Farzana Haque, TCS Leadership, Philanthropist, Board Member, Mentor
Farzana is a powerhouse technology energy experience and has a great network globally. She is an Angel Investor and Mentor to many growing and established entrepreneurs. She serves and contributes on several boards. She is first a humanitarian at heart and tops it off with her illustrious global career.
Podcast
Overview
As a developing nation, India is witnessing revolution at the hands of technology and its driving agents – entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is changing the world for good and it is here to stay! Female leadership always instills pride and inspiration among the youth in our country. While India still has a long journey to cover on the gender equality pathway, opportunities have opened up extensively over the past few decades. To see a fair and equal status of leadership in India is the dream of many women.
Today on The Brand Called You, we have a very accomplished female leader with similar dreams and aspirations. While she is an inspiration herself, her dreams for the women of her country are passionate and change-driven.
We are pleased to welcome Farzana Haque on the podcast
About Farzana:
Farzana is a powerhouse technology energy experience and has a great network globally. She is an Angel Investor and Mentor to many growing and established entrepreneurs. She serves and contributes on several boards. She is first a humanitarian at heart and tops it off with her illustrious global career.
Farzana is part of the Senior Leadership Team at Tata Consulting Services. She joined the Tata Group as a Management Trainee and has risen through the ranks. Farzana has been transformational and had institutional building roles to her credit.
She is a mother of two boys and over the last two decades has been most passionate about building global companies from India and strengthening India’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Discussion:
In a very inspiring episode with our host Ashutosh, Farzana talks about her incredible journey and the many experiences she has gained. As a woman who started off her career in the Y2K era, she stood out. Working in male-dominated environments, Farzana had to gather up all her courage to make sure she was doing the right thing. Her journey has been full of challenges. She shares the ups and downs she faced as a trainee in countries abroad.
As a leader who has always believed in the power of technology, Farzana kept herself aware of the new and upcoming technologies. She is a strong believer in entrepreneurship. She believes that “Technology has been the front-end and vanguard of human life!”
Farzana highlights the importance of having a strong support system of family and friends. She shares some very awe-inspiring anecdotes with the audience. She also talks about some impactful conversations she has had with remarkable personalities.
For her, female leadership is the key to a better and bright future. Her dreams for Indian women and entrepreneurship are incredibly inspiring and will definitely instill pride in all those watching!
Profile
Farzana Haque is a powerhouse of talent and an inspiration for Indians. Starting as a management trainee in the Tata group and working her way up to her current senior leadership position at TCS, Farzana has played a key role in the transition of TCS from a local champion to a Global giant. She has implemented complex technology programs and built platforms for Fortune 100 companies at locations across the world. She has planned and executed first-generation outsourcing deals and the digital roadmap for major global customers. Farzana is a strong believer in women empowerment & gender equality, grassroot entrepreneurship, the use of technology towards driving results & creating better communities, and thereby contributing to nation-building.
She has won numerous Global accolades for her exemplary & visionary leadership. A Board member of TiE, a global brand ambassador for ‘Catalyst for Women Entrepreneurs – CWE’, Farzana is also a recipient of the ‘INDIRA’ Super Achiever Award 2008. She is a regular plenary speaker at business schools around the globe and India. Farzana is physicist.
Farzana was born into a family of teachers, civil servants, armed forces and freedom fighters, which for generations also has had strong women. She believes, with hard work, integrity and a gracious spirit, there is no goal one cannot achieve. The importance of serving the community was instilled in her from early childhood and it has inspired her to be a part of India’s growth story on the global front.
She has created global impact and has been instilling hope and belief for big dreams in girls, working towards increasing the participation of women in India’s economic growth story. She believes entrepreneurship is an imperative for the scale of job creation India needs and is actively working on taking entrepreneurship to grassroots levels across India, beyond the large metros. Her ‘Global Platform for Women Entrepreneurs’ enables them to realize their potential. It helps provide equal opportunities for women in India and helps build an ecosystem that allows women entrepreneurs to scale their businesses and empowers them to lead life on their own terms, and in so doing changes the dominant narrative in India.
