Build It On Your Own Terms

​A conversation on entrepreneurship, courage, and building a career on your own terms with Jasmine Anouna, Founder of The Bloom.

​Most of us are taught to wait for the right title, the perfect plan, the permission slip that never quite comes. But the leaders building what the world needs next rarely wait. They begin before they're ready.

​In this Global Ignite session, Jasmine Anouna shares how she left a dream job at the United Nations to build The Bloom, a social-impact platform that grew from a single newsletter into a global community of 40,000+ changemakers. Along the way, she challenged the idea that a meaningful career is reserved for those with the right network, and redefined entrepreneurship as something less about certainty and more about mindset: embracing ideas quickly, making room for creativity, and taking what she calls "joyful jumps" of experimentation.

​This is a session for anyone with something they want to build from a venture, a career shift, or a bolder version of the work they're already doing, and the quiet question of whether they're allowed to go after it. You'll leave with a clearer sense of how to move on your own ideas, and the permission (if you were waiting for it) to start.

​About Jasmine Anouna
Jasmine Anouna is the founder and CEO of The Bloom, the global home for social-impact careers, and a member of Forbes' 2025 30 Under 30 Europe list for Social Impact. The daughter of refugees, she built The Bloom to open doors that too often stay closed, connecting tens of thousands of professionals to the jobs, resources, and community they need to create change on their own terms.