The document describes an Emerging Women Leaders Programme aimed at supporting the career progression of young female managers in Asia. It notes that while women are well-represented in entry-level hires, they comprise just 24% of senior leadership positions. The program is designed to address issues junior women managers face through skills development, peer sharing, and involvement from senior women leaders. It involves a 2-day workshop covering topics like navigating organizational culture, embracing strengths, and developing plans for career progression, followed by individual coaching. Participant testimonials praise the inspiration and confidence gained from the real-life stories and skills learned to overcome challenges in advancing their careers.

1. Emerging Women Leaders Programme
Why a Women Leadership
Programme?
The leaking pipeline is an ongoing challenge in all
markets across Asia. We are seeing a significant
loss of women from one level to the next. While
women represent 50% or more of hires, they
comprise just 24% at senior levels.
In Asia, where the demand for talent is
particularly acute, especially given the aging
population and low birth rate, it is critical that
organisations are able to retain the successful
junior managers they have hired and grow them
to become senior leaders. Increasingly,
companies are demonstrating their commitment;
from active messaging from the very top to
enabling policies and programmes to support
gender diversity and the advancement of women.
We believe it is critical for emerging women leader
programmes to address the real issues that junior
managers face: cultural and life-stage issues and
organisational culture issues.
We believe that our programmes set the stage for
courageous conversations within (and beyond) your
organization to nurture and retain your pipeline of
female high potentials.
So why is it we are yet to see a significant impact on
women’s career progression to the top?
It’s clear that the wider cultural context in which
companies are operating plays a significant role
in the active participation rate and
representation of women in the workplace.
Organisational culture also plays a role. It
determines the extent to which messages are
heard, programmes are supported and policies
are acted upon.
Usually in their late twenties / early thirties,
these women are faced with life choices, such as
getting married, having children….
Transitioning between junior and middle
management positions, they are in their first or
second management job and have started
managing people or projects.
Who is EWL for?
• Next Session: 27-28 April 2015, Singapore
• Tuition: $2,300 per participant (USD) ($2,100
if more than one from your organization and
early-bird payment)
• Length: 2 days plus one coaching session
• Average number of participants: 16
• Facilitators: 2 (+ senior leader involvement)
• Locations: Singapore, KL, Hong Kong,
Indonesia, London, Paris
• Language: English
• Open Enrollment and Customized Options
EWL at a glance

2. What can I expect?
@WWWL’s Emerging Women Leaders
Programme has been designed to support and
stretch young women managers to:
• familiarise themselves with key women
leadership data and patterns
• connect to their own aspirations
• discover and embrace more of their whole self
and expand their authentic style
• navigate key cultural challenges (organisational,
societal, family)
• initiate and lead the necessary (courageous)
conversations to facilitate their career
progression
• develop the skills to support themselves and
others to achieve their aspirations: self-
disclosure, perspective taking, deep listening,
powerful questioning, voicing out, giving and
seeking feedback
• develop a plan for their own career
progression.
The Emerging Women Leaders Programme also
involves senior women leaders as role models
and senior men as influential supporters &
potential sponsors.
Programme Phase:
2 Days Face-to-Face Group
Experience
Research-based current data
Personal and group reflection
Inspirational stories
Experiential learning
Peer sharing
Useful frameworks and tool-kits
Senior leader involvement and sharing
Planning and goal setting
Peer coaching
Skills building (listening, powerful questioning,
self-disclosure, voicing out) through experiential
activities
Post Programme Phase:
One 1-1 Follow-On Coaching Session
to enable application and sustain change
The inclusion of senior leaders enables an
organisational culture shift towards greater
women advancement and grants junior women
opportunities to network and interact with
senior leaders on key women leadership
challenges (bringing my whole self to work,
getting it known, etc.)
Why EWL?
Emerging Women Leaders Programme

