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Most founders know they will need HR eventually. Fewer realize that the moment they hire their first employee, they are already making HR decisions. Vanessa Matibag, founder of Outside Lead HR Solutions, has seen how much easier growth becomes when even a basic structure is in place from the start.
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Nida Mehtab Gillio is the founder and CEO of Goalytics, an AI-powered business performance intelligence platform that connects company strategy to program, team and individual OKRs and KPIs. In 2019, she also founded Caryatid Space, a global, boutique, women-owned workplace transformation consultancy. The idea came from seeing the
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Marcy Kelly never set out to write a book. It started with notes, jotted down during the agonizing wait for answers after she learned her son Michael's body had been found in his apartment. He was forty-five, her only child, and for months there were no answers
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Alessia Frasson is the co-founder of Uncommon Artwork, a platform that gives artists and small galleries an out-of-the-box way to show, sell and ship their work online without needing any technical skills. Based in Paris, she and her partner Cameron started by building an art site
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Corinne Briaud is the founder of LongHER, a community built around women's health and longevity. After years in consumer healthcare, she set out to create a space by women, for women, where real science meets real community and practical, evidence-based solutions come from female experts and the
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Amanda Horan is the founder of Line + Cleat, a children's life jacket brand she launched in 2023 after finding that the options available for her own daughters were safe but stiff, uncomfortable and hard to get excited about. As far as the company knows, it is the only
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Susan Tan gave up the stability of a public sector career in 2003 to follow a piece of advice she had long given others: do what you love. A registered nurse and coach, she founded ECI Consulting Holdings in Singapore to get back to working directly with people, and over
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Lenie Maré and Ninna Andersson are the co-founders of Bloom LGBTQ+, a community-first Android app for LGBTQ+ adults who are looking for genuine friendship and chosen family. Lenie is based in South Africa and Ninna in Sweden, and the two met on TikTok in December 2025, nearly 10,
Persia Samandi is the founder of Sohsh, an iPhone content creation business that produces fast, social-ready content for business shoots, events and weddings across Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire, Greater London and beyond. After spending her 20s running social media for a prestigious hospitality ranking list, she left the corporate grind
Shannon Pratten is the founder of Milk Drunk Club, a maternal health and lactation company, and the creator of MilkHaven, a reusable silicone breast milk storage system that launched in September 2026. A NICU nurse for more than 20 years and a lactation consultant for 14, she is also a
Sara Ellis is the founder of Stone & Sky Self-Mapping and creator of the Human Translation Method. Drawing on lived experience as a late-diagnosed neurodivergent woman and years spent translating complicated information in healthcare, she built an approach that brings reflective questioning, pattern recognition and birth-chart symbolism
Becca Bolton is the founder and creative director of Considered by Design, a Sydney-based creative studio that uses design as a tool for positive change. After more than a decade in the creative industry, she stepped away from the traditional agency model to build a studio that works with
Rachel Stone is the founder of Rachel Stone Coaching, a business and leadership coaching company she launched in 2012 after management and teaching roles in manufacturing, retail and education. She is also the author of a business book and the creator of an online leadership course, and she helps leaders
Carol Richards is the founder of RAI By Design, which helps start-ups, small businesses and investors build, fund and adopt AI responsibly through training, coaching and advisory work. After a career in software companies, including time at Microsoft, she saw first-hand what good Responsible AI looks like inside
ZenBusiness is an AI platform that helps entrepreneurs plan, start, and grow a successful business, offering LLC and corporation formation, registered agent service, compliance, and tax and bookkeeping support. Founded in 2015 and based in Austin, Texas, ZenBusiness has helped launch more than 950,000 businesses and, as a Public
After more than 30 years in HR, including at board level, Denise knows how much organisations depend on their people. When she experienced menopause herself in a senior role, she found little understanding or support in the workplace, and decided to do something about it. That experience became Talking 12,
Lisa Morris had wanted to own a gift shop for around six years. After moving to Wales in November 2025, having previously worked as a school cleaner, she opened Wye Knot on the High Street in Builth Wells on 29 June 2026. The shop is built around gifts and cards
Heather Adelman is a partner at Adelman Law, a firm providing strategic business and employment counsel. With more than 30 years of experience in employment law, she advises both employers and employees through some of the most consequential moments in the workplace. In this Q&A, Heather shares what