While many people aspire to be entrepreneurs and start their own companies, not everyone succeeds in that goal. Among the most successful of those who try, only a few have what it takes to make it big. We’ve looked ahead to 2022 and come up with our list of entrepreneurs who are going to make headlines over the next few years. Here are 20 entrepreneurs you’re going to want to watch very closely in 2022, whether you’re just starting your own business or want to work with one of them in the future!
Maya Taher
Maya started her journey from personal conflicts. She realized that if she could overcome her personal suffering then she could help people through theirs. Leaving a career of 11 years in the corporate industry, she started her journey of self discovery and healing. Within 9 years, Maya has pursued knowledge and experiments that are needed to help others. With an MBA from University of Liverpool, she studied Trauma healing through a compassionate inquiry mentored and taught by Dr. Gabor Mate & Dr. Peter Levine (somatic healing).
Maya became a Senior Leader at Tony Robbins Organization and got her certification in: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Anxiety, Personality and Eating Disorders by Beck institute, and Neuro Linguistic Programming Trainer. Co-authored 2 books and published a book for children “When I’m Possible”. She hosts an Arabic podcast on mental health tackling the “taboo” topics in the Arab world. Her online platform has more than 13 course published around mental health and self-development. Yoga and meditation are her passion.
She believes that helping individuals learn about their traumas, and guiding them on working around and through their emotions, is a key towards self development and behavioral enhancement, which also helps generations influenced and affected by them!
Tessa Arnold
Tessa Arnold, CoFounder of SnapBack Energy is blazing the trail in the supplement space. Her focus on balancing life, work, heath and wellness brought to life SnapBack.
Her team formulated the patented formula for SnapBack with all the key ingredients your body wants and needs. Tessa shares SnapBack is a game changer when it comes to supplements. Why can’t we “crush today, and own tomorrow” ™️. She expects to launch a new flavor in the next 6 months. You can purchase Snapback at Snapbackenergy.com.
Braunda Smith
Braunda is a stay-at-home mother turned businesswoman that has worked hard to become the successful woman she is now. With a history of marketing, graphic design, executive chef, and many more under her belt, she was able to turn her dream of owning her own business into a reality alongside her husband. She is devoted to providing a wonderful example for both her children and her community that women are capable of whatever they set their minds to, no matter where you come from or what you have.
Braunda utilizes her travel experiences, familial background, and variety of occupations to help give an overall one-of-a-kind food experience to her patrons. Her dream is now starting to expand, allowing her to begin her plans to add to her brand for future projects alongside both locations of her 21+ bar, Lucy Cooper’s Ice House in Texas.
Gerald Nova Sound
Gerald Nova Sound is a published poet, producer, and philanthropist, hailing from Queens, New York from a Jamaican family rooted in music. Gerald established Nova Sound, a technology company with a focus on music, media, and event production, in 2014 with the intention of serving non-profit organizations and venues across South Florida. The company has since been providing quality production services and has become a staple in the community.
Amidst impacting numerous lives around the globe, he has successfully gained 1 million views and launched over 5,000 digital products as well as 50 stage and studio products. His passion for music has led him to share works with several Grammy-award-winning artists, features in publications, and a stage for releasing versatile music compilations. To extend his creative endeavors, he is soon releasing his full-length album this December under the name “G Nova Sound” through his NovaSound.Music imprint. He has further shown his prominence in impacting over 200 at-risk youth, through non-profit work, speaking engagements, and studio sessions.
Hamsa Diab Farhat
Hamsa is the Founder & Executive Director for Taste of the Middle East, a not for profit organization established in 2018. The organization’s mission is to celebrate Canadian Middle Eastern music, art, and cuisine in Toronto. After leading 5 successful festivals, the Taste of the Middle East Toronto Festival has become a signature event for and by the Middle Eastern community in the GTA, demonstrating a high potential to draw attendance from well beyond the city limits. The festival attracts over 60,000 attendees from all over Canada and the USA and has become a staple event with a high economic impact in Toronto.
She is also the Founder and main Influencer for Blog Middle East Toronto, a social media blog which is Toronto’s source for anything middle eastern: music, art, culture, restaurant reviews, event listings & the best in the city! Telling our stories and connecting the community over food, music and art is the vision.
Hamsa is also a Humanitarian and a Philanthropist always advocating for diversity and inclusion of the Canadian Middle Eastern Community. She led a 2 year campaign called Lebanon Strong alongside her partner Dina Bakhit sending over 2 million dollars worth of Aid to Lebanon. She also served for 3 years as a board member for IDRF The International Development and Relief Foundation, a renowned Canadian charity that helps to empower the world’s disadvantaged people.
