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Ilona Alcock moved to Manchester in 2015 knowing exactly one person. When the pandemic hit five years later, she and co-founder Katie Robson were both made redundant—and instead of job hunting, they launched Elevate, a business development consultancy that's since become the world's first
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Shanti Hubbard co-founded Chan Hubbard PLLC in 2014 after years practicing at nationally premier law offices, including Skadden Arps and the Bronx Defenders, where she started her legal career as a public defender fighting for clients in the courtroom. Today, based in Brooklyn, she advises startups and growth-stage
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Manik Kochian founded MConverts to solve a problem most B2B brands know too well: content takes too long to produce, campaigns fall flat, and growth gets stuck. Based in Stockholm, her agency combines AI-powered video production with years of content marketing experience to help businesses create high-impact promotional
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With over two decades in gaming and tech, Kelly Kehn has built a reputation as a connector, changemaker, and multi-award-winning leader who brings people together to build purpose-led businesses. In 2017, she co-founded the All-In Diversity Project, an industry-led non-profit that benchmarks diversity,
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Zoe Bennett, BEM, didn't set out to become known as "The Motivational Queen." In 2011, her father Errol was brutally murdered in Jamaica, leaving her traumatized and fighting a three-and-a-half-year battle for justice. She had to identify his mutilated body. She received
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Vips Kirrage co-founded ConsultantBox in 2000 alongside her husband Simon, building a boutique executive search firm that has placed senior leaders across Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies for nearly three decades. Specializing in board-level searches for CEOs, CTOs, CISOs, and senior SAP, cybersecurity, and AI/ML leaders,
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In 1996, Sue Stockdale became the first British woman to ski to the Magnetic North Pole, selected from 500 applicants despite being a novice Arctic explorer. Since then, she's traversed some of the world's most extreme environments—from Antarctica to Greenland, Patagonia to the Wadi Rum
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Jayde Pope didn't follow the traditional path to founding a marketing agency. After spending a decade in the trenches of recruitment and estate agency, she launched Magenta MAD—a full-service creative agency that exclusively serves the property and recruitment industries. Known as "The MAD Hatter,"
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Marte Stenbro has spent two decades learning one critical truth about marketing automation: anyone can automate their marketing, but few can maintain meaningfulness and relevance. As Co-founder and COO of Homerun Customer Experience, Marte has led complex international projects across the Nordics, Europe, Asia, and the US, specializing in
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Shazia Ali didn't have the luxury of a traditional path to becoming a solicitor. Growing up in an impoverished family and facing daily racism as a teenager, she funded her entire legal education herself, starting at age 14 by waitressing to afford a private tutor for her GCSEs.
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Sammie McPhail didn't set out to build a typical marketing agency. As founder of Spellbound Marketing and The Spellbound Strategist, Sammie works with burnout-prone creatives, neurodivergent entrepreneurs, and sensitive founders who've been told success requires constant hustle, daily posting, and aggressive sales tactics. Her answer?
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Lauren Ellerman has spent nearly 20 years representing the other side of business disputes—and that perspective makes her advice invaluable. As a partner at Frith & Ellerman Law Firm in Roanoke, Virginia, Lauren represents patients in medical malpractice cases, families in nursing home neglect claims, employees challenging restrictive non-