10 Remarkable Business Leaders in Europe, 2025

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In a rapidly changing world, Europe continues to produce leaders who set global benchmarks for innovation, resilience, and purpose-driven growth. This year, we spotlight ten exceptional figures whose vision is shaping industries, transforming communities, and redefining leadership for the future.

COVER STORY

“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”

FEATURES

Richard Bursby: Navigating the Future of Hospitality Law with Integrity and Innovation

Richard Bursby: Navigating the Future of Hospitality Law with Integrity and Innovation

We aspire to be seen as the number 1 Hotels & Hospitality group in the UK, Europe, and Middle East.

The Quiet Architect of Connection: Ahmad Piraiee’s Unseen Hand in the Global Startup Renaissance

The Quiet Architect of Connection: Ahmad Piraiee’s Unseen Hand in the Global Startup Renaissance

Leadership is not about being the smartest in the room. It’s about being the most useful

Parveen Smith and the Business of Inner Power: Redefining Leadership Through Emotional Mastery

Parveen Smith and the Business of Inner Power: Redefining Leadership Through Emotional Mastery

Think about what really makes your pet comfortable when you leave or go away

The Architect of Clarity: Paula Pul's Vision for the Future of Law and Leadership

The Architect of Clarity: Paula Pul’s Vision for the Future of Law and Leadership

I’ve learned that resilience is not about pushing through everything—it’s about choosing your focus and energy wisely.

Inventing the Future: How Professor Graham Shapiro is Redesigning Innovation with Purpose

Inventing the Future: How Professor Graham Shapiro is Redesigning Innovation with Purpose

True innovation isn’t measured by profit, but by the lives it touches and the problems it solves

TECHNOLOGY

AI is being used by uni students to "ask stupid questions" and receive feedback on their work.

AI is being used by uni students to "ask stupid questions" and receive feedback on their work.

Imagine a student working on an assignment and they are stuck. Their lecturer or tutor is not available. Or maybe they feel worried about looking silly if they ask for help. So they turn to ChatGPT for feedback instead.

Teens no longer answer the phone: is this a new trend or a sign of poor manners?

Teens no longer answer the phone: is this a new trend or a sign of poor manners?

This reluctance to “pick up the phone” isn’t just a generational trait: it signals a deeper transformation in communication practices, social norms and digital etiquette.

Can artificial intelligence teach us how animals think?

Can artificial intelligence teach us how animals think?

For scientists who have long tried to untangle animal signals, this discovery of emotional traits across species is the latest leap forward in a field that is being transformed by AI.

Business & More

How upcycling innovators teach us to rethink and reuse waste in the context of degrowth and fashion

How upcycling innovators teach us to rethink and reuse waste in the context of degrowth and fashionCan the boreal forest be effectively utilised to combat climate change?

Industry actors we interviewed said they are not simply trend chasers focused on profit, but seeking to build alternative ways of working with each other, nature, waste and technology.

Social ties are important for neurodivergent workers' wellbeing; routine and office setting changes alone won't suffice.

Social ties are important for neurodivergent workers' wellbeing; routine and office setting changes alone won't suffice.

Neurodivergence refers to the neurobiological variation in how human brains function and process information. Neurodivergent individuals have brain structures and cognitive processes that differ from what society considers neurotypical.

What makes heart cancer so uncommon? A biologist clarifies

What makes heart cancer so uncommon? A biologist clarifies

You probably know someone who is affected by cancer. This disease results when cells divide uncontrollably and can make a person sick, sometimes very seriously.

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POETRY

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

-Robert Frost

QUOTES

“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”

-Dalai Lama

“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”

-Marilyn Monroe

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