In 2024, the world continues to be shaped by remarkable women who are breaking barriers, challenging norms, and inspiring change across every field imaginable. From groundbreaking scientists and fearless activists to innovative entrepreneurs and visionary artists, this year’s crop of female trailblazers is set to leave an indelible mark on our global landscape. In this listicle, we spotlight 20 extraordinary women who are not just making waves – they’re creating tsunamis of progress. These are the game-changers, the dream-weavers, and the history-makers you’ll want to keep your eye on as they redefine what’s possible in 2024 and beyond.
Carla Palette
People-pleasing is boring, passive and inauthentic. Carla creates influential and provocative brand experiences by challenging people to make bold and unconventional statements that acknowledge current social tension, cultivating meaningful connections between progressive brands and socially conscious audiences with high expectations. Working as an independent freelance designer and art director, Carla works predominantly with food & beverage, music, alcohol and other lifestyle brands from all around the globe. With an extensive creative network, Carla forms specialist teams that cater to the individual needs of her clients, resulting in strong collaborations and more impactful results. From conception to outcome, Carla uses finely-tuned processes in conceptual design and strategic thinking to execute on aesthetically striking visual identity systems, boutique packaging and thought-provoking advertising.
Tihane Mujić
Tihane is a Speaker, Performer, and Creative Strategist specializing in innovative communication strategies that captivate attention, drive action and revolutionize lead generation. Integrating science-backed techniques with creative practices, Tihane helps clients create irresistible narratives that grow platforms, brands and businesses with a holistic approach to high- performing results. She has delivered impactful presentations and performances at TEDx, Yale University, Creative Visions Foundation, GenderSmart Investing Summit and more.
Inspired by her Indigenous lineage of storytellers, Tihane masterminds standout content strategies that resonate deeply. She has led transformative projects for New York Fashion Week, RevoltTV, Vogue Italia and RedBull. Tihane works with entrepreneurs, executives and everyday creators across all fields—from Arts/Entertainment to Real Estate, Wellness, Education, and beyond.
Tihane’s unique methodology, backed by Neuroscience, Somatic Meditation, and Flow Psychology, promises an immersive transformational experience in mastering communication that captivates, converts, and creates loyal communities instead of chasing customers.
Safietou Seck
Safiétou Seck, a fashion designer and entrepreneur from Dakar, Senegal created in 2014 SARAYAA, a clothing brand for women. She describes her designs as being a mix of traditional African and modern fashion. One of her objectives is to showcase unknown West-African handwoven fabrics.
Born in Dakar, Senegal, Safiétou obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Spelman College in Atlanta and her MBA from American University in Washington DC. Safiétou then worked as an economist at the US embassy for 7 years.
Safiétou’s esthetic for SARAYAA evokes her blended background of African and western culture and her love of original associations. For Safiétou Seck, SARAYAA is more than a clothing brand. Mrs. Seck is a mental health advocate. She created SARAYAA out passion, love, frustration and pain. Her mission is to bring together women in a safe space where they can feel unique, loved and be unapologetically themselves.
Lisa Hugo
Lisa Hugo is a professional voice and communication coach with a background in the performing arts. As the host of the “Impact Through Voice” podcast and creator of the “Speaking Success Accelerator Program,” she empowers entrepreneurs through her coaching.
Lisa helps speakers, coaches, consultants, executives, and leaders enhance their speaking skills, build authority, and showcase their expertise. She provides practical tools to overcome nerves, use their voice effectively, pitch ideas, and craft compelling talks.
On stage, Lisa inspires leaders to harness their voice’s power, building authority and establishing a strong presence. Lisa also mentors coaches, trainers, and consultants to build scalable businesses by transitioning from one-on-one coaching to teaching through programs, running paid video advertising, webinars, and sales calls to grow their business. Combining speaker coaching with business development, Lisa equips clients to connect emotionally with their audiences, creating a powerful and lasting impact.
