Anooja a CEO by profession whose performance and experience with academia and corporate marked the beginning of my venture OUREA. Today being the CEO of the successful 360 degree business venture, she has laid her hands on branding, marketing and information technology with a strong team along with human resource management and corporate training. After serving more than a decade in the various corporate industries, she is now a serial entrepreneur managing two companies Ourea , Flexicloud with clients all across the globe.
She guides people in business with simple strategies to grow & influence their audience. She is your book to transform business into success.
Ms. Anooja Bashir, like many of us, emerged from a conservative background who decided that her life was not just about being simple. She wanted more and hence decided to create an extraordinary life for herself.She is a lovely mother of two, an entrepreneur, CEO, mentor, project manager, a former assistant professor, an amazing leader, and the list just goes on. Ms. Anooja, a post graduate holds experience in various fields expanding her range of knowledge.
Begining of her professionalism
Ms. Anooja Bashir, like many of us, emerged from a conservative background who decided that her life was not just about being simple. She wanted more and hence decided to create an extraordinary life for herself.She is a lovely mother of two, an entrepreneur, CEO, mentor, project manager, a former assistant professor, an amazing leader, and the list just goes on. Ms. Anooja, a post graduate holds experience in various fields expanding her range of knowledge.
Ms Anooja graduated as a civil engineer and started her professional journey. She had been in Dubai for most of her days and later she decided to pursue Mtech in Ocean Technology from CUSAT. Soon after, she pursued her career in academia as an Assistant Professor. While indulging with the education system much deeper than a conventional teacher, she realised the lack of development and evolution in the education field. She saw that the students were not exactly prepared for the real world. That became the turning point for her professional life. There the idea of creating a finishing school was born.
Another phase was going back to academia as the Assistant professor, where she slowly started to put out workshops and much innovative ideas for her students. There she became the only female member of Kerala Technological University. Though this was an experience of a lifetime, somewhere she felt aloof and wanted something more. Her craving for something bigger was tickling her and she decided to take a break. Meanwhile, she finished a course in Interior designing which complimented her degree of a civil engineer. Her keen interest in creativity helped her get a good hold in this field as well. Interior designing helped her bag a lot of experience in the corporate world and she got the opportunity to lead multiple projects giving her leadership quality a bounce back. Her keenness towards the corporate world and marketing sector pushed her towards pursuing MBA, giving her a better understanding of the techniques. Marketing being her forte she excelled in the field miraculously. As she got more deeper into the corporate world her understanding of the bits and pieces of the industry was integrated. Her being a woman again put a lot of halts in her way up.
The next step was to be inspired more. Her fire for wanting more was grown by Mr. Yusuf Ali’s Lulu Hypermarket concept. That led to collaboration of Ms. Anooja with many experts in the corporate field recreating Ourea, the one stop shop solution for all the corporate needs. In 2017, as she had this irresistible idea of establishing her entrepreneurial career, unfortunately many mishappenings broke her. She went through a lot of emotional, physical and financial losses leading to a break.
But our leader being a modern day Pheonix, rose and created a better team with the perfect IT support establishing a strong base in 2018 with Ourea as – a 360° Business Management Consultancy.
From here on her adventure of maintaining a successful business goes on. She continues to inspire and mentor many individuals giving them the hope and power for a better future.
Not only just being there for some, she has been involved in social entrepreneurship where she advocates women empowerment and child welfare. She is now a startup mentor to more than 25+ incubators including Niti Ayog,Atal Mission,IIM Kashipur,IIT MandhiJESERC,JNFU ,Wadhwani,Kerala Startup Mission,TiE ,WICCI and few more.In addition to this Anooja is an investor to a few startups.
