Lata designs and runs programmes for the mentorship of women in rural areas in multiple countries, as well as providing mentoring and development programmes for senior leaders and young managers that help them gain the tools, training and resources needed to build successful businesses.

She also designs and implements education programmes for children and young people in developing countries in a role that draws on her passion for innovative disruption and positive life changing economic and social and community impact.

Her work seeks to alleviate many of the problems in rural areas like unemployment, lack of awareness of finance and the absence of cooperative networks. Her work also helps root people in their community and stall migration because of financial reasons, a very existential problem common to rural communities.

A large part of her work is supporting entrepreneurship. She supports women who have mostly stayed at home all their lives and have not been allowed to work outside the home: she works with women who struggle to overcome barriers that prevent them from earning a living, and in some cases, gain access to money. Her programmes as designed to help women develop confidence, financial independence and knowledge and create a ripple effect on the wider community and society at large.

It is why she believes her programmes create a virtuous circle. The people whom she supports become local role models themselves, inspiring others to achieve financial independence. In this way her programmes do not just nurture transformation amongst the women she helps. Intervention also encourages change amongst families and local leaders. For example, she says one of the most challenging elements of her role is persuading local leaders and patriarchal families to buy into the benefits of her programmes and understand the importance of women earning money and becoming financially independent.

Lata also personally invests in high growth businesses in the finance, sustainability and renewable energy sectors where she plays a key role mentoring entrepreneurs and supporting strategic decision-making. She has a proven record of delivering positive outcomes in both corporate and NGO sectors in strategies that celebrate founders tapping into “their own power” to build their own strong future.

Looking to the future, Lata is working to create strong networks between her many different projects so that they become interconnected and feed best practices, all the better for delivering sustainable, impactful change in the future.