
Ambition Without Apology: How Carlotta Zorzi-Chapman Is Changing the Narrative for Women
After being told a few times to slow down, and that I was ‘too ambitious’, I decided to turn that experience into something empowering for others.
After being told a few times to slow down, and that I was ‘too ambitious’, I decided to turn that experience into something empowering for others.
You have made brave moves. You have chosen rest. You have grown, reflected, and disrupted. What if you had a space to honour all of it?
I had to unlearn a lot, especially the belief that success looks a certain way, comes at a certain time, or requires permission from anybody but me.
I am a Disruptor because I have an attitude problem! What was meant to be an insult by men has become the thing women like most about me. So, I am 100% going to trust women’s judgement on that!
The world does not need saviours; it needs structural change, radical accountability, and leadership that reflects the realities of the people it serves.
Losing my grandmother to bowel cancer made gut health an unavoidable theme in both my personal and professional life. Whether working with hospital patients, Olympic athletes, or high-performing professionals, everything kept leading back to the gut.
I was just three weeks old when my parents fled to the UK, seeking asylum. With little money and no safety net, they took on menial jobs—far beneath their qualifications—to keep us afloat.
What makes me a Disruptor is the refusal to accept that business success must come at the expense of ethical practices or feminist values.
My legacy will be in creating watertight legislation that will mean my daughters and their daughters won’t be chopped out of the workforce the minute they dare to have a baby.