About Us

Core Team and Advisors

Karen Lee Downes

Core Team Director, UK, Costa Rica, Australia

Co-Founder FemmeQ. Karen has worked for over three decades as a social entrepreneur, activist for systemic change, and business consultant. She has designed and led development programmes for leaders and their teams, across all sectors of society, applying the feminine principle.

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Karen Wooldridge

Core Team Partner, USA

Stand4Peace Co-Founder and HeartMath Certified Trainer. Former Executive / adidas, FILA, Under Armour, Beyond Yoga. Sector: Sport & Wellness Industry, Mentorship, Connector, Positive Activist, Host of FemmeQ LA (Los Angeles).

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Constanze Baier

Core Team Partner, Germany

Corporate Sales Executive, Building High performance teams. Sector: Feminine Leadership, Embodiment, Wellbeing, Shamanism, Indigenous Wisdom, Sensuality (Berlin)

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Erin Toppenberg

Core Team Partner, USA

Erin is the co-founder of The Waterbearers, an organization that empowers women around the world through access to clean water. She is also a certified trainer for HeartMath and shares heart coherence techniques within rural villages as well as corporate boardrooms. Her mission in life is to is to connect more and more in the heart, while expanding the consciousness and compassion in the world for which she has found water to be the purest conduit.

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Vanesse Soper

Core Team Partner, Canada

With a paradigm shift in career and lifestyle perspective, I moved away from my fast-paced technology consulting career into a world of health and holistic nutrition. I graduated from the […]

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Franziska Jakob-Friedenberger

Core Team Partner, Germany

I love people. I believe in visions and that we are the creators of our lives. I stand for authentic relationships, transformation by heart, co-creation and human profoundness. Shaped by […]

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Aline Costa

Core Team Partner, UK

I am a Purpose Driven Transformation Leader with extensive brand, strategy and sustainability experience. An independent consultant with more than 16 years of experience working in purpose development and sustainability […]

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Scilla Elworthy

Core Team Advisor, UK & the World

Founder The Business Plan for Peace, The Mighty Heart & Co-founder FemmeQ. Scilla is a three times Nobel Peace Prize nominee for her work with Oxford Research Group to develop effective dialogue between nuclear weapons policymakers worldwide and their critics.

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Indra Adnan

Core Team Advisor, UK

Indra Adnan is a life-long student of power and agency. As a political entrepreneur she has Co-initiated The Alternative UK which publishes The Daily Alternative, convenes new system actors and builds and engages with cosmolocal community agency networks (CANs) all over the world.

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Steve Waddell

Core Team Advisor, USA

For over 35 years, Steve has worked with transformations as a consultant, community organizer, educator, researcher, and collaborative leader. His work with organizations, networks, and systems ranges from local to […]

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