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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Fayetteville, Georgia entrepreneur Heather Milner didn't set out to build an app empire. She set out to help the people around her - the friend struggling through menopause, the parent separated from their kids by prison walls, the daughter who hasn't spoken to her mother in years.
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Navya Tuteja was still in high school when she noticed a gap that most job platforms overlook: a listing can tell you the salary, the location, the qualifications, but almost never what it will actually feel like to work there. For neurodivergent candidates, that missing context, things like how communication
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JFo and JC Wilde have been together for fifteen years, married for seven, and creative collaborators for even longer, but it was grief that turned their partnership into a publishing house. After JFo lost her mother, she began illustrating what she was feeling one entry at a time, without ever
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When Domino Hawk was diagnosed with endometriosis at 29, it changed how she looked at everything she put on and in her body, including the beauty products she'd used for years as a professional editorial makeup artist. Digging into the industry she thought she knew, she found a
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After years spent watching highly qualified professionals over 50 get quietly filtered out of hiring pipelines, Kim Anderson decided the recruiting industry needed more than talk about inclusion. As a recruiting director, she saw the coded language firsthand, candidates dismissed as "overexperienced" or having "run out of
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After 17 years with one nonprofit, growing alongside it from its earliest days, Vanessa Matibag was laid off when the organization closed its doors. The obvious next move would have been to find another full-time role, but the layoff gave her something rare after two decades in HR: time
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Jen Thompson spent her early career doing everything right, at least by the standards she'd been raised on. Working as a congressional lawyer and campaign strategist, she rose fast, worked constantly, and built a life that looked enviable from the outside. What it wasn't, she says,
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Doris Leung spent years reporting other people's stories as a broadcast journalist in Hong Kong. Then her own mother became a wheelchair user, and Doris saw firsthand what she calls a "serious and unacceptable social injustice": elders and caregivers left with no safe, legal option for
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Stephanie Romiszewski is a Sleep Physiologist and the author of Think Less, Sleep More (Atlantic Books, 2026). She's also the founder of Sleepyhead Clinic, which supports both individuals and organisations, and the creator of BBC Maestro's course, Sleep Better. Drawing on her experience in sleep and
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Dr. Elizabeth Newman-Earl knows the reality of military spouse life firsthand. After following her Army husband overseas and stepping away from her own career in 2015, she completed a PhD in Critical Military Studies and Sociology, an experience that became the foundation for e50K, a social enterprise entirely led
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Jools Barrow-Read founded RedWizard in 2014 after years spent designing PMO topologies for large organisations, where she saw firsthand that even the best-designed structures fail without strong connections between the parts. That insight became the foundation of RedWizard, a UK-based consultancy helping businesses navigate the increasingly complex
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Dr. Silja Litvin brings a rare combination to executive coaching: a background as a clinical psychologist, over a decade as CEO of PsycApps, an evidence-based mental health company, and firsthand experience navigating the pressures of building and running a business. In addition to leading her company, she also works
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Tahira Dosani has spent her career betting on the idea that serving the customers everyone else calls "too risky" is actually the biggest opportunity in fintech. She has backed more than 75 early-stage fintech startups, including four unicorns, through roles at Accion Venture Lab and LeapFrog Investments.