Women Leadership Programs
Women struggle to find their voice and power in their personal and professional lives. Organizations want to support women in leadership roles and enhance gender diversity but have not been able to do so. They did not have a playbook to do this- so far.
The Six Feminine Powers model
The Powerfulife offerings based on the Six Feminine Powers model help women identify and claim their power and live their full potential. These offerings help organizations in their objective to have greater representation of women in leadership roles.
Powerfulife Offerings
Offerings that supports both individuals and organizations in strengthening women’s leadership.
Powerful - The Indian woman’s guide to unlocking her full potential
Powerful is a book that helps women identify and claim their inner power & authority.
Nirupama uses the wisdom of archetypes to focus on the aspects of feminine power to provide practical tips for women to become the phenomenal leaders of their lives.
Whether it is business leadership or leadership in any professional field or in relationships, the Six Feminine Powers model will help women become independent and gain influence and power.
Nirupama Subramanian has written a gem of a book. Her fascinating analysis of the six feminine powers is bound to inspire readers and open their eyes to their own deep and unique strengths-strengths with which they can break age-old boundaries.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Author of The Forest of Enchantments and The Last Queen
More than 40 per cent of my management team consisted of women, both in Nokia and PepsiCo. I learnt a lot from them. Women have more power than they know or use. Their soft power, loyalty to teams and organizations, and the ability to reconsider their point of view when given fresh evidence give them a unique advantage. Identifying the six feminine types is a great way to help women leverage their power.
Shiv Shivakumar
Ex Operating Partner, Advent, Author
The six feminine-power models will help Indian women understand themselves and the world around them better, overcome their limiting beliefs and live their full potential to create a just and equitable society. Nirupama has spent the last few years coaching and training women across India, and has a thorough understanding of the challenges and issues they face. I am thrilled that she is putting all that experience to good use in this new book.
Debjani Ghosh
Ex Former President NASSCOM
Self-belief is the key that liberates us from doubts and diffidence to unleash our true potential. Nirupama Subramanian provides guidance on how to do this.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Executive Chairperson, Biocon
Powerful” has some great research that appeals to today’s contemporary young woman, the metro-vaasi, the Netflix-generation, and I liked the fact that it is delivered without being overwhelming. It steers clear of the very tempting template of defining every self-sabotaging action of women as originating from the six patterns it showcases.
Dr. Saundarya Rajesh
Founder & President Avtaar
Powerful has provided me with an extra lens to observe human behavior in women through the lens of the 6 archetypes and hence have additional ways of thinking, working, progressing with them. Extensive work, anecdotes, case studies and profile test make the ideas truly come to life.
Mansi Tripathy
Chairman- Shell group of companies-India
Powerfulife Podcasts and Interviews
The Powerfulife Assessment
The Powerfulife assessment will give your power profile which is the unique mix of powers that you have.
The test adheres to psychometric standards as stipulated by standard setting bodies like IIBP (Indian Institute of Business Psychology) in India and ITC (International Test Commission) globally.
It offers meaningful insights into how you lead, collaborate, and make decisions.
The results help you recognise your natural strengths, uncover blind spots, and understand the patterns that influence your leadership style.
How to Take The Assessment?
Simply click on the link given below. You will be taken to the Registration page for the Assessment where you need to share your name and email id. You will be given a secure unique link to complete the Powerfulife Assessment.
Please answer the questions given in the assessment to the best of your knowledge.
You have 3 options for choosing your Power Profile.
Power Profile Dominant Power - FREE
This report gives your Dominant Power and its implications.
Personal Growth Power Profile - Paid report
This report gives you a detailed description of all powers along with details about your Dominant, Secondary and Latent powers.
Leadership Power Profile - Paid report
This report is ideal for professional women in any field. This report gives you a detailed description of all powers in the context of your workplace and implications on your leadership. The report will also give your Dominant Power, Secondary Power and Latent Power.
