“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.