Johe Hyun
Johe is a founder for GSA which is a one digital convergence company that is outstanding, exceptional at both digital marketing agency and in-out bound commerce trader for brands. She is leading multinational teams in house, in agency, and as an entrepreneur in media, entertainment, sports, pharmaceuticals, and beauty industries.
She is building GSA to be the best integrated branding & commerce company from the launch stage of new brands to overseas market pioneering and provides know-how to monetize from branding and global distribution networks for global market. She keeps her clients ahead through insight, collaboration, tackling problems fast, remaining local, and harnessing her coveted teams when needed. She guides her clients to anticipate what others can’t. She has a strong team of young digital professionals who have delivered fantastic results for global top-notch clients like Betadine, Medifoam, Gynobetacare, Woongjin, GS, WeWork, Haribo, Nexus, BTS merchandise, Wanghong for China, Taiwan, Japan market & more.
Sal Chiappetta
Sal chiappetta is founder of the Gambit Barbershop inc. Sal is 3rd generation in the hair industry, after working in the above Toronto hair studio which is owned and operated by his mother and father, Sal was able to find his passion for men’s hair. Once Sal decided to venture out on his own was when he found his true passion for hair and business. Sals Vision of the company Gambit Barbershop inc is to provide a welcoming atmosphere for all demographics to come to enjoy the services they have to offer. The Gambit Barbershop inc has now been open for ten years and has Since expanded. The Gambit Barbershop has its own product line consisting of hair products shaving products body wash and men’s fragrances, and has gone from one location to four locations across the greater Toronto area With each store being partnered with former employees from the flagship store in Vaughan, Daniel Dibiase, Joesph Mortella, and Stephan Vaccaro had once worked for Sal and now own and operate their own locations. Sal is very proud to have them as partners.
The Gambit Barbershop inc holds multiple awards as well as being voted for the best barbershop in the greater Toronto area for 5 consecutive years. Sals recent venture has now taken him to partner with Christopher Caputi to open an exclusive high-performance athletic club that consists of high-performance training, personal training, fitness, and nutrition. Sal will continue to invest and explore endless opportunities and expand his companies with no site of plateauing
Nicole Elizabeth James
Nicole is a thriving Massage Therapist known for her fun-loving and candid approaches. Marking her prominence for 17 years, she started her journey as a daughter of a Jamaican father and a Honduran mother and worked her way to the US. Born with a cleft palate, Nicole fought her way through the conventions and stereotypes to finally explore her true passion. In 2016, she quit her two jobs after listening to Steve Harvey’s morning show and literally jumped off the cliff without a parachute into entrepreneurship.
While she was enjoying her entrepreneurial phase, 2018 became a life changer for her when she underwent and survived a truck accident, all with a passionate heart to ‘never stop.’ Today, she has carved a 6-figure career that thrives on bringing unique massages and rejuvenating experiences. Although her journey has been a long thread of ups and downs, she says “Life is a journey and I’m enjoying every minute of it. We all need good, bad and ugly times to appreciate how blessed we are!”
Tish Galindo
Tish Galindo, born a friendly rebel, is a successful visionary and serial entrepreneur. She is the Founder/CEO of The 360 Agency, an award-winning, Latina & Black women-owned firm.
She is a sought after thought-leader on the issues of diversity and inclusion and its power to move business. Her strong business acumen has led her to create extraordinary partnerships, influencing brands like AT&T, The Coca-Cola Company, HBO, and the Expedia Group family of brands. Tish spearheaded the agency’s rapid growth, overseeing its intellectual property division and its sought-after products and services– Creative Science℠, Culture Innovation™, and Culture Marketing University™ – the agency’s winning solutions to our client’s growth challenges. Her resilience and zest for life is a direct result of witnessing unrelenting optimism from her parents and the people in her community. She has a proven record of striving for social good as a former public servant. Tish is a graduate of Stanford University’s Executive Business Graduate Program.
Dr. V Francis John
With over four decades of experience in technology, governance, and policy, Dr. V Francis has come to don several hats as the CEO of ZtartUp.com and Director of Startup Village, mUrgency inc. & MU Holdings. Founded Intelligent Beings, an organization that seeks to leverage emerging technologies to realize smart industry and ecosystems of innovation and collaboration. As a champion of finding tech-oriented solutions, is facilitating several companies to establish and scale up in this fast-changing world. Leveraging technology to find and bridge disparities is his ongoing mission.
