Women Who Lead
Gemma Barrett is the Founder and Director of Rapporting, a client listening business for PR agencies. Rapporting spends 30 minutes with each of an agency's clients on a video call and writes up a full report of the conversation. Before starting it, Gemma spent years in corporate customer
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Shannon Blake is the Founder of The Tired Nurse, a family-owned novelty gift business in Iowa that she started in 2018 and runs with her daughter, Olivia. With a nursing degree and a master's in public health, she spent 15 years in healthcare before letting her RN
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Annie Scranton is the Founder and CEO of Pace Public Relations, a New York City media relations and communications agency. Before launching the firm, she spent years booking guests for live TV news programs, a background that still shapes how she works with clients. In this Q&A, Annie
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Anshita Bansal is the Founder and Creative Director of Squared Pegs, a creative agency for challenger brands that builds brands, social content, paid campaigns and websites for underdog founders. She brings about a decade of experience in marketing and branding, having worked in agencies, in-house teams and as a
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Lauren “Lolo” Butts is the founder and CEO of Bound Agency, an eight-person, all-women agency whose clients range from Crocs and Huckleberry Roasters to BC4U, a free reproductive health clinic for young Coloradans. For one retail client, Bound’s email strategy grew newsletter profits by 1,960% in
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Juana Han is a student advocate from Atlanta and a student assemblymember on the Georgia-Carolinas board of the United Nations Association of the United States (UNA-USA). She also serves as Georgia Chair for the American Youth Association, and has represented UNA-USA at the 2026 ECOSOC Youth Forum
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Seema Naz is the founder of Better You Within, a site where she writes about habits, self-awareness and everyday behaviour. She studied psychology and English literature, and later ran an Amazon business before returning to the interests that had always been there. Alongside publishing articles, Seema learned to build
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Ava Monroe is the founder of The Ava Edit, an ecommerce brand building practical tools for independent Etsy and Shopify sellers. She is developing Smart Store, an Etsy-first audit app that helps sellers see what needs fixing in their shop before they spend more on traffic, apps or outside
Noemi Alvarez is a Zurich-based entrepreneur and commercial growth leader, and the Founder and CEO of InsightSphere. Its conversational AI expert helps companies engage with website visitors, uncovering their needs and buying intent so sales teams can focus on the right opportunities, and marketing can capture a new layer
Zirlandia Milkovic is a developer and GDPR consultant based in Rijeka, Croatia. She is the founder of GDPR Gard and the author of "GDPR Made Simple for Women Founders". In this Q&A, Zirlandia shares where small teams most often slip up when they build GDPR into
Alana Cummings is the founder and executive coach behind Superbloom Coaching, a certified woman-owned coaching practice. After 13 years in corporate America, she left a career that looked successful on paper but left her feeling burnt out and misaligned, and built a coaching practice around helping others reconnect with
Eleanor Hecks is a women’s leadership writer and the Editor-in-Chief of Designerly Magazine, where she leads a creative team. She has spent close to a decade writing about business and leadership, with contributions to publications including Fast Company, eLearning Industry and Due. In this Q&A,
Open and closed grants, prizes, loans and equity funds for women founders in Canada, with amounts, deadlines and eligibility. Last checked 28 October 2026.
Nathaly Vinueza is the founder and CEO of Warmi, a femtech and insurtech company that grew out of her work as a lawyer on gender-based violence. She came to see that legal intervention alone was not enough, and that lasting change also needed prevention, financial inclusion, education and access
Emily Lyman is the CEO and founder of Branch & Bramble, a women-owned digital marketing agency that uses behavioral psychology to uncover the emotions behind why someone chooses a brand, and was named a Q3 2026 FBW Awards Winner in the Marketing & Communications Impact category. Emily returns to
Allison Isett is the COO of Sponge, a certified woman-owned marketing and sales operations agency that helps B2B companies build the marketing and revenue systems behind their growth. With more than 20 years in marketing operations, she is also speaking on AI for revenue teams at MarketingProfs B2B Forum
LuCiana VeLiciana-Sanford is the founder of Human B4 Resources, a human-first HR business built on more than 15 years of HR leadership, and was named a Q3 2026 FBW Awards Honoree in the Rising Star category. In this Q&A, LuCiana shares the conviction behind Human B4
Open and closed grants, prizes and fellowships for women founders in the US, with amounts, deadlines and eligibility. Last checked 27 October 2026.
Open and closed grants, prizes, loans and guarantees for women founders in the UK and Europe, with amounts, deadlines and eligibility. Last checked 27 October 2026.