Dominique Calcò Labbruzzo
Dominique Calcò Labbruzzo is a trailblazing innovator in the legal field, honored as the 2024 WOMEN IN LAW AWARDS WINNER for Switzerland. She founded the first Swiss Holistic Law Firm, pioneering a transformative approach that blends legal expertise with holistic personal growth.
A seasoned cross-border litigator, Dominique guides clients on a journey of self-discovery through yoga, meditation, dancing, and sailing. Drawing from legal prowess and spiritual insight, she empowers individuals to reach their potential. Her passion lies in reshaping societal paradigms through integrative legal coaching and holistic leadership mentoring.
Dominique’s mission is fostering an enlightened society by inspiring critical thinking about everyday actions. A captivating speaker, she brings winds of change through writing the short stories of Giufà, teaching new perspectives on life’s challenges. A visionary living her transformative philosophy publicly, Dominique aims to create a better world. Her holistic approach tackles personal growth and societal impact, solidifying her as a pioneering role model in the field of holistic law.
Fozia Rashid
Fozia Rashid is a former whistleblower who bravely exposed fraud, theft, and money laundering at Post Office Ltd, despite facing termination and retaliation. Now a certified HR advisor, she has launched She Speaks Out, a revolutionary free resource service for women in the workplace. On International Women’s Day, Fozia introduced this platform to empower women to speak up against corruption and abuse of power.
She Speaks Out offers employment guidance, support, and encouragement for women facing workplace challenges. Fozia’s mission is to bridge the gap between employees and employers, providing a platform for women to find the support and guidance they need to assert their rights and stand up for themselves.
Through She Speaks Out, Fozia Rashid aims to empower women to have a voice in the workplace and create a more equitable environment. For more information and access to resources, visit shespeaksout.com.
Angela Hryniuk, MA
In her capacities as an International Speaker, Canadian born author of 6 books and 5 Meditation CDs, Addictions/Trauma specialist and Buddhist Teacher, Angela guides high achieving business managers, C-suite professionals and Transformational Coaches to accelerate their personal growth, manifest their Mission on earth and achieve their wildest dreams.
Her scientifically proven, revolutionary Accelerated Transpersonal Timeline Method, ATTM® has helped heal, within the unconscious, blocks or resistances from adverse childhood experiences of Olympians, millionaires and high achieving business owners, as well as prisoners, teenaged prostitutes and street youth. She also Certifies thought leaders in this hugely effective modality.
In her forty plus years as a Spiritual advisor, she’s worked with the Dalai Lama, King of Mongolia, the United Nations & President of India. She embodies a rare combination of groundedness and practicality with higher level strategies for real, embodied change. As a thought-leader her Youtube Channel has clocked over a million views and her Tik Tok is over 2 million. She also leads interfaith pilgrimages to India.
Naomi Maria
Naomi Maria is a 30 year-old female entrepreneur from Birmingham, England, who founded the clothing brand DETERMINED Streetwear in 2023. It’s a brand that combines the message of being determined with fashion, hence why Naomi Maria launched the brand on 24/7/2023. The 24/7 part of the date is significant.
It represents you being 24/7 determined, and determined 24/7, never giving up on what you set out to achieve. DETERMINED Streetwear has seen success after success, having been in a couple of clothing shops so far. The brand is due to appear in the West Midlands Biggest Fashion Show 2024 in July, in an event called Fashion Invasion.
Naomi Maria has been selected as a top 30 female role model worldwide to look out for this year and even beyond. Watch out for DETERMINED Streetwear, because the success it has seen and is currently seeing will surely make this brand an international brand one day. Naomi Maria credits her success to her faith in God and says “Success isn’t automatic, neither does it grow on trees. You have to work for it, and God blesses you along the way!!”.
Alyson Livingston Davis
Alyson Davis, a powerhouse professional, is forging a path by championing for women and their financial well-being. With over 15 years of experience in both the financial and IT industries, Alyson has navigated the corporate landscape as a respected female leader. Balancing the demands of motherhood and career, she understands firsthand the challenges women face in achieving financial success while juggling everyday responsibilities. Leveraging her professional endeavors, she is now embarking on her true passion: empowering women to understand, seize control, and unleash their financial potential.
