Management & Leadership
Women in Leadership
A nine-month growth journey that turns mid-career potential into real leadership, your head takes the workshops, your heart takes the peer circle, and your hands take a capstone project presented to the senior leadership team.
The business challenge
Why organizations ask for this.
Pipelines do not thin by accident. They thin at the points where confidence, visibility, sponsorship and business fluency compound, and those are exactly the points where generic leadership programmes are silent. Companies that are serious about a strong presence of women in senior positions have to build it deliberately.
Approach & methodology
How the programme actually runs.
9 months · 7 days face-to-face + digital journey · Blended HPLJ: workshops, webinars, speakers, coaching, mentoring, peer circles, business simulation, capstone certification
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Assessment & preparation
One-to-one interviews with selected participants, analysis of the results for customisation, and a personal development plan per participant.
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Kick-off event
Welcome event with senior management engaging live or on video, introduction to the PROMOTE digital platform, an inspirational speaker, and selection of a mentor from the internal “pay it forward” mentor pool.
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Module 1: Leading Self, with confidence (3 days face-to-face)
Self-awareness, self-belief, assertiveness and a speak-up mindset when dealing with authority. Leadership presence and personal branding. The Process Communication Model with an individual profile. A confidence and resilience workshop across the four energy areas (emotional, mental, physical and scope) with an individual action plan taken into coaching.
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Module 2: Leading the Business
Strategic mindset and rethinking company strategy; financial fundamentals: balance sheet, P&L, cash flow, key ratios and investment analysis; industry trends, technology impact, competitor benchmarking and SWOT; data-driven leadership; panel discussions with industry leaders and internal specialists. A six-round business simulation runs across the module.
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Module 3: Leading People (4 days face-to-face)
Data storytelling and presentation skills (context, narrative, visuals) on real work data. Agile performance management and team development. The five Multiplier skills: Talent Magnet, Liberator, Challenger, Debate Maker, Investor, with a self-assessment of your own style.
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Coaching
Monthly one-hour online sessions with ICF-certified coaches on the GROW model, minimum three sessions per participant, so they can then use it with their own teams.
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Peer circle
Monthly 60-minute groups of maximum nine participants plus one coach: a safe space to discuss learnings, ask advice, share difficulties and celebrate success.
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Capstone project & certification
Teams choose a real strategic or operational topic, build the business case, and present it live to the senior leadership team at a certification and celebration event in month nine.
Competencies built
What participants can do afterwards.
Self-confidence
Take up the space the role requires, without waiting to feel fully ready.
Influence
Build sponsorship, and get your work seen by the people who decide.
Networking
Build the relationships that carry opportunity, deliberately rather than by accident.
Communication
Present data and decisions to a senior audience with authority.
Resilience
Manage energy across four dimensions, so a nine-month push stays sustainable.
Expected business outcomes
What the organization should see.
Increased representation of women in leadership roles
Greater diversity in decision-making
Stronger inclusion and engagement across the organization
Schedule & format
Practical details.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Female leaders and high potentials.
9 months · 7 days face-to-face + digital journey. The rhythm is deliberate: modules are spaced so participants apply the behaviour at work between sessions.
Blended HPLJ: workshops, webinars, speakers, coaching, mentoring, peer circles, business simulation, capstone certification. We adapt the mix to your geography and shift patterns.
Yes, and it always is. We start with two to three individual conversations with selected participants, then rebuild the cases, the language and the practice situations from your business.
Kirkpatrick levels one to four: reaction, knowledge, self-assessed behaviour, and the participant's manager assessing the same competencies. We agree the target behaviours with the sponsor before design starts.
Digital missions and buddy work on PROMOTE, with the participant's own manager involved. This is the difference between 15–20% and 60–80% transfer into practice.
Yes. We also deliver in French across our Western European and African operations.
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Book a strategic discussion about Women in Leadership.
If you are evaluating how to build capability that actually changes the way your organization works, we can help you define the right starting point, cohort design and delivery sequence.
The first conversation is diagnostic. We discuss your context, priorities, maturity, and where capability building can create measurable leverage.