80+ Speakers and Experts

from all over the world to talk about starting and growing a freelance business

John  Healy

John Healy

Vice President; Chair, Taskforce on Digitalisation, World Employment Confederation, Managing Partner & Expert in Residence, Center for the Transformation of Work

John Healy is a workforce strategy and solutions expert and outspoken advocate for improving the ways people connect with work. He’s spent the majority of his career at Kelly, engaged by executives across the globe to help define, build and execute their business strategy by redefining the ways that they engage talent. As the Managing Partner & Expert in Residence for the Center for the Transformation of Work, John is furthering their mission to positively impact a billion lives by 2025. He also serves on the Board of the World Employment Confederation and as a Board Advisor to Workforce Solution Technology startups.

Lizzie Penny

Lizzie Penny

CEO and co-Founder of Hoxby, Co-Founder of The Workstyle Revolution

Lizzie is a marketer by background, and now an entrepreneur and a campaigner for workstyle: the freedom to choose when and where you work. Having founded a marketing agency in 2009 at the age of 27, she then co-founded the Hoxby global working community in early 2015 which is fast-growing and is driving a global movement towards more meritocratic ways of working that accommodate individual workstyles and include excluded groups such as older workers, those with mental health problems, people living with disabilities, neurodiverse individual, and working parents. Hoxby is a multi-million-pound business and works with clients including Unilever, Amazon, Warner Bros, AIA, Etsy, BBC Studios and Merck. Last year Hoxby provided workstyle work for over 600 Hoxbies.

Fergal Lennon

Fergal Lennon

Managing Director, MBO Partners UK & Ireland

Fergal is an experienced leader and entrepreneur with 20 years of business achievements in the professional contractor sector. He facilitates forward thinking enterprises to drive growth through increased use of independent contractors in their workforce.

In 2020 he sold his business to MBO Partners Inc and continues to lead the UK and Ireland operations.

Fergal is a passionate believer in the skills and agility that independent contractors can bring to enterprises and helps them access independent talent through leveraging technology. He has a proven track record in leading, developing and motivating teams to deliver transformational change for some of the world leading brands.

Alex Hirst

Alex Hirst

Co-Founder of Hoxby

Alongside co-founder Lizzie Penny, he has founded a successful B-Corp called Hoxby and more recently written their much anticipated book: Workstyle: A revolution for wellbeing, productivity and society.

Elina Jutelyte

Elina Jutelyte

Founder, Freelance Business Community

Elina runs Freelance Business Community, which produces the largest and biggest event for freelancers – Freelance Business Month, along with other sectoral events. The FBC connects freelancers, freelance economy product and services suppliers and job givers.

She also supports the organisation of the annual European Freelancers Week, which is taking place every year in October and aimed at bringing political action to make the life of European freelancers easier and make their voices heard.

She is by profession an event producer and certified event ROI expert and enjoys creating online and offline B2B and association events for her customers.

René Bos

René Bos

Professional Uplifter, Public Speaker, Entrepreneur and Business Coach

René is a public speaker, professional uplifter, and an intuitive & strategic business mentor helping conscious entrepreneurs sell high-ticket offers with ease and scale their business to $10K+ per month. With the experience of having launched five successful coaching & personal development businesses, he has helped over a hundred entrepreneurs take their businesses to the next level. René is on a mission to help thousands if not millions of entrepreneurs experience financial freedom doing what they love while making a positive impact in the world.

Bohdana Goliath

Bohdana Goliath

Business strategist for creative entrepreneurs, Business Owner of Tvůrci v praxi, Founder of Nine to Five Joy

Bohdana Goliath is the founder of the largest Czech community of creative entrepreneurs. Bohdana created an educational platform and with its help she is turning creators such as crafters, photographers, illustrators etc. into proud professionals. She also recently launched an international educational platform called Nine to Five Joy for creative entrepreneurs from all over the globe to meet and connect building a community together with available resources. For her work Bohdana was awarded numerous prizes: Woman of the Year 2021 Czech Goodwill 2021 Entrepreneur of the Year JM 2019

Chris Link Duarte

Chris Link Duarte

Director Of Advocacy Center for the Transformation of Work, Founder, CEO, Human Capital Consultant, Global Advocacy in the Future of Work, DEI Fellow, LGBTQ

Link has been committed to making the world a safer place through his efforts as a pro human advocate, consultant, innovator, program developer, trainer, speaker, and story-teller for over 20 years. Since the start of his career, Link has founded and directed several start-ups and programs that serve people, educated publicly about rural and minority issues, and volunteers his time to support social justice initiatives. As the Founder and CEO of Linking Dreams, Link builds partnerships with countless organizations and businesses by providing human capital/strategy consulting, training, DEI/EIG evaluation, and program development to help entities enhance their reach of underserved populations.