Alyson offers tailored coaching services to address specific financial needs; to educate, guide, and coach women. This results in her clients unlocking their limitless potential and breaking through barriers to achieve complete financial wellness. Join Alyson on the journey to financial empowerment and discover the freedom and confidence to thrive.
Taeyang An
Taeyang An is the founder of Seoul Sisters, a food-tech company based in South Korea. With a deep passion for fostering cultural connections through food, Taeyang’s journey began in 2010 when she traveled to the Philippines to introduce Korean cuisine by selling Tteokbokki at a night market. This marked the start of what would become a global venture.
Seoul Sisters’ Kimchi Seasoning has achieved international recognition, becoming a bestseller on Amazon US and expanding to 17 countries within just a year of its launch. The product has gone viral, with customers appreciating the care and high-quality ingredients used in its production. Her team continues to push forward, committed to developing authentic Korean flavors and innovative products.
Seoul Sisters strives to integrate the traditional flavors of Korean cuisine with cutting-edge technology, offering a contemporary reinterpretation of healthy Korean food.
Auronda Scalera
Auronda plays a significant role in the contemporary art world. She is an art curator, art consultant, speaker, and entrepreneur that lives between London, Dubai and the Metaverse. She combines her deep expertise in contemporary and digital art, to empower artists, institutions, collectors and women. In 2022 she has been appointed as co-Director of the Infinity Art Museum, the first ever-evolving museum of contemporary art on the metaverse, and for the next Venice Biennale 2023 she is the curator of the Decentral Art Pavilion
Because of her powerful knowledges, Plus TATE nominates Auronda to organise symposiums about NFTs and museums. She often participates at talks about art and Web3 at: NFT NY, IED, City A.M. Crypto award, Sotheby’s, Dcentral Miami and many others. She is working as special curator on SuperRare Space with Decentral Art Pavilion with artists like Ellen Sheidlin, Yulia Shur, Ninocence, and many others.
Business partners include plusTate, Venice Biennale, Sotheby’s, Manifesta, Mostyn Museum, Decentral Art Pavilion, Pablo Atchugarry Foundation, Les Rencontres d’Arles, The Royal Photographic Society, Paris Photo, World Press Photo, and many others. Auronda is part of Heritage Leaders Mastermind a selected group of 8 leaders in heritage, culture and arts and IKT-International Association of Curators of Contemporary art which members included prominent personalities such as Harald Szeemann.
Susana Campanella
Susana Campanella is a millennial, a Biologist, a Latina, a mom, a wife, an entrepreneur, and the CEO and owner of Gluteboost. Gluteboost is redirecting and redefining powerhouse herbal formulations for targeted-driven results. Their plant-derived formulations are a powerful, innovative approach that brings solutions to this sociocultural demand for bigger curves.
With a desire to impact the beauty and health industry with something completely innovative, this GB Babe is all about the science behind Gluteboost products. With an academic background concentration in Molecular Biology, Gluteboost has nicely coalesced with her business indulgence: beauty, fitness, and health. She not only loves GB products but is adamant about giving back to the GB community by making an impact in other women’s lives with resources and inspiration.
As someone that struggled with insecurities, Susana strongly believes women need to feel inspired to care for their bodies, improve their overall health, and feel empowered to transform their bodies and their mentality. Gluteboost is not only about the products and the results they cause but also about effecting change in women’s everyday lives.
Arabelle Yee
Arabelle Yee is an entrepreneur, certified psychotherapist and transformational life strategist who specializes in helping female entrepreneurs step into the highest version of themselves. Leveraging her MBA and her signature program, Millionaire Moves, she has helped her community unlock their purpose and generate more than $18M in revenue. Arabelle has taught nearly 45,000 students in 97 countries how to build emotional intelligence to increase wealth. “I help people get out of their own way so they can unlock their full potential, discover their true nature, and live their wildest dreams in alignment with who they truly are. I realised that when we understand on a deep level why we are the way we are and when we get out of our own way, then there’s nothing that we can’t do.” says Arabelle.
