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: 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
Lauren Baptiste helps ambitious professionals earn more, work more intentionally, and create extraordinary careers without burnout. As an executive coach and the founder of Acheloa Wellness and Text Lauren, she equips leaders with the tools, strategies, and support needed to accelerate growth, strengthen leadership, and reclaim control of their time.
Emily Lyman will tell you her best professional skill is co-dependency. She's only half joking. Growing up as a military kid, perpetually the new girl in the room, she developed an almost involuntary ability to read people and anticipate what someone needs before they say it. That
Tanya Perkins didn't set out to build a haircare brand. She set out to solve a problem she'd lived with her whole life - the impossible choice between staying active and having healthy, defined curls. After an autoimmune diagnosis pushed her to rethink everything she put on
Rosie Hewat is a Chartered HR executive, entrepreneur, and founder with over 25 years of experience helping start-ups, technology companies, and scaling organisations build people functions that actually work. Through Rosie's People, her global HR and business operations consultancy, she has partnered with leadership teams and boards
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
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
Tiara J. is a Certified Health and Life Coach and Licensed Vocational Nurse with over 26 years in healthcare she's not guessing what burnout feels like; she's lived it from the inside. As the creator of the Root to Resilience Framework and S.O.B. Model,
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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
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Emma Loker knows what it feels like to be a teenager searching for answers and finding nothing you can trust. Growing up, she navigated social anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts largely without support - not because help didn't exist, but because she didn't have easy access to
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Tiara Johnson knows burnout from the inside. As a single mother of five working in a demanding professional role, she found herself visiting the emergency room 15 times in a single year - not from illness, but from the compounding weight of stress and overwhelm. Instead of managing symptoms, she did
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Following our Women Who Lead: 20 Founders edition, we continue the conversation with Diana Lowe - CEO and founder of Blue Light Leadership, executive coach, and Amazon bestselling author based in Denver, Colorado. Diana spent the early part of her career working internationally across the US, UK, Ireland, Australia, and Japan
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Niqueea had traveled to 25 countries when she hit a wall she couldn't navigate alone. Sitting in her Airbnb in South America one Sunday morning, she couldn't find a church with English services. She couldn't find other Christian women nearby. She felt completely cut
When Leigha Hollis's mother needed care, she didn't know what a geriatric care manager was. She didn't know she could hire someone to help navigate Medicare. She didn't know estate planning attorneys specialized in families like hers. She found out the hard