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...
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...
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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...
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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....
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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,...
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Laura Strömberg is the founder of Dagsmark Petfood, and she grew the company from ground up to a turnover of 10 million euros. Laura just recently moved from the position of CEO to the boardmember. She is also involved in the operations of several other companies, and she is a consultant, mentor and a speaker.
Laura has a doctorate in Economics and works as an honorary teacher at Turku School of Economics in the Entrepreneurs in Residence program. Laura swears by the values of humanity, courage and sustainable business when it comes to...
Introducing Crush Event Speaker
Jaana Hirsikangas has been the executive director of UN Women Finland since 2019. She has previously worked to strengthen women's rights and economic livelihood as the liaison manager of the Women's Bank and has lived and worked in development projects in Costa Rica, Uganda, India, the United States, and Thailand.
UN Women is the UN organization delivering programmes, policies and standards that uphold women’s human rights and ensure that every woman and girl lives up to her full potential. UN Women is the world's leading organization promoting...
Introducing Crush Event Speaker
Margo Roi moved to Finland from the Kyiv region 9 years ago, when she was 18 years old.
She was working as a programmer when the Russian invasion of Ukraine started and immediately knew she has to do something to help. She took a leave of absence from her programmer job, and founded a FinUA to help Ukrainians.
Throughout the past year, FinUA managed to build software that has reached more than 360,000 people from different marginalized communities and especially the Ukrainians in Finland (and some European-wide).
FinUA is the #1...
Introducing Crush Event Speaker
Sami Minkkinen has been writing the popular Havaintoja parisuhteesta blog (Observations on a Relationship) since 2013. The blog has over 100,000 readers, and Sami has written a few books as an extension of his blog.
In his blog, Sami visibly upholds equality, human rights, and the diversity of relationships and genders and many ways of expressing it.
Sami has two daughters, whom Sami tries to raise to be exactly who they are without narrow role assumptions, but mainly it’s been the daughters who have raised him to be a better person.
Sami...
Meet Irene, a pioneering non-binary business leader and neurodivergence activist who is on a mission to transform the way we view leadership and redefine traditional gender norms. With a firm belief that gender should not define one's ability to lead, Irene is blazing a trail of change and innovation in the business world.
Their venture, EmpAct Cooperative, is set to revolutionize the consulting industry by developing software that proves the quality, impact, and results of consulting and change management initiatives through data-led solutions.
But Irene's vision doesn't stop there.
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Kamilla Sultanova is an Uzbek-born keynote speaker, mentor, TedX speaker and the founder of the consulting firm ConnectUz. She guides organizations and communities towards integration and inclusiveness through inclusive projects, activating workshops and inspiring speeches.
Kamilla led the Hanken International Talent program 2019-2021, and mentored and coached international talents through events organized by Global Dignity.
Kamilla's work for inclusion in the Nordic countries has been cited both by the Barack Obama Foundation and by Suomen Sitran Muutosjohtajat-academy. In...
Eva was born as a refugee into a closed and conservative society in Tehran, the capital of Iran.
She spent her childhood years as an outlaw without civil and human rights, without any kind of social safety net. By the age of 13, she had to stop going to school and get a job to support her family.
Eva moved to Finland at the age of 16 in 2005. It was easy to adapt to her new home country, a safe place, where equality and the rights of women and minorities are respected. She learned the Finnish language quickly, and paved her way from a child laborer to the first...
