long-termThis list highlights ten women leaders who have earned recognition through measurable achievements and consistent decision making. They built influence by taking on complex challenges, guiding teams through change, and staying focused on long term outcomes. Their paths are different, but each story shows that discipline, curiosity, and adaptability are essential in modern leadership. Readers will find practical takeaways from leaders who turned intent into results.
Jamie Rang
Jamie Rang is the owner of Ink Images and a permanent makeup artist at Pretty in Ink, a leading woman-owned tattoo studio in Williston, North Dakota. With eight years of experience in the permanent makeup industry, Jamie has built a career grounded in both artistry and empowerment.
Her story began not as an artist, but as a client searching for confidence. Growing up without eyebrows led her to explore permanent makeup, but instead of booking a service, she enrolled in a course that would change her life. That leap of faith revealed her purpose — helping others feel confident in their own skin through precise, natural, and transformative work.
Through Ink Images, Jamie offers customized permanent makeup services, specializing in brows and lip blushing. At Pretty in Ink, she creates an inclusive environment where every client feels seen and celebrated. Beyond her artistry, Jamie is an educator dedicated to guiding new artists in mastering both technical skills and the mindset needed for long-term success.
Her mission is to inspire confidence in clients who sit in her chair and in students who learn from her, proving that beauty and resilience often start with the courage to create your own path.
Stephanie Casaubon
“After chasing success, I chose alignment — and everything changed.” Bookish by nature, Stephanie Casaubon built a thriving career in emergency medicine before a life-changing diagnosis revealed that achievement alone could never bring true fulfillment.
Now, as an internationally recognized coach, specializing in Life Design and Creative Thinking, Stephanie helps individuals reconnect with their inner wisdom — transforming restlessness into clarity and purpose. She knows firsthand that meaningful change begins in the quiet courage to listen, realign, and decide what comes next.
Stephanie is also a keynote speaker on resilience, drawing on her own journey of defying the odds, helping audiences embrace their own uncertainties and build the confidence to create lives that matter.
Her second publication, Beyond Success (available for preorder), explores her philosophy that we don’t have to choose between our success and our soul.
Real success is living in alignment with the soul.
Doortje Zainal
Doortje Zainal (Goddess Cleostasia), founder, owner, and director of the Sacred Kink Monastery, pioneers a transformative theological framework bridging theology, spirituality, diplomacy, healing, meta-politics, science, social work, and performance arts.
Her inventions, Systematic Sacred Kink Healing and Sacred Kink Diplomacy, establish Care as a luminous metaphysical and systematic axiom, the Ground of Love as Being itself, like parthenogenesis in a virgin queen bee: a self-generative principle that underlies and makes possible all relation, enabling grace, trust, healing, and peace. Care is not simply an energetic feminine principle like Shakti, nor does consciousness produce it; it is both the creative generative principle and higher consciousness itself. Unlike feminist theologians, who often frame care in relational or symbolic terms, Zainal grounds it ontologically as the life-giving and sustaining foundation of reality, integrating the divine feminine within the Holy Trinity.
This paradigm reframes the Father from a distant transcendent ‘Sky Daddy’ to an immanent St. Joseph figure, lovingly embedded within the luminous ground of Care. As above, so below, her work reflects Christ’s kenotic act, making himself small so the Bride may rise: a sacred union of love, care, and feminine ascent, always grounded in mutual consent. It heralds the Russian Period foreseen by theosophical thinkers, where compassion, Sophia-wisdom, and luminous Care shape civilization.
Prudence Hatchett
Prudence Hatchett is a Leadership Resilience Strategist who helps leaders cultivate bold resilience that fuels inspiration, impact, and sustainable success. With over 20 years of experience spanning business, education, mental health, coaching, and authorship, she brings a unique blend of clinical expertise and real-world leadership insight.
Prudence is a 3x best-selling solo author and 5x best-selling co-author, business owner, global speaker, National Certified Counselor, multi-state Licensed Professional Counselor, Board Qualified Clinical Supervisor, Board Certified Coach, multi-endorsed Master Educator, and multi-certified mental health professional. She is the founder of PH Counseling, LLC™ and her mental wellness brand Learn with Prudence™.
Her work includes the bestseller “Evolutionary Resilience: Conquering the Emotional Intrusions of Anxiety, Depression, & Trauma. Through her guidance, people learn to reshape thought patterns, release negativity, and make resilience a lifestyle. Prudence offers coaching, digital products, books/journals, and courses.
April King
April King is an Afrofuturistic artist and conscious entrepreneur activating a new era in music and wellness industries. A recording artist, producer, psychic medium, and founder of The Sacred Arts Institute (SAI), she’s created her “Omniverse”—an ecosystem where music, mysticism, and business strategy converge.
