It’s time to bring the impact of your leadership to the spotlight and empower more women!
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Lead to Empower is a custom-made 3-day program including individual coaching by 5 different expert coaches in Spain. This program gives you a deeper understanding of your purpose and motivation as a leader, the skills to communicate your story clearly and authentically, a PR-boost to grow your visibility and impact, an expansion of your leadership network for support, advice and inspiration and 3 days of self-reflection. It’s the perfect program for women who want a deeper understanding of their identity and how to maximize their impact and lead the next generation.
Changing the game for future female leaders
Female role models are the drivers of success when it comes to the talent pipeline. More women leaders can make a big difference by using their personal brands to empower the next generation. This program is a concrete path for established female leaders to become inspiring role models in business. You can be a successful leader and pay it forward to the next generation.
Why do we need more female role models?
Attracting and retaining talented women in business remains a huge challenge for most organisations. Fewer women professionals means role models are even scarcer, which greatly diminishes our chances of attracting women interested in leadership positions. Showing women in leadership positions raises aspirations for women. Ambitious career women need to hear the personal stories of accomplished female leaders in order to envision themselves taking steps forward. This program was designed to expose and empower women with diverse, powerful and positive role models as consistently as possible.
Pillar 1
Self-Knowledge and Being Authentic
Align your leadership actions with your core values & strengths and explore your personal leadership style
Pillar 2
Increasing Impact
Defining your story, learn how to inspire other women.
Pillar 3
Leading Others
Raise your visibility by having the right communication tools, visual identity and strategy.
Benefits to you
Benefits to your organisation
“My personal story and ambition are sketched out in detail”
In 2022 I have followed the lead to empower training by BrandedU. Due to the training being on location, with a small group of women the time investment was very efficient. I have done other trainings to expand my leadership qualities or I have had coaching but the Lead to empower training was very different. In four days I have now very clear in mind what I want to achieve, and also what not.Â
After the training I feel energized and things that costs me a lot of energy are easier to handle. I was offered another job and before I would be thinking about this for a long time but I knew, due to the training, that that is not what I want.
I highly recommend the lead to empower training to anybody who wants to take a next step in her career, wants to feel more comfortable about what you want to achieve and having a clear career path in mind.
Deborah Alfarez – Directeur, Stichting Vrienden van het Herseninstituut
Professional PR photos from previous shoots
We need 3 days to future proof your leadership impact in Andalusia, Spain
Your program will involve one on one coaching tailored to suit you and your leadership goals.
Day 1
Identify and define the essence of your leadership brand
Day 2
Define your story, enhance your leadership presence to inspire and motivate
Day 3
Pay it forward by authentically communicating it with the world
“More impactful and insightful than any other program I have ever participated in”
As a woman in a senior management position I was positively triggered by Nancy during one of the Board of Believers Breakfasts she organises. Her call to action? Step up and share your story! It is worth telling and many young women are still looking for role models that can inspire them to progress their career paths. Next to the positive encouragement, I also felt quite uncomfortable. What is my story exactly and is it really worth sharing? What path am I on myself and many more questions like those.
That is where Lead to Empower comes in. A comprehensive, tailor-made program at a wonderful location with an intimate group of inspiring women and coaches. It was more impactful and insightful than any other program I have ever participated in. The magic? A well-thought-through set-up of individual sessions exploring your purpose, your strengths, your mind-set, your story and the alignment in / with your body. And a wonderful group of women who you can share your experiences and insights with. I returned from the program inspired, connected, encouraged and with a clear plan how I can Lead to Empower.
I can really recommend participating in the Lead to Empower program. I think the program is fit to address various explorations in yourself. For example, if you feel you want to pay it forward and you don’t have a clear plan yet how to do it. Or if you are searching to (re)connect with your deeper purpose and are looking for insights to shape your next career step to name just two. Quality time for yourself to be able to give more to others would be my executive summary. Just go!
Karlijn van den Berg – Head of Talent, ABN AMRO
Investment
€ 5.999 ex vat per participant
“A safe environment for accelerated learning and reflection”
The coaches of Lead to Empower program were able to help me enhance calling out the core of my potential, building on my natural strengths. They complemented each other very well in addressing my mind, heart and gut. Through iterative one-on-one coaching sessions the training journey provided relevant deep dives, matching my personal needs. This focus and intensity, combined with the small group, created a safe environment for accelerated learning and reflection.
I have now sharpened my internal compass about my professional career and the conditions that make me thrive. Knowing better what I stand for, allows me to inspire others to become their best version of self, too.
Ingeborg Mijling – Directeur, Philips
About the experts
You’ll learn the best from other women. In the BrandedU’s Lead to Empower Program, several successful women share their career lessons and experiences. These women are going to inspire you:
Telling Your Story
Female role models can change the world and help redraw the balance by telling their stories. More women need to fearlessly tell their stories as often as possible and inspire others with their story. We want to know how you reached the top and all of your lessons learned. We want to hear about how you deal with issues and we want to see you shine when you talk about that thing that you do best.
Have you noticed that some people know very clearly who they are and what they are doing? It is almost as if they had planned it that way. These are the people that know their personal brand story. I call it personal brand story because it is personal and only belongs to them. The are aware of the turning points, key events in their lives and what read thread runs through it. They know that by telling their story they can not only distinguish themselves from everyone else but that their audience will remember them as well. Each of you has a story. You only decide for yourself what you want to share with the world. Having a personal brand story is important because you can show:
- Who you are
- What you do
- Why you do what you do
- And how you can help others with that.
