Females to Follow Award Sponsors

TOPX Network is proud to partner with some amazing female-founded companies that are offering coaching sessions for the winners of Females to Follow Awards 2025.

We are grateful to our sponsors for their support in empowering women to succeed and taking an action to close the gap.

All Rising Stars

The winners of Industry, Science and Entrepreneurship will also be awarded with a free masterclass for all winners, plus an individual coaching session with Barbara Rogoski, Executive Communication Coach and Trainer at Successful Speaker Now.

1-hour online masterclass to unlock your best badass personna
1-on-1 coffee chat coaching session
Free copy of Barbara's popular book Boring to Brilliant! An Inspirational Guide for Speakers

Barbara will guide the three rising stars in exploring their individual challenges and goals to strengthen communication skills. She will share practical tips on executive presence, storytelling, and developing their most confident, badass persona. Later, during an in-person coffee chat, she will deepen this work with a hands-on coaching session, and offer tools based on the challenges and goals identified in the first call.

Rising Star in Industry

Mira Vasic, Senior Partner and Co-owner at In Touch Female Leadership & Career Academy, Founder of femlinq, offers the Industry Award winner a free spot in the Female Career Game workshop.

Choose a day between 24-2-2026 or 23-4-2026
How does the game work?

Sign up individually, and you will get assigned to a team. Together with your team, you will compete for the coveted title of the first female CEO of Pear, a fictional yet realistic organization. In an exciting competition against the other team, you will progress through four career stages: Junior, Senior, Manager, and Director. Which team will reach the top first?

This business game is organized by the In Touch Female Leadership & Career Academy, known for the inspiring training Stratego for Women. The game serves as a perfect follow-up and refresher for past participants but can also be played without prior experience in the training.

Rising Star in Science

Hanneke Takkenberg, Professor, Co-founder and Executive Director of Erasmus Centre for Women and Organisations (ECWO) offers the winner of Rising Star in Science a free access to one of these following courses:
- Communication with Power and Impact for Women
- Negotiation with Power and Impact for Women

Both are one day courses
Take place in person on the campus of Erasmus University Rotterdam

The benefit to the Science Rising Star will be for the winner to undertake a programme that is fundamental to ECWO’s commitment to not only empowering women, catalysing cultural shifts and building diverse and influential networks, but also creating systemic change through social innovation and inclusion.

Rising Star in Entrepreneurship

The Entrepreneurship category winner will receive a free access to the Finance for Growth Course, a course tailored to learn the fundamentals of financial concepts and business valuation for life sciences companies. This award is offered by Linda van de Burgwal, Academic Entrepreneur at Vrije Universiteit.

Free access to the Finance for Growth Course
From 31 October to 12 December 2025
7 intensive modules over 7 weeks
In person course at Vrije University
F4G certificate at the end of the course

Based upon real case studies within the Life Sciences & Health sector the rising star will learn the ins and outs of the fundamentals of strategic financing. She will benefit from the expertise of investors, investment bankers, and successful company founders who bring real-world insights and firsthand experience in financing, growth strategies, and value creation within the sector.