Development Solutions / Women in Business
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Programmes and workshops built for the women already in your business, led by female leaders and practitioners who have made those steps themselves.
Run as an open cohort, a dedicated cohort, or designed around your own women’s network.
Built around your population
A single cohort, a multi-site rollout, or a programme designed around your own women’s network. Content, length and delivery shaped to fit, including single sessions for International Women’s Day and internal conferences.
Two routes
Empower
Perfect for your female talent, this interactive programme consists of 4 masterclasses led by high-performing female leaders.
Led by
Why organisations choose it
- Four masterclasses, each led by a high-performing expert
- Provides the tools to overcome their challenges and perform at the highest level
- Runs as an open cohort or dedicated in house
ASCEND
Leading with confidence, finance and AI and automation for modern managers. A 16 week programme with a CMI Level 5 Certificate in Leadership.
Why organisations choose it
- For women who have just stepped into leadership, or are about to
- Recognition with a CMI Level 5 Certificate in Leadership
- 16 weeks, four face to face workshop days delivered across the first eight weeks
- Four modules: Leadership Essentials, Performance Culture, Financial Confidence, and Future-Ready Leadership with AI and automation
- Built for newly appointed managers, operational managers, department and team leaders, project managers with people responsibilities, and supervisors stepping up
- Participants apply the learning to live workplace challenges between sessions, with tools, templates and action plans they keep
Bespoke solutions
Designed around your own network, your sector and the point where women are dropping out of your pipeline.
How it works
- Starts with where progression actually stalls in your organisation
- Built from masterclasses, workshops, coaching and speaker sessions
- Can be delivered alongside an existing women’s network or ERG
- Single sessions available for International Women’s Day and internal conferences
Expert led masterclasses
Sessions delivered by recognised experts, available as open sessions or in-house.
Expert led
Confidence, Awareness and Assertiveness
Penny Haslam
Former BBC business news presenter, author of Make Yourself a Little Bit Famous, and one of the UK’s most booked speakers on visibility and self promotion.
The session
Being heard, holding a position and asking for what the role is worth. Penny works on the practical mechanics of visibility: speaking up, being remembered and putting yourself forward without waiting to be asked.
Format and fit
- Half or full day, face to face or virtual
- Open session or delivered in house
- Works as a standalone session for a women’s network
- Part of the Empower series
Expert led
The Power of Mindset: Leading from Within
Kate Richardson-Walsh OBE
Olympic gold medallist and the most capped player in Team GB hockey history, who captained the squad through an eight year rebuild to Rio.
The session
How self-leadership shows up in everything else. Kate draws on what it takes to hold a team together when performance is under scrutiny and the results have not arrived yet.
Format and fit
- Half or full day, face to face or virtual
- Open session or delivered in house
- Strong fit for International Women’s Day
Expert led
The Future of Women in Work
Sonya Barlow
Award winning entrepreneur, BBC broadcaster and author, founder of the Like Minded Females network and a recognised voice on inclusion and emerging skills.
The session
What is actually shifting, and what it means for your pipeline. Sonya covers inclusion, AI and automation, and the skills that will decide who progresses over the next five years.
Format and fit
- Half or full day, face to face or virtual
- Open session or delivered in house
- Pairs with ASCEND for practising managers
- Presenting with Impact
- Courageous Conversations
Sessions run full day or half day, face to face or virtual, in house or as an open session, and can be combined into a wider development journey.
More than a programme. A network.
As an RTB client, you and your teams get more than the programme itself. Through our network of 1,000+ speakers and experts, your people get live webinars running alongside their development, events, resources and the chance to book global experts directly.
Sarah Furness: Courageous Leadership Under Fire
RAF combat pilot on performing under pressure.
Confidence in leadership: why it is a skill you build, not something you are born with
What actually builds confidence in a management role.
Dame Kelly Holmes
Double Olympic champion on resilience and performing under pressure.
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