Mina Bastawros

Mina Bastawros

VP Creative & Digital Marketing, Airbus

Mina Bastawros is an intrapreneur representing one of the recent successes for Airbus’ efforts in fostering innovation. He has opened Airbus to external innovators and change-makers across the globe in his effort “to design the aircraft of the future with the people for the people.” Inspired by the impact that freelancing can have on peoples’ lives, Mina embraces open talent models as a complement to traditional new product development and traditional talent sourcing models. He’s a multilingual and multi-cultural engineer turned marketer who, as Airbus’ VP of Creative & Digital Marketing, is challenging the status quo when it comes to better marketing.

Albert Azis-Clauson

Albert Azis-Clauson

CEO and co-founder of UnderPinned

Albert Azis-Clauson is the CEO and co-founder of UnderPinned, a platform that helps freelancers build their careers. At 25-years old, his 3-year-old startup is worth £12m having personally raised over £1m within a year of graduating from university. After starting his professional life as a ballet dancer, he pivoted into Philosophy of Science where he found a love for bridging the gap between creativity and business. Eventually, it led him to UnderPinned, a vehicle for his passion of building systems, resources and support for freelancers/micro-businesses and the companies that hire them.

Marie Rachelle

Marie Rachelle

Partnerships, Freelancing Females

Marie Rachelle is an award-winning freelancer and community builder. Over the years, her consultancy has taken many forms from social media to copywriting and now PR and marketing strategy. Her background is in business building, she’s passionate about connecting and helping others, and she always goes above and beyond. In addition to her successful freelance business, she’s a speaker, coach and founder of Convergence Coworking.  You can also find her negotiating partnerships for global community, Freelancing Females and organizing her local Freelance Week event in the States.

Ece	Kurtaraner

Ece Kurtaraner

Community Strategist

Ece Kurtaraner is a community strategist based in Manchester, with a background in corporate events and a passion for mindful productivity. She helps freelance-focused businesses to create and follow the right action plan for building an engaging community. Ece is also the co-host of Leapers Pods – small accountability groups that helps freelancers to focus on what they need to get done.

Alison Grade

Alison Grade

Author The Freelance Bible

Alison Grade, author of The Freelance Bible, explores why clients work with her. Many freelancers sell to clients based on what services they offer, by changing the conversation into why me? Why do clients work with me we can unlock the value we deliver to clients and discover new opportunities where our services will be valued.

Kirolos George

Kirolos George

Digital Platforms Researcher, ISTQB® & ASTQB® Certified Software Testing Engineer

Kirolos has been employed with Siemens EDA global enterprise since November 2011, holding the specialised knowledge position as Quality Assurance engineer. Kirolos possesses a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Communications from Ain-Shams University in Egypt, awarded in 2010. He also earned his MBA from ESLSCA Business School Egypt Branch in Global Management at 2021. He also a researcher in the digital platforms and he published a paper stating the Factors Influencing the Decision to Participate in Freelancing Platforms. 

Dorota Pawlak

Dorota Pawlak

Freelance Translator and Writer

Dorota Pawlak is a translator and business consultant for freelancers. She teaches online courses and shares her tips for freelancers.  In 2020 she published her book “You’ve got this: How to continue your freelance career when you become a mother.”

Loránd Kubán

Loránd Kubán

Sustainability Consultant

During his environmental engineering studies, Loránd became curious about how IT could contribute to sustainability goals. IT’s role in sustainability wasn’t covered in the lectures he had, so he went to work in this sector to discover more insights about the subject. Two years ago, he became a freelance sustainability consultant to help companies understand and expand on their sustainability potential. During this journey, Loránd experienced firsthand the different environmental aspects of being a freelancer vs. an employee.

Callum Adamson

Callum Adamson

CEO of Distributed

Callum Adamson is a serial entrepreneur and CEO of Distributed; the UKs number 1 Elastic Teams platform that ensures enterprise organisations can harness the power of globally distributed software talent to deliver their digital roadmaps faster, and more cost-effectively than any localised solution.

Barry Matthews

Barry Matthews

CEO of Open Assembly

Barry Matthews is a trend-spotter and human cloud pioneer. Barry has a record of success in blended workforce enablement. In 2021 he merged Re-Source with Open Assembly to create the world’s leading open talent advisory business, where he is now Chief Executive. He works with senior executives on talent strategy and co-hosts the podcast ‘How the Future Works’. 

Kiki Calis

Kiki Calis

CEO and Co-founder of The Freelance Qommunity

 

Kiki connects people with each other and with nature. She is a Freelance Sustainable Creative, CEO and Co-founder of The Freelance Qommunity, a platform that helps freelancers with their knowledge, jobs and network. Kiki has recently closed another successful round of crowdfunding for Qommunity.

Tia Grado

Tia Grado

Founder of Freelancing Females

 

Tia Grado is the founder of Freelancing Females, a worldwide community of over 3000,000 women providing mentorship, opportunities and support. After working in marketing and community, Tia channeled her experience into building Freelancing Females from the ground up in May 2017. Tia keeps a hands-on role in executive leadership of the group, while also consulting for brands, speaking publicly, and offering one-on-one mentorship for the next generation of young women who want to work for themselves.