While I have explored many personality assessment tests, I loved the subtle nuances that Nirupama brings in ‘Powerful’ with a very Indian context that seamlessly builds in the biases / insights from a cultural context that we all easily relate to. The personal assessment that comes with the book makes it so much more meaningful to each individual that I strongly recommend every woman to read it, self-assess, self-reflect and evoke the power they need to in their lives!
Supriya Srinivasa
Senior Director in an FMCG company
The six archetypes felt incredibly relatable, designed specifically for Indian women. The assessment highlighted my strengths and the areas I need to develop. It was an eye-opening session that made me reflect on the leadership styles I need to embrace more.
Srinidhi Srikanth
SVP-Design Services, Pink Lemonade Communication
Honestly, having taken various assessments before, I was not too sure, what this would bring out new. (Assessment was spot on!)
The archetypes are there in all of us and require us to bring each at the fore at different times. Plus,loved the relatability(especially in the Indian context) and stickiness of them!
Thank You Nirupama for a fantastic masterclass! This one’s going to stay with me.
Kavitha Ashtakala
Customer Success Manager, Planview
The Powerfulife Seminars
Powerfulife Seminars are short duration sessions that help to enhance awareness of the Six Feminine Powers model for an audience of women as well as mixed gender groups.
These thought provoking sessions have been offered to several organizations, for Employee Resource groups, women’s organizations, students, nurse leaders and coaching communities.
The sessions will be facilitated by the author and Coach Nirupama Subramanian and our team of empanelled certified assessors.
Thank you for the beautiful session you did for us. It was very insightful and will help us navigate our lives in the future. We can make more informed decisions based on our personality types.
Meena Nambiar
Participant at up! SURGE Women Leaders Program by XLRI-CGEIL
The team hosted Nirupama Subramanian at Dräger office in Mumbai for an exclusive fireside chat. Her extensive research in the assessment of women personalities and her profound insights into the roles played by women in the corporate world was engaging and enlightening.
Sanket Salvi
Dräger: Head of Human Resources
This Women’s Day, we celebrated Shaping Tomorrow’s Growth with an inspiring keynote session by Nirupama Subramanian on Shaping a Powerful Tomorrow.
She shared thought-provoking insights on the barriers that hold us back—the 4Ds: Deter, Diminish, Decorate, Divide—and how we can overcome them by learning to dream and embracing the power of I Can, You Can!
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It was our pleasure to have you yesterday, Nirupama! The session was very insightful and engaging. The six archetypes of women in a corporate setting is so relatable. On a lighter note, my mind has been trying to connect all the women I know with those six archetypes since yesterday.
Varsha Sengupta
Learning and Talent Development, Huron
The feedback in our members’ WhatsApp group has been overwhelmingly positive — a true reflection of the value and inspiration you brought to the session. We are truly grateful for your time and presence, and we look forward to many more such enriching engagements in the future.
Kamini Gupta
Discover Your Power" Masterclass, Program Manager- BAGGGEL Foundation
On behalf of the entire team, we extend our heartfelt thanks for conducting such an engaging and insightful session for all our women employees. Your session was truly inspiring — filled with valuable takeaways, practical wisdom, and positive energy that left a lasting impact on everyone who attended. Thank you once again for contributing to our journey of growth and the well-being of women at Sudarshan
Pooja S. Chaudhari
SudaSakhi, HR Sudarshan
Powerfulife Coaching
The Powerfulife Coaching is a high impact intervention to enable individual women to achieve extraordinary goals, transform limiting beliefs to a positive mindset and unleash their latent powers.
Our team of coaches and assessors will help to debrief the Power Profiles and use the insights to support the women to achieve their goals.
Powerful life coaching can be offered as stand alone offerings, group coaching sessions and be a part of the Powerfulife Leadership journeys
Nirupama is a wonderful coach- she is empathetic, was able to help me understand and structure my goals (and helped me also realize when it needed to be evolved), was able to give me appropriate tools and hold me accountable to my actions. She is also very perceptive and discerning in being able to call out the not-so-obvious challenges. I also benefited from her vast experience of working with women leaders, particularly from the assessment exercise from the Powerful tool to understand my archetype and work towards specific areas that I was able to see limitations in.
