Shweta Baisla, CFO & Director of Sona Machinery Ltd, says becoming a mother gave her a different perspective. It taught her patience, multitasking, and commitment. Motherhood strengthened her resolve instead of slowing her down.
It gave her the emotional skills to lead with empathy. It also gave her the resilience to balance boardroom decisions and bedtime routines. While nurturing her child, she found a renewed sense of purpose in growing Sona Machinery.
With a mother’s instinct and a strategist’s mind, her goal became to transform the company. She wants to make it a future-ready, innovation-driven force in agri-processing. To her, true leadership is about creating impact with intention.
This applies both in shaping a company’s future and shaping a child’s world. Neenv Raju Akunuri is the founder of ParentVerse. She says motherhood reshaped her perspective about parenting in the digital world.
Building ParentVerse taught her that nurturing a child and a startup both require patience. They also require understanding child and parent psychology, and boundless love. As she entered the parenting phase, she realized the digital world needed a safer, more mindful space for families.
So they created their platform, born from a mother’s instinct and a founder’s resolve. Through every challenge, she learned that being a mother doesn’t stop you from dreaming. It sparks you up with renewed aspirations.
This Mother’s Day, she celebrates the power of parenting to inspire innovation. She also celebrates the strength of women who lead with both heart and purpose. Lavleen Kaur is the founder of Santushti Holistic Health & Diet Insight Nutrition Academy.
As a mother and a pioneering force in holistic wellness, she is redefining what it means to nurture. This applies both within her home and through her work. Santushti Holistic Health is a next-generation wellness clinic.
It blends modern nutrition with traditional wisdom to create lasting lifestyle transformations. People see her walking with her son and ask if he’s her brother. She laughs, because motherhood didn’t weigh her down, it lifted her up.
It made her sharper, more compassionate, more herself. That same power led her to evolve Diet Insight into Santushti. There they don’t just change food habits—they change lives.
To her, being a mom today is about breaking molds, redefining balance, and showing up with purpose.
Motherhood and new perspectives on leadership
It’s not either/or anymore.
It’s all of you—mother, mentor, woman, warrior rising as one. Rani Garg is the Director of Zeon Lifesciences. When she married Suresh Garg in 1987, he had just started Zeon Lifesciences as a modest contract manufacturing business.
She joined him not just as a partner in life but in business too. Over the years, she has helped shape Zeon into a pioneering force in the nutraceuticals sector. She combines strategic growth with a deeply human-centered approach.
A mother’s love is unconditional. She is the heartbeat of the home, the silent glue that holds everything together, even when she isn’t physically present. These same qualities—empathy, selflessness, resilience—are what make a true leader.
From the moment she learns she is pregnant, a mother becomes a caregiver, a teacher, and an emotional anchor. These instincts have shaped the way she leads at Zeon—with care, with clarity, and with courage. She hopes to pass these values on to her daughter, not just as a mother, but as a mentor in leadership and life.
Nivi Siddharthan is the Chief of Staff at The Circle India. She says becoming a mother has made her more ambitious in some ways. It has helped her realign with her sense of purpose.
She joined the founding team of The Circle, an education non-profit, because she cared deeply about children and educational equity. She became a parent recently and now her work feels much more personal. She believes that every child deserves the kind of opportunities her own child has.
But the reality is that most kids in India lack access to even basic necessities. This reality drives her to keep showing up at work even on the days when she feels stretched thin trying to juggle multiple responsibilities. In showing up, she has built resilience as well as a deeper commitment to long-term impact.
Shabnum Khan is the founder of Mandrake Mydia. For her, motherhood came with 50 whiskers, purrs, and unconditional love. Caring for her cats taught her empathy, discipline, and the power of quiet strength.
Those same values reflect in how she built Mandrake Mydia—brick by brick, pitch by pitch, client by client. Running a PR firm single-handedly while being a mother to 50 cats may seem chaotic, but it’s also deeply fulfilling. It reminds her every day that nurturing—whether of lives or legacies—is the truest form of leadership.
It’s clear that motherhood in 2025 encompasses a diverse range of experiences and roles. These six women exemplify how mothering can extend beyond the traditional and into leadership, entrepreneurship, wellness, education, and even innovative forms of caregiving. This Mother’s Day, we celebrate these multifaceted roles and the powerful women who embody them.