Barbara Monahan

Barbara Monahan

Brand Architect and Designer

Barbara is a brand architect that creates and develops brand strategy and design for ambitious entrepreneurs and leaders of SMEs, so that they can build a positive culture in their business, and trust with their audience through their authentic purpose. 

Ray	Berry

Ray Berry

Freelance Writer and Director, DSLX

Ray Slater Berry is a dyslexic freelance writer turned agency owner in under two years. Having to pivot in the pandemic, Ray started freelance writing and today runs a successful B2B Content Agency, DSLX. DSLX has 14 clients, a team of five in-house, and works with over 40 freelance writers across the world.

Kamila Zahradnickova

Kamila Zahradnickova

Behavioural Designer and Founder of Lakmoos

Kamila Zahradnickova is a behavioural designer, applying behaviour science to marketing and business. She solves customer-related questions by leveraging research on perception, motivation, and decision making. Favourite tools? Gamification, nudge, and identity framework. Kamila thrives in a fast-paced environment and is fond of social impact projects. These days, she is busy developing her new startup Lakmoos which provides an intuitive environment to screen your business ideas.

Alistair Webster

Alistair Webster

Marketing and Design Consultant, Founder of Freelance Success

Alistair Webster is a marketing and design consultant and founder of Freelance Success, an educational platform designed to teach aspiring freelancers how to build sustainable, thriving freelance businesses doing the work they love. For over ten years, he’s been working freelance – building businesses, and working with some of the biggest brands in the world – from Hotels.com, to the University of Oxford. His mission is to help charities and non-profits amplify their messages and raise awareness about their causes (by reaching more people) using digital communications. 

Sondre Rasch

Sondre Rasch

Co-founder & CEO of SafetyWing

Sondre Rasch is a co-founder & CEO of SafetyWing and host of the Building Remotely podcast, a guide on how to build and scale a remote company. Sondre’s educational background is in economics and computer science. Previously he was a policy advisor for the Government of Norway, working on their social safety net. He was also the co-founder of SuperSide (YC W16), a platform for freelance designers.

Dr. Rochelle Haynes

Dr. Rochelle Haynes

Founder and CEO of Crowd Potential Consulting Inc.

 

Dr. Rochelle is a published author, global speaker, management consultant, and senior lecturer. She holds a PhD in International Human Resource Management and is the Founder and CEO of Crowd Potential Consulting Inc. Rochelle’s passion lies in applying good people management practices within the growing digital economy and she has travelled across South East Asia including Indonesia and Thailand to explore the world’s top remote-working hotspots, explore co-working spaces and interview globally dispersed workers.

Wallace	Espindola

Wallace Espindola

Senior Software Engineer Consultant

Senior Software Engineer, having over 15 years of experience, living in Belgium since 2017. Freelancer in since 2021. Entrepreneur and business maker for life. S.T.E.M. teacher and spreader. A family guy with 3 kids. Love science, technology, bikes, photography and travel.

Filip Vanderbeken

Filip Vanderbeken

Founder, PerforMAN

Filip Vanderbeken (born in Belgium), has built a professional career as CEO/MD in SME and large companies, mainly in B2B. Since 2008, he is a founder and business owner of PerforMAN BV, where he shares his expertise and advice (as independent consultant and board member) in the fields of business and marketing strategy, the transformation process for people and organisation in connection with the  markets, strategy and consumer behaviour changes.

He is also a senior lecturer at University of Applied Sciences VIVES (KULeuven) and international partner universities, teaching Marketing Strategy and Applied Marketing. He is a researcher at University of Applied Sciences VIVES/KULeuven, on topics such a Business Modelling and Advisory Boards.

Delphine Cassereau

Delphine Cassereau

Freelance Business Efficiency Consultant, COO of the Raphael Rowe Foundation

Freelance management consultant specializing in business development and efficiency, Delphine spent 4 months in Asia’s leading startup development program to learn how the best mentors guide entrepreneurs to success. In 2020, she left her job as a defense consultant to start freelancing. She made a lot of mistakes and learnt most lessons the hard way! That’s why she is now committed to help freelancers and small businesses properly set up their project and improve their efficiency to grow a sustainable business. Recently appointed COO of the Raphael Rowe Foundation, she is leading operations by ensuring maximum impact with minimum resources.

Francesco Cuffaro

Francesco Cuffaro

Freelance Financial Advisor

Francesco is an italian entrepreneur, an informatic engineer and an independent certified financial planner. He is graduated in computer science and started his career as a software engineer but after one year he left the well-paid full-time job to become a soloprenuer in a totally different area.

