Girl, look up.
No, not at the sky - although you might want to later. Look up at the senior management, the c-suite, the board. Chances are you’re looking up from middle management, stuck just below the level where the real operational decisions are made.
And most likely? You’re looking up at a boys’ club. Still. In 2025.
It’s not the ’50s anymore, but women are still boxed into the so-called “human facing” roles - the ones men fumble because emotions scare them. They leave the messy, human work to us “emotional girls.”
Think back to Covid. Life-or-death decisions everywhere, chaos unfolding. And who handled it better? Countries under female leadership (Research backs this up: here ). Meanwhile, male leaders were tripping over their own contradictions - “Stay home, but don’t. Open windows but keep them shut.” You remember.
We know this already: empathy, emotional intelligence, the ability to lead without ego - all undervalued in the upper echelons. To climb higher, we’re expected to mask those strengths, polish up our “LinkedIn professional” persona, and pretend feelings don’t exist.
It’s exhausting.
So I’ve built something different. A leadership programme designed for us. A space where we can drop the mask and actually talk about the stuff that matters: menopause, hormones, imposter syndrome, assertiveness, inequality. With the Operational Management Level 5 qualification at the end. Delivered by women, for women.
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PS: If you’re a man reading this and think it’s a feminist manifesto that needs to be quashed… don’t be scared. You can’t burn us all.