More importantly, after decades dabbling in various entrepreneurial ventures of his own, the prospect of imparting decades of knowledge and experience aggregation to the next generation of startups and entrepreneurs is his legacy being worked on. In a dynamic world and even more dynamic city like Dubai, the goal is to utilize the latest technology to fine-tune ideas, thoughts, processes, innovations, applications, platforms and inventions. There is no dearth of innovators, but the challenge today has become aligning them with the right resources – like an elaborate jigsaw puzzle. The goal at ZtartUp.com is to ensure that these innovators and disruptors are given a springboard to transform their ideas into viable business models. The broader goal is to be central in the nurturing of startups in the UAE by training, mentoring, and developing into the successful “homegrown” companies of Dubai for the “Made in UAE” tag.
Noah Koff
Noah is the Founder of Next Level Business Coaching, partnering with clients to realize their unique vision and potential. As a business coach he brings methodology for effective leadership. His method helps executives align business vision, values and mission. And where they are stuck, what is the next goal to achieve. “I enjoy partnering with founders and helping build business to seven and eight figure exits” says Noah.
Noah consults for Sequoia VC backed companies and his work has been recognized on the INC5000 fastest growing companies list. His coaching is a great fit for a leader who is great with ideas and sometimes without execution to get to the next level. He believes that the best way to turbo charge life is to discover your genius area and lean into it. One client talked about working on a fundraising goal and getting clarity on personal mission, “a powerful and transformational experience.”
Sarah Hartstein
Sarah turns the dream of owning an international property and running it as a vacation rental business into a reality and makes it seem easy. With over 15 years of experience in Airbnb rentals and international travel, she also owns three apartments in Croatia which she manages herself from California and teaches her clients how to do the same.
As a licensed Realtor in Central California Sarah knows how difficult it can be for some to enter this housing market, and happens to know the ease of entering it abroad. She found a niche in buying affordable properties that are tax-free* and a great way to diversify one’s portfolio. If you are looking to add an extra stream of income or want a second place to call home abroad, this is a revolutionary trend that is just beginning that you will want to be a part of.
Kristin Taracki
Drawing on nearly a decade of expertise in the legal cannabis/hemp industry, Kristin serves as the owner of KAT Consulting (wholesale gummy manufacturing) and The Shop on Main Street, with two retail locations in West Tennessee. She manages the companies alongside her husband and is responsible for their business operations and compliance.
Kristin has distinguished herself through her energy and enthusiasm for the industry. Notably, she served in leadership positions of several cannabis and hemp companies across the country and in Canada since 2013. Her knowledge and experience regarding cannabinoids and terpenes helps her develop beneficial products while educating her community on the benefits of the hemp plant.
She has advocated for patients across the country and considers her greatest career achievement to be her service on behalf of others through the medium of her products – especially those who suffer from seizure and cancer patients struggling with chemotherapy.
Caroline and Lizzy Tierney
Caroline and Lizzy are sisters and Co-Founders of DAUGHTER LESSONS NYC, a trend-forward, multi-purpose women’s activewear brand on a mission to empower the next generation of women to push the boundaries. When the Pandemic hit NYC in March 2020, Caroline and Lizzy found themselves dreaming of a career where they could do what they loved while helping others in the process. And what they loved was working out in activewear that excited them.
But the activewear they purchased kept missing the mark. The clothes were either “all trend” and “no function”, or “all-function” and “no trend”. So instead of waiting for their dream activewear brand to appear, they created it themselves. Caroline and Lizzy built the brand with the purpose of empowering young girls to lead with confidence, grace, and strength. We are proud to donate a portion of our sales to nonprofits that support girls’ education and development.
Fatimata Kane
Fatimata Kane, a thriving founder of multiple brands has always remained deeply tethered to her Senegalese roots. One of her first biggest creations was KAPWAN, an industrial cleaning company that marked its prominent presence in the industries. Her passion for entrepreneurship further led her to establish another cosmetics brand, Biokidé. The raw material of her product line is created from the oil or pulp of baobab fruits, a fruit that she discovered while exploring her traveling endeavors. With an urge to benefit women through naturally-extracted cosmetics, Kane has delivered the richness of the African raw material and the French know-how in the cosmetic sector. With an extensive knowledge of the cosmetics industry and strong partnerships around the world, Fatimata recently entered into a strong collaboration with ‘Baobab des Saveurs plant’, a fair trade brand committed to training farmers in Senegal. While her philanthropic endeavors have taken her brand to new heights, her only aim is to expand Biokidé around the world and benefit every woman out there.
Myrte Scheffer
Myrte Scheffer emerged from being a small-town country girl in the Netherlands to an International Coach for Social Impact and a Motivational Speaker. A high-level game-changer as acclaimed by The GC Index®, she has shown great energy to create impact in various entrepreneurs’ businesses, teams, organizations and professional environments. Myrte has a knack for understanding and leveraging opportunities to create innovative solutions and growth.
