As mentioned above, the entire program is disaggregated into 12 workshops with an expectation of 1 workshop per month. These workshops are structured in intriguing interactive sessions with periodic presence of distinguished and accomplished guest speakers who will share their valuable life lessons, experiences, and wisdoms!
Growing up in a minority middle-class family in Bangladesh and struggling to navigate through life in my teens and early twenties, it made me realize and assess the utmost importance of cultivating confidence, courage, self-respect, self-love, self-dignity & self-worth among Bangladeshi young girls and women to help them acknowledge their fullest potential and to guide them lead a life with meaningful purpose and fulfillment. And hence, I have designed a series of virtual monthly workshops and webinars called Bold and Becoming to empower, encourage and enable women and youths and to give back to my community in a strong impactful manner!
Let us all empower, encourage and enable the women(and the youths) around us!!
- Gladstone News
I am a bold and brave United Nations (UN) activist, a Levermore Global scholar and a global citizen who embraces diversity to the fullest and loves to connect the dots and realistically solves various global problems. I am also the retired founder and president of United Nations Association – USA Adelphi Chapter. I have completed my Bachelors and Masters in Accounting from Adelphi University, NY, USA and have been residing in the magical New York for the last seven and a half years! Currently, I am working as an Auditor in Ernst and Young and a Certified Public Accountant. (My friends call me an accountant with a passion to solve global problems and to make a better working world!)
As much as I value finding solutions for complex global problems and working towards achieving the SDGs, I feel the same about empowering, encouraging and enabling women all over the world. Cultivating confidence, courage, self-respect and self love among women to help them acknowledge their fullest potential and to guide them lead meaningful and purposeful lives is one of my greatest missions and passions
Values are the most important things in our lives. When we are aware, clear and cognizant about our values, prioritization becomes easier which in turn smoothens our decision making processes. And sound decisions are demonstrated through our actions and actions accumulate and shape our habits, which determine our daily outcomes or goals and forge our behavior.
“Understanding the purpose” was our second workshop. As the title sounds, we pretty much dissected and discussed our “why(s)” in life. We teased our brains to answer the “why(s)” of our actions! We tried to solve the complicated calculus of “WHY DO WE DO WHAT WE DO?”.
We had the privilege of bringing together three amazing leaders and educators to share their perspectives and knowledge with us. According to World Vision, “Women’s empowerment can be defined as promoting women’s sense of self-worth, their ability to determine their own choices, and their right to influence social change for themselves and others.”
We had the honor of having three brilliant minds and changemakers as our guest speakers to share their thoughts on the subject. According to the UN, “Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world.” To achieve SDG-5, we need to understand the purpose of women’s empowerment and its common misconceptions to move forward toward the goal.
of Workshop attendees report improvement in communication and confidence skill after attending the workshop
workshop attendees - report to learn new information, tools, technique and skills after the workshop
of Workshop attendees mentioned being more aware and focused about their purpose, goals and personal and professional growths.
of workshop attendees report implementing the organizational skills in their personal and professional lives.
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Bold and Becoming is an initiative to empower, encourage and enable “you” by guiding you to learn more about yourself; By guiding you to cultivate your confidence, courage, self-respect, and self-love; By guiding you to find an active role-model/mentor for yourself!
We will help you to set goals/life directions, provide you opportunities to learn different leadership skills such as decision making, organization, planning, critical thinking, and time management etc. And will assist you in obtaining opportunities to apply and execute these skills by connecting you to different industry leaders. We want you to be more aware, more transformative, and more importantly— to be your best!
You can be a part of Bold and Becoming by joining our monthly workshops, or any of our running programs such as campus ambassador and/or mentorship program.
Yes, we can definitely come to your campus or your community to do our workshops. Please arrange at-least 20 members from your campus or community and email us at Boldandbecoming@gmail.com with subject line: Workshop in my Campus/Community. We will get back to you promptly
Yes, Bold and Becoming is for everyone regardless of genders and age. We not only want to empower women and youths, we would like everyone to feel and be empowered, encouraged and enabled!
