For Women
Working, on a career break, or in between chapters.
Rebuild identity, voice and professional direction through the ASTITVA Method, the weekly masterclass and the Rising Shakti Collective.
Start your riseDolly Sharma Empower — Empowering Lives
You’re Not Stuck.You’re Ready to Rise.
Practical self-leadership, communication, behavioural and career-development support for individuals and organisations ready to turn awareness into meaningful action.
Dolly Sharma — Self-Leadership Coach, Corporate Trainer & MSME Mentor
- 18+ years professional journey
- 15 years banking experience
- Corporate trainer & behavioural facilitator
- MSME mentor
- Founder, Vrddhi Mentors
Choose your path
Which journey is yours?
Three audiences, three distinct journeys — pick the one that sounds like your Tuesday.
Why Dolly
Inspiration may start change. Structure, practice and accountability make it real.
Lived empathy, corporate discipline
Dolly has sat on both sides of the table — the woman rebuilding her direction, and the banker who knows what structure and accountability actually look like.
Activity-based, bilingual facilitation
Sessions in plain English and Hindi, built around practice and participation — highly relatable, never a lecture.
Four perspectives in one practitioner
Business, banking, behavioural science and communication — combined into interventions that fit real workplaces and real homes.
Every intervention ends in action
Workshops, mentoring and programs are designed around a practical output: a plan, a script, a skill practised — not just notes.
The signature method
The ASTITVA Method
Astitva means existence — your identity. Seven steps that move you from quiet awareness to visible, self-directed agency.
- AAwareness
- SSelf-Leadership
- TTalent
- IIdentity Expression
- TTransformation Skills
- VVisibility
- AAgency
Ways to begin
Featured offers
From a free weekly hour to full institutional programs — every door leads to practical action.
Results & proof
Outcomes we'll show, not tell
Only verified, permissioned stories get published here — real names, real organisations, real change. The first cohort is writing them now.
This space is reserved for the first Rising Shakti member story — challenge, change and all.
A client case study will live here: context, audience, intervention and the measured outcome.
A parent or school voice will complete the set — shared with full permission, or not at all.
Dolly Sharma
Happy
by
Choice
Coming soon
The book
Happiness is not always found.Sometimes it is consciously chosen.
Happy by Choice is the philosophy behind Dolly Sharma Empower — a lived argument that wellbeing is a practice, not a lottery. Drawing on Dolly’s own reinvention from banker to behavioural facilitator, it turns hard-won insight into small, repeatable choices you can make on an ordinary day. Coming soon.
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Free weekly masterclass
Choose Yourself Again
Discover how to rebuild your identity, voice and professional direction — even if responsibilities, a career break or years of self-doubt have made you feel stuck.
Register — It’s FreeEvery Sunday · 7:00 PM IST
When
Every Sunday, 7:00 PM IST
Duration
About 60 minutes, live
Language
English & Hindi
Where
Online — link after registration
Insights
Practical reading, fresh from the Lab
Short, useful answers to real questions — no jargon, no fluff.