Barbara Reverberi

Barbara Reverberi

Freelance coach and mentor, founder of Freelance Network Italia

After 25 years in communication as a press officer and digital PR, Barbara switch her career to become a mentor and a business coach for people who desire to follow their values and dare to create their own freelancer career. Barbara is author of Freelance digitali and podcaster of News per Freelance.

Peter Balog

Peter Balog

Founder of Freelance.Pizza

Peter Balog is a content creator, marketer, educator and entrepreneur. Passionate about helping people become better versions of themselves via building a new freelance career. Loves anything related to space exploration.

Nick Oestreich

Nick Oestreich

Head of Business Development and Strategic Partnerships at Uplink

 

Nick Oestreich is 29 years old and after graduating in economics he worked for two of the biggest recruitment companies as a recruiter and account manager. For him, however, it quickly became obvious that he did not want to grow old in this industry. He was looking for an innovative and more creative working environment where he could contribute his own ideas and realize his passion for traveling while being able to work remotely. For more than two years, as Head of Business Development, he is now responsible for the further development of the freelance platform Uplink with more than 2700 members from the IT sector.

Michael P. Morris

Michael P. Morris

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Torc

 

Mike is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Torc, an AI-driven on-demand developer marketplace, and is on its board of directors. A gig economy software development advocate, Mike is known globally as a tech pioneer who set the standard for what a freelance marketplace should look like (long before the world was ready for it). As a visionary powering Torc, Mike draws on three decades of strategic technology and management experience. A humble and proud Boston College double Eagle, guest lecturer (Harvard, MIT, NYU, UC Berkeley) and engineer at heart, Mike also makes time to volunteer.

Barbara De Busschere

Barbara De Busschere

Founder Go4freelance, Freelance Recruiter

Barbara is a founder of Go4Freelance, helping freelancers, professional or starters, to grow in their freelance business. She does it by providing training, growth practices and personal advice. She is also a freelance recruiter working with copanies in Belgium to help them find relevant talent. 

Matt Dowling

Matt Dowling

Founder of Freelancer Club, entrepreneur, campaigner, speaker, activist, writer and consultant

 

Matt Dowling is an entrepreneur, campaigner, speaker, activist, writer and consultant who has featured on radio, podcasts, in print and online publications discussing a range of entrepreneurial topics, fighting for the rights of the self-employed and addressing issues faced by freelancers. Founder of Freelancer Club, a community platform inspired by Matt’s personal experience with an £11,000 unpaid invoice that made national press, the Club provides freelancers with essential resources to develop business and professional skills, build confidence and form connections using cutting-edge technology.

Jon Younger

Jon Younger

HR thought-leader, author, advisor, board member, and early stage investor in HR tech startups. Current emphasis: Agile talent, the freelance revolution and the future of work. Author of Agile Talent (Harvard, 2016), HR From the Outside In (McGraw Hill, 2012), HR Transformation (McGraw-Hill, 2009), many articles in HBR.org, Talent Quarterly, and other journals, and author of Forbes Careers blog “Freelance Revolution”. Occasional lecturer: University of Michigan, Indian School of Business, and Copenhagen School of Business. Former lead HR partner: RBL Group and Novations Group, and former SVP HR and Chief Learning/Talent Officer at National City Corp, a top 5 U.S. bank. Former advisory board member, HR Transformation, Government of Singapore. PhD from the University of Toronto.
Jean-François Bodart

Jean-François Bodart

Business development consultant

Jean-François has been working in sales for over 20 years and 10+ years as a freelancer and interim manager for Belgian and international companies (small and corporates). His passion is to help entrepreneurs and businesses grow by solving challenges and exploring and developing opportunities. He is convinced every business has the potential to grow and helps provide a solid foundation and guidance for the process.

Kosta Karakashyan

Kosta Karakashyan

Director and Choreographer at Studio Karakashyan

Kosta Karakashyan is a Bulgarian-Armenian director, choreographer, performer, and writer exploring empathy through movement and storytelling. A two-time Bulgarian National Ballroom Champion, Kosta has performed and choreographed on Dancing With the Stars Vietnam, and across Canada, Germany, Norway, Egypt, Vietnam, and Japan. Bringing his experience of choreography and performance to the screen, Kosta has directed, produced, and choreographed numerous projects through his production company Studio Karakashyan, most notably the documentary dance film WAITING FOR COLOR about the LGBTQ+ persecution in Chechnya, awarded the Prix Lumière at Cinédanse Festival Ottawa 2019 and featured by The Guardian, Elle Magazine, Bloomberg, them, GLAAD, and Radio Free Europe.

Anastasiia Dehtiarova

Anastasiia Dehtiarova

Culture and communications coach for international business owners

Anastasiia works with immigrant entrepreneurs on building lifelong confidence in any personal or business decision and magnifying their colorful identities in this multicultural world.
In the past 10 years, Anastasiia has gone through challenges like developing a career as an immigrant in 4 countries, surviving a divorce, tax debt, all while building her own online businesses, writing a book and staying optimistic and resilient despite war and personal turmoil.

