India / Global — 2025 — Coherent Market Insights (CMI) served as Research Partner at the ET NOW Impactful Women Leaders of India Summit 2025, a premier platform celebrating women who are breaking barriers, redefining leadership, and driving inclusive growth across India.
The ET Now-curated summit under the ET Edge platform took place in Delhi on December 8, 2025 where changemaker entrepreneurs, executives, policy advocates, and innovators whose ideas, resilience, and leadership are shaping the nation’s future came together.
Monica Shevgan, General Manager – Business Accelerator, Coherent Market Insights, represented CMI at the summit. She gave a presentation on the structured research methodology created to identify the most influential female leaders in India. Her session described the evaluation process, screening criteria, and validation processes in order to guarantee transparency, credibility, and sectoral diversity in the final selection.
Promoting the Discussion of Leadership
Women who are promoting business transformation, increasing innovation, and bolstering inclusive economic participation are put under the spotlight under the national platform – the Impactful Women Leaders of India Summit. The forum brings together leaders across corporates, startups, MSMEs, public policy, and social enterprises in order to celebrate measurable impact and progressive leadership skills among women leaders.
CMI’s Role: Designing a Credible Leadership Benchmark
As a Research Partner, Coherent Market Insights led the end-to-end evaluation process to identify and recognize India’s most inspiring women leaders.
A strict, multi-layered framework that was intended to guarantee credibility, fairness, and measurable impact served as the foundation for the review process. Candidates had to be Indian nationals with at least three years of leadership experience and a track record of achieving corporate, social, or innovative goals in order to be eligible.
In order to ensure wide industry and geographic representation across corporates, startups, MSMEs, and NGOs, leaders were evaluated across a variety of sectors, including Corporate & Business Leadership, Banking & Finance, Technology & Digital, Healthcare, Sustainability & Energy, Social Impact, Education, and Agriculture & Food.
A weighted scoring model was put in place for evaluating the shortlisted candidates. The model gave the highest weight to measurable impact and gave a priority to leadership impact, strategic vision, innovation, problem solving, and financial success. CMI used a data normalization technique to assess leaders from corporates, startups, MSMEs, and NGOs equally irrespective of organizational size or scale to ensure fairness. A distinguished jury made up of senior editorial members from The Economic Times and ET Now as well as industry experts then examined and approved the final selections. In the recognition process, these steps improved transparency, consistency, and credibility.
Recognizing India’s Most Impactful Women Leaders
Following a thorough, rigorous examination and validation process, 29 women leaders were chosen from the original pool of 200 selected candidates. The selected women leaders, belonging to different sectors, have contributed remarkably to boost business innovation, economic growth, and enable social transformation in the country.
Enabling Data-Driven Leadership Recognition
Coherent Market Insights, through its meticulously created evaluation methodology, employed a credible benchmark for identifying leadership excellence. Through this partnership, CMI has reinforced its commitment to support inclusive growth, solidify governance-led recognition frameworks, and enable the acknowledgement of transformative leadership.
Coherent Market Insights is extremely honored for the opportunity to collaborate with ET NOW and ET Edge in celebrating women to enrich India’s future.
About Impactful Women Leaders of India Summit 2025
The excellence of women across various domains, including business, policy, innovation, and social impact, is recognized and celebrated through a national initiative namely, the Impactful Women Leaders of India Summit. Through this summit, the advancement of India’s inclusive growth journey is celebrated by recognizing women’s achievements, their leadership skills, and the transformative contributions made by them for the upliftment of the nation.
About Coherent Market Insights
Coherent Market Insights (CMI) is a global market intelligence and consulting firm that delivers data-driven insights across diverse industry verticals. CMI has its headquarter in India and global operation. In addition to a presence in the U.S., CMI also has strategic client partnerships across the U.K. and Japan. It caters to clients in 32+ countries with the support of more than 300 full-time consultants and a global network of domain experts across 24 countries, facilitating well-informed decision-making in changing market environments.
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