Meet Yvette Bodden, Author, and Founder at Awakened-Woman.com (AW), a platform designed to inspire, empower and encourage women to become their best selves. Yvette Bodden lives to tell stories and believes in the power of storytelling to create connections, heal and learn from others. She is sharing her journey from divorce to joy with women […]
Meet Doris Hobbs, Founder at Rich in Love, Keynote speaker and host at Dose of Doris, and PR & Media Specialist who is supporting start-up brands and businesses to enhance their reputation as an accessible luxury brand. Doris Hobbs is a San Francisco Bay Area’s luxury liaison with 15 years of integrated marketing experience across […]
Meet Jill Atkinson, a Colorado-based clinical psychologist who works to serve the mentally ill and underserved population. Jill Atkinson is a true embodiment of love, care, and perseverance, having dedicated her life to serving patients suffering from chronic mental illness. Atkinson, a clinical psychologist by trade, earned her Ph.D. with the same goal in mind. […]
Meet Jeannine King, Director of Student Support at Bronx Community Charter School, a small learning community founded on the principle that children learn best when they are active participants in their own learning. Jeannine King has been an educator for the last 21 years and is working each day to ensure better education for her […]
Meet Lonneke Mulder, Co-founder & Marketing Olive Oil Officer at Olivery, a company producing and delivering the best Italian olive oil. From the world of fashion to that of food, Lonneke Mulder has been proving her worth day in and day out. She is always looking for innovations and new concepts. She loves what food […]
Meet Tricia Driver, Founder, and CEO at A New Normal, an organization that helps businesses achieve the benefits of an inclusive culture; and facilitates the creation of environments that allow employees to bring their full selves to work. In the fast-paced and unequal world we live in today, diversity and inclusion have become the need […]
Meet Tsvetelina Zapryanova, Chief Commercial Officer and Partner at InvestorConnected, a platform that brings SMEs and funders together, helping them to combine resources and build successful businesses. A commercial director by trade, Tsvetelina Zapryanova has led several teams in different sectors in the earlier stages of her career before pivoting to the tech sector. Over […]
Meet Faviola Brugger-Dadis- Founder & Chief Innovation Officer at NeuroReality, a Medtech company that develops VR software for cognitive rehabilitation. Faviola identifies herself as an ambitious and passionate neuroscientist and entrepreneur. Coming from a diverse cultural background and having lived in 9 countries, she has a unique perspective regarding how to solve problems on a […]
Meet Anne Dvinge, Founder and CEO at Low-Fi, a community and online marketplace for user-generated concerts created by musicians and music lovers. Anne Dvinge was a researcher at Copenhagen University for a decade with a Ph.D. in American studies, having attended prestigious schools like Columbia and Rutgers, until she stumbled upon the idea of house […]
Meet Dr. Melanie Peacock, Sole Proprietor at Double M Training & Consulting, a boutique Human Resources consultancy focused on taking organizations’ Human Resource outcomes to the next level With 30 years of experience in human resources, Dr. Melanie Peacock is working to improve the HR outcomes of organizations through solutions, workshops, and presentations offered by […]
Winifred Johansen is an engineer, business strategist, executive and leadership researcher, and Senior Vice President at Quantafuel. Born in Uganda, she migrated to Norway at 16 and has lived in and worked in several countries ever since. Even as a female immigrant, Johansen was never afraid to go against the traditional structure and work in the heavily […]
Meet Ilona Mooney, CEO at Work Ahead, an organization that helps companies advance social sustainability and impact with intuitive and friendly video surveys. In the quest of solving the problems that the world faces, Ilona Mooney became an engineer, only to find out that her lessons were focused on the developed parts of the world. […]
Meet Sirkku Huisko, Chief Operating Officer at Lunden Architecture Company, a Helsinki-based architecture office focused on contemporary challenges of housing, cities, and their development + innovations of building technology. From working in low-standing positions to making her way to become a leader, Sirkku Huisko’s career trajectory is as inspiring as it can get. She started […]
Meet Hana Colakovic- CEO & Entrepreneur at Svippin, a tech venture that delivers software solutions (app, web and system) for clients across the world. Hana describes herself as a curious and hardworking woman who is making her own path in life. She loves challenges- you will always find her looking for new ways to evolve […]
Shelley grew up in Australia on the Gold Coast- which meant that she grew up surrounded by incredibly beautiful nature. From a very young age, she loved being socially active and she believes being brought up in a place where she was constantly out and about had a lot of influence on that. While everything […]
Meet Elise Perraud- Chief Operations Officer at NEDonBoard, a professional membership and development body for non-executive directors and board members. Elise grew up in a caring and loving environment in the West of France. After studying in Paris and moving to London when she was 24, she secured a place in the graduate training programme […]
Meet Marina Isaksen Sellstad, Co-founder and Chief Communications Officer at Diwala, a Norwegian-based company that is focused on building opportunities for youth, addressing the global issue of identity theft and certification fraud. Marina Sellstad is a passionate designer who studied and worked in Australia for 4 years before making her way back home to Norway. […]
Meet Elaine McKean Berg, Owner at Golden Rule Dog Training, an organization that provides in-house pet dog training based on animal behavior science. Like humans, animals too understand the language of love and at times more than us. Elaine McKean Berg, the founder of Golden Rule Dog Training herself had an aggressive dog, whom she […]