Ian de Swart

Ian de Swart

Co-founder and Managing Director of Charipickers

Ian de Swart is the co-founder and managing director of Charipickers, a company that assists HR, line managers and Procurement managers to set-up or optimize their external hiring. 

Jenny Stallard

Jenny Stallard

Coach and Writer, Founder of Freelance Feels

 

Jenny Stallard is an ACC accredited coach and writer, and runs wellbeing platform Freelance Feels. A former newspaper and magazine journalist, she runs a podcast and newsletter as well as group and individual coaching. She founded Freelance Feels in June 2019 as a response to her own mental health challenges as a freelancer.

Katya Balakina

Katya Balakina

Freelance Visualiser and Illustrator

Katya Balakina is a scribe artist and an illustrator from Estonia. Since 2018 she has been working as a scribe with the top agencies and clients around the world such as companies like Scriberia and Illozoo, and brands like Samsung, Google, Dell, Bolt, etc. 

Cass Hebron

Cass Hebron

Climate communications consultant

 

Cass is a climate activist and coffee enthusiast based in Ghent, Belgium. She runs the climate justice newsletter The Green Fix, and works as a communications specialist for environmental advocacy NGOs and purpose-driven organisations. Previous clients include Oxfam EU, Friends of the Earth Europe, BBC Media Action and UN Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future. Previous Unite 2030 Delegate. 

Andrea Chase

Andrea Chase

Founder and CEO, ProCabby

Andrea Chase is a Communications Consultant and Entrepreneur from Ottawa, Canada. Her most recent venture, ProCabby LTD., is a Canadian technology startup; a free mobile app aiming to help modernize and rebuild the Taxi and Limo industries. She is passionate about Entrepreneurship, women in business and tech, and the mental stamina required to be a Business Owner. She loves sharing her Entrepreneurial story and has presented at international events and in post-secondary classrooms. Andrea has a Degree in Psychology from Concordia University, and a Diploma in Small & Medium Enterprise Management from Algonquin College.

Girts Polis

Girts Polis

Chief Marketing Officer, Lightguide, Marketing Mentor and Consultant for Startups

After 20 years in marketing with international and global brands and with experience in Scandinavian management culture, Girts is sharing his knowledge via mentoring and consulting sessions, keynotes, lectures and workshops on marketing, business and human behavior.

Rudradeb Mitra

Rudradeb Mitra

Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Omdena Inc.

 

Rudradeb is Founder and CEO of Omdena – A bottom-up global collaborative platform for building impactful AI solutions. Rudradeb has been an Invited speaker (including at Facebook, Intel, Google, Philips, Accenture, UN, Swedbank, etc) in 100+ in-person events from 30+ countries. He wrote a book on ‘Creating Value with AI’ and is a mentor of Google for Startups, Seedstars, Univ. of Southern California, Founders Institute, and StartupWiseGuys. For his work in Omdena, he has been named top 10 inspiring CEOs in 2020 by Analytics Insight.

Angela Heath

Angela Heath

CEO and Lead Speaker/Trainer

Angela Heath is an award-winning keynote speaker, trainer and five-time author. After twenty years of running a successful consulting practice, Angela nearly lost it all when she joined her son’s three-and-a-half-year battle with leukemia. Her inner hustle kicked in as she was forced to close one company and began building another one with very few resources and no clue about working online. Today, Angela mentors and trains self employed persons to leverage their expertise in books, virtual events and signature programs. Her sixth book, Six-Figures + Zero Employees: Entrepreneurs Reveal 25 Success Secrets to Earn $100,000+ WITHOUT Payroll Headaches will be released in early 2023.

Kathryn	Strachan

Kathryn Strachan

Managing Director and Owner, Copy House

Kathryn Strachan is the owner and Managing Director of Copy House Ltd., an award-winning content marketing agency specialising in technology and FinTech content. Kathryn started her career agency-side before striking out on her own. She’s taken Copy House from ground zero to a £1 million turnover within three years, turning Copy House into a successful technology content marketing agency. As well as managing Copy House, Kathryn is a respected Forbes contributor and industry speaker featuring at events like MoneyNext, Semrush, TechTalks and more. She regularly speaks on topics like SEO, customer-centric content, technology marketing, agency culture, leadership and female entrepreneurship.

Henri Jacobs

Henri Jacobs

Chairman Of The Board, Techventures, Futurist and Adventurepreneurt

 

Henri Jacobs (1992) is a futurist, adventurer,  social entrepreneur and public speaker, serving as a board member in impactful ventures and organisations. He pioneered in the Belgian tech scene since he was a teenager and later co-founded Forcit, the Birdhouse, and several other impactful ventures. From one of his current roles, as the chairman of the board at Techventures and his personal research on the future of corporate governance, he developed expertise in governance, corporate venturing, venturing, sustainability, innovation, ecosystem thinking, complexity levels, and mental models. His mission is to contribute to societal progress and be a source of inspiration.

