Ascend: A Leadership, Mastermind and Coaching programme for women
Ready to elevate your leadership journey? Amplify your impact, leadership effectiveness and progress your career with Ascend. A transformative 1-year programme exclusively crafted for ambitious women like you. Gain insights, support, and accountability to unlock your full potential and lead with confidence.
Ascend is tailored for middle to senior women leaders across diverse industries, backgrounds, and age groups – from seasoned executives refining their executive presence to those aspiring to transition between career levels or navigating pivotal junctures.
Why Ascend?
Ascend is a dynamic fusion of leadership development, mastermind sessions, and coaching tailored for ambitious women leaders like you.
- Tailored for women leaders: Ascend addresses the unique challenges you face on your leadership journey, providing individual coaching support to delve deeper into your goals, challenges, and growth areas. With coaching shown to boost productivity, performance, wellbeing, engagement, confidence, effectiveness… (ICF) Ascend maximises your leadership potential for tangible results.
- Empowerment and growth: Overcome self-doubt, harness your unique strengths, and lead with authenticity and impact. Ascend is your catalyst for personal and professional growth empowering you with the skills, confidence, and mindset to step confidently into and step up your leadership potential.
- Collaborative learning: Experience the power of collective wisdom and peer support in dynamic group discussions. Develop essential coaching skills and enhance your ability to actively listen and ask insightful questions through collaborative problem-solving, enriching your leadership capabilities.
- Safe and supportive environment: Step into a nurturing space where you can freely share concerns and challenges, seek accountability, exchange ideas, and track progress – all within a judgment-free space.
- Meaningful connections: Forge genuine connections with fellow women leaders who intimately understand the complexities of your journey. Engage in authentic dialogue and glean wisdom from one another’s paths.
- Strategic Networking: Expand your professional network beyond workplace confines, enriching your perspective and opportunities.
- Action-oriented approach: Move beyond theory to real-life application with personalised coaching sessions, and practical tools to drive measurable results in your leadership journey.
- Intimate group size: Enjoy the benefits of a small, curated group with a maximum of 8 members, ensuring personalised attention and meaningful connections.
What to Expect
Ascend offers a comprehensive programme designed to accelerate your growth and maximise your leadership potential:
A 1 year programme consisting of:
- Self assessments and psychometric profiling
- Individual coaching, set goals and outcomes (delivery of business and personal objective), create an actionable plan, track progress and integrate newfound skills into your everyday leadership
- Mastermind/ action learning/ collective problem solving combined with exploration of relevant topics determined and agreed with the group. This may include executive presence, resilience, strategic decision making
- Hot seat sessions: Confront your pressing challenges and seize opportunities with the collective wisdom of seasoned female leaders.
- Real time learning: Experiment, learn from mistakes, and develop better leadership habits.
Benefits to your organisation
Investing in women’s leadership not only promotes diversity but also maximises organizational performance. Companies with diverse leadership teams experience higher returns on equity and are more likely to achieve above-average profitability. By investing in Ascend, organisations can deliver on gender equity, DEI strategies, and objectives, strengthen their internal talent pool, foster a more inclusive culture, and elevate their reputation as an inclusive employer.
Benefits to you
Participants can expect to learn and develop alongside like-minded women, optimize their strengths, develop self-confidence, cultivate a growth mindset, and gain support from a strong network. By joining Ascend, participants can gain the confidence and know-how to step up their leadership and achieve personal and business objectives.
Why Invest in Women’s Leadership?
Investing in women, particularly ethnically diverse women, isn’t just about diversity – it’s about maximising organisational performance. McKinsey’s research reveals that companies with diverse leadership teams experience 47% higher returns on equity, highlighting the tangible benefits of gender and ethnic diversity (McKinsey, October 2010; January 2018). Despite this, ‘women of color are severely underrepresented in senior leadership positions’ (McKinsey, 2023).
Ascend bridges the gap by providing tailored support and development opportunities for women leaders, empowering them to break through barriers and ascend to senior roles.
Is Ascend Right for You?
Ascend is for resilient, high-potential female leaders who are ready to shed self-doubt, fear of failure, and other limitations holding them back. If you’re committed to navigating the corporate landscape, developing your personal brand, enhancing your confidence, influence, and executive presence, Ascend is your opportunity to accelerate your growth.
Learn more about Ascend and register today!
Claim your seat at the table, pursue your goals, and advance your leadership potential with Ascend. Download the Ascend programme which includes further information, dates, cost and register your place.
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