In the 2023 cycle, grantees achieved 100% of their job creation, skills training, and business growth goals. But the real story is what followed

When catalytic funding meets P&G-trained leadership, impact compounds:

• $778,000 in additional funds raised by awardees this year alone.
• $105,800 catalyzed for JoyCorps.
• $175,000 in subsequent grants for Tikkun Farm.

This is long-term economic development powered by people who know how to build for the long run.

If this makes you proud and grateful for being a part of P&G, it should.
Now is the moment to turn that gratitude  into participation

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Welcoming New Member of the P&G Alumni South Africa Board

We are delighted to welcome Kristil Manuel to the Board of the P&G Alumni Network South Africa. Kristil brings deep experience, dedication, and a strong commitment to strengthening our alumni community. Her leadership will play an important role in advancing initiatives that foster meaningful connections, collaboration, and shared value among members. We look forward to the impact she will make as we continue building an engaged and supportive network across South Africa.

Today, Mansi is Chairperson of Shell Group of Companies in India and Senior Vice President for Shell Lubricants Asia Pacific, overseeing a $2.5 billion P&L across 22 countries and 9 manufacturing plants. She is one of the few women at the leadership table in India’s energy sector, and was named among Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Asia in 2025.

But her path here was anything but conventional.

Before Shell, Mansi spent 15 years at Procter and Gamble, including as Global Director for Gillette and Asia-Pacific Head for Consumer and Market Knowledge. She led the post-acquisition transformation of Gillette’s business model and held assignments across India, Singapore, Australia, Geneva, and the US. When an opportunity at Shell came calling, nearly everyone in her network told her not to take it. She took it anyway.

That willingness to move against the grain, grounded not in recklessness but in deep self-trust, is the thread running through this entire conversation.

What you’ll take away from this episode:

• Conviction over confidence: Mansi draws a clear distinction: conviction is not the absence of fear. It is what overrides it. She shares how that belief has guided her through career pivots, high-stakes decisions, and moments where she had to hold her ground without raising her voice.
• Authentic leadership in practice: When told to “bang the table” to get results, Mansi pushed back. Her approach: focus on the outcome, not the performance of authority. “I don’t need to talk tough. There is an alternate way in solving for things.”
• The Gillette transformation lesson: Data alone does not bring people along. Mansi reflects on what it actually takes to shift culture and build alignment across a global organization.
• B2C to B2B: Moving from consumer brands to Shell reshaped how Mansi thinks about business impact, stakeholder complexity, and what it means to lead at scale.
• Boundaries after crisis: A family health emergency forced Mansi to reconsider how she was operating. She talks openly about what changed, and why.

About the guest
Mansi holds board positions at Hankook Shell (South Korea), JOSLOC (Saudi Arabia), and MRPL Aviation. She has been recognized among Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Asia (2025), Business World’s Most Influential Leaders (2025), and received the Woman of the Decade Award from the Women Economic Forum. A trained classical dancer and marathoner with 59 half marathons completed, she holds degrees from NIT Kurukshetra, SPJIMR, and Kellogg. She lives in India with her husband and two children.

About the host
This conversation is hosted by P&G Alum Sudha Ranganathan, who spent over 19 years in marketing leadership at P&G, PayPal, and LinkedIn, where she developed a passion for customer-centric marketing and talent development.

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Meet Sylvia.
After the COVID-19 pandemic, Sylvia was recovering from severe injuries caused by domestic violence. Her wounds were still healing yet she chose to serve.

Through Spotlight on Africa, a Grant Award winner supported by Alumni Grant Champion Will Treasure, Sylvia volunteered as a Community Health Promoter, helping her village access healthcare and education when it was needed most: “Helping others gave me hope again.”

Through small but powerful investments, including orange and lemon trees and a nanny goat, Sylvia rebuilt stability. Her nanny goat has since had twins, and the milk and income they provide have helped her extend that same stability to others. Today, she teaches neighboring farmers improved techniques, supports two orphaned girls, and dreams of sending her son to school. That is the multiplier effect of Give to Gain.

Your gift is matched. Deadline: April 30.
This Women’s History Month, the P&G Fund for Gender Equality will match donations up to $50,000 through the end of April. Consider giving $100.

When she gains stability, her children gain opportunity. Her community gains leadership. And together, we build a more resilient world.

The Foundation invests in programming across the globe that contributes toward real employment, financial independence, and the economic well-being of those served. 

Spread the word among your fellow P&G Alums who share a passion for making a difference. Together, let’s empower and inspire each other to create lasting change. 

