Women Who Lead
At 20 years old, Donna Ross-Jones learned the hardest lesson of her career: loyalty and hard work don't guarantee protection. After being blamed for conflict she didn't create, fired, and then assaulted by someone she trusted, she made a decision that would define the next
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After nearly two decades in HR and executive search, Fay Phillips-Jones kept noticing the same pattern from her seat on the hiring side of the table: talented HR professionals, people who had spent their careers guiding others through change, often struggled to advocate for themselves. She watched capable candidates
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Joanne Lockwood spent much of her life moving through the world with the privilege of being perceived as a man. In her forties, as she stepped away from a career in IT and began her gender transition, that changed - and so did her view of the workplaces she'd
Workshops
We're hosting a live workshop on July 29th featuring Sweta Vikram, A.D. - award-winning entrepreneur, Ayurvedic practitioner, certified grief coach, and author of 15 books. Sweta will explore how grief impacts leadership, nervous system regulation, communication, and resilience - and how to navigate these challenges without abandoning yourself
Women Who Lead
Twenty years ago, Melissa Douaire lost her mother and discovered something that would define the next two decades of her work: grief has a language, and almost no one is taught to speak it. That realization, born in hospice rooms and pastoral care settings, eventually collided with another truth she&
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Melanie Ulle was going door to door for a presidential campaign before most kids learn to ride a bike without training wheels. That early start, shaped by parents who treated current events and museum visits as standard weekend fare, set her on a path that's now spanned more
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When Ariel Hyatt launched her PR firm from a Boulder apartment in the 1990s, she didn't set out to build a one-woman operation. Within three years she had a team and a roster of 22 bands across the country, built almost entirely through word of mouth and
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Chelsea Marshall always knew she wanted to build something of her own. As a child, she taught herself to make websites and blogs, chasing one obsession after another - horses, beauty, fashion, photography - and building entire online worlds around them. It took years for her to realize what she actually loved
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Long before brand partnerships lived on Reels and TikTok, Avyana Chapman was already building a career at the intersection of content, journalism, and communication. That layered background - four years as a freelance journalist, hands-on experience as a content copywriter, and early work as a content creator - gave her a
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Noor Armando never set out to follow a single career path, she set out to be her own boss. That instinct, paired with a graphic design degree and a chance proximity to a media production course at university, led her to the person who would become both her business partner
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Edith Wolek built Emperors Media on belief that a lasting brand is created by living your values, not by wearing a carefully crafted image. After more than two decades working in advertising, branding and design for global companies, she realised that helping businesses look good was never the real work.
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Mandi Casey started The MindHER Company after her own experience with burnout reshaped how she thought about success. She didn't want to build a business at the expense of her life, she wanted work that brought her joy and supported the life she actually wanted to live. As