1. Collective Changes
Social Investment in Women’s Economic Empowerment, Business
and Leadership Programming Impacts Clients, Governments,
Departments and Employees
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2. Problem
• 127 million resourced women from 63 global economies
started businesses in 2012 Dun & Bradstreet
• 80% failed in 1st year
• Typical male failure rate – 23-27%
• Causes
• Lack of business skills
• Lack of networking options
• Lack of mentoring
• Lack of leadership skills
• Lack of access to capital
• Increases Gender Based Violence (GBV)
• Reduces social, civic and economic stability globally

3. Program Design
• Virtual, large scale holistic approach to growing businesses
and jobs for women in emerging markets or fragile
communities of resourced women
• Culturally designed with linguistic relevance - 19 languages
• Participants learn business and leadership skills
• Training to build a global network through LinkedIn
• Mentor/mentee computer match with #1 software Chronus
• Engage in a community of industry associations through
forums – textiles, technology, small manufacturing, retail,
services, recycling, graphic design, etc.
• Profile and group on LinkedIn during and after graduation
• Long-lived associations and network tracking
• Sophisticated data collection and surveys

4. Competition
• Numerous programs offer mentoring for business women
• Typically they are available to elite groups in bricks and mortar
- only for the top half of the top 1% of the world’s population .
• Provide limited accessibility to networks, mentors, business
skills AND long term tracking of their success
• None offer survey opportunities to their partnerships
• None offer 24/7/365 day access to forums and content
• None of the current business mentor programming provides
long term engagement with peers or business sector networks
• There are currently well over 250 million resourced women in
emerging markets that could use economic empowerment,
business and leadership skills today.
• There are currently over 400 million women in lower
governmental roles that could use leadership skills training to
take a role in upper government or elected office

5. Program Deliverables
• Large scale virtual mentoring for business and leadership
skills in emerging markets
• Increased businesses and jobs
• Increased GDP
• Increased social, civic and economic stability
• Reduced gender based violence
• Business curricula is World Bank SME Toolkit as a
proven leader in programming available in 19 languages
• Platform captures data and tracks successes with
interventions when appropriate
• Kinesthetic, auditory and visual learning options
• Credit certification upon graduation
• Mentees become mentors producing virtuous cycle

6. Added Value Proposition
• GLEAN ™ Leadership Skills for all participants
• Global Mindset
• Leadership Quotient
• Ethics
• Agility and Focused Thinking
• Negotiation and Communications in a Virtual World
• Corporate highlights on website
• Interviews of general advisory board members highlight their
experiences
• Magazine article story of mentor/mentee
• Newsletter opportunity
• Corporate Advisory Partner (CAP) Annual Membership
• Survey opportunity in emerging markets

7. Platform Expansion
• Governmental leadership skills programming designed for
women in government to excel and grow into leadership
roles in democratic environments - requested
• Medical Coding for single mothers under 18 – in process
• Healthcare Basics for rural community leaders - requested
• Financial literacy for emerging economies - proposed

8. Corporate Benefits
Human Resources Employee
• Attraction, retention
and engagement
catalyst
• Consistent, long-term
leadership training with
measureable results
and reports
• Daily, short-term
practical learnings
• “Whole community”
approach
• 87% of female
employees believe that
global gender
empowerment
programs are
importantAspire Survey 2011
• Leadership training is
consistent and
available 24/7/365
• Does not impact HR
training budgets

9. Corporate Marketing Benefits
External Outcomes
• Marketing/branding
impact with global
audiences including
• Governments increase
GDP and reduce GBV
• Policy leaders – see
actionable and
leveraged impact
• Clients note
opportunities for similar
interactions
Internal Outcomes
• Highlighting
commitment to engage
in developing
leadership
• Highlighting
commitment to
building new markets
• Data accumulation on
gender equivalencies

10. Program Costs
• Program startup per region $50,000
• Implementation $25,000
• Annual costs $25,000*
• Cost per individual varies per program $250.00
• Scholarships paid by Corporate Partnerships
• Economies of scale for larger numbers
• Program manager per region range $20,000-$80,000
• Total annual costs per region $25,000*
(does not include program manager)
Startup, implementation and program test costs to date $527,000

11. Corporate Advisory Partners
• Annual Membership $50,000 (typically goes towards programming support and
includes recognition on our partnership webpage and annual report)
• CAP membership is limited by sector
• Sectors include:
• Textiles
• Technology
• Consulting
• Retail – clothing
• Retail – office supplies
• Retail – technology
• Retail – e-commerce general
• Food and Beverage
• Banking
• Media
• Manufacturing
• Services
• Hospitality
• Energy
• Associations – multiple
• Academia
• Alternate
• Airlines

12. CAP Duties
• Attend 10 conference call meetings a year or review recorded
call
• Become the Collective Changes Ambassador for their sector to
engage other corporations into partnership agreements (not
CAP) to provide mentors and support for “just in time”
education for women and youth
• Attend one annual meeting or international conference - TBD
• Take on a leadership position within their three year term
• Guide the organization to provide appropriate curricula for
incoming participants relative to their business sector
• Keep the organization up to date on trends, new information
and reports relative to their sector to be shared with
participants
• Provide one in person or video interview about their job and
the impact of mentoring to be used in mentoring recruitment

13. Current Partners
• Ashoka
• Centre for Gender Economics and Innovation
• Chronus Software
• Concero Connect – A Grameen Social Business
• Google
• LinkedIn
• Microsoft
• World Bank