3. Day 1 : Leading Self
Day 2 : Leading Beyond Self:
Navigating challenges of gender and
culture
What we cover
Purpose
What we cover
Purpose
MORNING
MORNING
What the Data says:
• Video footage
• Research data
• Women leadership
literature
Inform & inspire
Reflection
Identify: new insights,
ideas & questions
Getting it known
Navigating the
organisation
Small group café style
discussions
Key take-aways from
the data: feelings,
surprises, ambitions?
Presence
Personal Power
Building & Leveraging
influential relationships
AFTERNOON
AFTERNOON
My woman leadership
journey to date:
• Me @ my best/worst
• Patterns & learning
themes
Surface key shared
values, strengths and
challenges
Personal reflection
Story-telling, listening
and self-disclosure skills
practice
Reconciliation
conversations
Importance & know
how for having crucial
conversations with key
stakeholders in order to
achieve ambitions
Embracing all of me: Letting
go – an interactive exercise
Bring mindfulness to
our inner critic and
judge
Letting go of striving to
be perfect
Shaping the future
Complete their timeline
- next leg
Visioning and
smoothening my path
Bringing my whole self to
work
Leveraging all of ME
(towards expanding my
range as leader)
Goal setting through
peer coaching
Planning for my
development
Accountability
Self defense /Yoga / Pilates/
Zumba
Physical relaxation
Fun
Closing circle
Completion and
celebration
EWL Programme Outline
Emerging Women Leaders Programme

4. What EWL Participants Appreciate?
“Developing women talent and more women leaders is a
business imperative! Unfortunately the numbers show still
a lot of attention is required to unleash this potential in
organisations. I believe and have experienced this is best
done mobilising the female troops and supporting them to
step up and lead from the front. Denise and Hélène have
assisted us in designing an Emerging Women Leaders
program for Danone Indonesia, a program to bring self
awareness to many of our female talents and a call to
action to step up and plan for their futures. The program
was a breakthrough and turning point for many of our
talents and created a wave of energy and unleashed
potential and passion in Danone Indonesia. I fully support
their initiative to create impact on a wider scale in the
Region”.
CorineTap, Managing Director,Australia
“I most appreciated real stories, honesty, knowing
that it is OK to be human!”
“The speakers and facilitators were very generous
in sharing their experience and exploring what the
participants can do, instead of telling.”
“I find all the sessions very useful, especially to
overcome all my fears: being shy, don’t dare to
speak up, unable to sell myself although some
people know my potential.”
“The workshop goes a long way to help our
company acknowledge the specific challenges of
working women.”
“The senior leaders committed their time for
sharing their experience – definitely useful for us.”
“This workshop gives encouragement to women
leaders to shine.”
“This workshop is very inspiring and motivating. I
feel more confident than ever. Thanks for sharing
and hopefully all women can have the same
workshop as we had.”
“I learnt something new and just opened my mind
to a new me.”
“Sharing with participants and guests opens our
mind and makes us think how to take it to action.”
Why @WWWL?
III. Personalized Service
Flexibility: we can customize and offer pick & mix module
options, taking your context into account.
Agility and Reach: we can travel to you (light) and we can
source and match trusted facilitators & coaches from our
Associate pool around the world.
IV. Specialist Expertise & Facilitative Style
Leadership, women leadership, programme design
expertise, collaborative group methods, process facilitation
and coaching. We create and model open environments
conducive to collaborative working and learning from
peers.
1. Grounded Role Models
We are passionate about and catalysts for this
important societal topic of women advancement.As
highly experienced coaches and process facilitators
your agenda is the agenda.
We are working mums (and dads) and have worked
as leaders in large organisations.
We model self-disclosure and learning agility
through our story-telling and sharing.
II. Evidence-Based Practice
We have coached hundreds of leaders - male and
female at different levels in Asia and worldwide and
have a good sense of the gender, cultural challenges
and biases at play.
How to register
Request, complete the form and scan it to:
claire@workwithwomenleaders.com
More information?
Singapore, Hong Kong, London: ask Denise
denise@workithwomenleaders.com
+65 9843 9263
KL, Indonesia, Paris: ask Helene
helene@workwithwomenleaders.com
+60 12 698 2065
Emerging Women Leaders Programme