Arabelle’s expertise in personal development and manifestation has been featured in prominent media outlets including The Huffington Post, Leader in Heels, Lifehack, The Tao of Self Confidence podcast, and more.
She also has 800,000 engaged followers across her social media platforms. Arabelle lives a location-independent lifestyle, travelling between homes in Dubai, Singapore and Perth, with her toddler son. When she’s not helping other women reach their full potential, you can find her practicing meditation to ensure she reaches her own.
Oxana Koryshko
Before relocating to Switzerland, Oxana Koryshko’s salon was acclaimed as the best in hair extension services. She led a team of professionals trained in her unique safe extension methods. They regularly conducted both group and individual training sessions, which helped popularize Oxana’s approach and improve service quality in the beauty industry. Following the Russian invasion in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Oxana moved and established her business in Switzerland. In just one and a half years, she has built an extensive client base. Now, Oxana plans to expand her team and further develop her business, despite the challenges of adapting and managing a business in a new country. This journey highlights the importance of innovation, adaptation, and determination in professional growth and business development.
Heidi Schalk
Heidi Schalk is a business strategy coach, author, speaker and host of the Be S.H.E. Podcast (Be Seen. Be Heard. Be Empowered.). She has been featured on FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS and The Daily Herald. Heidi has spent the past 5 years helping women achieve their goals and build multi-6 figure businesses through her M.O.N.E.Y Mastery System.
Heidi helps female entrepreneurs by giving them the tools and strategies to confidently build successful, online businesses, on their own terms, so they can create the life of their dreams for themselves and loved ones. She believes every woman who wants to have a 6 figure business gets to have it. Heidi has taken what she has learned through her journey and is on a mission to empower women to be seen and heard so they can make a positive impact in the world and create a lasting legacy.
She combines her expertise in business strategy and visibility to guide her clients with a clear direction and plan that are aligned with their goals and vision. Her 5 step M.O.N.E.Y. Mastery System, along with a built in accountability model, help entrepreneurs stay on track and enjoy the journey to building their 6 to multi-6 figure business.
Aneta Grabiec
Aneta Grabiec is the award-winning author of her debut book on fertility How To Get Pregnant: Shortcut To Your Fertility. The book was written “coincidentally”, as she states, within 3 days(!). It is through decades of her work as a Psychologist -Nutritional Therapist, she came to the tangible conclusion that reproductive health is the extension of our overall wellbeing. Aneta works with women toward their optimal reproductive health (puberty, autoimmune conditions such as PCOS, endometriosis), infertility and (peri)menopause.
Apart from her private practice, Aneta also offers consultations and seminars on the subject of well-being (diversly covered in her second book How To Be Good Enough – acknowledged by the King Of England)
Hosted on BBC, scientific journals, international speaking events, countless podcasts and magazines, Aneta’s passion and charismatic approach is to be watched for in 2024! Her non-esoteric attitude towards science will influence the subject of well-being and fertility and has been building her to the waitlist of international clients!
Lynn Jenkins
Lynn Jenkins is the CEO of Sydoni Skincare and Beauty, Inc. An inclusive, cruelty-free beauty brand with makeup and skincare products for all skin types and skin tones. After a decades-long career in the beauty industry, Lynn developed a deep love for building personal relationships and an appreciation for helping people resolve their skincare and makeup concerns. Inspired by her customer’s experiences as well as her own personal beauty product challenges, Lynn decided to launch her own brand. The name Sydoni is a “twist” on the names of her two youngest daughters.
As Sydoni Skincare and Beauty is a company founded on diversity and inclusion, Lynn believes in a people-first approach and is passionate about the importance of a daily skincare regimen and creating makeup looks tailored to one’s personality and lifestyle.
Extending her endeavors, Lynn recently launched a full skin and beard care line formulated just for men, but she didn’t stop there. Lynn will share her expertise in her new retail beauty location set to open in January 2023. Lynn is ready to share all things makeup, and face and body care for both women and men.