Our grants have helped to start 9,600 new businesses, train 29,000 people, and generate an estimated 260,000 community impact worldwide. This has undoubtedly changed countless lives! 

Most recently for the 2024-25 fiscal year alone, 15 different organizations, our highest annual number to date,  received a total of  $300,000 in grants. This brings our 21-year cumulative total to $2.5 million awarded to 153 grants spanning 5 continents and 47 countries. 

For information on the Grants Process and to apply for a grant, visit the Foundation Website. 

At the same time, underrepresentation in senior roles can limit access to sponsorship and informal networks that are critical for advancement. Add to this the pressure of balancing intense professional demands with disproportionate caregiving responsibilities, and it is no surprise that women leaders report higher levels of burnout. Even highly accomplished women may quietly struggle with self-doubt, questioning whether they truly belong at the table.

These challenges are not a reflection of capability. They are systemic realities.
This is where coaching can make a powerful difference.

Our team of ICF-certified coaches and P&G alumni offer a confidential, reflective space to think strategically, strengthen executive presence, and navigate complex dynamics with clarity. We support women leaders in:

• Leading authentically without compromising impact
• Responding to bias with confidence and strategy
• Building resilience and sustainable performance
• Expanding influence and strengthening sponsorship relationships
• Transforming self-doubt into grounded self-trust

With exclusive alumni rates, we’re ready to partner with you as you step into your next chapter with clarity, confidence, and impact.

Proudly sponsored by the P&G Alumni Women’s Leadership Forum

A seasoned business strategist and leader, Jeff works closely with executive teams navigating today’s complex environment, where innovation, disciplined strategy, and smart risk-taking are essential. His expertise spans strategic planning, rapid market expansion, and operational scale-up, helping organizations accelerate growth and maximize value.

Under Jeff’s leadership, SynFiny Advisors has been recognized by Inc. Magazine on the Inc. 5000 list for six consecutive years as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States.

Before founding SynFiny, Jeff spent 25 years at Procter & Gamble as a finance executive, leading across multiple geographies and driving large-scale business transformation. Over more than three decades, he has developed game-changing strategies across industries, products, and services, advising both startups and multi-billion-dollar enterprises.

In this candid conversation, Jeff shares lessons on reinvention across continents, saying yes before you feel fully ready, and what it truly takes to move from corporate leadership to entrepreneurial life.

This episode is hosted by Ida Abdalkhani, Change Catalyzer, award-winning entrepreneur, speaker, and P&G Alumni Board Member.

This is a sponsored episode with SynFiny Advisors, a proud sponsor of the P&G Alumni Network.

Interested in featuring your company or executives on the P&G Alumni Podcast? Reach out to jswuest@pgalums.com

This year the P&G Alumni Foundation in partnership with the P&G Women’s Leadership forum are partnering for International Women’s Day March 8th 2026.    This year’s theme Give to Gain, feels deeply personal for all P&G Alums.  

A Story of What “Give to Gain” Really Means

One of our previous P&G Alumni Foundation grant award winners, the Sherbro Foundation Sierra Leone, led by P&G Alum Grant Champion Arlene Golembiewski, shows exactly how powerful this model can be.  Sherbro Foundation Sierra Leone has a clear mission: lifting rural Sierra Leone from subsistence living to self-reliance through education and economic opportunity. They plant seeds of change — believing lasting transformation happens when communities lead it themselves.

Every morning Abibatu Kamara walks to her three-acre farm with confidence she did not always have.  A divorced mother supporting five family members, Abibatu once survived on petty trading, earning barely enough to feed her household day by day. Everything changed when she joined the Let Them Earn program, supported by Sherbro Foundation. Through an interest-free loan and modern farming training, she gained the tools to transform overgrown land into productive farmland.

Today, she:

• Grows peanuts, rice, and cassava for reliable harvest cycles
• Hires local laborers, creating jobs for others
• Covers food, school fees, and farm expansion costs

But the real gain goes beyond income. Abibatu now makes her own farming decisions. She speaks up in village meetings. She is respected. She is secure.  When we give wisely, women gain independence — and entire communities rise.

The Multiplier Effect of Your Gift

This year, the P&G Fund for Gender Equality will match all donations up to $50,000 through the end of April, 

Your gift goes further. And the impact multiplies.