At SAI, April elevates insight into impact through psychic readings, intuitive business coaching, and workshops born from her transformation. Rooted in Militant Positivity™️, her journey from struggle to sovereignty became a holistic awakening to health, love, and abundance—fueled by green cuisine, Lyrical Manifestation™️, and a growing global reach.
Her upcoming album “Life in 5D,” music and wellness podcast “Keepin’ It Green with April King,” and performance series “LIVE at the Lotuship” aren’t just projects—they’re portals. Equal parts priestess and CEO, April King is an emerging New Thought leader you need on your radar—and in your playlists. Her work proves that art, intuition, and evolution are inseparable.
Melissa Sherwood
Melissa Sherwood is the owner of Tocco Divino Salon. Melissa started out as a hairstylist in a small town in Michigan with dreams of growing and having her own salon. After 12 years, she moved to California and started all over again. Now, in a city where she knew no one, she had to make a name for herself. 11 years of continued education, hard work, and connecting with the community helped her to finally open her own salon. The heart behind owning her own business was to mentor others in the beauty industry to achieve their dreams. Melissa’s love for people went into every inch of Tocco Divino Salon. From creating an atmosphere that feels like home, to putting in a coffee shop that is open to the public. To some, this seemed odd, but to Melissa, it was a way to bring the community together in a safe atmosphere and create a space with a “Cheers” feel where everyone knows your name.
Victoria Rader
Victoria Ra, Ph.D., is a global pioneer of Quantum Personal Development and founder of YU2SHINE. Born in Ukraine, she overcame significant challenges to pursue her dreams in the U.S. She holds a Ph.D. in Metaphysical Studies and is proficient in merging universal laws with daily application for fulfillment and success.
Her approach, Quantum Personal Development, blends unique spiritual, energy, and practical methods to address and transform underlying patterns hindering personal growth, focusing on peace, prosperity, and purpose. Through her Empower-mE Academy and Quantum Freedom program, her team of coaches offers coaching at various levels.
Victoria is also an award-winning, best-selling author with works like "Prosper Me: The 35 Universal Laws to Make Money Work for You." Her tools, including the Empower-mE App, promote personal growth. As a motivational speaker, she inspires audiences to realize their potential and lead purposeful lives, while performing powerful mindset shifts and even audience healing sessions.
Mamonaheng Koenane
After applying to several European schools, Mamonaheng got accepted at Wilson’s Hospital School in Multyfarnham, Ireland. At the age of 17, she left her home country, Lesotho, which led to her spending half of her lifetime in Europe. She would later pursue her third-level studies in Computer Science at Griffith College Dublin, and upon completion, worked at several start-up companies in different European Countries. Having come back home, she co-founded the first coding academy and the first tech conference. In 2020, she founded Impact School, which aims to bring a higher standard of computer science lessons to Lesotho, with subjects that include Blockchain, Virtual and Augmented Reality, amongst others. They are currently working on the implementation of their partnership with a Silicon Valley tech school. This partnership will see the youth of her country secure meaningful jobs locally and internationally.
Taeyang An
Taeyang An is the founder of Seoul Sisters, a food-tech company based in South Korea. With a deep passion for fostering cultural connections through food, Taeyang’s journey began in 2010 when she traveled to the Philippines to introduce Korean cuisine by selling Tteokbokki at a night market. This marked the start of what would become a global venture.
Seoul Sisters’ Kimchi Seasoning has achieved international recognition, becoming a bestseller on Amazon US and expanding to 17 countries within just a year of its launch. The product has gone viral, with customers appreciating the care and high-quality ingredients used in its production. Her team continues to push forward, committed to developing authentic Korean flavors and innovative products.
Seoul Sisters strives to integrate the traditional flavors of Korean cuisine with cutting-edge technology, offering a contemporary reinterpretation of healthy Korean food.
Susana Campanella
Susana Campanella is a millennial, a Biologist, a Latina, a mom, a wife, an entrepreneur, and the CEO and owner of Gluteboost. Gluteboost is redirecting and redefining powerhouse herbal formulations for targeted-driven results. Their plant-derived formulations are a powerful, innovative approach that brings solutions to this sociocultural demand for bigger curves.
With a desire to impact the beauty and health industry with something completely innovative, this GB Babe is all about the science behind Gluteboost products. With an academic background with a concentration in Molecular Biology, Gluteboost has nicely coalesced with her business indulgence: beauty, fitness, and health. She not only loves GB products but is adamant about giving back to the GB community by making an impact in other women’s lives with resources and inspiration.
As someone who struggled with insecurities, Susana strongly believes women need to feel inspired to care for their bodies, improve their overall health, and feel empowered to transform their bodies and their mentality. Gluteboost is not only about the products and the results they cause, but also about effecting change in women’s everyday lives.