Introducing Crush Speaker

Fatim Diarra is a member of the Parliament and she was the Chair of the City Council of Helsinki for two years prior starting in Parliament. Fatim chairs Naisasialiitto Unioni, the oldest feminist organization in Finland, and she is in the Board of Administration of the European Women’s Lobby (EWL).

As president of the Feminist Association Unioni , she led the preparations of the Oma Tahto 2020 citizens’ initiative for modernization of pregnancy termination. The citizens’ initiative led to changes in Finland's abortion legislation in 2022.

In the city council, Fati...

We are excited to introduce one of the Crush 2024 sponsors: Aspire Brands.  Aspire  Brands is a global strategic distribution agency in the beauty market. With seasoned expertise, Aspire Brands serve as a savvy guide, navigating brands through every phase of the retail cycle. 

Two reasons why we are so thrilled that Aspire Brands is joining us at Crush:

1. AspireBrands will elevate the Crush experience in a super fun way. 

You will just have to come and see it yourself! But let's just say you will be able to learn more about the company and their products in fun, unexpected ways.   

Check out our new Videobot - full of YOUR videos from Crush Event 2023.

We hope you will love the little video player as much as we do! And if you do, we would love to feature more of our community members in the Videobot in the future. 

You will find the Videobot in the bottom right corner of our site on the homepage and the event page, alluring you to click, and watch total of 23 videos from attendees of Crush 2023. 

You can also view the videos here. 

Thank you so much for everyone who took the time to  shoot these videos at Crush!

The video production was provided by METES, t...

Osta ensi kevään Crush tapahtumaan lippu jo nyt Early Bird hinnalla!

Crush Event 2023 aloitti Innovation Home Kampin kesän 2023 puutarhabilekauden kun yli 300 ihmistä kokoontui 3.5. Innovation Home Kampin sisäpihalle kuulemaan kun Malka esiintyi ja nauttimaan Kallary Designin muotinäytöksestä. 

Ja parasta tietysti oli mahtava seura! 

Ensi vuoden Crush tapahtuma järjestetään 8.5.2024. Luvassa vielä enemmän ohjelmaa ja puhujia. 

Osta Crush-lippu nyt Early Bird hintaan.

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Crush is a new kind of business event for rebel leaders.

Crush was founded by thought-leaders Anna Pyykkö & Katja Presnal who own Female Founders Suomi and Insider Society communities for supporting business owners. 

Crush Movement's vision is to make Finland the first country in the world, where the gender equality gap is closed. We influence the business world towards more equality and help female, immigrant, and marginalized people-owned companies grow.

Do you think diversity, equity, and inclusion are important for equality and human rights, but also needed for business growth?

We thin...

Introducing Crush Event Speaker

Riina Laaksonen is the founder and CEO of Nordic Fit Mama. She is a mother of three children, entrepreneur, surfer and snowboarder. Riina has dedicated my (working) life to promoting the well-being of women and especially mothers.

Riina's interest in exercise for mothers stems from her own experiences and the fact that she herself made all possible mistakes when training after pregnancy. It inspired Riina to study to become a personal trainer specializing in maternity exercise.

Nordic Fit Mama has already coached 30,000 Finnish women, piloted internationally ...

Introducing Crush Event Speaker

Kristian Presnal is a 20-year-old Finnish-American photographer, videographer and visual artist. He currently works as a full-time videographer at Aalto University, and will continue at Aalto as a student in the autumn, studying design. 

Kristian moved to Finland five years ago, after having lived in the United States, Sweden, and Canada. His international upbringing influenced his interest in structural and radical approaches to international relations and political philosophy. He studied Global Politics in the International Baccalaureate, and has participate...

Introducing Crush Event Speaker

Olivia Kuusinen has been leading Suomen Rokotepalvelu for three years. In three years, Olivia has tripled the company's turnover and scaled the business outside the capital region as well. She is the caretaker and the "sole care giver" of her two sons, 15-year-old Jim and 7-year-old Alec. 

Olivia also serves as the chairman of the board of the Mothers in Business association. She has been involved in the association's activities since 2016. Mothers in Business, or MiB, is a network for women who like their work and want to develop their skills. MiB's goal is a...

Introducing Crush Event Speaker

Mari Paalosalo-Jussinmäki is the editor-in-chief of Eeva, eeva.fi and Kauneus and Terveys. She’s also the head of women’s media at A-lehdet. Previously she’s worked as an editor-in-chief of Olivia magazine, the managing editor of Kodin Kuvalehti and a financial journalist.

Eeva is the largest women’s magazine, and Kauneus ja Terveys is the most enjoyable wellness magazine in Finland. Openly feminist Eeva.fi website was launched in November 2022.

Mari Paalosalo-Jussinmäki, päätoimittaja ja A-lehtien naisten median vetäjä

Mari Paalosalo-Jussinmäki on Eevan ...

Introducing Crush Event Speaker

Laura Strömberg is the founder of Dagsmark Petfood, and she grew the company from ground up to a turnover of 10 million euros. Laura just recently moved from the position of CEO to the boardmember. She is also involved in the operations of several other companies, and she is a consultant, mentor and a speaker. 

Laura has a doctorate in Economics and works as an honorary teacher at Turku School of Economics in the Entrepreneurs in Residence program. Laura swears by the values ​​of humanity, courage and sustainable business when it comes to leadership. 

Laura S...

Introducing Crush Event Speaker

Jaana Hirsikangas has been the executive director of UN Women Finland since 2019. She has previously worked to strengthen women's rights and economic livelihood as the liaison manager of the Women's Bank and has lived and worked in development projects in Costa Rica, Uganda, India, the United States, and Thailand.

UN Women is the UN organization delivering programmes, policies and standards that uphold women’s human rights and ensure that every woman and girl lives up to her full potential. UN Women is the world's leading organization promoting women's and gir...

 Introducing Crush Event Speaker

Margo Roi moved to Finland from the Kyiv region 9 years ago, when she was 18 years old. 

She was working as a programmer when the Russian invasion of Ukraine started and immediately knew she has to do something to help. She took a leave of absence from her programmer job, and founded a FinUA to help Ukrainians. 

Throughout the past year, FinUA managed to build software that has reached more than 360,000 people from different marginalized communities and especially the Ukrainians in Finland (and some European-wide). 

FinUA is the #1 information service for U...