At first glance…
Ruchira is a SoBo girl from Cathedral and John Connon High School,a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from,H.R.College,Mumbai and an LLB from Government Law College,Mumbai.
She is an ACC Certified Coach and is in the process of becoming an ICF certified coach.
She is a Certified NLP Practitioner.
She is an author of 8 children’s books.
She is a Certified Parenting & Family Coach, Mindfulness Practitioner, a sought after Motivational Speaker and a columnist with over 300 columns published in Lokmat Times.
She is the Director of Lokmat MahaMarathon, a six city circuit which saw over 55000 participants in the 2023-24 season.
She is the Founder President of Wider Opportunities for Women – a women’s club formed with the sole intent to further the quest for learning and experiencing the world.
She is the Director of Lokmat Campus Club, a platform for students to learn, experience and compete. It has an enormous strength of 2 lakh members across the state of Maharashtra.
AT CLOSE QUARTERS
Ruchira is a person who is passionate about working with people across all age groups to help them learn to BE the best, most empowered versions of themselves. She is in her element as a storyteller with young children, something that she has transformed into a ritual with her two young sons. She is committed to her journey as a Mindfulness Coach and it is her vision that she, along with her team, will work on the BEing state of people and organizations so that they can in turn create more effective and successful Doing states for themselves. In her own words, “First we need to learn to BE the most authentic versions of ourselves,the Doing will follow automatically!” For the past many years, Ruchira has worked consistently at her vision and has an enormous body of experience to show for it.
HER WORK
She has fiercely led her team to establish Lokmat MahaMarathon as the most sought after running brand in the state of Maharashtra. With the event now being conducted in every major city of Maharashtra including Maha Mumbai, Nashik, Aurangabad, Nagpur, Kolahpur and Pune. Her brand Lokmat Campus Club recently made the Asia Book of Records for maximum children drawing on a single day with 4.75 Lakh children in over 1000 schools participating in 35 districts of Maharashtra and Goa.
Ruchira is a multi-talented, visionary and a fierce leader and entrepreneur, who never fails to inspire the best in her audience,be it her colleagues,the business community or the youth.
She recently spoke at a TEDx event on ‘how the knowledge of personality science can reduce divorces due to incompatibility’.
Ruchira has coached thousands of individuals across the world on the Science of Personalities and on the nuances of Parenting.
She has conducted In-Depth sessions on Personalities EO & YPO Forums in Nepal, Delhi, Pune, Coimbatore and Mumbai.
She has conducted workshops for teenagers on Identifying Personalities and on using the knowledge to carve out great relationships and to design work and study schedules.
She conducted a workshop titled Understanding Others by BEing Yourself’ for Round Table, Gwalior.
She has conducted sessions on the Secrets of BEing Happy.
She has conducted sessions on Conscious Parenting and Customized Parenting with several mommy bloggers on Instagram as well as Parenting workshops for several individuals and EO & YPO Forums.
She is also facilitating the book ‘How to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk’. Her workshop titled Parent with Purpose was a resounding success at the YFLO in Ahmedabad She is regularly speaking at schools, colleges and other organizations on Parenting, Entrepreneurship and Mindful Living.
She was featured in the Women Entrepreneurs Book for the G20 W20 summit held in India in 2023.
She has interacted with and interviewed inspirational personalities like Gaur Gopal Das, Farah Khan, Miss Malini, Nawaz Singhania, Nityanand Charan Das, Shobha De, Anupam Kher, Dia Mirza, Asha Khatau,Tarla Dalal,Dr Prashant Kothari,Kailash Satyarthi to name a few
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Married to Karan Darda, Executive Director of the Lokmat Media Group
2 children, Aryaveer and Adhiraj.
“First we need to learn to BE the most authentic versions of ourselves,
the Doing will follow automatically!”
Science of Personalities, she not only inspires adults but kids too.
She has published over 300 columns along with several children’s books.
a columnist in Lokmat Times.
Lokmat Campus Club
Wider Opportunities for Women
