Over the last century, there has been a significant change in the roles and rights of women. There’s no doubt that they have changed beyond all recognition which gave women an opportunity to do something empowering and bring a difference in the world.
With sheer passion and determination, these women have set standards for all the aspiring individuals who want want to achieve something extraordinary in their life. Whether it’s leadership, education, marketing, designing, or media-related, these women have not only made their career journey remain a significant achievement in their life but have also set examples for other women out there.
Today we are presenting you Top 10 Inspiring Women to look out for in 2021 who fought tooth and nail to have their own stand in the entrepreneurial world and are inspiring millions of women to do the same with their platform.
Kimberly Carney
With 20+ years of experience in tech and retail, Founder and CEO Kimberly Carney has successfully led FashWire’s global platform into the data business. A two-sided marketplace, FashWire provides its 350+ fashion brands from 40+ countries vital data and actionable insights into consumer shopping patterns. After disrupting the fashion space, she recently launched into the beauty industry with GlossWire, already making her mark in the digital beauty space.
In 2020, she added a philanthropic arm by leveraging the companies vast global reach of brands and consumers to raise funds for charitable causes — having now raised 100K+ for nonprofits.
Kimberly is reframing the fashion and beauty landscapes by positioning the company as the digital front-runner in real-time global consumer business intelligence. She has established herself as a powerful entrepreneur and consistently recognized as an industry expert: New York Fashion Tech Lab and Authority Magazine are just two of the most recent.
Danielle Colley
Danielle is an Integrative Life Coach and founder of Your Good Life. She helps successful people who are feeling stuck and dissatisfied with life to shed the historical limitations which have been placed on them so they can reach their full potential.
As a former journalist and solo parent, Danielle intimately understands the impact that hustles and grinds play on your ability to thrive. She found that by navigating through what drives people to push themselves to breaking, self-sabotage repeatedly, or deny themselves their true desires, it is possible to ‘unravel the onion’ and make way for a life of true joy, adventure, and contentment.
Danielle is the #1 Bestselling author of ‘Visionary,’ and has created multiple online programs which have positively impacted thousands of lives by giving people the tools to live their most ‘kapow’ lives and create a ripple effect within their own families and communities.
Camille Roney
Camille helps non-traditional students around the world transform their academic experience for optimal success without sacrificing their values.
As a passionate hospice volunteer, non-profit founder, influencer, mother, and full-time student, Camille applies her experience to guide other women towards personal development while boosting their GPAs. She believes that students shouldn’t have to sacrifice a joyful life outside the classroom to get outstanding grades while pursuing a fulfilling career. Her social media presence provides practical academic strategies for effective learning and personal growth.
As a mature pre-med student, it took Camille years to learn how to study effectively to achieve high grades. It wasn’t until she had her son that she decided to shift how she approached everything. She uses her expertise to guide overwhelmed and exhausted women juggling life in and outside the classroom to get even higher grades with calm, ease and efficiency with her signature NTA framework.
Melissa Badine
Melissa is a recovered people-pleaser who decided to live authentically after life threw a dash of trauma and experienced grief by breaking barriers of the social norm and aligning in self-gratitude through connecting to her own intuition.
As a life coach, Melissa has been helping others globally develop their gifts of intuitive alignment as a public speaker, author, podcast host of “Mom Bun Media” and online offered training since starting her business in 2005. With a goal to help women know what it means to truly understand the value in their authentic self, through learning to be able to break through limiting beliefs with a bonus of developing spiritually.
Self-empowerment being the goal that her clients seek through alignment in their intuitive gifts to be used both personally and professionally while listening to their souls guidance preventing them from feeling disempowered on their journey.
Diana Jenner
Diana is highly professional, with a strong work ethic and a lifelong passion for the beauty industry. She is committed to delivering excellent treatments with an exceptional level of customer service. She gains the most satisfaction from being able to make a difference to the quality of other people’s lives and their businesses and enjoys opportunities to demonstrate her skills and add value wherever she can.
The pandemic gave Díana the time to focus on further developing other aspects of her skill set. Last summer she set up Signature D coaching which helps therapists start, grow & maintain a successful Beauty Business to suit their lifestyle and financial goals.
This year has been a game-changer with the launch of her own product range Aurum D, a natural and organic British artisan body care range.
Diana is also launching a beauty and wellbeing clinic this June in the heart of the New Forest, England. She is bringing together a professional team of beauty, holistic, sports medicine, and wellbeing specialists to help the community improve their health and well-being.
