why Join flo

Joining FLO provides innumerable opportunities for career enhancement, professional networking and global exposure. Let us take you through detailed benefits of the same.

COLLECTIVE VOICE FOR WOMEN ACROSS INDIA

FLO aims to serve as an influential voice and power, especially for women across India, envisioning greater participation of women in the economic development of the nation. FLO works towards influencing government policies, laws and incentives, with the aim to facilitate an enabling environment for women in business and professionals from various walks of life.

LEARNING & GROWING

FLO plays an active role as an enabler of women empowerment through entrepreneurship development and professional excellence. One of the primary agenda is to help create women entrepreneurs and facilitate an appropriate platform for women to think, learn, create, adapt and achieve true empowerment. This is done through regular member engagements by way of Conferences, Workshops, Training Programmes, Factory Visits, B2B & B2C meets and other skill development initiatives.

BUSINESS PROMOTIONS

FLO aims to foster economic growth & prosperity through global trade. It aims to address existing challenges by converting them into large-scale opportunities for Business Networking, Go to Market, Business Promotions, Trade Relations, Product launches and Product Sourcing. It is a pan India Initiative to attract industry professionals, investors, businessmen, prospective domestic & global business partners, exhibitors and consumers.

FACILITATING AN ENABLING STARTUP ECOSYTEM

FLO works towards handholding young businesses with high growth potential by providing them with necessary guidance. The objective is to build a sustainable ecosystem within FLO and beyond to identify potential start-ups and find appropriate incubation centres across the country to empower women.

INTERNATIONAL TRADE ENGAGEMENTS

International delegations and B2B meetings with companies of global repute, offers opportunity to FLO members in the same industry, or members interested in a particular business sector to connect with those of different geographical locations thereby promoting exchange of ideas and cooperation in the field of economic and social empowerment of women entrepreneurs. Regular round table meetings, business fairs, industry interactions to deliberate with Diplomats, Ministers, Government Officials are also conducted.

ENABLING WOMEN ON BOARDS

FLO Women Directors (FWD) is a pan India initiative, with the objective to encourage induction of Women Directors on company boards as also to educate the existing women on family boards, so as to improve their effectiveness and impact. Being one of the largest body of women Directors in India, FLO believes that it is pertinent to promote different skills, optimise resource utilisation and maximise the potential of women to be taken on boards and being accepted at the leadership positions.

EMPOWERING WOMEN IN GRASSROOTS

FLO believes in the power of women to change their own lives, their communities, and the world for the better. FLO continuously strives to empower grassroots women to create a more developed nation. This is done by organising skill development programmes, capacity development initiatives and also by making them more aware about the entrepreneurial ecosystem including marketing and financial linkages. The objective is to play the role of the facilitator and thought leader in changing lives of women, by empowering them economically and otherwise and by being the collective voice for policy change.

MENTORSHIP & GUIDANCE

The FLO network connects its members across industries and geographies, at the international, national and chapter levels with FICCI to address business related concerns of women entrepreneurs.

 

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

FLO recognizes the inspiring stories of its women achievers and awards exemplary contribution of women in their respective field of work. Our endeavour is to take a step forward from empowerment and create a platform to acknowledge and enable women leaders who have opened up new opportunities for themselves and have paved way for more to come.

NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY

Opportunities for formal and informal exchanges at FLO are infinite. FLO actively promotes bilateralism and fellowship among women entrepreneurs providing each member to network with like-minded and resourceful businesswomen and professionals.