Deep Dive: Female leadership that lasts

Self-aware leadership with scale, impact, and fearless collaboration

It’s time to move beyond buzzwords and panel chatter. We’ll strip “female leadership” down to what it really looks like in action: scaling companies, setting strategy, owning decisions, protecting health, and wielding influence in boardrooms where the rules still feel rigged.

The future isn’t a battle of masculine vs. feminine styles. It’s the synergy of both – empathy with execution, intuition with structure.

You will learn

• How to convert radical self-awareness into a growth engine for teams and revenue
• Playbooks for making your voice heard and shifting power dynamics – even where old rules dominate
• Ways to blend empathy and decisiveness to build cross-gender alliances that multiply impact

Speakers

Break 1

Leadership that lasts: steering through change
Speaker: Stephanie Knoors & Annelou de Groot (CEO Cushman & Wakefield)

Annelou de Groot is CEO of Cushman & Wakefield Netherlands and Executive Partner within the EMEA region. She leads an organization of around 500 professionals with a clear focus on data-driven strategy and customer-centric growth. With over 20 years of experience in commercial real estate - including leadership positions at IWG and Dynamis - her leadership is defined by financial sharpness, inclusivity, and the ability to realize sustainable growth.

Annelou represents engaged and forward-looking leadership, guiding teams through times of transition. In this session, Leadership that lasts: steering through change, she shares her vision on how to stay true to yourself, provide direction to others, and hold course in a rapidly changing world.

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Break 2

Leadership that lasts: building brands and teams with staying power
Speaker: Stephanie Knoors & Julia Veer (CEO Clay And Glow)

Julia Veer is co-founder and CEO of Clay And Glow, the skincare brand she launched in 2019 out of her own personal need. Together with her partner, she started without external investors, guided by a clear vision: skincare should be fun, vegan, and transparent. Today, Clay And Glow has grown into a multimillion-euro brand with a strong community, a mature retail footprint, and a team built on ownership and shared values.

Julia shows that true leadership is not about chasing quick hypes, but about making sustainable choices: capital-efficient growth, staying loyal to brand values, and building a company that lasts. In this session, Leadership that lasts: building brands and teams with staying power, Julia shares how she steers her company in a competitive market, empowers her team to grow with the success, and positions her brand as a long-term player in the beauty industry.

For who?

Female entrepreneurs and leaders who refuse to fit in, choose to stand out, and aim to reshape the game for good.