Annelen Kahl is the co-founder and CEO of SUNWELL, a Swiss company based in Sion that builds simulation software for solar planning in complex terrain. The team started in alpine PV, working with Swiss utilities on more than 25 projects while developing its own software in parallel. That software,
Maria Sze is the founder of Make Lemonade, a brand communications business that helps luxury travel and hospitality brands understand how AI is changing the way people discover, evaluate and choose them. Their proprietary intelligence framework, SIGNAL NOIR®, measures how brands are represented in AI-generated answers and turns the
Renewable energy projects don’t always need more people from start to finish. Sometimes, they need an experienced person at just the right moment. That’s where Catalyst Energy Consulting comes in. Founded by Cass Schmidt in 2025, the company offers a flexible approach to project support, and Cass is
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Sofia Roberts Colmenero is the 17-year-old founder of ReelPlans, a travel-tech app that helps people turn places discovered on social media into organized boards and real plans. A U.S. and Spanish citizen who grew up in Mallorca, Spain, she has travelled to more than 60 countries
Noor Al-Henedy is the founder of ELMA, a business built around speaking, facilitation, training and strategic advisory work, and named after her two children, Elyas and Maryam. She launched it after nearly two decades across government, nonprofits and community leadership, where she built a career around connecting people and
Gina Sicilia is the founder of Gina's Skinny Italian, a Nashville-based packaged-food company built around better-for-you Italian food. Its low-carb penne is sold online, and its sauces have reached Publix and Kroger shelves. Before starting the company, Gina spent 20 years as an
Amira de Vera is the founder of Project Four PR, a Toronto-based entertainment PR agency she started in 2017 after years of working inside the industry. She never set out to run her own business. After walking away from a toxic workplace with no plan, a chance meeting with
Esther Ijewere is a media and communications strategist, facilitator and speaker, and the Founder of Women of Rubies, a media platform and communications business that began as a newspaper column and has grown into a global platform over ten years. Through Women of Rubies and her work with Guardian Woman,
Seung Earm is the co-founder of Ibex Compliance, a financial compliance advisory firm that gives smaller and growing firms access to senior, practical expertise. After nearly three decades in compliance, including time at Goldman Sachs and BNP Paribas and roles as an FCA-registered Chief Compliance Officer and Money
Judy Henry is the founder of Beast Relief and Sacred Body Botanicals. She smoked her first cigarette as a teenager and spent decades caught in the cycle of nicotine addiction, until the consequences caught up with her in the form of lung cancer. After surviving it, she set out to
Michal Cohen-Sagi is a Longevity Architect, co-founder and protocols curator of Vidavii, a London-based brain, body and mind longevity ecosystem. Drawing on her background at Microsoft and nearly two decades in wellbeing, she brings together technology, specialist expertise and personalised guidance to make longevity practical and accessible.
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Construction has long been one of the most male-dominated industries. Yet women are increasingly founding and leading businesses across the sector: materials testing labs, equipment rental companies, supply firms, safety consultancies and specialist contractors. Their stories show that expertise, attention to detail and strong relationships matter more than old
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Bhavna Batra is an entrepreneur, publisher and celebrity writer, and the Founder and Publisher of Formidable Woman US Magazine, a platform that shares the stories of women across industries. With nearly three decades of experience in human resources, management consulting, events, public relations, media and publishing, she is also building
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Ariel Hyatt is the founder of Cyber PR, a music marketing and PR company she started in 1996 that helps independent artists reach their audience. She is also the author of several books on music marketing and a frequent speaker, and she was named a Q3 2026 FBW Awards Honoree
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Anita Miklovicova is the Founder and CEO of AIM ATTITUDE, a Los Angeles-based Human Experience Brand that brings identity and emotional intelligence into storytelling, educational content and purposeful lifestyle products. Before building her own brand, she spent years in leadership in luxury hospitality. In this Q&A, Anita
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Ahyssa is a Freedom + Impact Mentor at Out the Matrix. She has been corporate-job-free since 2021, has traveled to 21+ countries with her husband, and helped him retire from his 28-year career. Before building her own business, she spent years in a corporate marketing department. In this
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Gemma Barrett is the Founder and Director of Rapporting, a client listening business for PR agencies. Rapporting spends 30 minutes with each of an agency's clients on a video call and writes up a full report of the conversation. Before starting it, Gemma spent years in corporate customer
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Shannon Blake is the Founder of The Tired Nurse, a family-owned novelty gift business in Iowa that she started in 2018 and runs with her daughter, Olivia. With a nursing degree and a master's in public health, she spent 15 years in healthcare before letting her RN
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Annie Scranton is the Founder and CEO of Pace Public Relations, a New York City media relations and communications agency. Before launching the firm, she spent years booking guests for live TV news programs, a background that still shapes how she works with clients. In this Q&A, Annie
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Anshita Bansal is the Founder and Creative Director of Squared Pegs, a creative agency for challenger brands that builds brands, social content, paid campaigns and websites for underdog founders. She brings about a decade of experience in marketing and branding, having worked in agencies, in-house teams and as a
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Lauren “Lolo” Butts is the founder and CEO of Bound Agency, an eight-person, all-women agency whose clients range from Crocs and Huckleberry Roasters to BC4U, a free reproductive health clinic for young Coloradans. For one retail client, Bound’s email strategy grew newsletter profits by 1,960% in