Anshu Bhartia, CEO, UnLtd India
Anshu Bhartia, a changemaker and the CEO of UnLtd India talks to us about her journey of helping Social Entrepreneurs provide sustainable solutions for the people in need. She has over 27 years of experience working in not-for-profit organizations and for-profit global organizations including American Express.
Podcast
Overview
Anshu Bhartia, a changemaker and the CEO of UnLtd India talks to us about her journey of helping Social Entrepreneurs provide sustainable solutions for the people in need. She has over 27 years of experience working in not-for-profit organizations and for-profit global organizations including American Express.
Anshu is dedicated to delivering social impact in our country with her empathy and intelligence. She now leads as CEO at UnLtd that incubates early-stage social entrepreneurs in their startup journeys.
Social entrepreneurship has a broad spectrum of possibilities. Anshu takes us through the process of assessing entrepreneurs based on their “Intent”. UnLtd India, in their 13 years of work, has helped more than 270 social organizations grow and have impacted over 15 million lives.
“For us, what we look at is the intent. Why are you doing, what are you doing? Is it a market opportunity, a gap in the market or you want to solve a problem? When you set up an NGO by inherent design it’s a non-for-profit, right, it’s social. Because you’re not gonna really ever make millions out of it. But if you’re setting up a social enterprise, it’s again, the whole, in our entire from our selection process to support the question, says “why” why are you doing what you’re doing and if your intent is to take care of a problem, so for example, my want is to make the world organic right. It is a market opportunity but my reason for starting is organic so I’ll go back to the root cause, find the problem and I’ll find a solution which works in the remotest areas and not just the more commercially viable areas for us that would be social.”
Anshu further explains by saying that UnLtd looks for innovative solutions to a given social problem for their incubators. She creates a contrast between being a social entrepreneur and being a social worker. The skills and abilities to become an entrepreneur are needed even in social startups. Hence, they support the individuals who are dedicated to bringing a change but have the necessary skills to make it a scalable and impactful organization.
In the interview, Anshu answers our questions on startups and entrepreneurship. She explains the importance of having a Co-Founder in business and shares why most startups fail. Anshu presses on the need for entrepreneurs to know their customers or audience to be able to provide quality services.
She gets inspired by the individuals who can balance their intelligence with emotions and adds that “If EQ is not combined with IQ, it doesn’t work.” Tune in to learn more about social entrepreneurship and learn how to drive an impact.
Profile
Over 27 work years, worked seamlessly in non-profit and for-profit global organizations. I have held leadership positions in organizations that deliver social impact and financial sustainability. In the last 6 years, have headed, as CEO, an Incubator, a Network and a Leading Financial Services Non- Profit Organization and provided Strategic Advisory guidance to Promoters of Social Enterprises i.e. a rural social goods distribution venture, farm to market venture, an NGO for establishing an Incubation Enterprise, others.
