Alpa has more than 25 years of experience working for several corporations, including TATA and the SBI group. In order to empower each individual, She founded her own venture Empower Education, which educates and empowers people from all walks of life on financial literacy.
She is in charge of Empower Education’s educational programme called Financial Awareness Training, which has empowered more than 10 lac corporate workers, women entrepreneurs, professionals, and young people to develop their personal financial literacy.
She ran a women’s empowerment programme in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, USA, Malaysia, Dubai, Singapore as part of her global initiative to spread financial literacy. She is particularly passionate about empowering women in money management because she is a female entrepreneur.
Alpa offers training programmes for women that prepare them to enter the financial era as compliant Financial Entrepreneurs and give them the confidence to do so.
Alpa will be coaching in depth Entrepreneurial Finance at Midas School of Entrepreneurship, Pune.
She regularly featured in Newspapers, T.V. and Radio educating people on money management.
Alpa has authored 2 books:
1st Book – “Every Woman should Invest” published by CNBC TV18. It’s a practical guide to managing a millennial woman’s financial journey. The author’s years of experience in women’s financial literacy space shines through by way of addressing some of the not-so-widely discussed topics. The real-life examples weaved in makes the book an interesting and a relatable read.
2nd Book – “The Business Women” The book encourages the entrepreneurs and future entrepreneurs. It revolves around specific skills like: Put Ethics before Money, Family is Everything, Being a Super Woman in Man’s World, Being a Great Leader and so on. It highlights many qualities which can be imbibed by women entrepreneur to continue with healthy and sustainable entrepreneurship. Reading the book will guide towards long term and sustainable entrepreneurship.
She also serves as managing trustee for Freedom Foundation, a non-profit organisation that promotes the welfare of low-income groups (LIG) in the society. She has given personal financial planning training to Dabbawalas, Taxi Drivers, Auto Rickshaw Drivers, Sex Workers, Home Guards, Maids, Mahila Bachat Gat, Transgender, Fire Brigade Workers, and many others.
Alpa was invited to speak at TEDx on the topic of “Every Youth Should Invest.” being a nation-building initiative.
Alpa has gone digital and have many followers. She has her own You Tube and Podcast channel “Money ki Baat Alpa ke Saath”.
Alpa wanted to empower everyone on financial planning. She took the initiative and created an online course on Goal Based Financial Planning. Anyone can enrol for this course by visiting the website www.alpashah.in
Giving back is always an integral part of Alpa’s life. She helps all of them who approach her. But always felt how to reach those who cannot approach her. Rotary club was the way she found and herself chartered a club named “Rotary Club of Mumbai Inspire”. She was also the Charter President for the year 2020/2021
Alpa has been conferred with various awards some of the prominent ones are:
Very recently Economic Times featured Alpa as one of the most influential Woman Social entrepreneur of the country and acknowledged her contribution towards Women empowerment, Social work and uplifting lower strata income group people.