Lakshmi Sethuraman
Partner, Sattva Consulting
I consider myself fortunate to have crossed paths with Nirupama and to be coached by her. She has an intuitive and deep-thinking approach, which she effortlessly applies in her coaching. All six sessions I have had with her were 10/10 and helped me shift my perspective or mindset a bit. Her Powerfulife framework (explained in detail in her book) is very easy to understand and gave me a new language to speak in, when I’m navigating my thoughts or attempting a mindset shift. How do I use my “Veera” (warrior) energy more effectively, how do I play up my “Maa” (nurturer), or not hide the “Apsara” (charming Influencer) side of me – every woman will relate to all 6 archetypes in themselves, which is what makes it so very relatable. Thank You Nirupama, for your guidance and coaching. I remain eternally grateful!
Priya Nijhara
Former Country Head, India at Disney Consumer Products & Licensing
Powerfulife Leadership Journeys
The Powerfulife Leadership journeys are long term interventions that include all the Powerfulife offerings through a 4-8 month long journey.
The Leadership journey starts with the Leading Self session and includes the Powerfulife Assessment and book.
The sessions include themes are relevant for women leaders as shown by our research.
I had a wonderful experience throughout the program and gained so many insights.
Kirti Prakash
Participant, Path to Principal, Women Leadership Program, ZS Associates
Highly commendable work in the evolution of leadership prototypes for women and offering a precise action-oriented roadmap to dreams and ambitions. A highly recommended program with peerless potency of initiating a metamorphosis with everlasting transformation.
Sanjukta Banerjee
Participant in Transcendence - Women Leadership Program, Deputy Vice President, Kotak Life Insurance
Powerfulife Assessor Certification Program
The Powerfulife Certification Program is designed for coaches, assessors, trainers, teachers and counsellors who work with women.
The Certification program trains you to debrief the Powerfulife Assessment and use the Model for working with women clients through coaching and facilitation.
Join our community of 35+ Powerfulife assessors and trainers so that you can enhance your personal growth and help other women empower themselves. View Program Details
A user-friendly tool, the Powerfulife Assessment’s impact lies in the easy relatability of the concept of feminine powers. This allows for nuanced and insight-laden conversations about strengths, shadows, and possibilities with the coachee.
Nidhi Panjwani
Powerfullife Certified Assessor
I have experienced the Power Profile and this led me to becoming a certified Powerfulife coach. My coachees have experienced enhanced self-awareness by understanding their sources of power, identifying their limiting beliefs, and taking actions based on insights from their profile to overcome challenges. The Power Profile has contributed immensely to their personal and professional growth.
Meenakshi Rajagopal
Powerfulife Certified Assessor
The Powerfulife certification opens up incredible opportunities in the area of women awareness and development.
Deepika Bhattacharya
Powerfulife Certified Assessor
Powerfulife Assessment is a relevant tool for South Asian women, it is easy to use and understand, encouraging actions to unlock their inner power.
Dr.Geeta Kumar
Powerfullife Certified Assessor
Powerfulife proved very powerful for me personally. It is an honor to be able to use this tool and philosophy to make an impact in the lives of more and more people.
Shivani Pal
Powerfulife Certified Assessor
Integrating Powerfulife assessments with the work I do with women has been truly rewarding.
Aditi Kumar
Powerfulife Certified Assessor
Frequently Asked Questions
What does the Powerfulife assessment measure?
What are the good scores in the Power Profile?
There are no ‘ good’ or ‘bad’ scores in the Power Profile. The profile indicates your behavioral tendencies. How you use your powers and overcome power blocks will determine your results. A High score does not mean it is the best score. A Low score is not bad.
