Monisha Sharma, Director and Co-Founder, The Lexicon Group & Co-Founder CITTA

Success may build businesses, but it takes vision, resilience, and compassion to build legacies — and Monisha Sharma has done exactly that.

As the Director and Co-Founder of The Lexicon Group and Co-Founder CITTA, Monisha Sharma has spent over two decades shaping a powerful ecosystem spanning education, media, wellness, entrepreneurship, and conscious beauty. A visionary entrepreneur and dynamic leader, she has played a defining role in transforming The Lexicon Group into one of India’s most respected and diverse institutions. Yet beyond the boardrooms, leadership roles, and entrepreneurial milestones lies the role that has transformed her most deeply — motherhood.

For Monisha, being a mother has never been separate from being a leader. In fact, it has strengthened the very qualities that define her journey today: patience, emotional intelligence, adaptability, and resilience. While business often offers strategies and solutions, motherhood introduced her to vulnerability — the kind that teaches you that sometimes love means simply standing beside your child, offering strength even when you don’t have all the answers.

What makes her journey especially inspiring is the way she has built not just businesses, but meaningful bonds with her children. Working closely alongside her daughter, Akanksha Sharma, and son, Tanay Sharma, Monisha has created a rare balance where family, entrepreneurship, and purpose coexist beautifully. Together, they co-founded CITTA, a brand rooted in care, trust, and mindful innovation.

Grounded yet forward-thinking, Monisha believes modern motherhood is not about perfection — it is about showing up consistently with strength and stability, even through life’s uncertainties. Whether she is leading institutions, nurturing innovation, supporting her children emotionally, or creating spaces where ideas flourish, she does it all with calm determination and heart.

In a world constantly glorifying hustle, Monisha Sharma represents a quieter but far more powerful form of leadership — one rooted in empathy, balance, and emotional wisdom.

And that is precisely what makes her a true TheGlitzMegaSuperMom 2026 — a woman redefining success not just through achievement, but through the lives she nurtures, inspires, and empowers every single day.

Over To Monisha Sharma, Director and Co-Founder of The Lexicon Group & Co-Founder CITTA

You wear many hats of mother, leader, achiever. Which role has surprised you the most, and why?

Motherhood has surprised me the most. Professionally, when you have goals, there are actions you can take to make things happen. There’s always a strategy, a solution, or a way forward. But as a mother, there are situations where you can feel helpless. Sometimes, there isn’t much you can do except stand by your child, support them emotionally, and lend them confidence. That emotional vulnerability and responsibility surprised me the most.

In a world that celebrates hustle, how do you create meaningful moments of pause and connection with your children?

I work closely with my children, which is both wonderful and challenging. On one hand, it allows us to spend a lot of time together, but on the other, personal time can often become about work as well. So I consciously try to set aside intentional moments where we talk about things that genuinely matter to them.

I think, as a parent, understanding your child naturally becomes instinctive. You learn to read what they’re feeling and try to support them through it.

What is one life lesson motherhood has taught you that no business school or boardroom ever could?

Definitely patience. I have two children, and both of them process emotions and situations differently. As a parent, you constantly learn to adjust your reactions depending on your child and the moment. Sometimes you have to hold back your emotions, pause, and respond thoughtfully instead of reacting instantly. That takes awareness, and practice, something motherhood teaches you every single day.

If your children had to describe you in three words, what do you think they would say… and what would you hope they say?

I think they would say I’m strict, but not overly strict. Caring and understanding. Someone who treats them as equals and takes their feelings into consideration. I also hope they see me as a sorted and stable person, someone who deals with situations rationally.

What does being a “TheGlitzMegaSuperMom 2026” mean to you in today’s world, perfection, resilience, reinvention, or something else entirely?

Definitely resilience. Modern motherhood constantly challenges you emotionally, and physically. Being able to adapt but also show up for your children despite everything is what truly matters.

Rapid Fire with Monisha Sharma

Coffee or calm morning tea?
Morning tea, though I do end up having coffee too, even though I probably shouldn’t!

Heels or sneakers?
Flats, because it provides comfort with a little style.

Boardroom mode or bedtime-story mode?
Bedtime-story mode in the boardroom! Since I already work with my children, meetings sometimes turn into storytelling and yapping sessions.

Planner or spontaneous?
Mostly a planner, though I can be randomly spontaneous too.

One word your children use for you the most?
It’s a phrase actually; “What is this mummy logic?”

Mom guilt or mom power?
A little bit of both but it depends on the day.

Your secret superpower in one word?
Being organised. It’s definitely underrated.