“Authentic Women Leaders”
Women Leadership Programme for Climate & Company
Start: 27 November 2023 (Brussels) or 4 December 2023 (online)
Say hello to the powerful woman who is already inside you.
The next 3 months are your time to make her shine with your natural confidence.
Welcome.
From November 2023, the Climate & Company „Authentic Women Leaders“ programme will support 12 amazing women from Climate & Company to confidently drive impact in a challenging, sometimes male-dominated senior work environment, to grow their belief in themselves and to build their very own definition of success for their career.
The 3-month programme is hosted by Helene Banner, Women Confidence Mentor, Keynote Speaker and former spokesperson at the European Commission, who has accompanied more than 100 impressive women in leadership positions intimately over the past 3.5 years on their journey to unfolding their full potential.
The power of this programme…
…lies in the experience that you make over 3 months in Leadership Trainings, group exercises and 1-1 mentoring support.
As a participant, you will
experience how powerful you already are in your natural feminine leadership skills;
experience the power of expressing yourself with your authentic voice and confidence while feeling supported and safe;
get clarity on your career vision and goals, re-write your own success story and feel ready to take your bold next career steps.
Key facts
When?
Start: Monday 27 November 15:30-18:30 in Brussels in person or Monday 4 December 15:30-18:30 (online)
End: Mid-March 2024
How?
Leadership Skills Training in the group (online)
1-1 Mentoring Support (online)
Support videos & PDF work material in a dedicated Teams Channel
Why?
Confidence and self-belief
Public Speaking
Career vision
Female leadership and diversity at Climate & Company
Our full schedule
Kick-Off Conference - “Growing as a woman, inspiring as a leader“
Confidence and Leadership Skills Training and group experiences as an invitation to re-discover your feminine leadership skills
GROUP 1 - BRUSSELS
on Monday 27 November 15:30-18:30
Location: The Nine, Rue Archimède 69, 1000 Brussels
(for colleagues who are in Brussels for EFRAG conference)GROUP 2 - ONLINE
on Monday 4 December 15:30-18:30 via ZoomAgenda for the meeting:
15.30-16.45 Opening Session
- Welcome & introduction to the programme
- Inspirational input: Growing as a woman, inspiring as a leader: Daring to be "you" and shaping your own idea of success
- Your goals and wishes for the programme
16.45-17.00 Break
17.00-18.30 Leadership Training Session
- Your own definition of success: Confidence tools to overcome self-doubt and overwhelm
- Setting your intention for the programme
18.30 End
MILESTONE I: Fall in Love with the Powerful Woman you already are
Session 1 - Grow your confidence and leadership from within you
Thursday 14 December 2023 16:30-18:00 via ZoomRecognise the Powerful Woman you already are: Grow your leadership confidence from within through self-awareness of your feminine natural superpowers in your work
BONUS WORKSHOP: Fall in Love With The Woman You Want to Become in 2024
Thursday 11 January 2023 - 18:30-20:30 via Zoom
Set your 2024 goals by reverse-engineering your year: instead of starting from the woman we are today, let us imagine who we want to become by December! After this powerful Live Workshop, you’ll be clear about your year’s ambitions and goals.More information: New Year’s workshop “Fall in Love With The Woman You Want to Become in 2024” (you don’t need to buy a ticket)
Register via email: Please let me know by Wednesday 10 January via hello@helenebanner.com if you wish to attend. I will send you the Zoom link on Thursday morning. Happy new year!
