women across completed programmes and current 2026 cohorts.
Women in Leadership Development
Your leadership redefined.
WiLD is a six-month leadership experience for women ready to lead with greater confidence, clarity, and connection without becoming someone else.
Open Programme 4 - Autumn 2026
Three leadership workshops
Four Connect sessions
Virtual and in person
Three 1-1 Coaching Sessions
A six-month experience of reflection, practice, connection, and honest conversation.
made a career move across closed-out 2022-2024 cohorts.
believed in their ability to lead, measured before and after WiLD.
companies represented across WiLD programmes.
A different starting point
The qualities we nurture in women are rarely the ones we call leadership.
You may already be the person colleagues rely on, the one delivering difficult work, carrying the detail, and seeing what others miss. Yet those qualities can be overlooked.
WiLD begins with the leader already present. Through strengths-based insight, live practice, individual coaching, and a carefully held cohort, you build a leadership approach that is recognizably yours and learn to be valued for it.
The WiLD difference
The room changes everything.
WiLD is deliberately small. With 12-16 participants, people become visible to one another. Conversations become more honest, learning becomes more personal, and shared experience becomes part of the programme.
- A safe, non-judgemental setting for candid reflection
- Personal attention through assessment and one-to-one coaching
- Shared wisdom and a peer network that continues beyond the programme
Inside WiLD
See what it feels like to be in the room.
Watch the two-minute WiLD aftermovie and step inside the energy, honesty and connection that make the programme different.
Three workshops. One connected experience.
Not a library of lessons. A leadership experience with rhythm.
Each workshop moves the work forward. Assessments make it personal, coaching brings it into your real leadership context, and Connect sessions keep reflection and relationships alive between the larger moments.
Workshop 01
Re-imagining leadership
The first workshop creates room to examine the ideas about leadership that participants have inherited, absorbed or felt expected to perform.
In the room
Facilitated reflection and candid cohort conversation help participants question restrictive leadership myths and explore the narratives women carry into leadership.
The shift
Participants begin defining leadership through their own values, strengths and lived experience - not a standard to imitate.
You carry forward: a more personal definition of leadership and a trusted foundation for the work ahead.
Workshop 02
Embodying leadership
The second workshop moves from the idea of leadership to the way each participant already thinks, communicates, influences and contributes.
Know yourself
Insights from CliftonStrengths, Insights Discovery and the individual debrief give participants practical language for their strengths, patterns and leadership style.
Practise
The cohort works with voice, visibility and presence in real situations, shifting attention away from perceived deficits and toward what is already strong.
You carry forward: a clearer evidence based picture of how you lead and greater confidence using your voice without imitating someone else's style.
Workshop 03
Actioning leadership
The final workshop turns insight into a clearer way forward, grounded in the leadership and career situations participants are navigating now.
Make it real
Participants strengthen self-advocacy, shape a practical leadership vision and identify the actions that will make their contribution more visible.
Keep moving
The work continues through individual coaching and the WiLD Network, giving participants trusted people to draw on after the formal programme.
You carry forward: a practical direction, clearer next actions and a network behind you.
Between the workshops
The learning continues while real work keeps happening.
One-hour virtual WiLD Connect sessions sit between and after the main workshops. They maintain momentum, deepen peer relationships and help participants apply the learning while it is still live.
Build trust and shared perspective.
WiLD Connect 01
Wisdom from WiLD Women
Stay grounded as new practices develop.
WiLD Connect 02
Regulating Your Nervous System
Turn momentum into continued action.
WiLD Connect 03
Cultivating Your Leadership Brand
WiLD Connect 04
Nurturing the Network
Personal support throughout
“You are never left to turn insight into action alone.”
Assessments, one-to-one coaching and trusted cohort connections keep the support personal between every workshop.
What you carry forward
Three changes designed to last beyond the programme.
The modules, coaching and cohort experience work together so insight becomes something participants can use in the next conversation, decision and opportunity.
Know how you lead.
A clearer understanding of your strengths, patterns and leadership style, with language that makes them easier to recognise and use.
Be heard in your own style.
Greater clarity in how you communicate, advocate for your ideas and make your contribution visible without performing a leadership persona.
Move forward with direction.
A practical leadership vision, clearer next actions and a trusted network of women who can remain peers and sounding boards.
Participant perspective
The change is personal before it becomes visible.
“My eyes have been opened. I can be my authentic self and an effective leader.” WiLD programme participant
Who runs WiLD
Two founders. Decades of leadership development.
WiLD combines CareerVision and Kennedy Insights expertise in coaching, facilitation, strengths, culture, research, and leadership development.
Founder of CareerVision
Elaine Gennery
Coach, facilitator, and learning strategist with extensive experience supporting teams, senior leaders, and aspiring female leaders. Elaine is certified in Thinking Environment, Insights Discovery, and Gallup Strengths.
Founder of Kennedy Insights
Dr. Margaret Kennedy
Culture and leadership consultant, mentor, researcher, and Gallup Certified Strengths Coach. Margaret brings a grounded understanding of organisations and a talent for igniting ambition.
Register your interest
Your next step in leadership starts here.
Tell us which WiLD programme interests you and how you would like to fund your place. A member of the WiLD team can also call to help you decide.
- Choose the programme that is right for you
- Tell us whether you are self-funded or employer-funded
- Request a call from a member of the WiLD team
Practical questions
What you may want to know.
Register your interest and a member of the WiLD team will help with the details.
Register for WiLDWho is WiLD designed for?
WiLD is designed for women moving toward broader leadership responsibility, including mid-level and senior professionals and high-potential women preparing for their next step.
How much time should I set aside?
The programme runs across six months. It includes three mandatory 3.5-hour workshops, four optional one-hour Connect sessions, three one-to-one coaching sessions, assessments, surveys, and supporting preparation.
Are all three workshops mandatory?
Yes. Full attendance at all three workshops is required because the sequence and the trust built within the cohort are central to the experience. Connect sessions are optional but strongly encouraged.
How can I get approval from my manager?
Most WiLD places are employer-sponsored. Register your interest and choose employer funding to request a quotation with the outcomes, schedule and time commitment your manager needs.
What happens in the one-to-one coaching sessions?
The coaching sessions give you private, focused support on leadership and career topics relevant to your current situation. They help translate programme insight into practical action.
What assessments will I complete?
The current programme uses Insights Discovery and Gallup CliftonStrengths, alongside participant surveys. These licensed assessments support your individual learning.
What happens after the six months?
The WiLD Network continues as a source of peer support and connection.
Awaken. Empower. Achieve.
Your next step in leadership does not begin with becoming someone else.
WiLD begins with the definition and ends with you leading in a way that is recognisably your own — with the right people beside you.