Padma Shree Sehnaz Hussain is a pioneer in herbal healing and promoter of Ayurveda products, globally

Padma Shree Shahnaz Husain is one of the India’s leading woman entrepreneurs, who has relentlessly promoted Ayurveda worldwide, with a crusader’s zeal.

She embraced India’s tradition of herbal healing, creating an international market for Ayurvedic beauty and health care.

Today, she heads the largest organization of its kind in the world with a global network of franchise salons, spa, retail outlets, beauty training academies, as well as 375 Ayurvedic formulations for beauty and health care.

Shahnaz Husain is also the pioneer of vocational beauty training in India. More than 4 decades ago, when only apprenticeship training was available, she started her beauty training academy, providing professional beauty training, in keeping with international standards. In fact, she has spoken at leading international universities, like Harvard, MIT, Oxford University and London School of Economics.

She spoke at Harvard Business School on how she established an international brand name without commercial publicity, becoming a Harvard Case Study. Today, she is a Harvard Subject in Business History for “Emerging Markets.”

The beauty world offers several lucrative career avenues, with tremendous opportunities for growth and specialization.

The Shahnaz Husain International Beauty Academy has trained thousands of students for lucrative and successful careers in beauty.

The beauty academy offers basic and advanced Diploma Courses, as well as advanced training in make-up, hairstyling, spa treatments, traditional Ayurvedic treatments, aromatherapy, Shahnaz Signature treatments, etc.

Shahnaz Husain has received several prestigious international awards. She became the first woman in 107 years to receive the World’s Greatest Woman Entrepreneur Award from the New York based Success Magazine, as well as Padma Shri Award.