Please check our mentorship page and follow the registration link to apply. You must have previously attended our workshops to apply for this program.
An active role model/mentor is someone who has qualities and skills you admire and wish to have. Having an active role model/mentor will help you to learn and grow from sharing of their experience and skills. An active role model/mentor will guide you to navigate your professional, personal and academic life better. The role model/mentor shall help you to be the person you want to be!
Nishat Mazumdar became the first Bangladeshi woman to scale Mount Everest, with the help of three Sherpas - Lakpa Sherpa, Pemba Dorje Sherpa, Mingma Sherpa and a bigger team led by another Bangladeshi mountaineer M. A. Muhit.
First female Bangladeshi to conquer Mount Everest Summit
Jasmine Ahmed is a Bangladeshi American based out of NYC and recognizes change is hard, but necessary. Jasmine has made it her mission to bring together diverse mindsets to break out of their paradigm and progress towards a future where they can thrive together. Her career has been focused on helping people embrace disruption to deliver transformation, accelerate growth and achieve personal success. She is recognized for building high performing teams and winning trust-based business partnerships by simplifying the complex to carve out a path for everyone to win. Jasmine’s in-depth transformation expertise across operating models, talent investment, technology stack and data has driven her success in multiple global industries to directly transform the way 7000+ employees work in multiple functions across the globe to create an empowered workforce while delivering over $100M in benefits. Her diverse industry experience includes highly federated media organizations, global pharmaceuticals, complex financial service companies and regulated utility companies.
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"After 3 years, I got the courage to talk to someone and an online platform is a huge fear of mine but that day was the 1st time when I spoke on this online platform...and it happened only for your cordial effort and vibrant encouragement towards us... I am mentioning us coz I believe that every single participant of your program has the same feelings as the way I felt!
After 3 years, I got the courage to talk to someone and an online platform is a huge fear of mine but that day was the 1st time when I spoke on this online platform...and it happened only for your cordial effort and vibrant encouragement towards us... I am mentioning us coz I believe that every single participant of your program has the same feelings as the way I felt!
I don't know whether you gonna believe me or not but the fact is that since attending your 1st session of Bold and becoming- whenever I felt shy or afraid of saying anything to anyone then, you know what happened to me? I feel like you are whispering to my ears, saying that-- You are bold and becoming....whatever needed--- then magic happens and I can speak up about whatever I needed to say... This is 1st time in my life- something happening smoothly and beautifully! I can express my feelings now!
After attending the first session I was trying to get back to normal life by starting talking to my family first... After a long time, I started talking willingly...it was so hard for me after a long gap but I tried coz I always felt that you are whispering to me saying that, Farzana---you have to get back to your life! Can you remember that you mentioned the bouncing back time? Somehow, your points ring in my head from time to time and inspired me to become brave enough to be engaged in professional life again! I applied for a job after attending your second session of Bold and becoming! Hope that, next scenario is clear to you! I attended the Interview board fearlessly as the way I was before my traumatized self--- and I got the job! I am really grateful to Allah for providing me loads of blessings in my life and one of them is --- you! I am really grateful to you as the way you sacrificed your sleep time and continued your session with us... Your words inspired me a lot and helped me to get back to a normal life!"
“EMK organised an session name "Bold & Becoming" for last 3 months organised by Chitralekha Kar from New York, USA. And it will continue next several months. She actually organised this session from her own gut feelings that which knowledge she didn’t get her own life in proper time. So, she is doing this for new generation to get more success in their life.
“EMK organised an session name "Bold & Becoming" for last 3 months organised by Chitralekha Kar from New York, USA. And it will continue next several months. She actually organised this session from her own gut feelings that which knowledge she didn’t get her own life in proper time. So, she is doing this for new generation to get more success in their life.
I personally appreciate her attempt to make others life more easier from struggle.
Today's 3 tips from her
1. We need to have 3 hobbies in our life
A. Physical hobby
B. Creative hobby
C. Financial hobby
2. Productivity does not only mean the time duration.
3. Correct technique is more effective than the hard working.
Inside all of us have the leadership capabilities which unable to explore due to lack of proper way how we should set our goals and achieve."
