Hi ya :) I'm Alex, 2020 GDW Digital Female Leader Finalist and one of 25 Business Insider "Future Makers" in 2021. I also never went to university, don't have other formal education after high school, I'm not graceful, I look ridiculous in any kind of heel and barely passed math at high school. I became the youngest leader in my previous company and am now leading three teams in Europe's leading Banking-as-a-Service company, Solarisbank. I do most things a bit differently from what is expected, not because I'm a special snowflake but because I never fit in on the beaten path . I have not only made piece with that, I think of it as one of my strongest traits: I'm creative, fearless and hard to ignore: I walk up to an entirely male board in my probation period and tell them we need to do more for gender equity at our company. Faced with having to go back to a job I didn't like I made lifesize cut-out of my previous companies products and tailored them to myself to showcase my achievements and ambitions - landing a new role when nobody was expecting me to. When I don't do weird things like that, I lead teams and am passionate about empowering others and creating platforms vor voices that usually go unheard.

My Mentoring Topics

• Empathic Leadership
• Agile Leadership
• Pitching for a women's network/diversity network
• Setting up a women's network/diversity network
• Getting ahead without changing yourself
• Thriving in male-dominated industries
• Impostor Syndrome