About me
Madhura DasGupta Sinha is the Founder & CEO of Aspire For Her, a unique start-up to motivate women to enter and stay in the workforce. Madhura has been a banker for the last 25 years – holding leadership positions in IDFC, Standard Chartered and ANZ Grindlays Bank, after an MBA from XLRI and Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University. Madhura was one of the 12 women across India to be awarded the British Chevening Women in Management Scholarship in 2003.
Since its birth on Women’s Day, 2020, the rapidly-growing community at Aspire For Her has become a movement for women, in India and across the world, getting together members, supporters and mentors to unleash the trillion dollar potential in the Indian economy.
Madhura’s work has been covered widely in the media including CNBC, NDTV, BBC, The Times Of India, New Indian Express etc. Aspire For Her has been honoured by awards from UN Women, Economic Times, T-Hub, NDTV and International Advertising Association. Madhura was among the 23 of Twenty-Three list published by HR Association of India. She also is invited to speak at various prestigious forums including IITs, IIMs, Niti Aayog, G 20, UN Women, Global Fintech Forum, National Commission of Women and many acclaimed podcasts. Madhura is on the Advisory Board of Wesleyan College, USA and Centre for Gender Equality and Inclusive Leadership at XLRI.
Aspire For Her is proud to count 100+ world-leading organisations among its partners and clients – including Amazon, Google, Meta, IBM, LinkedIn, HSBC, Standard Chartered, DBS, Deutsche Bank, Infosys, Salesforce, Kerastase, Adobe, UN Women, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, National Payments Corporation of India. Aspire For Her is part of the prestigious Stanford Seed Transformation Program, Class of 2025 and the first-ever Women Founders accelerator launched by Google, India. Madhura was honoured among the Top 3 Finalists in the iconic Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award by Schwab Foundation, sister organization of the World Economic Forum, a leading global platform that accelerates outstanding models of social innovation.
