Winning Stroke: Interview with Divya Jain, Founder and CEO, Safeducate

In this in-depth interview with BW People, Divya Jain, Founder and CEO of Safeducate, shares her entrepreneurial journey from identifying a critical skills gap in India's logistics sector to building one of the country's largest vocational training organizations. Jain discusses how her experience working in the training division of Safexpress — a leading logistics company founded by her father-in-law Pawan Jain — exposed her to the systemic lack of formal training opportunities for logistics workers. She explains how this realization drove her to establish Safeducate in 2013 with the mission of developing proficient supply chain and logistics professionals. The interview covers the practical challenges of launching and scaling a vocational training company in a sector where formal education was virtually nonexistent. Jain discusses Safeducate's innovative container school model, where discarded shipping containers are repurposed into fully functional classrooms deployed at logistics hubs across India, bringing education directly to workers. She addresses the unique challenges of being a woman entrepreneur in a male-dominated logistics industry, recounting how she initially struggled to be taken seriously, with stakeholders often asking to speak with her father-in-law or husband instead. The conversation explores Safeducate's comprehensive training approach, which combines domain knowledge with practical training to prepare workers for real-world supply chain challenges. Jain also shares her vision for the future — training a million people over the next decade and ensuring that gainful employment becomes a right rather than a distant dream for India's logistics workforce.