Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh:
Binita Shrivastava, Founder & National Director of VG Pageants and Founder of Visionara Global, has been honoured with the Entrepreneur Game Changer Award 2026 – Women’s Empowerment Leadership, presented by Hon’ble Shri Brajesh Pathak, Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, at the Entrepreneur Game Changer Awards 2026 – Uttar Pradesh Edition, held at Hotel Renaissance, Lucknow.
The recognition places Binita among leaders being acknowledged for creating meaningful and sustained impact through entrepreneurship, leadership and social transformation.
A Recognition from One of India’s Leading Entrepreneurial Platforms
The Entrepreneur Game Changer Awards, presented by Entrepreneur India, is a platform created to recognise entrepreneurs, organisations and leaders driving high-impact transformation across industries and regional economies. The Uttar Pradesh Edition brought together senior government leaders, policymakers, entrepreneurs, investors, industry experts and business leaders to celebrate innovation, resilience, leadership and meaningful economic and social impact.
The significance of Binita’s recognition is further strengthened by the distinguished leadership and dignitaries associated with the occasion, including Hon’ble Shri Brajesh Pathak, Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh; Shri Surya Pratap Shahi, Cabinet Minister of Agriculture, Agricultural Education & Agricultural Research, Uttar Pradesh; Shri Kapil Dev Agarwal, Minister of State (Independent Charge), Professional Education & Skill Development, Uttar Pradesh; Shri Jaswant Singh Saini, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs & Industrial Development, Uttar Pradesh; Shri (Er.) D. P. Singh, President, ASSOCHAM UP & UK; and senior industry and institutional leaders including Dr. Radhey Shyam Dixit, Chairman & MD, Ananda Dairy; Jay Kumar Gupta, General Manager & Regional Office Head – UP, SIDBI; Alok Srivastava, Uttar Pradesh Chapter Head, FIEO; and Dr. Ashutosh Agnihotri, CEO, FIRST, IIT Kanpur.
Representing the Entrepreneur India leadership at the event was Sachin Marya, Editorial Director, Entrepreneur India & APAC, while Gaurav Marya is Chairman of Franchise India Group.
The award category itself is significant: Entrepreneur India defines Women’s Empowerment Leadership as recognising individuals who have driven meaningful initiatives advancing women’s rights, economic independence, education or leadership at community and grassroots levels.
From Personal Transformation to National Women’s Movement
For Binita Shrivastava, the award is a powerful recognition of a journey that began at the age of 49, when she entered entrepreneurship after years as a homemaker and mother of five.
Her personal transformation became the foundation of a much larger mission — helping women overcome self-doubt, rediscover their identity, build confidence and step into leadership.
Today, Binita has evolved from a beauty queen to transformation coach, entrepreneur, bestselling author, TEDx Speaker and women’s transformation leader, building platforms that enable women to transform not only how they look, but how they think, communicate, lead and live.
Her published profile records 100,000+ women directly impacted and 750+ transformational webinars, alongside a global community of more than 350,000 women.
Her social-media ecosystem has now grown to 1.3+ million followers, giving her one of the significant digital platforms in India’s women-transformation space.
Redefining What a Pageant Can Do for a Woman
At the heart of Binita’s work is VG MISS & MRS INDIA, which she has developed around a transformational rather than purely beauty-focused philosophy.
Her pageants combine confidence building, mindset transformation, communication, public speaking, body language, personal branding, leadership and intensive mentoring.
The objective is not simply to crown a winner.
It is to create a woman who is more confident, more visible and more prepared to lead.
Through this approach, VG Pageants has created a platform where homemakers, professionals, entrepreneurs and women who had paused their ambitions can rediscover their identity and step into a new chapter of life.
This philosophy has helped Binita establish pageantry as a vehicle for women’s transformation, rather than treating the crown as the final destination.
An Ecosystem Built Around Women’s Transformation
Binita’s work extends far beyond pageantry. Through Visionara Global, she has created an integrated ecosystem dedicated to women’s transformation, leadership, and empowerment, encompassing transformational workshops, leadership and personality development, online transformational webinars, women-focused training programmes, International Transformation VG Retreats, Visionara Academy, VG City & State Leadership, community-led women empowerment initiatives, and media, TV Talk Show “Kahani Vahani”, and storytelling platforms. This ecosystem is designed around one central belief: when a woman transforms from within, she has the power to transform her family, her community, and ultimately the world around her.
A woman’s transformation should not end when the event ends.
VG City & State Leadership is now taking this philosophy further by enabling women emerging from the VG ecosystem to become leaders and community builders in their own cities and States. Visionara Global describes this expansion as part of its wider effort to build a nationwide ecosystem integrating pageantry, leadership, entrepreneurship, education, media, technology and lifelong community engagement.
Building Authority Through Impact
Binita’s growing authority in the women’s transformation space is built not merely on titles, but on reach, consistency and measurable engagement.
She has created a distinctive body of work at the intersection of women’s confidence, personal transformation, leadership and visibility.
Her journey has also been recognised through her work as an Amazon Bestselling Author of Walk with a Smile, TEDx Speaker, Transformation Coach and Founder of multiple women-focused platforms. Her published profile notes that she presented her book to the Hon’ble Governor of Uttar Pradesh at Raj Bhawan, Lucknow, in 2023.
Her community initiatives have also incorporated philanthropy, with Visionara Global’s published impact material recording ₹50+ lakh contributed towards charitable causes through its community and initiatives.
“The Award May Carry My Name, But the Journey Belongs to Every Woman”
For Binita Shrivastava, the Entrepreneur Game Changer Award represents a milestone in a much larger mission.
Reflecting on the recognition, she dedicated the honour to the women, mentors, partners, contestants, queens and the wider Visionara Global community who have contributed to the journey.
“Never let age define your dreams. Never let fear define your future. Never let circumstances define your worth.”
And that philosophy has become the foundation of her work with women across India.
From a woman who began her entrepreneurial journey at 49 to a transformation leader with a 1.3+ million social-media following and a direct impact of 100,000+ women, Binita Shrivastava’s journey represents the very transformation she now teaches others.
Her mission is simple:
To empower 10 million women to believe in themselves, transform their lives and rise as confident leaders.
The Entrepreneur Game Changer Award 2026 – Women’s Empowerment Leadership marks an important recognition of that mission — and reinforces Binita Shrivastava’s emerging position as a powerful voice and authority in women’s transformation and empowerment in India.
Dream. Dare. Be The Queen.
About Binita Shrivastava
Binita Shrivastava is India’s No. 1 women’s transformation leader, Transformation Coach, TEDx Speaker, Amazon Bestselling Author, Former Beauty Queen, Keynote Speaker, Producer and Philanthropist.
She is the Founder & National Director of VG Pageants, Founder of Visionara Global and Founder of Visionara Academy.
Through her transformational programmes, pageantry, workshops, webinars, retreats, education and leadership initiatives, she is working towards her vision of empowering 10 million women to become confident, purpose-driven and independent leaders.
Media Contact
Visionara Global
Founder & National Director – Binita Shrivastava
Website: www.visionaraglobal.com | www.binitashrivastava.com
VG Miss & Mrs India: www.mrsindia.co
Visionara Global | Press Release | 2026
