Starting her career in the IT industry, originally as a Business Consultant at Virtusa, Yusra left the industry due to family commitments and didn’t return to the traditional work system as she wanted to take care of her children. She saw a need to ‘Empower Sri Lankans’ and ‘Empower Sri Lankan Women’ by creating the largest independent workforce across the island and founded PODI JOBS- Sri Lanka’s First Freelance Platform which has Social Good baked into it, by using proceeds to Empower Women and Girls.

Working as an independent Business Consultant and Freelancer in many roles for the last 5 years, Yusra wants to push the boundaries and disrupt the general form of business and take Sri Lankan talent to the world while doing Social Good. She is inspired by the many roles Women play in their everyday lives and wants to inspire women that they can have a career as well as a family life erasing the stigma of choosing one or the other. She also wants to encourage every other Sri Lankan to achieve their level best.

She holds a BSc. Information Systems and Management from London School of Economics (University of London), an ATCL in Voice Recital, is heavily involved in Social Service, Sings, plays the Piano and dedicates most of her time to her Full-Time job as a Mother (to her two boys) and PODI JOBS while freelancing as a Consultant
& Creative Writer occasionally. Yusra is a past student of Wycherley International School,Colombo and completed her primary education at Bishops College, Colombo.

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