Introducing Crush Event Speaker
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 leadership.
Laura S...
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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 women's and gir...
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 information service for U...
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 Minkkinen, blog...
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 addition, Kamilla...
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 woman in her family to study a...
Lilo Molin is a 22 year old Design Bachelor student from the Netherlands currently pursuing her studies at Aalto University. Lilo's academic pursuits have primarily focused on inclusivity in design, with a particular emphasis on gender inclusivity, which she will further explore in her thesis.
Prior to her enrollment at Aalto, Lilo's studied design United World College Changshu, China. During her studies she led the gender equality group that taught about gender inclusivity and sexual education to students from over 100 nationalities. Her previous speaking engagements also include TEDx.
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Kamilla was born and raised in Karshi, Uzbekistan, and she has lived in the Nordics for the last 18 years. She gives us a global perspective on what it means to be a woman, and a mother in the Nordics, and how it may differ from other cultures. We discuss what are some of the things we also need to learn here at Nordics, for example, we need to understand why diversity, equity, and inclusion are important, and how we can bring communities together by sharing our stories and working on removing our unconscious biases.
Interview with Kamilla Sultanova
Kamilla Sultanova is an entrepreneur, key...
Saara Särmä is a feminist, activist, artist and researcher and she has a doctorate of social sciences.
Särmä is the founder and director of the feminist think tank Hattu.
She has become known in Finland and around the world from the "Congrats, you have an all male panel!" Tumblr page, where more than 2000 pictures of male panels have been published.
Särmä has worked as a researcher at the Finnish National Defence University and the University of Tampere.
Saara Särmä, yhteiskuntatieteiden tohtori
Saara Särmä on feministi, aktivisti, taiteilija ja tutkija sekä yhteiskuntatieteiden tohto...
Introducing Crush Event Speaker
Fadumo Ali is the founder of healthcare staffing company Hoiwa Oy.
She is one of the top 100 influencers in healthcare in 2021 (Mediuutiset) and the Espoo Entrepreneur of the Year 2022.
The Nordic Business Forum selected her as one of the 35 most influential entrepreneurs under the age of 35 in Northern Europe. Fadumo is a nurse by profession and has worked in the health care industry since 2008. Fadumo wants to promote the diversity and inclusiveness at workplace through her own activities. Hoiwa currently employs more than 7,500 people in the healthcare i...
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Heli Kurjanen founded Lunette when she was 25 years old.
The company started out of necessity, because Kurjanen couldn't find a decent menstrual cup so she decided to develop one.
It turned out to be a global success.
Now Lunette menstrual cups are sold in more than a hundred countries.
Heli Kurjanen sold a majority stake of her company to Swedish Peptonic Medical for an undisclosed sum in 2020. After the acquisition, Heli continues to work at the head of Peptonic Medical's new unit as the CEO of Lunette.