When artists tell their story in interviews on radio or TV, we like it. Why? Because we want to get to know them and the more we know them, the better we will like them!
So we will be working on 3 things:
- Defining your personal brand story.
- Telling and presenting your personal brand story
- And making it visible by having a bio and photo that support that story.
Going Beyond Being the Boss
It is in human nature to look for negative in everything first, and it is also in human nature to fix things. We love finding problems so that we could solve them, it feels natural, it feels right. But when it comes to being a strong leader, when it comes to utilizing human potential to its fullest and being an inspiring role model, fixing weaknesses isn’t the way to go. Weakness fixing prevents failure, while building strengths leads to success.
Gallup conducted over 20,000 in-depth interviews, studied over one million work teams, considered over 50 years of data on the world’s most admired leaders, and studied over 10,000 followers for insights into leaders. Here’s what that data revealed:
- First, the most effective leaders are always investing in strengths.
- The most effective leaders surround themselves with the right people and then maximize their team.
- The most effective leaders understand 4 most important followers’ needs.
Through a personal strength assessment, we will focus on getting an even deeper understanding of your unique talents as a leader and discover more about your distinctive leadership style. We will also digest the 4 needs of your followers and the difference between managing and fixing of your personal weaknesses. With this knowledge in mind, understanding your personal strengths profile will enable you to raise your visibility as a role model in a way that suits you the best and sets you up to perform with excellence.
“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” So let us leverage your uniqueness, expertise and accomplishment to empower the next generation of female leaders.
Making Impact Count
New Zealand recently announced it was investing $ 2.5 billion in the well-being and happiness of its inhabitants. Behind this decision is a woman: Jacinda Ardern.
“We don’t hire people to bake brownies, we bake brownies to hire people.” Greyston Bakery shows that there is a recipe for social change. In charge? Karen Kochevar.
In the Netherlands we have Vanessa Umboh van Stem without face. A foundation that aims to give voice to the 40,000 children who are growing up in Rotterdam in poverty. Mireille Geijsen of i-did makes new, high-quality design products with her company of discarded corporate clothing.
Female leaders like Jacintha Ardern, Vanessa Umboh, Karen Kochevar and Mireille Geijsen prove that women, like no other, are able to create a balance between what is good for us as a person, what is good for the big picture and what serves the public interest.
What do all these companies have in common? There is first the intention to tackle the problem, and only then a company.
How can you be even more socially significant? What social solution do you want to personally work on? How can you do this from your current leadership role and how can you define the social value that you want to deliver based on your personal value and purpose. How do you translate this into the right value system for yourself and within the company where you work? Here we help you to define this and to give substance to your roadmap for leading with an impact on society.
Cultivating a role model mindset
We will work towards recognizing and understanding the key components of a role model mindset in order to cultivate and expand the quality of your personal mindset. As a role model, you will increasingly be in the spotlight encountering new situations, dialogues and challenges. Main goal here is to provide the knowledge and practical steps for you to anticipate both the positive and challenging aspects that go hand in hand with raising visibility.
Unchanged: The questions we will focus on answering are:
Unchanged:
- What are the exact challenges that your mind will encounter when increasing your visibility?
- How to empower the 5 key components of your role model mindset?
- How can you set yourself (and your brain) up for success as you raise your visibility?
Embodying Leadership
The best leaders are those who are passionate about developing others around them. But as you know, it requires you to be self-aware and communicate clearly on a daily basis to fulfill your role. As you go through the demands of your position, your mind, emotion and body all react to any given situation.
The good thing is that you’ve learned to keep going without paying too much attention to this. The flip side of this is that your body ends up storing all these experiences. It becomes blocked energy in your energetic system. When it is left unchecked, it doesn’t only affect your well-being, but also the way you communicate or connect with those around you and yourself. It limits you from being the great leader you are.
During our session together, we’re going to free the experiences that are stored within your body so you can embody true leadership again. Through a combination of respectful touch, verbal communication, and breathwork you’re going to release any limiting emotion, thoughts or patterns that have manifested within your energetic system.
By the end of our session, you know how to recognize blocked energy and how to let go of it, so you can stand in your power and be the inspiration for the future generation.
Register
The program fee covers all training expenses including travel, food and accommodation costs.
Investment
€ 5.999 ex vat per participant
FAQ
Payment
Can I pay with credit card?
No, we no longer accept credit card payments due to extra costs from our end.
What is the payment deadline?
Your payment needs to be in our bank account one week before departure.
Preparation meeting
Do I need to prepare anything for the preparation meeting?
No preparations are necessary.
I would like to schedule an online meeting. Do you use zoom or teams?
We’ll create a zoom link and we’ll send you the invitation.
Lead to Empower
I have already completed the strength finder test once, do I have to do it again?
No, you can use the old results.
I would like to book a few extra nights.
That is possible, please email info@brandedu.nl.
Does it include breakfast?
Yes, breakfast, lunch and dinner at the hotel.
Will we receive the program of the trip?
You will receive this upon arrival at the hotel.
Can I book a massage or other wellness treatments at the hotel?
Yes this is possible and we receive a special 15% discount. You can email us your wishes at info@brandedu.nl.
Photo shoot
When will the photoshoot take place?
The photoshoot will take place in a studio in Amsterdam (detailed will be mailed). You will be needed for 2.5 hours.
Something has come up that prevents me from being able to go at the scheduled time. Can I choose another time?
No unfortunately not. We plan this with the entire group.