WOMANON ON A MISSION

Stephenie Rodriguez is on a mission to impact 1 billion lives by 2025 by democratising safety and empowering women and vulnerable people to ‘go anywhere’. She launched the Beacon on October 2, 2018 (the UN International Day of Nonviolence) in Cannes, France at the Tax Free World Association trade fair to the Duty Free market as a testing ground. The Beacon is a discreet non-violent personal safety device that pairs via Bluetooth seamless to the free WanderSafe smartphone safety app. Her WHY is based on 30 years of personal experience of travelling to over 55 countries, often as a solo traveler. Keenly aware of the unique needs and risks that women face when travelling or commuting led her to develop an empowering solution for women and vulnerable people. As a global citizen who has lived on various continents, and spent over three years at 30,000 ft and nine years in hotel room nights, her passion is to empower women and vulnerable people to venture freely across the world, using technology as an enabler.

YOUR CAREER HAS TAKEN YOU FROM CORPORATE EXECUTIVE ROLES IN PUBLISHING AND FOOD INDUSTRIES TO BECOMING A SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR