India is on a rapid growth curve as the world’s fifth largest economy. India’s economy is projected to grow by over 6.6% in 2025 driven by strong exports, high consumption and investment. India continues to build infrastructure at an impressive pace. To accompany this growth India must enable and unleash a diverse workforce, especially a more diverse leadership workforce. Research indicates however that under 8% of executive management team positions and under 18% of Board Positions of Fortune India 500 are women. (Break the ceiling touch the sky® 2024 research) revealing a massive need for the upskilling and acceleration of women in leadership across the largest Companies in India.
House of Rose Professional (HORP) has since 2014 invested in developing and enabling over 45000 women leaders around the world (including India) to greater success via its training brand Break the ceiling touch the sky®. India is a focus country for HORP. The 2025 Break the ceiling touch the sky® list of India‘s Most Inspirational Women in Leadership is the 2025 listing of the most successful and inspirational women in leadership in India who are leading with passion and purpose and serving to shape greater gender balance in India and as a direct direct are enabling greater business success in India. The listing was created in support of House of Rose Professional’s Mission 2029 for a Better World – which aims to shape a better world via better diversity & inclusion, better leadership and better business. The Measure for MISSION 2029 for a Better World is to quintuple the number of Female CEOs and double the number of male (advocates for diversity) CEOs in the World’s 500 largest Companies by 2029. Research shows that Companies with 30% women executives bring in as much as 6 percentage points more in profits; when considering a potential employer, 61% of women look at the diversity of the employers leadership team, 67% at whether it has positive role models similar to them, and 56% at whether the organization publicly shares its progress on diversity. Gender diversity & inclusion in organizations is a critical indicator of success.
Five factors are used in the determination of the 2025 Break the ceiling touch the sky® India’s Most Inspirational Women in leadership. Career achievements; scale of influence; active and visible advocacy for gender equality; active support of other women in leadership within and outside of their own organizations/ Companies; and sharing of their best practices for success across broader industry.
The 2025 Break the ceiling touch the sky® list of India’s Most Inspirational Women in Leadership is focused primarily on the Corporate world and is curated by House of Rose Professional from its review of female executives in over 500 Companies operating in India, including data from the 2024 and 2025 Break the ceiling touch the sky 101 Best Global Companies for women in leadership (BTC 101 Global Index).
Leaders on the 2025 Break the ceiling touch the sky® list of India’s Most Inspirational Women in Leadership will be announced and celebrated at the 2025 India Edition of Break the ceiling touch the sky® – the success and leadership summit, to be held on Sept 30, 2025 in Mumbai*. Use the link below to sign up your team for the summit and learn from several of India’s greatest leaders in business today.
Leaders nominated onto the list are informed exclusively by House of Rose Professional executives – Joseph Rose ([email protected]) or Anthony Rose ([email protected]). No other parties or individuals are authorized to contact leaders on the list. The final list will be announced ahead of and celebrated at the 2025 India Edition of Break the ceiling touch the sky on Sept 30, 2025 in Mumbai. Additional nominations to the list will be considered between now and June 30 from Companies that have signed up to participate at the 2025 India Edition of Break the ceiling touch the sky®.
