Georgina Colman is the founder of Purpl, a UK-based members-only discount platform created specifically for disabled people and those living with long-term health conditions. Her motivation was deeply personal - having experienced disability firsthand, she understood the hidden financial pressure that comes with it, and recognised a gap
Margaret Watts Romney is an executive communication coach, author, and former professional cellist who has spent 10,000+ hours helping high-knowledge professionals close the gap between what they know and who needs to understand. She has coached over 100 TEDx speakers and led communication training for engineers, security teams,
Halimah Basheer is a community leader, violence prevention advocate, and Executive Director of The BUILD Program and the Professional Community Intervention Training Institute (PCITI). Guided by a lifelong commitment to service, leadership, and community empowerment, she has dedicated her career to advancing strategies that promote healing, prevent violence, strengthen families,
Lauren Goyette Rowe is a sexual wellness educator and coach who has spent over a decade helping women and couples understand desire, intimacy, and the dynamics that quietly shape their relationships. Since 2013, she has worked at the intersection of sexual health, pleasure education, and relationship coaching - building a framework
Some founders build a business around a product. Tysheda Williams built hers around a feeling, the moment a single connection, whether through travel, photography, or a room full of the right people, changes what someone believes is possible. As the Signature Global Experiences Architect and founder of The Signature Atelier
Rosie’s People is an executive HR, people operations and business consultancy that partners with founders, leadership teams and scaling organisations to build high-performing, people-centred businesses. We provide strategic advice and hands-on support across the full employee lifecycle, including organisational design, people strategy, leadership development, employee relations,
Most workplace wellbeing programmes are built for struggle - for burnout, anxiety, stress. But what happens when an employee is grieving? Ruth Cooper-Dickson has spent the better part of a decade answering that question. An accredited trauma-informed coach, positive psychology practitioner, and Mental Health First Aid instructor, Ruth founded
Alex Falcon Huerta FCCA did not set out to reinvent accounting. She set out to build a business that gave her freedom - and in doing so, she ended up reimagining what a modern accounting firm could look like. As the founder of Soaring Falcon, a multi-award-winning digital accountancy
Dr. Rosie Ward knows firsthand what it feels like when a workplace erodes your well-being. After experiencing the effects of two toxic environments, she made it her mission to ensure others wouldn't have to go through the same - and that by the time her son enters the
Sarah Livingstone, MSW, is a Social Worker, presenter, expert columnist, and Founder and CEO of ARE U Motivated. Through The Connection Hour, she helps individuals, groups, and organizations build healthier communication, stronger relationships, emotional awareness, and practical life skills using a strengths-based approach. Website url:Â www.areumotivated.com Preferred
We're hosting a live workshop on June 16th featuring Ruby Veridiano, a narrative strategist and communications consultant specializing in social impact and sustainability. Ruby will guide you through the process of defining your personal mission and building the foundation of your personal brand - so your story truly reflects
We are proud to publish the inaugural FBW Best Workplaces for Women — a curated list recognizing companies that are building cultures where women genuinely thrive. Starting this year, we will publish this recognition quarterly, spotlighting organizations across industries and geographies that are setting a new standard for inclusion, leadership, and
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Most business owners know the feeling. Revenue is growing, the brand has momentum, clients keep coming back - and yet the owner is somehow more exhausted than ever. Every decision still lands on her desk. Every gap in the business quietly absorbs her time. The company is working, but it cannot
Women Who Lead
Mona Loring spent over two decades building one of Hollywood's most respected entertainment PR firms, running awards campaigns for the Oscars, Emmys, and Golden Globes and representing talent including Wendi McLendon-Covey, Carrie Preston, and Michael B. Jordan. But at a certain point, success and alignment stopped feeling
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Jane Langley spent 27 years as an artist, curator, and visiting lecturer in art. Sustainability wasn't her industry, it was her conviction. After hearing author Tom Friedman speak and reading his book on climate and globalization, she began asking a question that wouldn't leave her alone:
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Lauren Baptiste has lived the story she now helps others escape. As a CPA and consultant at a Big Four accounting firm for over a decade, she was, by every external measure, thriving. Behind the scenes, she was running on fumes. In 2013, her body delivered the message her career
Workshops
We recently sat down with Dian Trabulsy, Founder & Principal Advisor at Faithfully Legal, for a conversation that every founder needs to hear. Whether you caught it live or are hearing about it for the first time — the full recording is now available on LinkedIn. Watch it here: https://www.
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Sarah Livingstone knows what it looks like when people are running on empty. As the founder of ARE U Motivated, she has spent years working alongside youth, families, employees, and small groups, and what she found was a consistent thread beneath every struggle: most people are expected to manage stress,
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Gaia Tonanzi spent years being the only curly-haired person in the room. Working across both the manufacturing and brand sides of the haircare industry, she had a front-row seat to how the curl market actually worked, and it wasn't pretty. Brands chasing a trend rather than
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Cynthia Fortlage spent years helping organisations build high-performance cultures - until she found herself excluded from the one she had helped create. That experience didn't just change her direction; it sharpened her thinking. It showed her that a culture can be built around accountability, ambition, and delivery, and
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Keshika Mahesh started in fashion with her hands close to the product - trained in knitwear design, grounded in how clothes are actually made. But it was during her Master's research at the University for the Creative Arts that her focus shifted upstream. Studying fashion traceability, she kept returning
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For nearly two decades, Candice Tait was the CFO in the room - and usually the only woman in it. Working with private equity and venture capital-backed tech companies in London, she helped startups raise over $2 billion, navigated the Lyft IPO, and built the kind of financial fluency that
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When Melissa Kramer sought help for recurrent UTIs and endometriosis, she encountered what too many women do: inadequate testing, misdiagnosis, and dismissal. The more she researched, the clearer it became that her experience wasn't just bad luck. It reflected something systemic - a gender gap in healthcare and health
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When Sara Stokes was six months pregnant with her first daughter, her facialist gently flagged something she hadn't known: several of the products she had been using for years contained ingredients that weren't safe during pregnancy. That moment of discovery - arriving late, arriving by chance - set