Crush 2025 Highlights for Thought Leaders, Business Rebels, Wellness Seekers, and Those Who Want to Amplify Their Voice

Crush is where rebel leaders come to organize and energize. 

We built it because we were tired of being underestimated, not funded, not paid enough, or told to wait our turn. Even when our ideas and innovations are way ahead of their time.  

Crush is a gathering for thought leaders looking for collective leverage and those who want to amplify their voices among trailblazers, business leaders, and future builders. 

Instead of waiting for a seat at some table, we just built a new table, and you are invited.  

Here’s a look at what’s waiting for you at the Crush 2025 program.

Come as you are. Here you be belong - you belong by being yourself. 

Tips on How to Navigate the Crush Stages

The Crush program will be held on two stages at the Helsinki Stock Exchange Building, the Pörssitalo. You are welcome to choose your sessions as you want. Only the Networking Ticket sessions are limited to Networking Ticket holders.  

Downstairs on the ground floor, you will find the Founders Stage. 

The focus on the Founders Stage is keynotes, fireside chats, and panels for business founders and leaders to get actionable insights on how to grow your value-driven business, and how to grow as a leader. 

The Founders Stage will be the center of the Networking Ticket program in the morning during breakfast and the first hour of lunch at 11.30-12.30.

Come early, so you don't miss the fireside chat with Aino Bergius, the CEO of Slush.

The Networking Ticket holders are also getting a special workshop hosted by Michaela Kettner to get in-depth advice on how to boost your self-presentation and learn to spotlight your true self. The higher the stakes in your business, the more important your presentation skills become. 

If you are not a Networking Ticket holder, start your day with meditation at 9.30 at the wellness lounge upstairs, before entering the Rebel Leaders Stage. 

At 10 AM, the program starts for all ticket holders on both stages. 

Get ready to be more interactive and ask your questions from the speakers. This is a room where the deals are made. Business as usual doesn't change the damn thing. But you will after a day in this room.

Upstairs on the first floor, you will find the Rebel Leaders Stage.

The Rebel Leaders stage will highlight the topics that too often are forgotten in the context of business. 

You will be invited to shift your thinking, examine your hormonal balance (and receive answers to "is it menopause?"), and get feminist advice from men (no mansplaining, we promise). 

Learn to use creativity to navigate uncertainty and embrace opportunities. Heal your heart to repair the hidden wounds that hold you back. 

Forget just about getting social media followers, learn to use social media and your voice to impact the world, and above all, have some famous Finnish sisu, guts, to keep being a Rebel Leader. 

It's like a fullbody immersion to being a Rebel Leader, especially if you participate to the exercise, and meditation breaks. 

Crush For the Thought Leaders

You are a trailblazer. You ask the bigger questions. You’re here to leave a mark. 

Crush understands what it is to not fit in because you are ten steps ahead of others, or how pioneering, and innovating can sometimes feel lonely. 

Together, we create trends, we don't follow them.

Crush For the Business Rebels

You’re building something that doesn’t fit in a box, and that’s the point.

You’ll meet other founders who’ve created new rules. 

Crush is so beyond thinking how to get the next opportunity.

We know how to create our own opportunities. Now we want to solve how to create sustainable business models while refusing to play by the common norms, and saying "no" to building against our values. 

Crush for the Amplifiers

You have something to say, and you want to use your voice to lift others. 

Whether you’re building a platform, a podcast, a personal brand, or a movement of your own, Crush is your launchpad.

Crush is about being seen and rising with others.

We are done having our voices curated or shut down.

Here, we have a mic and a stage, waiting for you.

Crush for the Wellness Seekers

You believe working on yourself is world-changing work. 

Crush isn’t a “hustle harder” event. 

We know that rest, healing, and clarity are strategy. And when you understand your hormones, you will be able to find balance for your body and business.

Spots are limited, and this community moves fast.

Grab your ticket now!