Leadership and Management

Women's Leadership Programme

The Women’s Leadership Programme is your catalyst for change - a powerful and practical journey designed to help you elevate your voice, grow your influence, and accelerate your leadership path.

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Increase your potential through a mix of coaching, peer learning, and hands-on strategies. Build meaningful connections, expand your network, and gain insights you can use right away. 

Empowering Women, Building Leaders

Research across Wales and the UK consistently shows that women-only leadership programmes create vital spaces for growth, confidence, and connection. These environments offer psychological safety, allowing women to explore leadership on their own terms, highlighting how this fosters not only individual progression but collective empowerment.

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The programme

  • 6 x full day facilitated sessions 
  • 2 x virtual half day peer learning sets (9:30-12:30) 
  • 2 x one-to-one coaching sessions with an Executive coach, based on a leadership self-assessment 

  • Develop a confident leadership identity grounded in personal values and purpose. 
  • Overcome imposter syndrome and self-limiting beliefs through practical tools and peer support. 
  • Apply inclusive leadership principles to build equitable, high-performing teams. 
  • Strengthen strategic thinking and systems leadership to navigate complexity and lead change. 
  • Enhance resilience and wellbeing, managing energy effectively while designing a lasting leadership legacy. 
  • Build a strong professional network of women leaders across sectors in Wales. 

Benefits for you:

  • Confidence & Authentic Leadership: Build a leadership style rooted in your values and gain the confidence to lead effectively in any situation.
  • Career Advancement: Equip yourself with the skills and credibility to secure promotions and senior roles.
  • Strategic & Inclusive Leadership Skills: Learn to navigate complexity, drive change, and foster inclusive, high-performing teams.
  • Resilience & Support Network: Strengthen your resilience while creating lasting peer connections for ongoing support and growth.

Benefits for your organisation:

  • Stronger, More Inclusive Leadership: Participants develop confident, values-driven leadership identities and learn inclusive practices that improve team performance and workplace culture.
  • Strategic Impact & Change Leadership: Participants gain tools for systems thinking, strategic decision-making, and navigating complexity - equipping them to lead change effectively.
  • Retention, Engagement & Reputation: Investing in women’s development boosts morale and retention, while demonstrating your organisation’s commitment to equity and leadership diversity.
  • Cross-Sector Networks & Professional Growth: Participants build lasting connections across Wales, gain insights from senior leaders, and earn professional accreditation - bringing fresh perspectives and credibility back to your organisation.

 

Module 1: Leading with Confidence and Purpose  

  • Understanding leadership through identity and values 
  • Overcoming imposter syndrome and self-limiting beliefs 
  • Storytelling for influence 

 

Module 2: Inclusive Leadership 

  • Power, privilege, and intersectionality 
  • Creating inclusive teams and cultures 
  • Inclusive leadership in practice 

 

Module 3: Strategic Leadership and Systems Thinking 

  • Navigating complexity and change 
  • Strategic decision-making  
  • Introduction to systems leadership 
  • Peer learning circles 

 

Module 4: Resilience, Wellbeing and Legacy 

  • Leading with compassion and authenticity 
  • Managing energy, not just time 
  • Designing your leadership legacy 
  • Reflective practice and celebration 

Dates 

No upcoming course dates. Please register your interest if you would like to book a place on this course.

Cost

Introductory cost: £2,195

Partial funding for ILA eligible organisations available, contact us to find out more.

Optional: ILM Level 7 Award, additional £178

Pam Heneberry is a facilitator and leadership development expert. Pam has extensive experience in coaching, mentoring, and facilitating change within organisations. 

She is also a co-author of the book Critical Leadership: How We Learn to Be Better Leaders, which presents practical frameworks and reflective tools for developing leadership skills. 

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In Her Words

In Her Words is a monthly series of 60-minute lunchtime conversations with influential women leaders across Wales. Open to all - not just programme participants - these sessions offer a unique opportunity to hear directly from women shaping the future of business, education, politics, and community development.

Hosted by leadership expert Pam Heneberry, each conversation explores the guest’s leadership journey, challenges, and insights. As part of the session, each guest will also recommend a book, podcast, or TED Talk that has inspired or influenced them - contributions that will form the foundation of a growing leadership resource library.

29 June with Julie Richards, Director for Royal College of Midwives for Wales

In 2016, USW launched its internal Women’s Development Programme to support women in building leadership skills, growing personally and professionally, and expanding their networks. The programme was created to address the barriers women often face in leadership and to provide practical interventions to help overcome them.

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Sera Evans, Associate Director UK Student Recruitment
Zena Hall

Zena Hall, Systems Officer

Why it matters

Inspire future leaders

by showcasing visible, relatable role models

Foster collaboration

across sectors by sharing diverse leadership styles and solutions.

Challenge stereotypes

and shine a light on systemic barriers to women in leadership.

Celebrate Welsh talent

to strengthen pride in homegrown leadership.

Encourage inclusive dialogue

on leadership, equity, and community-building.

SUPPORTING WOMEN TO BECOME CONFIDENT LEADERS IS CRITICAL - IT STRENGTHENS ORGANISATIONS, COMMUNITIES, AND ECONOMIES BY BRINGING INTO PLAY DIVERSE EXPERIENCES, COLLABORATIVE APPROACHES, AND INCLUSIVE LEADERSHIP STYLES THAT DRIVE INNOVATION, RESILIENCE, AND BETTER OUTCOMES.

Louise Bright

Pro Vice Chancellor for Enterprise Engagement and Partnerships

IN WALES, EMPOWERING WOMEN THROUGH LEADERSHIP PROGRAMMES IS MORE THAN A SOCIAL GOOD—IT’S A VITAL STRATEGY FOR CREATING A MORE INCLUSIVE, DYNAMIC, AND RESILIENT SOCIETY. WHEN WOMEN STEP CONFIDENTLY INTO LEADERSHIP ROLES, THE BENEFITS ARE TRANSFORMATIVE.

Pam Heneberry

Programme Facilitator and Managing Director of the Professional Development Centre

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