Prior to launching Sydoni Skincare and Beauty, Lynn worked in the Aesthetic space supporting the sales and education of Cosmeceuticals to Physicians and Aesthetic professionals in Texas. Lynn is also a contributing beauty writer for a Dallas-based lifestyle publication.
Krystal Cutlip
At a young age, Krystal discovered her love for makeup and hair styling and started experimenting with those skills. Driven by her entrepreneurial passion and quest to share knowledge with other budding artists, she eventually founded KC Artistry LLC in 2019 and made it to various publications, and magazines, won awards and bagged prominent clientele in no time. Additionally, after being certified in airbrush through Temptu’s celebrity makeup artist and educator, Robert Miller, she gained immense love for her unique airbrush techniques and exclusivity around the city.
The KC Artistry provides an on-site, full-service glam experience for the brides of the DMV. Krystal firmly believes that in order for any business to grow, there needs to be a passionate team behind it – which is why she invests so much time and effort into her team at KC Artistry LLC. When she is not working, she enjoys learning new makeup trends and exploring ways to innovate her teaching methods. With the tremendous growth experienced in 2022 from her huge roster of clientele- Krystal is excited about what the future holds for KC Artistry.
Nina M. Luppino, MPH
As a golfer and a member of the Board of Directors for the Women’s Golf Association of New Jersey, Nina M. Luppino, MPH, learned how the game of golf mimics life. “There are no shortcuts in life or golf; you must practice and be patient, if you wish to succeed. You need to surround yourself with good players, if you aim to play well. The same goes for business – you must surround yourself with the best and brightest if you seek to change the world in which you live.”
Over the past several years, Nina has demonstrated leadership in women’s golf by innovating and expanding educational programs, especially in support of golf skill development for new golfers. With a natural ability to engage members, Nina has positively impacted women – on and off – the golf course. Nina is the Principal of Azira Coaching, LLC. The meaning of “azira” is a rising star; a trailblazer, motivator and leader. Nina was named in the “Top 30 Inspiring Women to Look Out for in 2021” by The NYC Journal. Nina trains women with actionable strategies that she cultivated from working alongside leading experts.
Ceallaigh Lorenz-Talleyrand
Ceallaigh has devoted her career to creating spaces for wellness of the body, mind, and community. Founder and owner of Salvation Wellness and Rx3.me, she strives to create businesses that help people and the planet heal. Both wellness companies donate a portion of their profits to local and global initiatives. A highlight of their philanthropic endeavours is her “Social Justice Soap” line which focus attention to an array of impactful nonprofits.
She serves on the Board of Directors for the AFMTE as the Strategic Planning Chair and serves on the NJ Chapter of the AMTA as the Community Service chair. She is the director of the Massage Program at Essex County College in Newark and is a founding member of two non-profits: TEDxJC and Massage Without Borders. As a nationally licensed CEU educator in massage, she leads workshops for offices such as Apprentice, Krux, WeWork and PayPal. She is creating training courses for TMJ Release, which will revolutionize the approaches to treating TMJ in massage, physical therapy, and dentistry offices.
Her current passion project is writing a book called Body Language: a holistic approach to reimagining bodywork and how to use language to bring clients along for the ride. In her spare time she enjoys being a mom, a musician, a sculptor, and swing dancing through life with her amazing husband.
Final Thoughts
The 20 women featured in this list represent just a fraction of the incredible female talent driving our world forward. Their stories of resilience, innovation, and unwavering determination serve as beacons of hope and catalysts for change. As we navigate the complexities of 2024, these inspirational figures remind us that the future is not just female – it’s fierce, fabulous, and full of limitless potential. Whether they’re revolutionizing technology, championing social justice, or reimagining the arts, these women are painting a brighter, more equitable future for us all. So let’s celebrate their achievements, amplify their voices, and draw inspiration from their journeys. After all, in a world where these 20 women are leading the charge, there’s no telling what amazing things we’ll accomplish next.
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