"In the future there will be no female leaders, there will just be leaders."
Who we are
Your private membership network. Your time, your community, your space.
SHe2 Leadership is a network which offers senior women a business membership focused on developing the confidence, network and leadership skills required to achieve C-Suite influence.
By making sure their leadership team is representative of the real world, companies create a healthier, higher performing and more dynamic organisation with a huge competitive advantage.
Why is this the case? By virtue of the acknowledged barriers and challenges women have overcome to reach a level of seniority, they have more than demonstrated their credibility and capabilities to make a difference and provide huge added value to their employer. They also act as a magnet that draws other ambitious women who want to do great work for purposeful leaders and are motivated by clearly seeing future opportunities ahead.
Our Wonder Women book is now available to purchase!
We are very proud to announce that our first book, Wonder Women: Redefining leadership in the world of work, has been published.
We have a limited number of books available to purchase.
Nominations for the next edition will be opening soon.
A ‘triangle’ of masterminds
What each of our stakeholder groups receives*
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For senior women, membership:
A 12-month accelerator programme comprised of peer-to-peer learning, group coaching, 1-2-1 coaching, and key relationship building – plus an annual conference and ad hoc events and expert presentations.
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For senior men:
Quarterly workshops for Board and male peers to understand the chemistry of difference between male and female colleagues, and guidance on why and how they can be an authentic ally and changemaker.
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For sponsor companies:
Quarterly round tables sharing best practice and presentation of research-based feedback reports arising from the Mastermind Advisory Groups (all of them – not just the ones their employees have attended).
*see Membership section for more detailed information.
How is SHe2 different?
- Niche: Focused intensely on senior women who are one to three levels away from board level leadership but with outcomes that will create change through all levels of the organisation.
- Ongoing Investment: Our ‘accelerator to alumni’ programme makes SHe2 accessible to many women within an organisation - not just a selected, fast-tracked few - enabling more employees to have the same benefits and feel connected and valued.
- Collaboration for you: A triangular approach (involving all relevant internal stakeholders) to creating a diverse equitable leadership with each party making a difference not only individually, but also genuinely collaborating to bring about sustainable impact.
- Collaboration by us: We have identified and developed partnerships with like minds that come with vast experience and credibility; the result of such a unique collaboration and holistic approach is accelerated, long-lasting and deeply effective outcomes.
- Peer Mastermind Groups: We create these by carefully curating cohorts of cross-industry and cross-functional peers, and taking them out of their day-to-day environment to provide a neutral space to share authentically - free from personal and reputational risk. The result? Greater opportunities for transformational outcomes.
- Group Coaching: Business-experienced executive coaches expertly chair each cohort, facilitating further in-depth learnings through interim group coaching which is then fed back into the mastermind group. This creates multi-layered learning and support which is centred upon the power of peer experience.
- Internal trailblazers: we help develop a more diverse perspective to challenge and enhance the status quo, thus creating legacy strategies for your company.
- Wonder Women Ambassador network: An authentic community committed to sharing, mentoring, engaging and - crucially - sponsoring our members. We have grown our network organically and many within it supported us from inception, as well as contributing their personal career stories to our annual Wonder Women publication, which is aimed primarily at inspiring our members.
- One size does not fit all: We leverage research-based data and share with sponsor companies timely (non-confidential) feedback from our members which gives a real-time and realistic picture of how your organisation measures against best-practice corporate culture. We also use this information to constantly refresh and adapt our content to ensure we are making a difference to each and every member.
Our philosophy
The Research:
Businesses founded by women generate over twice the revenue and returns.
Diverse executive teams are, on average, 24% more likely to deliver greater profit.
The Reality:
10% of female founders receive funding according to the World Economic Forum.
28% of worldwide managerial positions (17% for Chief Executives) since 1995 are held by women.
The Future?
The World Economic Forum calculates it will take over 100 years to reach gender parity.
Not On Our Watch:
Our goal is to change the narrative by empowering and connecting ambitious women; creating a diverse, global community of purpose driven leaders. Economic equality must be gender-irrelevant, diversity-rich and available to all.
Our Core beliefs
It is all about you: Our members come first, second and third. Our fulfilment comes from your success.
Team SHe2: We take our responsibilities very seriously; ourselves not too much. We make quite sure we work with nice people who just happen to be amazing at what they do.
Less talk, more action: We know there are not enough hours, so let’s get stuff done. We make our time together count.
We find it hard to settle…for less than excellent and just love evolving the membership, always looking to create balance through tried and tested vs cutting edge.
We travel lightly: We measure our value on your progress, not our vanity metrics or followers. We’re leaving world domination to you.
Our Brand: Grown from our authentic community, not through strategic campaigns. The voice of our membership provides the foundations for everything we do. We hear you, there is no hierarchy. We work hard to make sure every member has a voice.
Member- not founder-led: Our members’ board makes sure we are on track.
How can we make it even better? We are value obsessives and love nothing better than researching best value in class.
Our workforce is a network: We don’t only employ the best; we partner with them. This allows us to be agile, responsive and constantly benchmarking our offering to be best in class.
Our membership is not defined by bricks and mortar; we are a community without boundaries.
Our partners
Conder & Co is an organisational change and leadership development consultancy. They use effective proprietary models and bring evidence-based research as well as the experiences of working with hundreds of women gaining insights and strategies that are pragmatic and work in the real world. The approach leverages the human dimension of emotions, mindsets and behaviours which go deeper into really understanding the qualities that enable women to be successful and happy. Fundamentally, the focus is on leveraging their unique combination of strengths to be authentic and differentiate themselves as they become more senior.
CHX Performance are experts in reframing organisational mental health and “humanising” leadership, management and culture. Founded by a leading global academic in the field of Cognitive Neuroscience and experts in talent development, CHX puts good mental health at the heart of organisational culture by challenging Leaders and The Leadership to modify existing behaviours, systems and practices. A key focus of CHX is to enable every individual participant to pursue their career of choice whilst staying well and feeling good.
Our coaches
A hand-picked group of accomplished business leaders. They’ve led organisations across a wide range of industries. Some have owned businesses, many have been CEOs of domestic and international companies, and all are united by a desire to share their insight and expertise to guide other business leaders on their path to personal and professional excellence.
Nicola Grant
Founder
Hello. Prior to founding SHe2 I enjoyed a deliberately varied career, ticking off corporate, startup, side project, stay-at-home, cofounder and sole founder. Having had leadership roles in both private and public companies across a variety of industries, I then switched to the world of startups, founding and growing businesses within recruitment, property and hospitality. As an (almost!) reformed perfectionist, I’m a serial experimenter and adaptor of productivity hacks in the constant battle to balance my career with family responsibilities – and in particular the needs of my five daughters who drive my passion to improve the stats.
