Taking on HUL's hardest reset

THE FMCG GIANT'S FIRST WOMAN ENTRANT INTO THE CORNER OFFICE IS A RISK-TAKER BUT HAS HER FEET FIRMLY ANCHORED TO THE GROUND

- VIVEAT SUSAN PINTO

DDRESSING A GROUP of IIM students a few years ago, Priya Nair offered a deceptively simple lesson: find your purpose, and you will never lose steam.

"It will drive you every day and you will love what you do," she said. In 2025, as the first woman CEO and managing director in Hindustan Unilever’s more than nine-decade history, that idea has become both her credo and her challenge.