Joana Veiga Ferreira

Joana Veiga Ferreira

Founder of JVF Marketing

Originally from Portugal but currently living in Malta, Joana is a digital marketing professional with over 10 years’ experience. She works mainly with small businesses and startups, and offer digital marketing support in helping them achieve their goals and make the most of their budgets. She specialises in digital content marketing and SEO, and has partnered with other freelancers to deliver successful projects around the world. She also teaches marketing at university and across professional marketing courses.

 

Hanna Young

Hanna Young

Partner and Corporate Solution Manager, CXC EMEA

Hannah Young is a Solution Specialist at CXC EMEA, a global payroll organisation. Her role includes advising clients on contingent workforce solutions and implementing small to large scale programmes that meet country by country compliance needs. Her knowledge on engaging freelancers on behalf of clients will give an insight into what documentation organisations are looking for when hiring a freelancer.

Amanda Guerassio

Amanda Guerassio

Freelance Brand Strategist and Designer

 

Amanda is a brand strategist and designer. She helps clarify messy braindumps around what you want your brand to be, and translates those abstract ideas into concrete, aligned visuals through her proven branding process. Life introduced her to the world of freelancing post-college, which is exactly what led her to becoming an accidental entrepreneur. She quickly fell in love with the freedom that came with it. These days she resides in Round Rock, TX with her husband, daughter, and dog. She’s an avid traveler, amateur chef and can often be found with her nose in a book.

Emma Cragg

Emma Cragg

Personal Development Coach

Emma Cragg is a coach, facilitator and writer exploring themes of personal development, reflective practice and sustainable productivity. By creating a space for thought, Emma helps people to pause, reflect and make conscious choices about what comes next. Emma is also a co-host of Leapers Pods – small accountability groups designed to help freelancers focus on the things they need to get done.

Maryna Kotenko

Maryna Kotenko

Freelance Business Development Manager

Maryna started her career journey in 2014 by working with freelance platforms (Elance/ODesk – now UpWork, Twago, TopTal, Fivver, etc.) where she sold web, mobile development, design and digital marketing services.  She likes to share her knowledge with people who are going to start their freelance businesses and looking for their first client. 

Loyola Ranarison-Schäfer

Loyola Ranarison-Schäfer

Freelance Communications Consultant

Loyola Ranarison-Schäfer is a communications consultant based in Geneva, Switzerland. She works mainly for charities and international NGOs, bringing her strategic and operational expertise to support their objectives. Her tasks involve producing and implementing comms strategies as well as writing and designing. She also provides capacity-building to ensure organisations make the most of their digital tools. She has a passion for storytelling and is always looking for the next innovative way to disseminate content and spread messages.

Ben Albert

Ben Albert

Ben Albert, Owner of Balbert Marketing LLC, Founder/Podcast Host/Producer of The Real Business Connections Network

Ben Albert is the owner of Balbert Marketing LLC. He is also the curator of The “Rochester Business Connections Network. He hosts 5 podcasts, “Rochester Business Connections,” “Learn Speak Teach,” “Ben’s Bites,” “Five Minute Fridays,” and “Local Hits.” In this discussion, Ben will present on his “CAN” system for networking. As an avid connector, Ben created “The CAN System” to quickly teach others a unique collaborative style of intentional networking.

Tash Thomas

Tash Thomas

Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the European Coworking Assembly

Tash is an Inclusion and Diversity advocate and speaker. As a Queer, Black Woman, she feels that her intersectionality can provide valuable insight into how to make both the workplace and the world a more diverse and equal place. Tash is currently the Co-Founder of a unique LGBTQIA+ Travel and relationship blog which discusses all aspects of LGBTQIA+ life as well as many other topics within the community.

Vanessa Henry Epstein

Vanessa Henry Epstein

Business and Legal Communication Executive Coach

Vanessa’s goal is to educate and collaborate on what are the best learning and engagement practices in communication, to support growth in the business world from day 1. She is a generalist with a broad skill set across coaching, business development, project and customer success management with 20 years of experience in the field of business education. She has been partnering with eager individuals and groups in the tech space, telecommunication and corporate sectors, law firms and government establishments that cannot afford to lose the next global deal; level up their communication skills.  Business & Legal Communication Executive Coach.

Niklas Leib

Niklas Leib

Business Development, Vicoland

Niklas leads the Business Development department of Vicoland. His main responsibilities include bringing the world’s top enterprises to Vicoland and finding the world’s top talent to unite in Virtual Companies. Coming from a digital agency, he has seen the details and advantages of outcome based professional services projects. Niklas holds a MSc in Big Data & Business Analytics from ESCP and a BA in Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen. He is a certified ski instructor and you can find him in the mountains summer like winter.