As a founder of ‘The Purpose Empowerment Program’ and ‘The Social Business Boost Academy‘, she has helped various purpose-driven entrepreneurs and organizations to achieve dreamt success. Her extensive expertise has uplifted various ‘Impact Players’ of the community. While working with a premium roster of clientele, she has helped them mark their philanthropic and entrepreneurial presence around the world. Myrte is also a successful author of ‘Return to Self.’ In this book, she has walked people through her rollercoaster journey of losing her multi-disabled sister, overcoming bumpy rides, and her entire transformational journey. A well-sought speaker and coach, she has captivated the world through her talks on social business and professional life transformations.
Tyler Copenhaver-Heath
Tyler Copenhaver-Heath is out to change the world, one person, one small business at a time. A serial entrepreneur with an MBA behind his name and the scientific know-how of a biochemistry undergrad, he has a deep understanding of systems and how things work. With the sale last year of his flagship start-up, APEX Customs, which went from a one-man garage to a multi-million dollar company with forty employees in under ten years, he’s now poised for something greater.
For Copenhaver-Heath, success isn’t about the money. It’s about the transformative change small businesses can bring to the lives of individuals and the communities in which they live and work. An avid believer in personal connections and the value of role models in the lives of at-risk youth, he spends his free time encouraging students to stay in school, find their worth, and know they can be and do anything they desire. It’s his way of returning to his roots, stepping alongside struggling young people as the mentor he longed for but never had.
In his latest start-up, Glaive, Copenhaver-Heath seeks to align his business acumen with his servant’s heart. This year, look to him to harness all of his talents – hard-knock experience, charisma, grit, tenacity, and confidence – to lead and inspire a new generation of entrepreneurs. By investing in people, he’s investing in what he calls collateral impact: a ripple effect of financial stability, job creation, and community development, all brought on by the success of small businesses. His passion is people. His skills are abundant. His success is proven. If he can do it, so can others. And he’s ready to help them achieve their dreams. Join the journey by following his blog, tyleruriah.com, where he writes about his experiences and showcases unsung heroes.
Renata Dyk
Renata is both an entrepreneur and a living embodiment of the renaissance spirit. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts, she began restoring some of Poland’s most famous historical sites, namely Warsaw’s Old Town and the Royal Baths. After moving abroad, she undertook a number of initiatives. She ran workshops with local artists and took part in international art exhibitions; eventually inspired to create the eye-catching mannequins you see today.
Renata’s work is a reflection of her mantra. She enjoys taking the roads less traveled and constantly growing as an artist. Combined with her entrepreneurial spirit, she continues to make a name for herself, more recently featuring in prestigious art magazines and in a local television broadcast. Nowadays, Renata continues to pursue her passion. She continues to generate interest in her growing mannequin collection whilst simultaneously mentoring the next generation of young artists.
Rich Marin
Over the course of growing as a real estate agent, Rich Marin has built the most strong client relationships, helped countless buyers and sellers find the best value and envision what their future home will look like. Rich’s extensive experience, real estate knowledge and negotiation skills make him one of the most trustworthy realtors in the industry. His web presence and great ‘sphere of influence’ have benefitted the industry’s high-end clientele. Well known for his candor, personalized strategies and positive impressions, Rich took his entrepreneurial spirit and passion for homes to new heights in the real estate world. While he is helping buyers and sellers achieve their ultimate goals, his ceaseless understanding and acumen continue to captivate lots of attention and trust.
Asha Honeysett
Asha is a psychologist, corporate consultant, and online wellbeing entrepreneur. She is the founder of Light Tower – the purpose within, and the creator of the Diamond Mind to Manifestation Model™. Asha holds a Bachelor in Psychological Science (Hons I) and a Master of Clinical Psychology. After years of working as a scientist-practitioner and a research focus in neuroscience, selective attention, and mindfulness-based practices Asha developed custom models of transcendence. Based on the principle of consilience, the models are the integration of quantum physics, neurobiology, psychology, anthropology, and traditional philosophical practices that promote wellbeing.
Asha’s signature Growth Curve of Transcendence™ and Diamond Mind to Manifestation Model™ address the fundamental flaws of the over-medicalization of the mind, and the common societal traps inherent in chasing success and happiness. Asha’s programs provide the necessary paradigm shifts and practices to create a life of sustained high performance and fulfillment from the inside out.
Final Thoughts
With so many amazing entrepreneurs, it can be difficult to pick out the best of the best. Each of them brings something unique to their business that sets them apart from other business owners. From their knowledge of the industry they work in to the way they run their company, these are entrepreneurs to watch out for in 2022!
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