Opportunities Are Created By Those Who Taste The Win Emily-Jane Price, the Chief Operating Officer of the British Franchise Association, is an ambitious business woman who made her way through life. Emily did not have it all served to her on a platter. In fact, it was quite the contrary. She fought her share […]
Meet Arina Eremina, Vice President, Head of Risk Management at Thinking Capital, the Canadian market leader in the alternative lending space for Small and Medium enterprises. “Glass ceiling is only in your head” – Arina Arina Eremina shatters this glass ceiling every day as a senior executive managing enterprise risks in the fast-paced environment of […]
Joanne Burke-Sherman is a visionary entrepreneur. She is the Owner of JBS Holistic Nutrition and the Founder and Chief Visionary Officer of Dharma Dreams Vocational Center. It was at a moment of distress that Joanne found the courage and inspiration to take charge and make things happen instead of waiting for someone else to do […]
Meet Cassandra Trimnell, Founder and Executive Director at Sickle Cell 101, a California-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that specializes in sickle cell education. Cassandra’s own struggle with Sickle Cell disease inspired her to try to make it easier for others by educating them about the disease. It is a genetic red blood cell disorder wherein there […]
Emily-Jane Price, the Chief Operating Officer of the British Franchise Association, is an ambitious business woman who made her way through life. Emily did not have it all served to her on a platter. In fact, it was quite the contrary. She fought her share of battles, overcame her fears, created sustainable opportunities for herself […]
Meet Krista Morris- A professional resume writer & consultant who helps people in getting employment from all over the world. Krista started her career in social services where she was helping people, primarily women, in making them independent from being dependent upon welfare funds in the United States to being self-sufficient and taking care of […]
Meet Dr. Alicia Montgomery, Executive Director at Centre for Powerful Public Schools, a nonprofit that builds the capacity of educators to create and sustain powerful public schools that prepare all students for college, career, and life. Dr. Montgomery’s career in the education field has been a true Bildung’s roman. She was born and raised in […]
Meet Mariëlle Romeijn, Co-founder and Chief Brand Officer at ONE HUNDRED restrooms, a service allowing people to take a toilet break as a 5-minute well-being boost, a moment to relax and recover. Mariëlle Romeijn is a brand evangelist on a mission to connect brands with people and change the world by making people’s lives easier and […]
Meet Martine Grol, Founder & Co-owner of Made by Media, a video production company that makes corporate films, animation films and web videos with a feeling for images and marketing, often based on the ‘person in the lens’. Martina Grol gets entrepreneurial spirit from her family. Her parents owned a restaurant and campsite where she […]
Meet Maija Koski, Editor In Chief, Head of Content at A-lehdet Oy, a bold and innovative media house that has grown to become an expert in living and health, as well as a pioneer in digital influencing. Maija Koski has been a journalist for 20 years now. She began her career as a news reporter, […]
Meet Sabrina Viitasaari, Co-Founder at Nu Cycle, an organization that enables waste negative technology solutions around the world through a simple, transparent waste offset service. A technology business professional, an international law graduate, and a marine biologist walk into a room and devise a viable solution to the world’s waste problem that has been plaguing […]
Meet Jill Rerucha, Owner at Rerucha Studio, an architecture and interiors design firm that believes that imaginative, responsive, and relevant architecture reflects the story of the client and site. “It is a very powerful experience watching your vision being built,” says Jill Rerucha, who always wanted to create ever since she was a little girl. […]
Meet Lucy Griffith, Founder at Thrive At Work, wellbeing at work specialist who helps boost employees’ workday energy, stress-resilience, and productivity. We are living in a world that has been promoting hustle culture now more than ever. As a result, many of us are struggling to prioritize our physical and mental health over work. This […]
Meet Saila Laitinen, an advisor and Co-founder at LRV Corp, a Finland-Croatia-based group, consisting of brands and services that are industry leaders in design, style, and craftsmanship. Saila Laitinen dipped her toes in the entrepreneurial world only after establishing an international career. With a master’s degree in computer engineering, she began her career in 1995 […]
Meet Jaclyn Pederson – Founder and CEO at Feeding Matters, an NGO uniting the concerns of needful families with leading advocates, experts and healthcare professionals. Jaclyn’s mission statement is: ‘To lead with empathy, integrity, and service to influence systems and impact underserved and vulnerable populations.’ This mission statement guides her in her personal life with […]
Meet Suzanne Thee, an entrepreneur and founder at Unwindle, an App to teach people the joy of relaxing through creative activities such as painting and drawing. Working as a banker in the Netherlands for five years, Suzanne Thee had a pretty mundane life. Like most millennials, she wanted to climb up the corporate ladder and […]
We are all privy to the problems of the systems. Seldom do we take charge to uproot those problems and establish a cleaner system for a sustainable tomorrow. Well, Gunilla is clearly not someone who’d sit back and let things fall in place with impurities. No wonder why this confident and courageous woman did and […]
We have all read of people who have attained success. The definition of success, however, stands different for most who have apparently attained it. Emma Bara, the Co-founder of WeCanAccess, is one such woman who’ll surprise you through her journey to success. Emma is a professional with over 25 years’ experience in the field of […]
Christine James is the CEO & Founder of Blick Shared Studios, a network of social enterprise creative workspaces in Belfast Northern Ireland. She is a woman who dawns from the fashion world and yet has created a legacy of serial entrepreneurship simply through her brilliance. But what transformed her career for the best was her […]