Amol is a young, highly energetic Women entrepreneur who believes in exploring different paradigms of creativity to create holistic solutions. Guided by the same intention she did her graduation in Architecture and worked in the industry to make dream spaces a reality. But the urge to expand the horizons of knowledge and understanding continued and she pursued her Masters from School of Inspired Leadership where she also got a chance to represent the Institution at M.I.P. Italy where she pursued course on Entrepreneurship and Innovation management.
Working as Research Assistant for Social Innovation Program she got an amazing opportunity to work with the Ministry of Rural Development on the draft of Govt. Program Aajeevika Skills. Her journey with Innovations just didn’t stop there and her paper on ‘Juggad’- Combining Manufacturing Industry and Agriculture got published in the journal of Indian Management Institute. Innovations happening across the globe kept her intrigued and soon she realised that a huge gap exists between the innovations done and the applications. She realized that innovations are happening everyday around the world, but they do no reach the people where they can make the maximum impact. She also realized that very few innovations cross the idea stage, even fewer reach the product development stage and marginally low innovations actually reach people and there is no single platform which can provide an apt holistic environment for innovations to grow and develop. It was then Ink-Ya Collaborative was born, to address and bridge this gap. Amol envisions to create inspired, enriched and empowered lives through collaboration, participation and engagement of people from different walks of life.
Ink-Ya celebrates the spirit of ‘Creations and collaborations’. It is India’s first all-inclusive platform for Innovations which follows whole system approach to bring all the stake holders of Innovation together to spear head the process of innovation from idea to adoption. It follows a 5 part approach : Engage | Inspire | Enrich | Empower | Connect. Ink-Ya is on a mission to bridge the gap between innovations and applications by bringing Innovators-CHANGE MAKERS, young knowledge seeker- CONNECTORS and experienced, seasoned people-ENABLERS together to spear head the process of innovation getting inspired, enriched and empowered from each other and creating new success stories.
When Amol joined WE Can India program she was working on the development of Ink-Ya. But she believes getting selected for the WE Can Program added an altogether different vigour to the efforts. In the program, she got to analyse her enterprise from different perspectives, even the ones she was not aware of earlier. And she believes this experience went to another level when she got a chance to get mentored by former Chief Peoples Officer of Flipkart Mr. Mekin Maheshwari. And when we asked her to share how We Can India Program has impacted Ink-Ya and its growth, in total enthusiasm she replied, “ Before joining We Can, I was getting amazed every day looking at the kind of Innovations happening throughout the world and wished to share them with everyone but after becoming part of this program I am amazed, exhilarated and excited beyond words because now I know that the wish has come true and I will be able to make these innovations reach people.
And this remind me of an urdu couplet:
Zindgai ki asli udaan abhi baaki hai,
Zindagi ke kain imtehaan abhi baaki hain,
Abhi toh naapi hai muthi bhar zameen humne,
Abhi saara aasmaan baaki hai”
