VIJAY ESWARAN’S EFFORT TO EMPOWER WOMEN THROUGH THE QI GROUP
As the founder and chief executive officer of the QI group of companies, Vijay Eswaran heads a multi-business firm that operates in diverse sectors, including direct selling, education and hospitality. Prior to founding the QI Group, Vijay Eswaran established QNET in 1998 and currently, it has offices in the United Arab Emirates. The company has been able to combine the traditional methods of sale with the contemporary e-commerce platforms.
He is an award-winning entrepreneur and some of the awards he received include the ASEAN Business Advisory Council and Lifetime Achievement Award for Global Entrepreneurship (2016). Vijay Eswaran holds a doctorate in Economics and Global Business from Pannasatra University, Cambodia. He is a successful entrepreneur and a philanthropist and author of six books, including Two Minutes from The Abyss, In The Sphere Of Silence, and In The Thinking Zone, among others.
QI group leadership development and entrepreneurship training for women
QI Group has an almost equal gender ratio, with approximately 46% of women working in various departments and almost 43% specifically holding managerial positions. The company offers a number of training programs to champion for leadership development among women. One of the QI group subsidiary companies is involved in direct selling and the majority of those who conduct these are women who motivate other women to join the entrepreneurship world.
At the start of his entrepreneurial journey, Vijay Eswaran encountered many setbacks one of them being the intense economic crisis that faced Asia at that time. He never gave up and currently, his company is a multi-million dollar firm that continues to grow to higher levels. The company has always been ranked for its continued innovations in the e-commerce sector. It has come up with advanced technologies in an effort to boost its sales which have also contributed to the growth of the economy.