Rani Puranik - Growing a business to give back. Critical lessons in love and leadership.

Revanti “Rani” Puranik is co-owner, EVP and Incoming CEO of Houston-based Worldwide Oilfield Machine (WOM). She joined WOM, an oil and gas equipment manufacturing firm, fifteen years ago and has since implemented the framework for communication standardisation operations and business development. As a result of these frameworks, the company grew to more than $350 million in annual revenue and Rani has been named one of the “Top 25 Most Influential Women in Energy 2022” by Oil and Gas Investor and Hart Energy.

Rani received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Pune located in Pune, India, before starting her first business, Integral Search for Harmony through Art (ISHA), where she later served as CEO for nearly 20 years. She then returned to Houston, earning her MBA in finance from Rice University, which led her to take WOM to the next level of success. She is passionate about mentoring the next generation of leaders and hosted a mentorship day at the Energy Leadership Institute of Houston High School, serves as an HISD ROSES mentor supporting a program to empower female students interning at WOM and launched “WOMEN at WOM,” a virtual event series to provide strategies and resources for female employees to advance both personally and professionally.

Rani also serves as the chairwoman of the Puranik Foundation located in Pune, India, which was founded over 20 years ago by her mother, Rehka, and is now managed by her oldest daughter, Bhakti. The nonprofit provides educational opportunities for under-resourced children in India and operates as a private residential school called the Vision International Learning Center.

In her upcoming book, Seven Letters to My Daughters (Morgan James Publishing, Fall 2022), she shares memoirs of her journey through transformative seven-year phases in her life by telling the true story of a young girl who grew up between two countries and faced many obstacles, but who always persisted in learning and moving forward. Rani recounts how her womanhood and motherhood influenced each phase, sharing the wisdom she gained from this perspective to help others find their path, success, joy, and freedom. In this podcast:

  • Rani explains the ‘earn and return’ philosophy of her family

  • How you can wrap meaning into work and achieve financial goals whilst having a purpose

  • Rani’s 4 stages of leadership.

For more information about Rani, please visit https://ranipuranik6.wpengine.com

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