Session 2 - Leading yourself: the power of knowing your needs and boundaries
NEW DATE: Thursday 18 January 2024 17:30-19:00 via Zoom (after Climate&Connect)
The beginning of the year is perfect to set up your own rulebook: what are your limits, when is it time to say "no"? In this session, we'll start by growing your awareness of what you want to say YES to - this will help you set boundaries and stand up for yourself!Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8159037564?omn=85498999080
MILESTONE II: Taking space as a powerful woman leader
Session 3- Stay confident in challenging, male-dominated professional situations
Let's talk about those situations when we are "the only women in the room": how to stay true to ourselves and how to deal with the alpha people who may still intimate us and our confidence.Thursday 25 January 2024 16:30-18:00 via Zoom
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8159037564?omn=85498999080
Session 4 - Public Speaking Secrets for Women
Thursday 8 February 2024 16:30-18:00 via ZoomZoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8159037564?omn=85498999080
MILESTONE III: Rewrite your Success story, your Career Vision and Goals
Session 5 - Achieve your career goals by following your „why“ as a woman leader
Thursday 22 February 2024 16:30-18:00 via Zoom
CELEBRATION CONFERENCE - “Shaping the future Her Way“
Fall in Love with the Powerful Woman you want to become
(2.5 hours, online)
Thursday 21 March 2024, 16.00-18.30
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8159037564?omn=88152292103
CHECK-IN SESSION 2024
Get more support and celebrate your milestones
Confirmed date: 18 April 2024 16:30-18:00
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8159037564?omn=86798980467
Extra 1-1 support
During our 3 months together, you have the possibility to book two 1-1 Mentoring Sessions with Helene to achieve even more personal goals during your experience.
For example, you can book your 1-1 Session to
...receive a confidence boost and feedback ahead of an important presentation, career moment or decision;
...see the « big picture » again: get a reminder of how powerful you are, how much more you deserve and how much your voice matters
...get a permission and dose of "everything is possible for me!" for your next weeks and months - with more clarity on your next steps.
Why Helene’s workshops are a little different…
Yes, I probably sat in too many so-called “women empowerment trainings” that tried to encourage me to “toughen up” in my workplace.
That’s why I created "Let’s Just Be Imperfect, Ladies" in 2020.
Instead of trying to make you “harder” to better “fit in” in tough work places, my work focuses on strengthening you to become more confident in your natural qualities: your empathy, your ability to express emotions, to admit mistakes and your power to think in alliances rather than in competition.
In my programmes, I pass on what I learned as a young woman in leadership positions about authentic leadership, overcoming “people-pleasing” and over-performing and learning to express one's own needs rather than “fitting in”.
I truly believe that feminine power is what is so desperately needed in most workplaces in order to lay the ground for new work cultures that are open for new and diverse forms of leadership - by both men and women. This is your time!
What women said after my workshops and online courses.
“Wish I’d taken this course 20 years earlier!”
“Helene’s course helped me break through my limiting beliefs so that I could really begin to feel my own self worth and value. This new mindset has increased my confidence, lessened my anxieties and helped me to feel more at peace in the day-to-day. Wish I'd taken this course 20 years earlier!”
- Maria, participant in the 4-week “Call Me Ms Authentic” Confidence Course
“Helene can lift you up in the way you think is impossible."”
"Helene is amazing and inspiring women, who can lift you up in the way you think it is impossible. Her words and personal stories resonate so much that you will feel empowered to implement changes in your life. Helene enables you to make necessary steps to ultimately feel better, be better and live better, just as you deserve!"
- Aleksandra, participant in the 4-week “Call Me Ms Authentic” Confidence Course
“The opportunity to give and receive support from other amazing women, including Helene, has given me so much energy.”
Participating in this program has changed the way I think about myself and other people. It has given me concrete tools to make decisions without over-thinking, dare to make mistakes without thinking it means anything about me as a person, and the opportunity to give and receive support from other amazing women, including Helene, which has given me so much energy.
- Alice, participant in the 4-week “Call Me Ms Authentic” Confidence Course
What I will do as your mentor…
I will hold the mirror so that you can see how powerful you are...
I may provoke you to shift your perspective on yourself...
I will ensure a safe space for you to express yourself...
I will listen with my heart and give you personal guidance...
I will push you to take action...
I will share my personal experience of being a confident woman with confidence issues...
Helene’s experience
Helene Banner brings with her the experience of advising women and men in power positions, of mentoring women in career transitions and supporting them in high-level work environments in which they are sometimes “the only woman in the room”.
She created her women mentoring and consulting business after her 10-year experience of being a young woman in senior communication advisor positions herself: at 29 years she was the spokesperson of a European Commissioner in Brussels and later the speechwriter of Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission. In July 2019 she advised and accompanied now-President Ursula von der Leyen in the weeks when she became the first woman in this office.
In these positions, she observed how power is distributed in organisations, how empowered an organisation becomes when the „image of power“ changes at its leadership level and how both men and women can be supported in this change.
