Five months after the birth of her identical twin daughters, Stephanie Leathers returned from maternity leave to take on her first chief executive role. The retail executive had spent the previous six years working in C-suite roles at the fast-growing Australian fashion brand Aje, so when co-founder Adrian Norris asked her to run his new wellness brand, Ikkari, she jumped at the chance.

“It was pretty mental, but it almost felt like it was my other baby. [Ikkari] was something I’d been working on for six years at that point across the business, and I really wanted to see it through,” Leathers says.