Divya’s story.

I spent years asking one question:

Why could I be the same woman—with the same ambition, discipline, and skills—yet feel like a completely different leader from one week to the next?

As an engineer, I wanted to understand the system.

As a leader, I wanted to take greater responsibility for my own experience and the outcomes I was creating.

That search led me to an overlooked truth: while women spend nearly three decades building an education, a career, a family, a sense of identity, and a meaningful life, very few are ever taught how one of the most fundamental rhythms of their own biology intersects with any of it.

We’ve become remarkably good at teaching women how to succeed.

We’ve spent far less time helping them understand themselves.

Women have been given remarkably little guidance on how their own biology intersects with leadership, work, and wellbeing.

I don’t believe women are leaving leadership because they lack ambition. I believe too many are trying to sustain extraordinary lives without ever being taught how to work with one of the most fundamental rhythms of their own bodies.

That realization broke my heart—not because I believe biology limits women, but because I believe understanding it can free us from years of unnecessary self-judgment. Too many women quietly criticize themselves for changing energy, fluctuating creativity, a greater need for rest, or feeling more inward one week and more expressive the next. We measure ourselves against an expectation of being the same every day, even though our biology was never designed that way.

That question became the foundation for Lead With Your Cycle™ and The Red Code™.

By bringing together engineering, leadership, yoga, and hormone health education, my work explores how cyclical biology intersects with the way women think, communicate, create, recover, and lead. My goal isn’t to lower ambition or redefine success. It’s to give women a framework for understanding themselves, so they can stop working against their own nature and start building careers, leadership, families, and meaningful lives they can sustain.

Because I don’t believe women need another system that asks them to override themselves. I believe they deserve one that teaches them to understand themselves.

Because the most powerful leader a woman will ever learn to lead is herself.