To mark the occasion, this edition of FemWealth shines a light on the leading scientists and founders advancing mental health & wellbeing:
Christina Maslach, Professor of Psychology (Emerita) and a core researcher at the Healthy Workplaces Center at the University of California, Berkeley; she is the pioneer of research on the definition, predictors, and measurement of job burnout and the creator of the Maslach Burnout Inventory
Dr. Daisy Fancourt, Associate Professor of Psychobiology & Epidemiology at the University College London, who launched the Wellcome-funded CovidMinds programme, to study the impact of Covid-19 on Mental Health and Wellbeing
April Koh, Co-founder and CEO of Spring Health, a unicorn startup that provides employers with a comprehensive and effective solution for employee mental well-being, using proprietary machine-learning technology to provide personalized treatment recommendations
“The most expensive problem in the mental health space is trial and error.”
(C) April Koh, Co-founder and CEO of Spring Health
Dr. Emily Anhalt, Co-founder and Chief Clinical Officer & Alexa Meyer, Co-founder of Coa, a therapist-led, emotional fitness class platform that includes therapist matchmaking, group classes, and one-on-one therapy.
“As our personal and work lives are intertwining and overlapping more than ever, it is imperative to be aware of our psychological tendencies, communication styles, and relationship patterns.” - Dr. Emily Anhalt
Roni Frank, Co-founder & Head of Clinical Services of Talkspace, a US-based online therapy platform that offers individual, couples, teens, and psychiatric support
Alyson Watson, Founder & CEO of Modern Health, a personalized preventative mental health care platform for enterprises around the world
Ariana Alexander-Sefre, Co-Founder & CEO at SPOKE, an app that creates artist-centric music and lyricism-led mindfulness experience, aimed at helping the world's most creative minds feel at ease
Ines Räth, Co-founder and Co-CEO of nilo.health, a Germany based company that offers ‘mental health at work’ services
Nora Blum, Katrin Bermbach, and Farina Schürzfeld, Co-founders of Selfapy, a Germany-based company that offers a therapy support tool that helps recognize negative patterns of thought and train new behavior
Kim Palmer, Founder and CEO of Clementine, a hypnotherapy app for sleep, confidence and anxiety specifically developed for women
Julia Néel Biz, Co-founder and CEO ofTeale, a France-based holistic mental health platform focused on the workforce of small to medium businesses and tech scale-ups
Viktoria Lindner, Co-founder & CEO, and Leonie Ellerbrock, Co-Founder & COO of Menta, a Germany-based platform on a mission to democratize access to mental health knowledge and bring scalable learning content from psychologists to everyone
“If you start believing women, and you start believing that they’re not crazy every time they say they have pain somewhere, you can improve health outcomes. Women’s health is such a taboo. But if I don’t talk about it, with all the privilege I have, then no one’s going to talk about it.” - Fidji Simo