Gergő Benedek

Gergő Benedek

Storytelling consultant

Gergő is a passionate storyteller, helping organizations to get their message through with building systems for high value content generation. He worked as a journalist, EU PR specialist, and advertising copywriter, before he launched his freelance writer career in 2014. He believes that a lot is being said about copywriting in marketing, but not much about what makes your copy actually good – so good that it is capable of making waves on its own.

Annelies Delmoitié

Annelies Delmoitié

Freelance Administrative Miracle

 

After working 16 years for Procter & Gamble, as a Sales & Marketing Assistant, Annelies switched to freelancing in 2014. In 2015 she received the reward “Starter of the Year for the region of Antwerp” by Unizo, a big Flemish organisation for Independents & Freelancers. She actively collaborates with other freelancers to grow her business. She currently combines 4 business pillars (administration, Teamleader partner, Sales Agent Benelux and Business Coach) and runs a podcast with inspiring interviews. Recently Annelies launched her AnDless Academy so that she can help/inspire more people instead of only on a 1-to-1 basis.

Sadhbh Warren

Sadhbh Warren

Freelance Content Writer

Sadhbh collaborates with businesses to turn their ideas into effective content quickly and easily. A certified project manager (PMP), Sadhbh has two decades of freelance business writing under her belt. She specialises in writing that gets results including: B2C digital marketing strategy; website writing; press releases and features; and funding and award plans. 

Peter McPartlin

Peter McPartlin

Co-Founder, The Indie List

Peter has worked for many years in the Irish media and marketing industry with some of the country’s largest agencies including Dentsu, BBDO, OMD and MediaCom. Over his career, he has also been centrally involved on strategies and campaigns for many of the country’s largest brands.

His work has received a variety of accolades, including three Gold All Ireland Marketing awards and two IAPI effectiveness awards.

Peter was CEO of Ireland’s leading commercial radio station, Today FM and led it to become ‘National Station of the Year’. As well as consulting with several media bodies, Peter is a non-executive chairman of the digital media platform, BuyMedia.

In early 2020, Peter joined Úna Herlihy to create The Indie List as the Irish hub for a broader range of marketing talent.

He is a passionate advocate for freelancing and freelancers

Oscar van der Laan

Oscar van der Laan

CEO of Pensify

 

Oscar is the CEO of Pensify and has over 8 years of experience in building international scale-ups and transactions regarding mergers, acquisitions, debt restructuring and IPOs. He has rolled out a commercial strategy for 3 European countries for a consumer-facing product within a scale-up as well as being responsible for executing a B2B strategy company-wide. 

Mike Adams

Mike Adams

Chief Executive Officer of Purple Tuesday

 

Mike has been named in the Shaw Trust Power List of the UK’s top 100 most influential disabled people for 2022. Mike was awarded an OBE by the Queen in 2012 for his services to disability. He is looking forward to sharing his journey, anecdotes and practical hints with you this Friday.

Alexandros Ntolgkov

Alexandros Ntolgkov

Co-founder and host of the Blockchain Practitioners podcast

 

Alexandros has extensive experience in the blockchain field, having worked notably at BeInCrypto in the crypto media space, he also worked in the decentralized digital identity space. Currently Alexandros is the Partnership Manager of Unit Network, a Tokenization platform and the marketing manager of Blockchain Netherlands Foundation, the community for blockchain and crypto start-ups and scale-ups in the Netherlands. Finally, Alexandros is part of the Crypto Valley Association, an independent, government-supported organization located in the Swiss canton of Zug.

Enelin Paas

Enelin Paas

Head of Business Development of SafetyWing

 

Apart from her work with SafetyWing, Enelin has founded a co-working space SpringHub and is the CEO & Founder of Digitarial Agency. She has the highest-rated affiliate marketing course on Udemy. In the last 5 years she has worked for companies in Silicon Valley, Wall Street, Sydney, and Europe doing marketing and sales for B2B and B2C. From 0 to 20% *monthly* growth with affiliate marketing only. She is a speaker, e-teacher & consultant on growing businesses with affiliate, referral, and partnership programs. Since 2018, she has launched 20+ affiliate programs, onboarded 6k affiliates, and generated over $8 million in revenue for her clients.

Angelique Rewers

Angelique Rewers

CEO & Founder, BoldHaus, #Inc5000

Angelique Rewers is the CEO of BoldHaus, an Inc. 5000 company that trains and advises both small enterprises and self-employed professionals on winning corporate clients.

Among the top 2% of women-owned businesses, BoldHaus has a global online community of 35,000+ business owners and mentored over 10,000 small businesses in 72+ countries.

Angelique serves on the Advisory Board for Space for Humanity, a nonprofit expanding access to space for all of humanity, as well as on the committee for the United Nations’ Women’s Peace & Humanitarian Fund. Her expertise has been featured by Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc. Magazine, Essence, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNBC, Business Insider, HuffPost, Lucky, Washington Post and YFi PM.