Kate Butler
Kate Butler is a #1 International Best-selling, Award-winning author, speaker, and TV expert and personality. As a CPSC, Certified Professional Success Coach, she offers dynamic live and digital programs creating transformational experiences to ultimately help clients reach their greatest potential and live out their dreams, including becoming a Best-selling Author through her mentorship. Kate believes in learning the tools to help create those “Made For Moments” in your life. Kate’s motto is, “You know what you were born for, now it’s time to show up for the life you were meant for.”
Kate’s also the creator of the Inspired Impact Book Series, a #1 International Best-selling Series. Kate’s expertise has been featured on Fox 29, GoodDay Philadelphia, HBO, PHL 17, the RVN network and many more tv and radio platforms. Connect with Kate to learn more about how you can achieve your ultimate potential and become a #1 Best-selling author.
Radmila Djekic
Radmila is a Business Strategist with a specialty in the Beauty Industry. Currently leading Operations and Development for Kurves Beauty Bar, she has rebranded the company with a focus on diversity, kindness, and empowerment, both internally and externally.
With over 10 years of experience, Radmila has a passion for developing and empowering strong leaders. Creating and implementing programs with proven success in both leadership and profitability, she has worked directly with her teams in the field to help carve a path for anyone who would like to grow and learn within the Kurves organization.
Leading the redevelopment and upcoming release of the new KBB product line, as well as the rebrand of all KBB locations, Radmila’s message of positivity, strength, and inclusion can be seen and felt throughout the whole brand.
With 41 locations growing to 55 in 2021, this brand and leader are one to keep an eye out for!
Ilhiana Rojas
Ilhiana is an Executive & Career Transformation Strategy Coach, a DEI Catalyst, a Hispanic advocate, the #1 Amazon Bestselling Author, and an international motivational speaker.
With over 20+ years of global executive experience in top Fortune 500 companies in Mexico and US headquarters, Ilhiana understands the mindset, skillset, and behaviors required to achieve success. As a successful entrepreneur, founder of BeLIVE Coaching & Consulting, Ilhiana uses her vast expertise and signature coaching frameworks to empower professionals, especially women of color, to reach their extraordinary goals through meaningful transformation by embracing their purpose, elevating their voice, and expanding their potential. Ilhiana has also been the driving force in the launch of four women’s leadership programs in Europe, LAM, and the US.
In addition to coaching, Ilhiana serves in different Boards and organizations supporting diversity & inclusion efforts to empower women and the Latino community and build equitable and inclusive cultures.
Adrienne, RDA II, CCST
Adrienne helps people around the world as a lifestyle coach using her live streaming platform. She has weekly episodes for Motivation Mondays, TedTalk Tuesdays, Humpday Kitchen, TBT Yoga, Fitness Fridays, Self Care Saturdays at the Home Spaah, and finally Meal Prep Sundays. She delves into topics such as Twitch Finances and Twitch Netiquette. All the while, she is likely doing Sun Salutations or balancing poses while chatting and bringing light to such topics.
She is the founder and director of Adrienne’s Learning Centre Inc. As a business consultant, clinical trainer & social media marketer, Adrienne applies her experience to coach clients towards mindfulness, body (flexibility, tone), and soulfulness via her yoga practice.
As a public speaker, she has taken the podium at the Mount Royal University in Calgary and looks forward to more speaking roles at conferences once the world opens up again. She was recently featured on the Entrepreneurs Herald as the Top 20 Unstoppable Women Entrepreneurs Of 2021.
Alice Khosravy
Alice ignites digital value creation through innovation with a strategic eye on the bottom line.
As a digital strategy executive and technical leader, Alice leverages her experience and technical skillset to drive digital product value and innovative revenue streams. She is the Chief Digital Innovation Officer for Digital Health Innovations which specializes in providing digital health innovation and digital value creation leadership for healthcare industry stakeholders. She also frequently serves as a board member and executive consultant for innovation accelerators focused upon digital product creation and monetization strategies.
Through her work with private equity firms, Alice is a trusted advisor and mentor for the fintech community. She’s a tireless advocate for increasing venture capital access to women-owned technology startups.
As a speaker and author, she engages audiences with innovative approaches to solution development. A popular speaker in the innovation community, she brings passion and creativity to inspire action.
The Bottom Line
With their empowering career journeys, influential personalities, and inspiring words, these 10 women have made the world a better place with their determination to give women an equal stance in every sector. Acknowledging their struggles and rewarding them for their achievements is not only crucial to show our support towards them but it is also important to give other women the courage to take a step towards their own passion and dreams.
