Why Join?

Our workplaces are complex spaces right now where there isn’t always the time nor a desire for the reflective practice that’s needed to be able to think outside the immediate pressures of ‘getting the job done’.

This programme is designed to offer an empowering regenerative and reflective space for you as a woman engaged in workplace leadership and management; to be able to bring workplace issues to the table so you can grow your confidence, courage, impact, and satisfaction as a leader in your own right within an organisation, work setting or your own business.

Through a unique blend of leadership-focussed taught input, experiential group learning, action-learning based groupwork processes, and supportive coaching, the programme will help you to gain the headspace, expertise and tools you need to survive and thrive in today’s challenging world of work.

This programme will focus on supporting you in the context of leadership and management with a absolute belief that you yourself are the leader of you - and so being able to empower, manage and lead yourself more effectively and compassionately is a central goal.

This group is for all women; hetero, queer, nonbinary and trans who lead and/or manage people, strategy, teams, budgets, tasks, functions or projects. Everyone who joins the group will be asked to fill in a brief summary of their current work role and tasks to ensure that the group is evenly balanced. The maximum size for this group will be 8 to ensure everyone gets time and space.

A recent UK survey of cross sector leaders tells us that approximately 90% of public private and non-profit leaders agree that strong leadership is essential to meet the challenges we face right now, yet only approximately 20% of these cross sector leaders receive the training and development they need to deliver on the desire for strong leadership effectively. (Stat from wig.co.uk)

This programme aims to help fill this gap by offering a is a seven-month CPD journey designed to help you grow into the next version of yourself as the leader you want to be — with the expertise, insight, awareness, competence, understanding, skills and clarity of approach you need to thrive in today’s BANI* environment.

BANI is a useful acronym devised in anthropology to support us to understand and accept the world as an unpredicable space that is brittle, anxious, non-linear and incomprehensible. If this is a true description of the ways in which we can view the world as humans and leaders then how can we develop strategies that help us to function and thrive in such an inhospitable environment. These and many more issues will be the topic of this action-learning coaching programme. For more reading on BANI start with this article which I like.

This programme is for you if….

• You’re an existing leader/manager or recently promoted (in the last year) and are responsible for people or budget, strategy or operations or all of it.

• You work in the public, private or third sector or you lead your own business, or would like to.

• You’re seeking a dynamic empowering intelligent space to bring your professional work based challenges for deep reflection discussion and support to enable you to thrive in your leadership - feel more effective and confident.

• You’ve been in leadership for a while and are ready to reflect upon your progress, embody the role more fully and be more ambitious.

• You want to grow your leadership and management confidence so you can accomplish your role with greater boldness and impact.

• You are juggling multiple complex roles at work and home and would value a space to process this.

• You are keen to discuss, disrupt and dispel any limiting beliefs you might have about your leadership and management capabilities.

• You want to drill down into your core values and leadership and explore how you deliver these in your work given the enormous socio-economic challenges.

• You are seeking an empowerment-based facilitated learning space to bring leadership challenges to so these can be processed, solutions generated, reflected and acted upon.

There are three central perspectives to the approach of this coaching programme.

1. We will take an outward ACTION facing and forward thinking approach to all leadership dilemmas and challenges; so that looking up, out and ahead is held as an important direction of travel in leadership.

2. Alongside this we will be mindful and forensic in making sure that our internal world; our intuition, our leadership mindset, our psychological energetic and somatic states are also central to our growing awareness of ourselves as ‘Bold Leaders’. Holding this 'inner and outer’ double lens will help to offer a rich terrain and grounded space from which to grow.

3. Finally, all group work and leadership analysis will take place within a lens of the personal, the professional and the systemic so that we become accustomed to knowing when and how it is our responsibility to act and when the system needs to shift and when there is a crossover approach needed. These lenses help is to navigate both the strategic and operational nature of leadership.