Why we are here...

A Better World. Powered by Women

What does it mean: Influential and connected women with bold solutions to social and environmental issues, can make the world a better place.

Our mission: We harness women's skills to create robust social businesses, projects, and networks: together with the network members, we are building trading and learning platforms to break through mainstream supply-chains and commissioning processes.

Why it is important? By taking them out of the shadows and connecting them to influential stakeholders, we make them independent professionals, we boost local and global welfare and help them to have a positive social impact on their wider networks.

Our customers: The women we work with are activists, social entrepreneurs, members of campaigning organisations, sme's or larger organisations, who, by their activities, are, or can become, influential social leaders, provide practical solutions to social and environmental needs, and change many people’s lives for the better.

We call these women Social Innovators.

The team: The team has global experience in organisational reviews and business planning, Information and knowledge management, social impact measurement, Strategy Reviews, leadership and executive support, collaboration and stakeholder management

Read more about our social business advisors, coaches, facilitators and journalists here.

How we measure impact: We measure our impact and conduct our activities according to the following principles:

• Visibility and Social Leadership, where our intervention impacts upon women’s influence of change in policy, governance and people’s behaviour; women taking influential formal or informal leadership positions, genuinely “supported” by their stakeholders.
• Stronger Viability / Sustainability where our intervention changes the way women contribute to local and global welfare, thanks to robust systems and well managed activities.)
• Increased Sense of Connectednesswhere our intervention helps women to manage greater numbers, quality and relevant knowledge, and power networks.
• Growth of Confidence, where our intervention impacts on the capacity of women to recognise themselves as genuine agents of change, exercising power and influence.
• Enhanced Sense of Learning, where our intervention help women to apply their skills differently and to disseminate skills contributing to other's prospects in life.

(read further here)

We encourage our team and network members to:

• aspire to become outstanding social leaders
• smile and break the ice whenever they can
• be inspiring, open and non-directive enablers
• keep a natural flow in meetings (space, breaks, hosting)
• enable people to think at a more productive level
• see people's potential before anything else
• give people time to laugh, to reflect, and time to ask questions
• always illustrate topics with concrete examples
• answer inquiries in a succinct, specific and generous way
• give or show visually exciting materials
• contribute by their knowledge and exquisite attention to the creation of human wealth