Category: Founders, Leaders & Creators

  • Alyce King: Writing the Book She Needed After Becoming a Wheelchair User

    Alyce King: Writing the Book She Needed After Becoming a Wheelchair User

    When Alyce King became a full-time wheelchair user almost overnight, the guidance around her stopped where real life began. Through Becoming A Wheelchair User: Knowing What I Know Now, she has turned the practical knowledge, emotional truth and realistic hope she needed into something the next person can hold onto.…

  • Kelly Phillips: The Menopause Conversation Workplaces Can’t Afford to Ignore

    Kelly Phillips: The Menopause Conversation Workplaces Can’t Afford to Ignore

    Perimenopause changed the way Kelly Phillips understood her own body. Now, through Strong Womenopause, she’s helping women, workplaces and the wider wellbeing industry move beyond awkward awareness and into practical support. There are some conversations the workplace can only ignore for so long. Not because they’re new. Because they’ve always…

  • Amelia Peckham Raised the Standard for Mobility Aids. The Industry Should Be Paying Attention.

    Amelia Peckham Raised the Standard for Mobility Aids. The Industry Should Be Paying Attention.

    After a spinal injury at 19, Amelia Peckham was given crutches that hurt, clicked and made her feel smaller, at the very moment she needed support. Together with her mother Clare, she built Cool Crutches: a mobility aid brand changing how support, confidence and self-expression can feel. There are some…