Varsha Waishampayan, CEO & Founder, WINGS for Growth

Varsha has decades of management experience on Wall Street. During her career, Varsha has built large global teams from the grounds up, led complex problem-solving opportunities, and developed meaningful relationships in fortune 500 companies as well as in large nonprofit organizations. Varsha has worked with several C-level executives in her management-consulting career at PwC. She knows knowledge, authenticity, and

insight is what matters in almost every business and she has learned and practiced that all her life.

Her strong operational background helps her to stay focused on execution and delivery.

Varsha is passionate about creating and promoting women leaders. She has worked and led nonprofits that focus on girls’ education. She is a teacher at heart and has seen her father changing people’s life from good to great by being a teacher all his life. Before stepping into financial services, Varsha was a professor of Chemistry in her previous life. She taught graduate level courses. Her fascination with leadership development in women was kindled by being a participant of the corporate run.

“Developing talent program” focused on women’s development. Varsha had a chance to observe, participate and understand the dynamics of what worked and what could be made better in workplace mentoring. At this point, she recognized she was drawn to constantly mentoring women around her and she could make a difference with her approach.

This led to a discovery and then new beginning of her purposeful journey. Varsha left her long successful career in corporate America and founded WINGS for Growth to pursue her father’s vision in a purposeful journey.

WINGS for Growth is a non-profit organization, which empowers women to unleash their inner leader and accelerate their personal and professional growth.

Music is Varsha’s muse. She is rejuvenated by music and equally loves being energized by a day at the spa. Nature in its selfless giving inspires her every day. She is ever grateful to have a wonderful family and thankful that she followed her father’s best advice- “There is never a bad time to do good, it is a matter of priorities.” She lives in Bridgewater, NJ with her husband and enjoys the natural bounty of her surroundings.