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Whit Lauren is an Intuitive Creation Partner who has spent more than twenty years working alongside entrepreneurs, helping them bring their ideas into reality through a combination of intuition, practical structure and nervous system awareness. Her path began in small business spaces as a teenager, where she watched people build
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Annelen Kahl is the co-founder and CEO of SUNWELL, a Swiss company based in Sion that builds simulation software for solar planning in complex terrain. The team started in alpine PV, working with Swiss utilities on more than 25 projects while developing its own software in parallel. That software,
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Maria Sze is the founder of Make Lemonade, a brand communications business that helps luxury travel and hospitality brands understand how AI is changing the way people discover, evaluate and choose them. Their proprietary intelligence framework, SIGNAL NOIR®, measures how brands are represented in AI-generated answers and turns the
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Renewable energy projects don’t always need more people from start to finish. Sometimes, they need an experienced person at just the right moment. That’s where Catalyst Energy Consulting comes in. Founded by Cass Schmidt in 2025, the company offers a flexible approach to project support, and Cass is
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Sofia Roberts Colmenero is the 17-year-old founder of ReelPlans, a travel-tech app that helps people turn places discovered on social media into organized boards and real plans. A U.S. and Spanish citizen who grew up in Mallorca, Spain, she has travelled to more than 60 countries
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Noor Al-Henedy is the founder of ELMA, a business built around speaking, facilitation, training and strategic advisory work, and named after her two children, Elyas and Maryam. She launched it after nearly two decades across government, nonprofits and community leadership, where she built a career around connecting people and
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Gina Sicilia is the founder of Gina's Skinny Italian, a Nashville-based packaged-food company built around better-for-you Italian food. Its low-carb penne is sold online, and its sauces have reached Publix and Kroger shelves. Before starting the company, Gina spent 20 years as an
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Noor Al-Henedy is the founder of ELMA, a business built around speaking, facilitation, training and strategic advisory work, and named after her two children, Elyas and Maryam. She launched it after nearly two decades across government, nonprofits and community leadership, where she built a career around connecting people and
Gina Sicilia is the founder of Gina's Skinny Italian, a Nashville-based packaged-food company built around better-for-you Italian food. Its low-carb penne is sold online, and its sauces have reached Publix and Kroger shelves. Before starting the company, Gina spent 20 years as an
Amira de Vera is the founder of Project Four PR, a Toronto-based entertainment PR agency she started in 2017 after years of working inside the industry. She never set out to run her own business. After walking away from a toxic workplace with no plan, a chance meeting with
Esther Ijewere is a media and communications strategist, facilitator and speaker, and the Founder of Women of Rubies, a media platform and communications business that began as a newspaper column and has grown into a global platform over ten years. Through Women of Rubies and her work with Guardian Woman,
Seung Earm is the co-founder of Ibex Compliance, a financial compliance advisory firm that gives smaller and growing firms access to senior, practical expertise. After nearly three decades in compliance, including time at Goldman Sachs and BNP Paribas and roles as an FCA-registered Chief Compliance Officer and Money
Judy Henry is the founder of Beast Relief and Sacred Body Botanicals. She smoked her first cigarette as a teenager and spent decades caught in the cycle of nicotine addiction, until the consequences caught up with her in the form of lung cancer. After surviving it, she set out to
Michal Cohen-Sagi is a Longevity Architect, co-founder and protocols curator of Vidavii, a London-based brain, body and mind longevity ecosystem. Drawing on her background at Microsoft and nearly two decades in wellbeing, she brings together technology, specialist expertise and personalised guidance to make longevity practical and accessible.
Entrepreneurship can be a lot. There’s always something to do.
Anic Grand is the co-founder of House of Moments, a Swiss event and concierge agency based in Sion, in the canton of Valais. She started it together with her business partner Emma Duc, building on years of working side by side in the Swiss tourism and events industry. Anic
A founder can become more visible while her business remains misunderstood. Her name appears in publications and invitations arrive, yet the inquiries still reflect work she did years ago.
Construction has long been one of the most male-dominated industries. Yet women are increasingly founding and leading businesses across the sector: materials testing labs, equipment rental companies, supply firms, safety consultancies and specialist contractors. Their stories show that expertise, attention to detail and strong relationships matter more than old
Everyone talks about burnout. Very few people talk about what to build instead. In an always-on workplace, recovery alone is not enough. In this workshop, we will explore a framework for moving from survival to recovery, resilience, and thriving. Along the way, we will practice four skills that support