Latris Latrelle Oliveira is a fashion entrepreneur, creative strategist, media founder, and runway producer whose work spans fashion, media, luxury experiences, and global creative industries. Her entrepreneurial journey began in 2014 with the founding of Pretty Posh Lingerie, a boutique inspired and supported by her late mother. Her passion for
Ty Vaughn is an entrepreneur, adventure travel curator, and founder of AdventuressTy, a luxury adventure travel company inspiring people to step beyond their comfort zones and experience life more boldly. Founded in 2019, AdventuressTy began with local California adventures and has grown into a global travel brand creating curated group
After more than 35 years in sales, including senior roles leading teams responsible for multi-million-pound revenues in the media industry, Moira Barnes saw how traditional sales approaches can leave people feeling pressured and uncomfortable, as though they had to become someone they weren't. In 2018, she
Bamboo Bridge did not start with a grand business plan. When her husband Dave needed help finding suppliers in China for his hardware startup, Leah Geng stepped in. Friends soon asked for help with their own products, and one project led to another. Today, Leah is the Founder & CEO
Anna Gahramanov is the founder of Elite Media Empire, a Miami-based agency that installs revenue systems for small businesses. Her work brings CRM, advertising, offers, and sales together into one integrated machine, so that every lead is captured, tracked, and followed up on. Her path into systems started close
After a 20-year career spanning people-centred systems, complex project delivery, organisational transformation and leadership development across Asia and Europe, JJ Byun, Founder and Managing Director of BYUN & CO, began asking a different kind of question - not how systems change, but how people do. That curiosity, shaped by
After more than a decade working in marketing across independent labels, distribution companies and management teams, Alison Lamb made the leap into self employment in 2023 with the launch of Project Allies. Her decision came at a pivotal moment, both in her own career and in the wider industry, as
Sara Ellis is the founder of Stone & Sky Self-Mapping and creator of the Human Translation Method. Late-diagnosed as neurodivergent after a lifetime of trying to understand a world that often misunderstood her, Sara combined that lived experience with years spent translating complicated information in healthcare to build
JC Wilde is the Co-Founder of J & J Publishing House, where she is also a Writer and the Editorial Director of the company, which she runs alongside her wife, JFo—a Co-Founder, Writer, and Illustrator. Together they are dedicated to the conscious creation and publication of books
Make Lemonade is a UK-based independent brand and communications strategy consultancy specialising in AI intelligence and authority for luxury brands and agencies. We help luxury travel and hospitality brands remain visible, discoverable and recommended as artificial intelligence informs and curates brand reputations. Preferred contact email: maria@make-lemonade.co.
Ethel Rio Cohen has seen the insurance industry from every angle. She previously helped build an insurance agency, which she later sold, and now she is the founder and CEO of Ensurance, a U.S. insurance-shopping company that helps people shop for better insurance prices and coverage options across
Debika Sen Chaudhury spent years working as a growth consultant for SaaS startups before she noticed a pattern that troubled her: companies kept hiring more SDRs, pouring money into marketing, and pushing new product versions, only to repeat the same cycle a few months later with a new agency or
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Every brand needs a name, but almost no one has a process for finding one. Emma Bryant learned this the hard way as a copywriter at advertising and branding agencies, where naming projects had a habit of spiraling into chaos: endless spreadsheets of half-baked ideas, stakeholders locked in debates
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Sara Ellis spent most of her adult life in healthcare, much of it in women's health, supporting people through pregnancy, infertility, loss, diagnoses, and menopause. Along the way, she learned that two people can share the same diagnosis on paper and still have completely different stories, and that
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Most businesses don't have a marketing problem, a sales problem, or an operations problem. They have a gap problem: the space where these functions are supposed to connect but don't. That's the pattern Ksenia Molodych kept running into across more than 15 years working
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Seung Earm never planned a career in compliance. She set out to study international relations and languages with her sights on diplomacy, only to discover her interest in finance during her Master's degree. That pivot led her through Merrill Lynch and into investment banking at Goldman Sachs, right
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Mafalda Carvalho spent years in adult social care leadership before founding Prestige Care Consulting and Rise & Bloom, two businesses built on the same core belief: organisations can have every policy and strategy in place, yet outcomes still hinge on how people experience leadership day to day. That gap between
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Yvonne Miller spent 26 years in talent and people roles, including building and scaling her own IT recruitment business, before founding Net Talent Partners. That dual perspective, having sat on both sides of the hiring table, shaped a model built around a gap she kept seeing: growing businesses needed senior
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In 2016, Maria Sze lost her husband, left to raise two young sons on her own. Two years later, after nearly three decades in brand and communications, she was made redundant. There was no five-year plan waiting on the other side, just a network she trusted, a lifetime of
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My name is Iria Spyrtzi. I'm a 16-year-old high school student from Greece, and I'm the founder and developer of AllMindsLearn, a free educational platform for students with learning difficulties. I didn't start AllMindsLearn as a business idea. It came from my
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After nearly two decades shaping strategy at some of the world's most respected institutions - BCG, Temasek, CapitaLand and NTT DATA - Tanu Himatsingka has built a career on turning ambiguity into action for leadership teams. That instinct now powers her own venture, Zaryth Ventures, an advisory platform sitting at
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Kate Brunning knows firsthand that a deal can look flawless on paper and still fall apart in practice if the people side is treated as an afterthought. After leading people strategy through significant growth and acquisition at Virtual1, where she helped build an award-winning workplace culture, she founded People
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After 20 years in high-pressure communications roles, Alison O'Leary hit a wall - literally, when years of stress finally shut down her digestive system. A hospital consultant's diagnosis of stress from living out of alignment with herself became the catalyst she needed. That health scare led
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Racheal A. was tired of scrolling through endless gift guides and still coming up empty for the actual people in her life. That frustration became the foundation for OhGiftPlease, a gifting platform built on a simple but overlooked idea: thoughtful gifting starts with paying attention, not with browsing a category