Dr Blossom Kochhar

Dr Blossom Kochhar is the Chairperson of Blossom Kochhar group of companies. She has devoted her entire life to skilling and educating people across the country in beauty, hair and aromatherapy. For the last 42 years, under her tutelage, over a lakh of students and thousands of under privileged youth and women, differently abled children, army widows, cancer survivors and orphans have been skilled and empowered to earn a livelihood for themselves. She has been the co-chairperson of the Beauty and Wellness Sector Skill council, India Skills since 2017. In 1984 she brought Pivot Point, an international education system to India. Being an army wife, she has worked closely in skilling armed forces widows and their children in beauty to earn a livelihood. In early 1998, she started a vocational training institute unit under Army Wives Welfare Association for this purpose and subsidised training have been on since 1998. She is a name to reckon with when it comes to beauty education and she heads the country’s premier hair, beauty, make-up and spa school chain called Blossom Kochhar College of Creative Arts & Design (BKCCAD). At BKCCAD every year under-privileged students, women, specially-abled are trained in beauty, hair & make-up for free. She has been the technical director for Vocation education with Delhi Govt. She has groomed many celebrities like Sushmita Sen, Aishwarya Rai, Priyanka Chopra, Gul Panag and Lara Dutta.