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Mariam Rangwala – Visionary Woman Founder to Watch — 2026
- Women Story
- Jan 18
- 3 min read
Category: Learning & Development · Leadership Development · EdTech Marketplace · Workforce Upskilling · Women-Led Platforms
Mariam Rangwala
Founder, Splinter Learning Solutions
Founder & Lead Architect, Freelance Trainings
📍 Based in: Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
“Learning should build judgement, not just skills — and confidence, not just content.”
In a world crowded with courses and credentials, Mariam Rangwala is quietly reshaping how learning actually works inside organizations. Her work sits at the intersection of leadership, human behaviour, and business reality — where learning stops being an event and starts becoming a strategic advantage.
As the force behind India’s first and fastest-growing L&D marketplace, Mariam has created an ecosystem that connects organizations directly with certified freelance trainers, facilitators, and L&D professionals, while dramatically reducing cost and complexity.
Company Overview
Company Name: Splinter Learning Solutions
Flagship Platform: Freelance Trainings
Industry: Professional Training & Coaching · Leadership Development · Learning Marketplace
Headquarters: Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Website: https://www.freelancetrainings.com
LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariamci/
What the Company Does
Freelance Trainings — India’s L&D Marketplace
Freelance Trainings is a two-sided learning marketplace designed to solve long-standing inefficiencies in corporate training.
For Organizations (Corporates / SMEs / SMBs):
Hire vetted freelance trainers by skill, industry, location, and budget
Reduce L&D costs by up to 30%
Access ready-to-use, editable training materials
Scale learning programs quickly without long-term overheads
For Trainers & L&D Professionals:
Access high-quality training opportunities nationwide
Set their own training fees
Build a digital portfolio and visibility
Save time using professionally designed, editable workshop materials
With over:
10,000+ registered trainers & L&D professionals
150+ editable training materials
100+ projects delivered
50+ corporates and training partners
Freelance Trainings is positioning itself as the infrastructure layer for India’s L&D ecosystem.
Mariam’s Philosophy on Learning
Mariam’s work is grounded in a powerful belief:
Learning is not a catalogue. It is a capability system.
With over 15 years of experience in leadership development and organizational learning, she designs interventions that:
Build real behaviour change
Improve decision-making and judgement
Align learning with business strategy
Strengthen leadership maturity over time
Her approach blends:
Leadership psychology
Organizational context
Experiential, blended, and digital formats
Measurable business impact
She partners closely with senior HR and L&D leaders who see learning as a strategic lever — not a support function.
Key Achievements & Milestones
🇮🇳 Launched India’s first & fastest-growing L&D marketplace
📈 Built a platform serving thousands of trainers and organizations nationwide
💡 Enabled organizations to cut training costs while improving quality
🤝 Created a trusted ecosystem of certified freelance L&D talent
🌍 Signatory – UN Women, supporting inclusive and equitable leadership development
Awards & Recognition
🏅 Nari Shakti Award - A recognition of Mariam’s contribution to women-led entrepreneurship, leadership development, and workforce transformation in India.
Why She’s One to Watch in 2026
Mariam Rangwala is one to watch in 2026 because she is re-architecting how capability is built at scale.
As organizations face:
Rapid skill obsolescence
Distributed and hybrid workforces
Budget pressure on L&D teams
Demand for practical, applied learning
Freelance Trainings offers a marketplace-led solution that is:
Cost-efficient
Scalable
Context-aware
Human-centred
With India’s skilling and leadership needs accelerating across sectors, Mariam’s platform is uniquely positioned to become the default operating system for corporate learning.
She is not chasing scale for its own sake. She is building trust, relevance, and long-term capability.
That is why Mariam Rangwala is a Visionary Woman Founder to Watch in 2026.
Impact Beyond Business
Democratizes access to quality corporate learning
Empowers freelance trainers with visibility and fair opportunity
Helps organizations move from training events to capability systems
Strengthens leadership maturity across Indian workplaces
Positions learning as a strategic driver of growth
Mariam Rangwala is not just building a platform — she is shaping the future of learning at work in India.
Being featured by Women Story matters to me because this work was never about visibility, it was about disruption.
We founded Splinter Learning Solutions - Freelance Trainings India's fastest growing L&D marketplace to challenge the way organisations approach learning and leadership. We don’t “deliver training.” We work with leaders and HR teams who are tired of performative programmes and want real capability where sharper thinking, better decisions, and leadership that holds under pressure. Our work sits where complexity lives: between people, power, and performance.
I’ve spent years (17+ years) watching organisations invest heavily in learning without seeing behavioural shift. Freelance Trainings was built to change that by designing learning that is grounded in context, anchored in judgement, and owned by leaders,…