Top 10 Alumni Women Leaders from XLRI - 2025

XLRI, established in 1949, is India’s leading institution for management education, recognized for shaping leaders grounded in ethics, excellence, and innovation. For over seven decades, it has produced individuals successful across industries. Women leaders from XLRI exemplify the institute’s core values, merging academic rigor with vision, perseverance, and inclusive leadership to drive meaningful impact.

The alumni network serves as a dynamic platform to connect sector leaders to create collaboration, mentorship, and knowledge exchange. Women in this community are models of strength and adaptability, motivating the next generation to pursue careers that are meaningful with confidence. Their impact expands beyond the corporate boardroom to include social enterprises, policymakers, and global organizations, representing the institute’s ethos of whole leadership. Whether in business sectors or social endeavors, these leaders are shaping essentially all aspects of their organization’s strategy, catalyzing growth in respect to finance, consulting, manufacturing, and service industries. There is a clear indication of their social value reflected in the way they have led their organizations through transformation while expanding their global footprint and championing sustainability and inclusivity as part of the core of their business. They have provided evidence that leadership extends beyond a profit or loss, and includes leading with humanity and a purpose of making an impact on communities and stakeholders.

Technology leadership is as equally strong, with alumni have led digital transformation, emerging technology inception, and future-oriented organizations. All of these initiatives are examples of the leadership role women leaders are having in shaping markets, enacting competitiveness, and keeping organizations lean and agile in a global, high-speed world.

In this issue, the Women Entrepreneurs Review magazine brings a list of ‘Top 10 Alumni Women Leaders from XLRI - 2025', who are domineers of change in the corporate realm of the country. This list of ten leading and inspiring women is crafted by a team of CEOs, VCs, and the editorial board, delivering inspiring stories of their journey and the contributions & roles played by them in the creation and empowerment of an economically powerful nation.