Women’s Biz Global: International Women's Day Woman to Watch 2023 Runner-Up's

Joanna Walden

After decades in a high flying global advertising career, Joanna Walden left to pursue a dream; a career with more meaning and purpose in the world. In 2020, she published her debut transformational travel memoir, ‘The Inside Hustle’ sharing the story of her adventurous personal exploration around the globe including hiking 900+ km’s on an ancient pilgrim path across the north of Spain, climbing Mt Kilimanjaro as one of her first expeditions.

During this wild journey in pursuit of universal truth, Joanna shares through her unique and inspirational story, her personal struggles, and how she navigated through them by bringing in a new and different perspective to life on this planet. Readers have experienced extraordinary transformation and liberation from reading/listening to her book saying it was “life changing”, “they finally stop searching,” and “have found myself questioning and revisiting my path”. Joanna now works as a visionary transformation specialist guiding others through her signature process of change. Every woman needs a ‘Joanna’ in their life.

joannawalden.com/the-inside-hustle

Jane Vandermeer

Jane truly cares about the women she works with. Jane has created a new concept and a different approach to fashion and styling. As a fashion entrepreneur, she knows that giving busy women tangible actionable tools of support in turn creates empowerment. Far beyond surface level. Through her insightful ability to truly ‘see’ the woman beyond the clothes, she treats women with kindness and compassion. As a natural born leader, who leads by example through strength, grace and charisma, Jane is an absolute powerhouse. Through her love of fashion, combined with a constant pursuit of personal learning, Jane has a depth and wisdom, intuitively designed for feminine leadership. Jane’s ultimate belief is that we need more. We are looking for more within our leaders, by knowing and understanding ourselves more deeply. It is when we sit strongly, powerfully, humbly and balanced within ourselves, we carry an extra depth of power.

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Katherine Wells

Katherine Wells is the CEO and founder of Serenity, the only network that allows ageing service providers, older adults, and their loved ones to “care together.” Prior to Serenity, Katherine spent 10+ years as a family caregiver. Caring for her parents both inspired her to start her company and get more involved in creating a future we all want to live in.

Through the challenges she faced in being the person responsible for taking care of her parents, Katherine realised there was a desperate need for streamlining communication and collaboration between senior care teams and loved ones. She was on a mission to find a solution that would improve the situation by increasing efficiency for providers while giving patients and their families a voice. That’s where Serenity comes into play. Serenity’s purpose is to connect the entire senior care ecosystem to improve the lives of older adults. We say, thank you for all that you do!

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Pooja Bhatia

Pooja Bhatia is an author, host, and founder, who aims to simplify things for the entrepreneurs and contribute back to the ecosystem. Pooja shares stories of women entrepreneurs and experts through the iconic Dhvani Bhanushali, with the aim to inspire others. As a keen connector, Pooja is also a Collaborator for Investing In Talent. With over 16 years of experience managing and commercialising IP, she has transferred 65+ technologies in her career and has been responsible for setting up and running a technology transfer office as the Chief Manager. The world needs innovators like Pooja, to connect the benefits and lasting effects of IP excellence in business.

Tracey Hall

Being in and around business for over 30 years, Tracey has noticed that ethics, values, and integrity seem to take a backseat, and she is on a mission to change that! So, Tracey created the Ethical Direct Sellers Association, for business owners to learn skills that work with ethics, values, and integrity. Currently, Tracey is also working with Global Sisters as a volunteer which is all about business owners starting out.

By putting emphasis on ethics, Tracey encourages business owners to think about every decision with a different perspective. Women are amazing when it comes to business and Tracey is passionate about business owners questioning their decisions based on their vision, mission, and purpose; their entrepreneurial ‘why’, all the time.

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