Afghanistan
"This leadership class is the best education class I have ever gotten. Because, it brings much positive differences in my lifestyle and my habits, now I am able to have good habits and change or delete my bad habits which these affects positively on me to achieve my goals fast, correctly and educationally. I really appreciate you dear Pooja and your team for preparing this golden time for us and at end I want to say:(WE ARE BOLD AND BECOMING POWERFUL LEADERS)"
"I'm Sk Sabiha Akther, a member of bold and becoming session that was held in 14 August and since then I attended 3 Classes.Those were really effective for me.Through those session, I learn how to be more productive in any stage of life and works. I'm so grateful to Pooja Kar apu for coming forward to make us realized about our dreams and teach us how we have to prioritize ourselves. Pooja apu u strengthen me much more than i expected and ur kind words inseminate the seeds of hope inside me😍
I'm Sk Sabiha Akther, a member of bold and becoming session that was held in 14 August and since then I attended 3 Classes.Those were really effective for me.Through those session, I learn how to be more productive in any stage of life and works. I'm so grateful to Pooja Kar apu for coming forward to make us realized about our dreams and teach us how we have to prioritize ourselves. Pooja apu u strengthen me much more than i expected and ur kind words inseminate the seeds of hope inside me😍 I would really like to demonstrate my gratitude to u for making me a part of this journey. Self-love is not being selfish! #boldandbecoming"
"I'm Sanjeda Akter. A member of bold & becoming. I attended 3 workshop. In this session you learn lots of valuable things. That is very good for you & next generation. After, 1st workshop i see lots of change inside me. Pooja apu asked me any 5 word told her that was valuable for me.
I'm Sanjeda Akter. A member of bold & becoming. I attended 3 workshop. In this session you learn lots of valuable things. That is very good for you & next generation. After, 1st workshop i see lots of change inside me.
Pooja apu asked me any 5 word told her that was valuable for me. I told her (1)focus (2)Independence (3)boldness (4)growth (5)honesty
Then she told me describe it with sentence & gives mark on it. I got less mark focus & Independence. Apu,helped me a lot. She told me how to i work on it smartly. Well,i action for this. I made a routine for myself. My exam nearby but my syllabus was not finished. I tried so hard follow the routine. It’s so hard for me. Finally , i got back myself.I got an angel who guide me overcome my fear.
Now, i everyday told myself something good is coming for me. I can do it. I will do it.
I stopped told myself I cannot do it. Whenever this thought around my mind. I imagine pooja apu sitting in front of me and i told myself if pooja apu here i will never treat her bad. Why i told myself so bad. Its work. Please tried it.
Definitely i will bounce back.
I know i am the best
I will be my own competition."
"The journey with bold and becoming hasn't been long but four sessions till now. I wasn't sure about it's objectives beforehand but just the words bold and becoming dragged me to join the sessions. As the title speaks, the sessions turned out to be really helpful for me to be able to figure out and connect the dots of my life. So many things were going around but there's wasn't a sure shot connection to catch them up but since I got engaged in bold and becoming, things started to get clear. Most importantly I realized that I was working for what I value which is a really important aspect in one's life and another one's a habit setting rule that I learned from here.
The journey with bold and becoming hasn't been long but four sessions till now. I wasn't sure about it's objectives beforehand but just the words bold and becoming dragged me to join the sessions. As the tittle speaks, the sessions turned out to be really helpful for me to be able to figure out and connect the dots of my life.
So many things were going around but there's wasn't a sure shot connection to catch them up but since I got engaged in bold and becoming, things started to get clear. Most importantly I realized that I was working for what I value which is a really important aspect in one's life and another one's a habit setting rule that I learned from here.
I still have 8 more sessions to catch up and I'm eager to join and learn more to have a productive and happy life ahead. I am certain that the lessons that I'm getting from bold and becoming are going to help me in the long run. I'm surely becoming bold!"
Bold and Becoming is an initiative to empower, encourage and enable women (and youths) around us through a series of (free of cost) empowering workshops and podcasts/webinars.