We are excited to introduce one of the Crush 2024 sponsors: Aspire Brands. Aspire Brands is a global strategic distribution agency in the beauty market. With seasoned expertise, Aspire Brands serve as a savvy guide, navigating brands through every phase of the retail cycle.
Two reasons why we are so thrilled that Aspire Brands is joining us at Crush:
1. AspireBrands will elevate the Crush experience in a super fun way.
You will just have to come and see it yourself! But let's just say you will be able to learn more about the company and their products in fun,...
Check out our new Videobot - full of YOUR videos from Crush Event 2023.
We hope you will love the little video player as much as we do! And if you do, we would love to feature more of our community members in the Videobot in the future.
You will find the Videobot in the bottom right corner of our site on the homepage and the event page, alluring you to click, and watch total of 23 videos from attendees of Crush 2023.
You can also view the videos here.
Thank you so much for everyone who took the time to shoot these videos at Crush!
The video production...
Welcome to Crush Afterwork Party
Welcome all rebel leaders who want to network, and have fun. Come to reconnect with Crush Event 2023 attendees and speakers. Bring your biz BFF and join us!
We had so much fun at the Crush Event, with good vibes and fruitful conversations. We hope to find this same unique energy in our afterwork event and continue the discussion: how can we support each other better?
We will meet in Flip Fantasia's lovely Talo at Liisankatu 5C.
Come and also learn more about Flip Fantasia and how they are redefining work-life, building dream jobs and helping...
Osta ensi kevään Crush tapahtumaan lippu jo nyt Early Bird hinnalla ja saat Business Festival Helsinki lipun kaupan päälle!
Crush Event 2023 aloitti Innovation Home Kampin kesän 2023 puutarhabilekauden kun yli 300 ihmistä kokoontui 3.5. Innovation Home Kampin sisäpihalle kuulemaan kun Malka esiintyi ja nauttimaan Kallary Designin muotinäytöksestä.
Ja parasta tietysti oli mahtava seura!
Business Festival Helsinki päättää kesäkauden Innovation Home Kampin sisäpihalla illan venetsiaisilla...
Crush is a new kind of business event for rebel leaders.
Crush was founded by thought-leaders Anna Pyykkö & Katja Presnal who own Female Founders Suomi and Insider Society communities for supporting business owners.
Crush Movement's vision is to make Finland the first country in the world, where the gender equality gap is closed. We influence the business world towards more equality and help female, immigrant, and marginalized people-owned companies grow.
Do you think diversity, equity, and inclusion are important for equality and human rights, but also needed for...
According to Finland-U.S. Economic Deep Dive 2023: Annual Survey of Jobs, Trade and Investment between Finland and the United States by Amcham Finland, the U.S. has surpassed Sweden as Finland’s largest trading partner.
Finnish goods exports to the U.S. grew 68% year-on-year, while services exports grew 9.7%. Since Amcham's first report in 2021, services trade has grown in the double digits every year.
Crush aims to help female and minority founders to grow their businesses with empowerment, inspiration and concrete action.
Our co-founder Katja Presnal has extensive...
Introducing Crush Event Speaker
Riina Laaksonen is the founder and CEO of Nordic Fit Mama. She is a mother of three children, entrepreneur, surfer and snowboarder. Riina has dedicated my (working) life to promoting the well-being of women and especially mothers.
Riina's interest in exercise for mothers stems from her own experiences and the fact that she herself made all possible mistakes when training after pregnancy. It inspired Riina to study to become a personal trainer specializing in maternity exercise.
Nordic Fit Mama has already coached 30,000 Finnish women, piloted internationally...
Introducing Crush Event Speaker
Kristian Presnal is a 20-year-old Finnish-American photographer, videographer and visual artist. He currently works as a full-time videographer at Aalto University, and will continue at Aalto as a student in the autumn, studying design.
Kristian moved to Finland five years ago, after having lived in the United States, Sweden, and Canada. His international upbringing influenced his interest in structural and radical approaches to international relations and political philosophy. He studied Global Politics in the International Baccalaureate, and has...
Introducing Crush Event Speaker
Olivia Kuusinen has been leading Suomen Rokotepalvelu for three years. In three years, Olivia has tripled the company's turnover and scaled the business outside the capital region as well. She is the caretaker and the "sole care giver" of her two sons, 15-year-old Jim and 7-year-old Alec.
Olivia also serves as the chairman of the board of the Mothers in Business association. She has been involved in the association's activities since 2016. Mothers in Business, or MiB, is a network for women who like their work and want to develop their skills....
Introducing Crush Event Speaker
Mari Paalosalo-Jussinmäki is the editor-in-chief of Eeva, eeva.fi and Kauneus and Terveys. She’s also the head of women’s media at A-lehdet. Previously she’s worked as an editor-in-chief of Olivia magazine, the managing editor of Kodin Kuvalehti and a financial journalist.
Eeva is the largest women’s magazine, and Kauneus ja Terveys is the most enjoyable wellness magazine in Finland. Openly feminist Eeva.fi website was launched in November 2022.
Mari Paalosalo-Jussinmäki,...
Teemme yhteistyötä monien eri tahojen kanssa, koska muutosvoimaan tarvitaan ennen kaikkea yhteistyötä. Tämä postaus on tehty yhteistyössä Marketing Finlandin kanssa.
Marketing Finland mm. vaikuttaa aktiivisesti markkinoinnin- ja viestinnän lainsäädäntöön, sääntöihin sekä käytäntöihin, ja tarjoaa jäsenyrityksilleen luotettavaa neuvontaa sekä tietoa sääntöjen sisällöistä ja soveltamisesta.
Markkinoinnissa on parhaillaan kaksi suurta suuntaa.
Menemme...
You can say f$&k, just don’t say the other f-word.
We are a country full of smart educated women, who have been able to change laws and run the country, but we still live in a reality where the biggest curse word is the f-word.
WTF - Welcome to Finland
Welcome to Finland, where women got the right to vote in 1909. A year later, 19 women elected to the Finnish parliament were the first female parliamentarians in the world.
We got our first female president in 2000, and our first female prime minister in 2003. We got worldwide recognition for our women-run...
