Coaching for Women in Leadership

Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Coaching for Women in Leadership is for you if you are already a high-performing senior manager or leader, and you want more, but stepping up seems impossible because you’re already too busy and you can’t see what to do differently. You want to stop feeling overcommitted, exhausted, resentful, frustrated, and guilty. You want to create the bandwidth to focus on your own career and life priorities. You want to evolve in your leadership, step up, and get the high-level, challenging, influential leadership role you really desire.

FOUR STEPS TO LEVEL UP:

1. Clarity: What matters and what’s next

Working out what really matters to you:

• Clarify your vision and values.
• Develop your career strategy.
• Get comfortable with ‘ambition’ and ‘power’.
• Gain the confidence to set boundaries, say “No” without saying no, ask for what you want, and negotiate.

2. Capacity: What stays and what goes

Making space:

• 50:50. Making your partner a real partner and overriding outdated scripts and roles.
• Building up your ‘village’ (support system).

Having the energy:

• Developing a plan for self-care and energy management.
• Neuroleadership: Leveraging neuroscience.

Finding the time:

• Time mastery and prioritising strategies.
• Bust the myth of doing it all and learning how to drop the ball.

3. Confidence: What to do differently

• How You Think: Build awareness of self-limiting beliefs, self-doubt, and imposter syndrome, and learn strategies for unhooking from them.
• How You Act: Executive presence tailored for women.
• How You Sound: Learn how to give a strong message and have it land well.
• How You Look: Practice perception management for credibility and competence.
• How You Respond: Learn ways to respond to silencing, resistance, and stereotypical gender expectations.

4. Connection: What we can do together

Developing your personal brand

• Learn how to build visibility.

Leveraging relationships

• Learn about the value of networking for your career.
• Gain the confidence to skilfully leverage the reciprocity principle.

Enlisting allies

• Discover the importance of mentors, sponsors, and coaches.
• Start setting up a peer group.

Investing in coaching is not just a strategic choice but a powerful commitment to your own success and the advancement of women in leadership roles.