Introducing Crush Speaker
Laura McGrath is the visionary leader behind Lola&Lykke, a groundbreaking women's health company dedicated to transforming maternal care through a unique blend of technology and physical products.
Laura and Lola&Lykke’s commitment to diversity, inclusion, and social impact is evident in their work. They prioritize women's well-being, and their focus goes beyond business to social responsibility. Women make up more than 50% of the world´s population and make most of the healthcare decisions for their families. It´s time to bring...
Introducing Crush Speaker
Kristina Masalin is a Product Manager at ŌURA focused on developing innovative solutions to promote overall health and longevity. Prior to this, Kristina focused exclusively on building women’s health features and was part of the team responsible for introducing first-of-its-kind features for Oura, including Period Prediction and Cycle Insights and more. She has been a key contributor in driving areas of strategic innovation for the company and continues to set the product vision and strategy for her team.
Kristina joined Oura with more than a decade...
Introducing Crush Keynote Speaker
Candice Kilpatrick Brathwaite is a VP-level copywriter at JPMorgan Chase, but her path to success wasn't a traditional one. Raised in Alabama with no international travel, prestigious internships, or Ivy League education, Candice faced an uphill battle to succeed in the corporate world.
She endured countless challenges, including navigating corporate etiquette, dealing with unscrupulous startup founders, confronting gender inequality and sexism, and weathering job losses. Candice's candid and relatable storytelling empowers others, especially women,...
Introducing Crush Speaker
Priyanka Banerjee is an experienced diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant. She works closely with companies to kick-start and advance their DEI journey by helping them with their DEI survey, analysis, strategy development, learning development, facilitation and consulting.
Priyanka has a background working in the tech industry supporting the HR and people operations. She has been actively working in DEI industry for over 6 years and has helped hundreds of leaders in their DEI journeys.
Her mission is to help leaders and companies understand the...
Introducing Crush Speaker
Aaro Angerpuro is a Sustainability Analyst at Impaktly, dedicated to integrating sustainability at the heart of businesses to encourage regenerative growth. He has been recognized as one of the top young change-makers of 2024 in Finland by Ashoka. Aaro led the Nordic Business Diversity Index 2024 by Impaktly, a research initiative on leadership diversity of over 600 Nordic Nasdaq-listed companies.
His commitment extends into advocacy as he is a member of the Nuorten Agenda 2030 group, promoting sustainable development under Finland’s Sustainable...
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Planning a life together? Take these legal issues into account to secure your financial peace of mind.
Financial awareness between partners or spouses and open money talk are important contributors to a financial peace of mind. In addition to discussion and planning, legislation can have a surprisingly large impact on couples’ finances at the various stages of their relationship and life.
Read about the legal issues you should prepare for when planning your life...
Thank you so much for everyone who joined us for the Akateeminen x Crush event at the Akateeminen bookstore last week - despite the April snow storm weather.
We hosted two panel discussions, moderated by Crush founders Anna Pyykkö and Katja Presnal. Crush is an equality-promoting movement that breaks patriarchal norms in the corporate world, and our goal is to make Finland the first country where the gender gap has closed.
Our panel discussions at Akateeminen focused on two topics: importance of networking and how to make big goals a reality.
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Be You, Be Successful
In the business world, authenticity often takes a backseat to professionalism. Especially for women, it can be challenging to become visibly authentic. However, research shows that embracing authenticity can be a game-changer for women leaders, entrepreneurs, and businesswomen, increasing their freedom to be themselves in the office.
Authenticity is a powerful tool for success, enabling women to build...
Shevestments SPARK at Crush
Shevestments SPARK is an exciting Shark Tank-style Pitching competition for female and non-binary founders, held at Crush Event on May 8th, 2024. You will need an event ticket to participate.
The pitching competition is facilitated by Hanna Nyholm and Mirva Nevalainen of Shevestments.
Shevestments is an educational investment platform and scaleup service powerhouse with the aim to connect female entrepreneurs with investors and capital, educate more women to become business angels and VCs, create more opportunities for women to make an...
Virtual Crush? No! But also yes!
We have received this question from a few people, so we wanted to provide you an answer, and test if there is an interest...
Q: Will Crush Event 2024 be live-streamed or available online?
A: No, it will not be live-streamed and we do not sell virtual tickets.
The Crush 2024 event will be in person, but we will record it, and potentially offer it for a fee later on.
To test the interest of virtual access to our conference content, we have a surprise for you: you will get all of Crush 2023 panels and keynotes for FREE when you sign up to our...
Tervetuloa Helsingin Akateemisen Kirjakaupan Kohtaamispaikalle seuraamaan paneelikeskusteluja ja verkostoitumaan. Paneelit moderoivat Crushin perustajat Anna Pyykkö ja Katja Presnal.
Crush on tasa-arvoa edistavä liike, joka murtaa patriarkaalisia normeja yritysmaailmassa, ja jonka tavoitteena on tehdä Suomesta ensimmäinen maa jossa sukupuolten välinen kuilu on sulkeutunut.
Ohjelma
16:30 Tervetuloa
16:35 Paneeli: Miksi tarvitsemme verkostoja?
Kuule parhaat vinkit miten verkostot auttavat luomaan unelmien uran ja menestymään...
Introducing Crush Speaker
Shadia Rask (she/her) is a PhD with more than a decade of professional experience working on diversity, equality and non-discrimination.
She is a Research Manager at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), but on her second year of study leave, studying Corporate Responsibility at Hanken.
Her PhD in public health examined diversity and health in the population. Shadia has led research and development projects focusing on diversity and inclusion in working life. She was responsible for the diversity-promoting...
