Crush Speaker: Laura McGrath, Founder, CEO, Lola&Lykke crush event

Introducing Crush Speaker

Laura McGrath is the visionary leader behind Lola&Lykke, a groundbreaking women's health company dedicated to transforming maternal care through a unique blend of technology and physical products.

Laura and Lola&Lykke’s commitment to diversity, inclusion, and social impact is evident in their work. They prioritize women's well-being, and their focus goes beyond business to social responsibility. Women make up more than 50% of the world´s population and make most of the healthcare decisions for their families. It´s time to bring...

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Crush Speaker: Kristina Masalin, Product Manager ŌURA crush event

 

Introducing Crush Speaker

Kristina Masalin is a Product Manager at ŌURA focused on developing innovative solutions to promote overall health and longevity. Prior to this, Kristina focused exclusively on building women’s health features and was part of the team responsible for introducing first-of-its-kind features for Oura, including Period Prediction and Cycle Insights and more. She has been a key contributor in driving areas of strategic innovation for the company and continues to set the product vision and strategy for her team.

Kristina joined Oura with more than a decade...

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Crush Event Keynote Speaker: Candice Brathwaite, VP of Copywriting, JPMorgan Chase crush event

Introducing Crush Keynote Speaker

Candice Kilpatrick Brathwaite is a VP-level copywriter at JPMorgan Chase, but her path to success wasn't a traditional one. Raised in Alabama with no international travel, prestigious internships, or Ivy League education, Candice faced an uphill battle to succeed in the corporate world. 

She endured countless challenges, including navigating corporate etiquette, dealing with unscrupulous startup founders, confronting gender inequality and sexism, and weathering job losses. Candice's candid and relatable storytelling empowers others, especially women,...

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Crush Event Speaker: Priyanka Banerjee, Partner, DEI Consultant, deidei crush event

Introducing Crush Speaker

Priyanka Banerjee is an experienced diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant. She works closely with companies to kick-start and advance their DEI journey by helping them with their DEI survey, analysis, strategy development, learning development, facilitation and consulting. 

Priyanka has a background working in the tech industry supporting the HR and people operations. She has been actively working in DEI industry for over 6 years and has helped hundreds of leaders in their DEI journeys. 

Her mission is to help leaders and companies understand the...

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Crush Event Speaker: Aaro Angerpuro, Sustainability Analyst, Impaktly crush event

Introducing Crush Speaker

Aaro Angerpuro is a Sustainability Analyst at Impaktly, dedicated to integrating sustainability at the heart of businesses to encourage regenerative growth. He has been recognized as one of the top young change-makers of 2024 in Finland by Ashoka. Aaro led the Nordic Business Diversity Index 2024 by Impaktly, a research initiative on leadership diversity of over 600 Nordic Nasdaq-listed companies. 

 His commitment extends into advocacy as he is a member of the Nuorten Agenda 2030 group, promoting sustainable development under Finland’s Sustainable...

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Akateeminen x Crush Event crush event

Thank you so much for everyone who joined us for the Akateeminen x Crush event at the Akateeminen bookstore last week - despite the April snow storm weather. 

We hosted two panel discussions, moderated by Crush founders Anna Pyykkö and Katja Presnal. Crush is an equality-promoting movement that breaks patriarchal norms in the corporate world, and our goal is to make Finland the first country where the gender gap has closed. 

Our panel discussions at Akateeminen focused on two topics: importance of networking and how to make big goals a reality. 

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WOW Your Authenticity: Empowering Business Women to Be Themselves crush event

Written by Women Of Wonders, Essi Koski-Lammi and Jenni Demus.  Follow us on Instagram @wowyourwork & join the WOW movement.  

Be You, Be Successful 

In the business world, authenticity often takes a backseat to professionalism. Especially for women, it can be challenging to become visibly authentic. However, research shows that embracing authenticity can be a game-changer for women leaders, entrepreneurs, and businesswomen, increasing their freedom to be themselves in the office. 

Authenticity is a powerful tool for success, enabling women to build...

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Shevestments SPARK Pitching Competition Investor "Sharks" Announced business support crush event

Shevestments SPARK at Crush 

Shevestments SPARK is an exciting Shark Tank-style Pitching competition for female and non-binary founders, held at Crush Event on May 8th, 2024. You will need an event ticket to participate. 

The pitching competition is facilitated by Hanna Nyholm and Mirva Nevalainen of Shevestments.

Shevestments is an educational investment platform and scaleup service powerhouse with the aim to connect female entrepreneurs with investors and capital, educate more women to become business angels and VCs, create more opportunities for women to make an...

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Free Virtual Access to Crush 2023 for Subscribers crush event

Virtual Crush? No! But also yes!

We have received this question from a few people, so we wanted to provide you an answer, and test if there is an interest... 

 Q: Will Crush Event 2024 be live-streamed or available online?

A: No, it will not be live-streamed and we do not sell virtual tickets.

 

The Crush 2024 event will be in person, but we will record it, and potentially offer it for a fee later on.


To test the interest of virtual access to our conference content, we have a surprise for you: you will get all of Crush 2023 panels and keynotes for FREE when you sign up to our...

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Crush Event Speaker: Shadia Rask, PhD & Research Manager (THL), Board Member UN Women Finland crush event

Introducing Crush Speaker

Shadia Rask (she/her) is a PhD with more than a decade of professional experience working on diversity, equality and non-discrimination.

She is a Research Manager at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), but on her second year of study leave, studying Corporate Responsibility at Hanken.

Her PhD in public health examined diversity and health in the populationShadia has led research and development projects focusing on diversity and inclusion in working life. She was responsible for the diversity-promoting...

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Crush Event Speaker: Dr. Aura Pyykönen, OB/GYN, Founder, Natal Mind crush event

Introducing Crush Speaker

Dr. Aura Pyykönen, a mother of three, an obstetrician-gynecologist, and a serial entrepreneur has mission is to tackle the underestimated challenges in women’s health. 

Aura’s background lies in clinical work complemented by academic research, focusing on healthcare quality, and she is a strong advocate for equitable health care access. 

Her entrepreneurial journey has lead her to found two startups focused on women's health within just two years of transitioning from hospital work.

In 2022, Aura founded Isla, an online women's health...

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Crush Event Speaker: Rasheka Scott, Lawyer and Board Member crush event

Crush Speaker Introduction 

Rasheka Scott is a distinguished multilingual Jamaican-Finnish lawyer with 15 years of experience in private practice, specializing in intellectual property, commercial contracts, data protection, and immigration law. Renowned for a business-focused approach, a pedagogical style and approachability, Rasheka ensures tailored solutions for both Finnish and international startup and scaleup companies.

Ms. Rasheka Scott, previously the head of intellectual property practice in a tech law firm, brings years of expertise in the same...

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