The world is full of powerful women in business, and with social media, you can connect with all of them.

When you think of business, what image comes to mind? It used to be a man in a suit, sitting behind a desk but the modern business world is changing because women are shifting it.

Many of the most successful women in business right now don't sit behind a desk or wear a suit (but if they do, they rock it of course). There is an important relationship between how social media influencers are changing the world of business, marketing and branding.

To be successful, there is a lot to learn from the innovative changes women are making in business. Reading the profiles of influential women, you come across the word coach all the time. Coaching is a new form of business strategy in which entrepreneurs form communities and lift each other up to be more successful.

If you are an entrepreneur looking to kick start your career, here are 10 women to follow on Instagram to be successful. They are trailblazers in their fields and from their experience, we can stand on the shoulders of giants.

11 Chance Cessna

Chance Cessna is a woman of all trades from business strategy, fitness and financial management. She lifted herself out of a paycheck to paycheck lifestyle and learned to monetize her social media, hopping on the reels trend at the right time. In her financial coaching courses, she focuses on helping others achieve multiple streams of income through investments and monetizing.

Aside from learning how to accumulate wealth (financially and personally), she helps entrepreneurs using her own experience and skills. Follow Cessna to accessible tips on leveraging your income, and for specific coaching for economically navigating entrepreneurship.

IG: @ceochancecessna

10 Alyssa Nobriga

Alyssa Nobriga started her career as a family and marriage therapist and launched her business into a full-on life coaching program. Her company, The Institute of Coaching Mastery supports hundreds of entrepreneurs to grow their businesses and get more clients. As a specialist in mental health, she emphasizes the importance of mindfulness, spirituality, and wellness which is a refreshing take on the direction of modern business.

She grew her business with social media, making her one of the original influencers in business paving the way for this model of marketing and branding. Her career has been based on empowering others professionally and closing the gap between mental health in relation to a growing business. Nobriga is at the height of her career but still someone to watch out for.

IG: @alyssanobriga

9 Rachel Luna

Rachel Luna's branding Girlconfident, puts forward her message to the world: helping people to get what they want in life. This successful woman did not have it easy, losing both of her parents to AIDs as a child, and struggling with an eating disorder into adulthood among other self-destructive behaviors.

She is an Iraq war vet, and it was when she was stationed in Germany helping wounded soldiers that she realized she wants to help others. After investing in herself and contracting a life coach, she became one too. Now with her podcast and coaching program, she helps others get what they want in life.

IG: @girlconfident

8 Crystal Grant

Crystal Grant is an experienced nurse and CEO of SuperScript Wellness. Using her healthcare experience, she makes holistic health accessible on social media and through her blog.

Along with close friend and healthcare professional Kyeeesha Clayborne, they bring together an online community for health, wellness and spirituality. Grant experienced many health issues that held her back but fought resiliently to rebuild her life around wellness. She now seeks to lift holistic healthcare out of the hospital and help others use wellness to build a strong life.

IG: @superscriptwellness

7 Natalie Ellis

Natalie Ellis has one of the fastest growing online platforms for women in business, BossBabe. With over 1.3 million women in the BossBabe community, Ellis engages with her social media followers as well on her youtube channel and podcast.

Her program is based on helping women build a business strategy and find wellness through the community. BossBabe is unique in that it brings women together to build their businesses as opposed to one on one coaching. Ellis was an original community builder on social media platforms before it was a trend.

IG: @iamnatalie

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5 Dr. Nicole LaPera

This psychologist has over 4.4 million followers on Instagram and has taken psychology into social media. Historically, there are barriers to receiving mental health care, but Dr. Nicole LePera builds community through healing your inner child and how trauma affects our lives and relationships, on her social media platforms.

She created a community for folks who are committed to self-healing called the Self Healers Circle which is one of the original social media communities for psychology. Dr. LePera is a woman to follow because she took her career and goal and utilized social media to take it global. There wasn't a big industry for psychology communities until she entered the game. It is inspirational to take what you love and bring it to the world.

IG: @the.hollistic.psychologist

4 Ashley Ann

 

Ashley Ann has become an expert in monetizing social media and she has helped more than 150 small businesses reach a revenue margin of over $1 million dollars. She has used her experience in social media and business to create courses and kits for uplifting small businesses. You can watch one of her business strategy classes on IG live.

Ann believes in manifesting business goals, and she helps clients get there. In addition to her business strategy platform, she uses her platform to promote wellness and a plant-based lifestyle.

IG: @kingashleyann

3 Lita Lewis

Lita Lewis is a fitness and wellness coach who offers training programs through her app, youtube and additional programs. With over 500k followers on Instagram, she has curated a fitness community.

Coaches like Lewis who take their brand and leverage it with social media are essential to follow for those entrepreneurs who want to take the next step. She is at the top of the fitness market and monetizing her banding with social media and her youtube channel.

IG: @followthelita

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2 Kimberly Drew

Kimberly Drew began her career with what became the most influential Tumblr blog about Black art history. In 2019 she left her prestigious job as the social media manager for the Metropolitan Museum of Art to change the direction of her career. Within one year, she landed two cover stories, wrote a book and launched The Black Futures Project, in addition to a podcast.

This inspirational woman took her passions and brought them to the world through social media and communications. She infiltrated a system that didn't promote Black art and but it in the spotlight. Drew is one to follow for her power to connect entrepreneurship and activism.

IG: @museummammy

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1 Alexi Panos

Panos doesn't have just one life coaching company, but three: LXE group, The Bridge Method and she is a co-founder of E.P.I.C. She believes in putting wellness before success and allowing that to manifest professional goals. Branding for her companies includes business and life strategies.

In addition to her podcast and multiple coaching businesses, she is a humanitarian for women and implementing antiracism.

IG: @alexipanos

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