Empowering women since 1998
About Satynmag
Satynmag began in Sri Lanka in 1998 as a women's magazine in print. Today, it has grown into a wider platform bringing together editorial content, career and personal growth, workplace recognition and practical initiatives designed around the realities of women's lives.
Founded in print
Satynmag launched in 1998
Reinvented digitally
From print to digital in 2013
Women at the centre
Career, wellbeing, life and growth
From content to action
Community, awards and certification
Our story
Satynmag has lived through a changing media landscape by continuing to ask the same basic question: what is useful to women now?
Where it began
Satynmag began in print in 1998. It was created as a space for women's stories, ideas and everyday realities at a time when the media environment looked very different from the one women navigate today.
In 2013, Satynmag moved from print to digital. The platform changed, but the reason for publishing did not: to speak to women in a way that recognised their ambitions, responsibilities, questions and changing lives.
Over time, that meant broadening the conversation. Satynmag now covers career development, entrepreneurship, lifestyle, health, relationships, motherhood, mental wellbeing and the issues that influence how women live and work.
It also meant moving beyond publishing. Satyn Circle extends learning into practical career and personal growth. The Women-Friendly Workplace Awards brought Satyn into the workplace conversation. Certification develops that work into a longer process of assessment, progress and accountability.
1998
A women's magazine created in Sri Lanka with women's lives and stories at its centre.
2013
A deliberate reinvention that let the publication continue evolving with its audience.
2021
Satyn expands into the workplace conversation, recognising organisations supporting women at work.
Today
Editorial, Satyn Circle, workplace recognition and certification, all within one connected platform.
What Satyn is today
Satyn's work now extends from the stories women read to the skills they build, the communities they join and the workplaces in which they grow.
Read
Useful, relevant content across career, entrepreneurship, health, relationships, lifestyle, motherhood and mental wellbeing.
Learn moreGrow
Practical knowledge, resources, workshops and career support for women who want to keep developing.
Learn moreLead
A platform recognising organisations improving how women are supported, developed and enabled to progress at work.
Learn moreBe recognised
A structured next step for organisations ready to assess, strengthen and demonstrate their women-friendly practices.
Learn moreOur editorial purpose
Satynmag is at its strongest when an article gives a woman something she can understand, use, question or carry into the next part of her life. The subject may change. The standard should not.
What we talk about
Career & growth
Work, leadership, confidence and progression
Entrepreneurship
Business, independence and sustainable growth
Health & wellbeing
Women's health, mental wellbeing and everyday care
Relationships & family
Connection, motherhood and changing family life
Lifestyle
Fashion, beauty, food and living well
Women in profile
Stories, experience and perspectives worth hearing
Nayomini Weerasooriya
Founder & Editor · Satynmag
Founder's vision
Satynmag was founded by Nayomini Weerasooriya, an entrepreneur who began building businesses in Sri Lanka in the mid-1990s and launched Satynmag in 1998. Her journey has taken the publication through print, digital reinvention and into a wider platform focused on women's growth and workplace progress.
The point is not only to tell women they can grow. It is to build the knowledge, networks and systems that make growth more possible.
Founder's vision — Satynmag
What guides us
Career, family, health, ambition, relationships and identity do not exist in isolation. Satyn reflects that.
Good content should leave a reader with clearer thinking, practical knowledge, or a better question to ask next.
Women's progress is stronger when knowledge, opportunity, recognition and accountability work together.
Where next?