Consider what your generosity can do:

• $50 can help a Sierra Leone woman farmer buy peanut seed that triples her income.
• $100 can help an African woman learn basic business skills — increasing her income from $1.35 to $4.19 per day, moving toward a livable wage.
• $250 can fund a farmer loan that doubles a family’s farm size from 2 to 4 acres.
• $500 can help 50 Sierra Leone farmers learn small business skills they have never had access to — or test the business idea of an aspiring entrepreneur in Colorado.
• $1,000 can help 50 farmers learn modern growing methods that double or triple incomes — or equip at-risk young Italian adults with tools to become future gelato-makers.

These are not abstract numbers. These are women like Abibatu.

A Challenge to Our Alumni Community

Here’s a simple challenge:
Consider giving $100.

For many of us, that is manageable. For a woman entrepreneur in rural Africa, it can change the trajectory of her income, her children’s education, and her long-term stability.

Give to Gain is not just a theme.
It is a principle we lived at P&G.
When someone invested in us, we grew.

Now it’s our turn.

Let’s come together as a global alumni community.
Let’s fully unlock the $50,000 match.
Let’s fund her future.

When she gains, we all do.

We honor Alumni in the following categories:

• Community Service: For an individual who has made a significant contribution of their time, effort, and expertise to the community in which they live. The award can reflect a single event or a lifetime of work.
• John E. Pepper Humanitarian: For an individual who has made a significant contribution to the human condition through their time, effort, or expertise, whether this was a single event or a lifetime of work. This award is intended to recognize actions that go well beyond efforts in a single community or location and serve mankind as a whole.
• Diversity & Inclusion:  For an individual who has delivered exceptional results by leveraging a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. This person is a proven leader and role model who has inspired others to drive equality and to lead inclusively in the workplace and/or in society.
• Early Achievement:  For an individual who, in the early stages of their career, has shown outstanding potential based on early achievements in innovation, entrepreneurship or general management. This awardee empowers those around them and makes a meaningful impact on the markets they serve, representing the best of P&G Alumni.
• Innovation: For an individual who has contributed a significant innovation to the world of business during their career. This is an award to recognize creativity that has been translated into business success.
• John G. Smale General Management: For an individual who has made a significant contribution to the world of business whether the result of a single event or concept or the compilation of a lifetime of achievements.
• McElroy: Procter & Gamble has long been recognized as the preeminent consumer company in the world and it desires to maintain this position. This is specifically not a “Marketer of the Year” award to be focused solely on the marketing function nor on a single time period. Rather, this award is intended to recognize significant contributions to the art and science of satisfying the consumer whether that is the result of a single event or concept or the compilation of a lifetime of achievements.

To nominate an alum or to self-nominate, click on the link below. You will be asked to provide contact information and LinkedIn profiles for you as well as the person you are nominating along with an explanation of the basis for your recommendation (max 500 words). If you are nominating someone other than yourself, please confirm that they want to be considered.

A committee of P&G Alumni peers will review all nominees and make the final selection, to be announced this Fall and recognized at the 2027 P&G Alumni Global Conference.
All recipients must agree to attend the awards ceremony in person. For a complete list of past recipients, click here.

Application deadline is Wednesday, March 20, 2026.

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Since our inception, the P&G Alumni Network has recognized P&G Alumni leaders who have continued to impact their industries and communities, during and beyond their service at P&G. 

We honor Alumni in the following categories:

• Community Service: For an individual who has made a significant contribution of their time, effort and expertise to the community in which they live. The award can reflect a single event or a lifetime of work.
• John E. Pepper Humanitarian: For an individual who has made a significant contribution to the human condition through their time, effort or expertise, whether this was a single event or a lifetime of work. This award is intended to recognize actions that go well beyond efforts in a single community or location and serve mankind as a whole.
• Diversity & Inclusion:  For an individual who has delivered exceptional results by leveraging a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. This person is a proven leader and role model who has inspired others to drive equality and to lead inclusively in the workplace and/or in society.
• Early Achievement:  For an individual who, in the early stages of their career, has shown outstanding potential based on early achievements in innovation, entrepreneurship or general management. This awardee empowers those around them and makes a meaningful impact on the markets they serve, representing the best of P&G Alumni.
• Innovation: For an individual who has contributed a significant innovation to the world of business during their career. This is an award to recognize creativity that has been translated into business success.
• John G. Smale General Management: For an individual who has made a significant contribution to the world of business whether the result of a single event or concept or the compilation of a lifetime of achievements.
• McElroy: Procter & Gamble has long been recognized as the preeminent consumer company in the world and it desires to maintain this position. This is specifically not a “Marketer of the Year” award to be focused solely on the marketing function nor on a single time period. Rather, this award is intended to recognize significant contributions to the art and science of satisfying the consumer whether that is the result of a single event or concept or the compilation of a lifetime of achievements.