review: Pluck, New Delhi". 4 February 2016.
  12. ^ "Aparna%2520Jain: Top and Latest News, Videos and Photos about Aparna%2520Jain".
  13. ^ "Brown Paper Bag | BPB Review: Fab Café, Vasant Kunj". Archived from the original on 2020-04-21. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  14. ^ "All in the family". 11 January 2014.
  15. ^ "Pahadi Mutton". 6 November 2014.
  16. ^ "Comfort food, and some family drama". 22 March 2014.
  17. ^ "Own It".
  18. ^ "Book Review: Aparna Jain's 'Own It' brings out of unarticulated darkness the indescribable things that happen to women at the workplace". 6 February 2016.
  19. ^ "Finally, a book that talks about gender-neutral workplace". 2 April 2016.
  20. ^ "Own It: Leadership Lessons from Women Who do [Book Review]". 16 February 2016.
  21. ^ "Goodnight stories for tough Indian girls". 7 July 2018.
  22. ^ "Popular Shortlist for 17th Crossword Book Awards released". Archived from the original on 2020-02-24. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
  23. ^ "Home".
  24. ^ "Laadli Media Awards honours media campaigns for excellence in gender portrayal". Retrieved 21 Jun 2017.
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