India's first internationally acclaimed woman motivational speaker and thought leadership author of path breaking international best seller on Women's Leadership NUCLEUS: Power Women Lead From the Core

Mental Strength Coach to Indian Olympians for London Olympics 2012

Abha Maryada Banerjee is India's first woman motivational speaker of international acclaim, rated as one of the Top Ten Life, Business and Success Coaches in Asia Pacific. Best Selling Leadership Author, Social Artist & Designer, Thought Innovator, Entrepreneur, Lawyer, Poet and Actor, Abha works as an expert at Leadership, Human Peak Performance, Emotional Intelligence and Happiness. She has been the Peak Performance/Mental Strength Coach for Indian Olympic Athletes.

Author of the Best Seller and iconoclast thought leadership book for women, NUCLEUS: Power Women Lead from the Core, Abha has spoken at prestigious events on human thought development, leadership, business growth. With her focus on catalysing ?growth?, she brings extra doses of new perspectives through her work. Her book addresses the need to lift women beyond gender mentally, emotionally and from the social-human perspective. A die-hard expressionist, humanist, humorist, thought leader, experience innovator and quasi mentalist, she found iconoclast connections between ideas from the world of law, universal laws of growth, leadership and personal development. Through these she developed an on the ground, self-efficacy methodology for creating women leaders. With path-breaking concepts, tools and strategies in this non-academic experiential book, NUCLEUS will take women from ordinary to effective and from effective to excellent.

Known as Asian Oprah and the Asian Woman Motivator, Abha is a lawyer by profession, having practiced business and litigation law for over 10 years. Her successful stint at law did not deter her from setting foot into the field of human thought development and to re-train in the field at the age of 34. Committed to her super powered vision of celebrating human possibilities, she lives and breathes this vision. Her passion for people building has led to exemplary achievements and she enjoys being a catalyst between knowledge and real life execution. She is gifted at creating practical tools for growth that bridge the gap between theory and practical. In her own words, ?I think I must be a growth activist or a growth addict or a growth obsessed humanist ? or all of these.?

Described as charismatic, passionate, driven, an open dynamic pack of energy and tons of courage, Abha is a strong lady with a lofty mind. Her quest for instilling growth into every environment and mind is testing new dimensions in the social set ups. In her mind, she says is housed a creative side which keeps her creatively engaged in theater, acting, writing, poetry, calligraphy, sketching, food and family. She is the author of the bi-lingual poetry compilation on self-search and motivation called MARYADA ?In Rendition?.

Recipient of the REX KARMAVEER AWARD, 2014 initiated by the UN and International Confederation of NGO?s, Abha is also recognized as one of America?s Premier Experts for her contribution to the field of personal development and leadership.