Top 10 Entrepreneurs Who Will Shape the Future in 2025

Published on 29 April 2025 • Originally published on Business Press

Dr Lisa Colledge was recognized as one of the Top 10 Entrepreneurs Shaping the World in 2025. Read what Business Press had to say below.

Entrepreneurship is the backbone of progress, and in the world, a new wave of visionary entrepreneurs is setting the stage for the future. These individuals are not just building businesses—they are revolutionizing industries, introducing groundbreaking ideas, and redefining what’s possible in the region.

From tech startups to sustainable ventures, these entrepreneurs are tackling challenges head-on and turning them into opportunities. Their ability to innovate, adapt, and push forward is what makes them stand out in an ever-evolving business world.

Dr. Lisa Colledge | Designing Teams That Win Tomorrow

In today’s ever-evolving business landscape, the companies that thrive aren’t the ones with the loudest leaders —they’re the ones that adapt quickly and turn disruption into advantage. Success no longer hinges on individual brilliance but on how people connect and collaborate. The old model, conforming to those at the top, no longer delivers.

As businesses compete for top talent, expectations are shifting. Today, 25% of Oxford students and 53% of Gen Z identify as autistic, ADHD, or otherwise neurodivergent—and those numbers are constantly rising. This generation isn’t fighting for a seat in outdated cultures, rather, they’re choosing workplaces where their cognitive strengths are valued, their challenges supported, and their contributions enabled. And brands like Microsoft, IKEA, and IBM are ahead of the curve in strengthening their teams through deliberate neurodivergence inclusion, embedding practices that enable diverse thinkers to contribute fully.

Dr. Lisa Colledge helps teams become future-ready. A pioneering leader in intentional cognitive diversity, she equips leaders with her Future-Ready Team Pathway — a practical, evidence-based route to building cultures where every neurostyle can thrive. As a result, leaders see measurable gains across every outcome that matters—engagement, retention, innovation, resilience, and profitability. At RELX, she led a transformation that boosted employee Net Promoter Scores of a large global group by 34 points in just one year—despite lockdowns and major restructuring.

Lisa works with leaders at every level: start-up founders scaling their ventures, individual leaders who’ve inherited teams or are seeking new energy, and senior executives shaping culture across multiple business units. Through training, consultancy, and scalable programs inspired by neurodivergence inclusion, she helps embed high-performance team practices across the organization. As the CEO and Founder of Lisa Colledge Consulting, she helps organizations build the capability to thrive in today’s dynamic business landscape.

Her approach is grounded in both lived and learned experience. When her son was diagnosed as autistic, her mission sharpened: to make workplaces better for people like him, while improving business outcomes for everyone. Drawing on a career in research, big data, performance analytics, and people transformation—plus first-class science and doctorate degrees from the University of Oxford, and a Psychology master’s underway, Lisa led global experiments in neurodivergent-inclusive team design.

Eventually, she developed her unique cognitive inclusion framework. Lisa’s insight is simple yet powerful: neurodivergence isn’t a niche—it’s a concentrated version of the cognitive preference that everyone brings. “If you want attrition and stagnation,” she says with a smile, “go ahead and ignore me. But if you want innovation, resilience, and every other number to go up—let’s talk.”

I’m Dr Lisa Colledge, and I help ambitious leaders build future-ready teams they trust to deliver now and adapt to whatever’s next — driving engagement, performance, and enduring resilience.

Learn more about building Neuro-Inspired Teams that outpace, outperform, and outlast your competition.