Jagruti Jethwani

Jagruti made good on her pledge since joining the Fellowship by engaging with and executing multiple projects, applying different concepts she learned and being a reliable team member. She got her hands dirtier by working on more than eight projects including in-house Enterprise projects like #करो & the REGEN and also on a project with a company called Dharohar.

Dharohar facilitates learning based volunteering programs for corporate employees. Over a span of three months, Jagruti along with Rohan Sarode and Nehalika Jethwani (two other Enterprise Partners, aka students in the Fellowship), worked closely and intensely (on a day to day basis) with Dharohar’s leadership team to do user research and build a content strategy for their social media. Jagruti built relationships with everyone in the joint team (Dharohar’s Team & Enterprise Partners) and played an important role in bringing day to day accountability and momentum.

“Jagruti brought great energy to the team, jumping in to new things and always willing to try. She asked great questions and took time to understand things that didn’t make sense straight away. She created real warmth within the team through her caring approach,” shared Shivani Singhal, Head of Dharohar.

“I believe each experience comes to us with a purpose, sometimes much higher than our understanding, and therefore, I am not afraid of challenges,” shared Jagruti.

Along with excelling and performing with grit in pre-established and scoped projects, Jagruti was also a reliable, resourceful, creative and valuable team member in emergent projects that had to be created from ground up. One such example was REGEN.

“I love how easy and effortless it is to be on a team with Jagruti. REGEN was a very short and high pressure project and I always felt like she had my back. Working in a team where everyone is leading has a different feel to it because you can get much bigger and better things done once you know that ‘showing up’ and ‘owning it’ is a given,” shared Enterprise Projects Coordinator, Lubaina Cementwala who was also one of the co-creators of REGEN.

In less than 2 weeks, Jagruti and the team co-created REGEN, a summit for Enterprise Fellows to present the incubated projects to the community and have 1:1 conversations with Thinking Partners from around the world about taking their projects forward. Since it was a creative, high pressure, time sensitive process, Jagruti played multiple roles like co-designing and co-hosting the event, creating collaterals for outreach, recruiting Thinking Partners from around the world and so on.

Jagruti served as the point person (recruited, onboarded & supported) for the Thinking Partner cohort that included the likes of Luong Nyugen (Head of Solutions Mapping, UNDP Vietnam), Aniruddha Bhagwat (CEO, Ideosphere), Ina Bogdanova, (Impact Measurement Lead at Ashoka Globalizer), and Nidhi Jain (Director, Pride Group).

“Jagruti is a powerhouse of activity and a leader in the making. The sheer grittiness of being there no matter what and making efforts day in day out makes sure that she produces the results she desires!” shared Yusuf Hakim, Co-Founder of the Enterprise India Fellowship.

Through being a reliable team member who took initiative and rocked the execution of different projects by getting her hands dirty as intended, and enhancing other team members as well, Jagruti has built a reputation of being someone who can be counted on for her leadership, let’s-make-it-work attitude and powerful execution. “The attitude that she works with is infectious and inspires others in the team to keep giving it everything,” added Yusuf.

“I think the fellowship challenged me, pushed me out of my comfort zone, allowed me to work on my pre-existing skills and develop some more and most of all, facilitate learning in the best possible way,” shared Jagruti.