She has shared stages with superstars like Hollywood’s Steve Harvey, Shark Tank’s Daymond John, bestselling author Seth Godin, and NFL Super Bowl Champion Jamal Lewis.

Rosie Hawkins

Rosie Hawkins

Director RedHawk Events Management & Consultancy, Event Director at TEDxExeter

Rosie Hawkins unwittingly began her career in events at the age of 17, and following an Industrial Placement degree in Event Management and English Literature, has never looked back across an 18 year career.  Rosie is now Director of her own company RedHawk Events Management and Consultancy and a firm believer in working creatively and flexibly to get the best out of herself and other people. 

Connie Steele

Connie Steele

Future of Work & Life Expert and Executive Consultant

Connie Steele is a future of work & life expert and executive consultant that guides companies and professionals in finding purpose, gaining momentum and thriving in today’s constantly changing and hybrid world. By analyzing workplace challenges from a human-centric perspective, Connie has become an expert on understanding what today’s workers want and need. Through strategic management sessions, presentations and workshops, Connie helps organizations and professionals adapt to this new world of work.

Steven Drew

Steven Drew

Account Consultant, Open Innovation, Wazoku

Across the last 20 years, Steven has guided multiple leading cross-industry companies and institutions across Europe, with the introduction of innovation & problem-solving methods and techniques, using crowdsourcing, challenges and prizes. He has spoken at various events for example the OECD Working Party on Innovation and Technology Policy in Paris and the Scientific Conference organized by the European Food Safety Authority in Milan aligned to World EXPO 2015, Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life.

Amanda Freick

Amanda Freick

Chief Revenue Officer for Altruistic

As Chief Revenue Officer for Altruistic, a leader in end-to-end solutions in data, digital and AI, Amanda oversees strategic partnership and solution delivery across the globe. A natural leader and listener, she excels at the creative strategizing and problem-solving that gets jobs done. She has been described by her leaders as ‘fearlessly optimistic’ and ‘wicked smart’. Holding a patent addressing the balance of distributed electric power at the customer level, Amanda understands the importance of bringing meaningful innovation to the industries that need it most.

Amanda’s aptitude and passion for engineering clearly come naturally, and both her father and grandfather were also engineers. She attended California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo, where she got her Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering. Upon graduation, she immediately began troubleshooting operations and distribution projects, beginning in the San Diego area and moving throughout the U.S. and Canada. Through that process she also earned her professional engineering license in CA.

John Winsor

John Winsor

Visiting Executive, Harvard Business School, Founder of Open Assembly

John Winsor is an entrepreneur, thought-leader and global authority on the future of work, open talent and remote work. John’s ideas, expressed through his writing, speaking, and the companies he’s built, have placed him at the intersection of innovation, disruption and storytelling.

John is currently the executive-in-residence at Harvard Business School’s Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) and founder and CEO of Open Assembly, a company that provides content, community, and strategic advising to organizations, people, and platforms to co-create the future of work.

Kal Sahota

Kal Sahota

CEO, HeroX

Bringing 25 years of Corporate Financial Services experience, coupled with her recent years in Crowdsourcing, Kal is uniquely positioned to support organizations with their open innovation needs.

Through the power of crowdsourcing, she has helped organizations such as lululemon, Anheuser Busch, NASA, Mastercard, and many more; drastically increase their pace of innovation and ROI by leveraging the power of the crowd.

Collaborating with organizations to help them connect with the most innovative minds from around the world is what Kal gets to do every day at HeroX. It’s been proven time and time again, that the greatest disruption occurs from those outside of their area of expertise.

Keaton Swett

Keaton Swett

CEO, MindSumo

Keaton loves providing value to companies in any way he can, and is passionate about finding innovative solutions for business and social problems. To this end, he co-founded MindSumo in 2011 to help companies crowdsource innovative solutions & insights from a creative community of over a million Millennial & Gen Z problem solvers.

In 2020, MindSumo was acquired by MBO Partners, and Keaton continued to lead the MindSumo team at our new home. They are bringing our crowdsourcing capabilities to strengthen MBO’s mission of helping people do the work they love the way they want.

Tanveer Mohammed

Tanveer Mohammed

Head of Innovation, UST

Tanveer is a Client Executive and the Head of Innovation for UST Global, based out of London.

Tanveer manages a diverse set of accounts as a Client Executive, ranging from Retail to Banking & Financial Services, each with a turnover of £2 – £5 million per year. This includes Account Planning, building Strategic Road map, Account Management, Bid Management, Revenue recognition, Forecasting and delivering outcomes.

Tanveer is also the Head of the Innovation Practice, where he works on emerging technology across FinTech, RegTech and Healthcare.

Bryn Barlow

Bryn Barlow

Director of Consulting Services, Open Assembly

Business consultant. Motivator. Bryn was a partner and co-founder of Re-source until its merger with Open Assembly in 2021. He is one of the world’s most experienced outsourcing professionals with experience across many regions and sectors.

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