'SHAHNAZ HUSAIN THE OG PAVING PATH TO WOMEN EMPOWERMENT'

  “In life, it is not important what you want-what matters is how badly you want it.  You can achieve anything life, if you want it that much. If I am walking and see a wall, I don’t turn back. I break the wall and walk through, and let the world fall into place”- SHAHNAZ HUSAIN  A firm believer in honouring women’s achievements, Shahnaz Husain advocates for financial independence as the key to defying gender inequality. With a focus on #AccelerateAction, she aims to empower women to gain financial freedom, and live the life they deserve. Her journey is an inspirational one that entails overcoming all the challenges and odds that stood in her way. Shahnaz Husain established treatment products based on Ayurveda principles, recognised globally by U.S. based Success Magazine, she became the first ever woman in 106 years to be conferred with World’s Greatest Woman Entrepreneur Award. Her groundbreaking business model became a Harvard Case Study on brand creation, Emerging Markets for Harvard, MIT, and Oxford, where she shared her journey of building an international brand without commercial advertising.     Leading By Example: Successful Entrepreneur Inspiring Women The Wall Street Journal quoted "Shahnaz Husain is a name to reckon with, credited with bringing the undisputed value of herbs from the mists of antiquity and combining them with scientific knowledge and know-how. Shahnaz Husain has done so much for India’s image abroad that she deserves the soubriquet of India’s Beauty Ambassador." SHAHNAZ HUSAIN, pioneered in Ayurveda based skin care, passionately moving ahead she established her brand The Shahnaz Husain Group, owning more than 400 franchise clinics, spas, schools, shops, and Ayurvedic formulations for skin, hair, body, and health care, and approximately has 1,50,000 stores in 138 countries. The SHAHNAZ HUSAIN GROUP’S phenomenal success story entails her acquisition of global market presence, being best seller at leading stores, exclusive outlets and franchise salons worldwide. The products got sold at Galleries Lafayette in Paris, Selfridges and Harrods in London, La Rinascente in Milan, El Corte Inglis in Spain, Bloomingdales in the USA and the Seibu chain in Japan.  Shahnaz Husain is indeed a global beauty icon who has proven her success beyond measures.  Success according to her:  “You can make your own Destiny; you can be what you will yourself to be.” Shahnaz Husain’s entrepreneurial pursuits and leadership skills are an inspiration to women to move forward despite challenges.  Being a woman entrepreneur at a time when no one could have imagined a lady to step out of the household threshold, she moved ahead with confidence in her abilities and established a homegrown brand into that of an international repute setting the stage for women empowerment.     Shahnaz Husain: Women Empowerment Begins at Home  She comes from an era where gender norms were not highlighted, Shahnaz Husain has been a fierce advocate of equality leading by example.  Shahnaz Husain highlights the importance of providing equal opportunities to women through the means of proper education to help them accelerate in career arena needs to be at the forefront of women empowerment. Her focus and emphasises on gender equality, women’s rights, and encouraging mothers to educate their daughters to be able to achieve financial independence, and to teach their sons on respecting women has always been the core vision.  “It all begins in your home where you teach your sons to respect women, and a household where a woman is respected as a wife, mother and a daughter, would definitely establish a better society for females where they can thrive not just survive.”  Shahnaz Husain personally emphasises values of integrity, ethics, and adaptability, that are the core foundation of her leadership philosophy to inspire action and motivate women into achieving their dreams.   

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'SHAHNAZ HUSAIN THE OG PAVING PATH TO WOMEN EMPOWERMENT'
'SHAHNAZ HUSAIN THE OG PAVING PATH TO WOMEN EMPOWERMENT'

“In life, it is not important what you want-what matters is how badly you want it.  You can achieve anything life, if you want it that much. If I am walking and see a wall, I don’t turn back. I break the wall and walk through, and let the world fall into place”- SHAHNAZ HUSAIN 

A firm believer in honouring women’s achievements, Shahnaz Husain advocates for financial independence as the key to defying gender inequality. With a focus on #AccelerateAction, she aims to empower women to gain financial freedom, and live the life they deserve. Her journey is an inspirational one that entails overcoming all the challenges and odds that stood in her way. Shahnaz Husain established treatment products based on Ayurveda principles, recognised globally by U.S. based Success Magazine, she became the first ever woman in 106 years to be conferred with World’s Greatest Woman Entrepreneur Award. Her groundbreaking business model became a Harvard Case Study on brand creation, Emerging Markets for Harvard, MIT, and Oxford, where she shared her journey of building an international brand without commercial advertising.  

 

Leading By Example: Successful Entrepreneur Inspiring Women

The Wall Street Journal quoted "Shahnaz Husain is a name to reckon with, credited with bringing the undisputed value of herbs from the mists of antiquity and combining them with scientific knowledge and know-how. Shahnaz Husain has done so much for India’s image abroad that she deserves the soubriquet of India’s Beauty Ambassador."

SHAHNAZ HUSAIN, pioneered in Ayurveda based skin care, passionately moving ahead she established her brand The Shahnaz Husain Group, owning more than 400 franchise clinics, spas, schools, shops, and Ayurvedic formulations for skin, hair, body, and health care, and approximately has 1,50,000 stores in 138 countries.

The SHAHNAZ HUSAIN GROUP’S phenomenal success story entails her acquisition of global market presence, being best seller at leading stores, exclusive outlets and franchise salons worldwide. The products got sold at Galleries Lafayette in Paris, Selfridges and Harrods in London, La Rinascente in Milan, El Corte Inglis in Spain, Bloomingdales in the USA and the Seibu chain in Japan. 

Shahnaz Husain is indeed a global beauty icon who has proven her success beyond measures. 

Success according to her:

 “You can make your own Destiny; you can be what you will yourself to be.”

Shahnaz Husain’s entrepreneurial pursuits and leadership skills are an inspiration to women to move forward despite challenges.  Being a woman entrepreneur at a time when no one could have imagined a lady to step out of the household threshold, she moved ahead with confidence in her abilities and established a homegrown brand into that of an international repute setting the stage for women empowerment.  

 

Shahnaz Husain: Women Empowerment Begins at Home 

She comes from an era where gender norms were not highlighted, Shahnaz Husain has been a fierce advocate of equality leading by example. 

Shahnaz Husain highlights the importance of providing equal opportunities to women through the means of proper education to help them accelerate in career arena needs to be at the forefront of women empowerment. Her focus and emphasises on gender equality, women’s rights, and encouraging mothers to educate their daughters to be able to achieve financial independence, and to teach their sons on respecting women has always been the core vision. 

“It all begins in your home where you teach your sons to respect women, and a household where a woman is respected as a wife, mother and a daughter, would definitely establish a better society for females where they can thrive not just survive.” 

Shahnaz Husain personally emphasises values of integrity, ethics, and adaptability, that are the core foundation of her leadership philosophy to inspire action and motivate women into achieving their dreams. 

 

ST Correspondent Sangri Times Correspondent Desk