Women in leadership
Strengths‑based leadership development for stepping into senior leadership roles.
Many companies are focusing on addressing the gender gap within leadership and management, this is due to women representing only 38% of non-executive director roles and nearly 14% of executive directors in the UK, with only 8% of FTSE 100 CEOs being women*.
There are multiple factors outside womens control that have led to a gender gap. Women do not need to change. Our training programmes are focused on how women (and those who identify as women) can leverage their strengths, face challenges and thrive.
*Fawcett Research Report, the UK’s leading Equality Charity.
Unleash your potential
Leadership development built for the moments that matter.
We strengthen what’s working—then rehearse it for the moments that decide reputations and careers. Our strength-led programmes help women leaders amplify their current skills—so they can step into high-stakes conversations that protect culture, untangle cross-functional conflict, and lead teams through uncertainty with credibility and impact.
Because leadership is judged in real time, we focus on the complex and high-stakes moments that matter most at senior levels, such as,
Training you can trust—designed for today, built for what’s next.
Working with Take Effect means training you can trust: relevant, flexible, built around your goals—and delivered by a partner who can stay by your side as your needs evolve.
We make the learning stick through a practical blended learning approach, including workplace simulation, experiential learning, relevant case studies, social learning, micro-learning and reinforced by AI-assisted behavioural prompts and smart reminders that support leaders before, during, and after the programme.
Whether you’re supporting female leaders transitioning into senior roles or refining the impact of experienced executives, we tailor each programme to your context and culture. Expect actionable tools, structured practice, and high-quality feedback that enables women leaders to amplify their strengths and operate with clarity, presence, and influence.
Why women’s leadership development matters
Women in leadership can face added complexity that’s not about ability, but context—subtle bias, shifting expectations, and greater scrutiny that can shape how decisions are made and how leadership is perceived. As careers progress, the peer group often narrows and role models can feel harder to find, making key moments more effortful than they should be.
The good news is these patterns are increasingly recognised and workable, which is why women‑centred leadership development is so effective: it creates a focused space for reflection, practical tools, and skill‑building in influence, communication, and negotiation, supported by strong peer connection and coaching that turns insight into action
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From capable to confident: expanding your impact as a senior female leader.
This work is about building on what already makes you an effective leader, and ensuring it carries weight in the moments that matter.
We focus on strengthening how your thinking, communication, and leadership translate into influence and outcomes within your organisation.
You will deepen your ability to communicate with clarity and authority, ensuring your perspective is understood and acted on. You’ll strengthen your influence across stakeholders, shaping decisions and direction without needing to overextend yourself. Conversations move forward earlier, with greater precision, so challenges are addressed before they escalate.
Your female leaders will develop the core skills of leading self—building on their strengths to deepen self-awareness, strengthen self-management, and lead with clarity under pressure. Through structured reflection, personalised feedback, and coaching, they will hone their leadership identity, make values-led decisions, and regulate their energy and focus..
Your business will benefit because leaders become more consistent and sustainable in how they operate—clearer priorities, better judgement, and steadier leadership during uncertainty. This raises performance under pressure across the senior leadership team.
Your female leaders will build on their strengths to influence with confidence as they step into more senior roles. They will understand how gender can shape communication, navigate bias in real time, and use their voice with purpose. Through strengths in connection, credibility, and perspective, they will influence stakeholders, build strong networks, and create support that sustains their impact.
Your business will benefit because influence becomes clearer and more consistent across teams and stakeholders. This strengthens alignment, improves decision-making, and ensures ideas are heard, backed, and acted on at senior levels.
Your female leaders will sharpen their judgement and relationship strengths to negotiate outcomes that work for both the business and the people involved.
They will prepare thoughtfully, communicate with precision, and use their strengths to keep conversations constructive and outcomes-focused.
Your business will benefit because agreements are reached more effectively and with stronger outcomes. This supports better decisions, strengthens partnerships, and enables leaders to move work forward with clarity, confidence, and consistency.
Executive coaching for sustained impact
Your female leaders benefit from executive coaching that builds on their existing strengths while helping them navigate the added complexity many women experience in senior roles.
Coaching creates a focused space to step back, process experience, and strengthen their leadership approach. Through structured reflection, targeted feedback, and practical action, they sharpen what already works—strengthening confidence, judgement, and consistency so their leadership holds under pressure and across changing environments.
Unlock performance across your organisation by developing the right leadership capabilities at every level—from emerging talent to senior executives.
How we take effect
Learning that sticks
We design for transfer, not inspiration. Leaders practise real scenarios women face—being interrupted, getting vague ‘tone’ feedback, negotiating scope, resetting boundaries, and handling conflict with fairness and confidence in day-to-day work.
This multi-layered approach ensures knowledge isn’t just understood in the moment but applied consistently back on the job—driving measurable behavioural change and real business impact.
Flex to your needs
Our programmes are expertly designed, then tailored to your culture, values, and business priorities, with clear measures of success.
Choose live workplace simulations with professional role players, plus flexible group sizes, formats and durations. Delivered at our central Manchester venue or yours, our blended approach combines human-led learning with AI-enabled reinforcement, maximising impact and sustaining behaviour change before, during and after every workshop.
Learning through doing
AI can share information, but leadership relies on handling complexity, ambiguity and emotion in the moment. That’s why we prioritise scenario-led practice.
Sessions are highly experiential and built for real-world application: purposeful practise, realistic scenarios and structured feedback loops that accelerate skill development. By learning through doing, we maximise retention and ensure new skills successfully transfer smoothly into the workplace from day one.
Ultimately relevant
Relevance drives engagement—and engagement drives results.
That’s why we take the time to deeply understand your organisation, your people and your challenges. We create scenarios for you that reflect the real situations your teams face every day, making learning immediately applicable.
The result is training that resonates, energises and equips your people to perform where it matters most.
Neuroscience & psychology
Our approach is grounded in the latest research in behavioural science, psychology and neuroscience. We design learning experiences that align with how the brain actually acquires, retains and applies new skills. From spacing and reinforcing the learning to emotional engagement and habit formation, every element is intentional, ensuring your investment translates into meaningful, lasting change.
Deep expertise
We bring deep knowledge and expertise to every programme we deliver: our team combines decades of exeprience in learning and development. We’ve worked in a multitude of sectors including Media, Retail, Digital Marketing, Technology, Law, Construction, Recruitment, Telecomms, Banking, the NHS, Housing, Charities and many more, so we understand your world. We’ve trained female leaders at every level, from emerging managers to executives.
Outcome focused facilitation that shifts performance.
Our facilitators combine deep behavioural expertise, real organisational experience, and a relentless focus on outcomes. They create psychologically safe, high-challenge environments where women can practise complex conversations. Participants receive objective observation, coaching feedback, and practical language that works in real meetings, one-to-ones, and moments of conflict. We integrate with your leaders and HR or L&D teams so everything aligns to your expectations, standards, and culture. The result is higher participation, faster skill development, and measurable shifts in behaviour that teams experience directly in clarity, fairness, accountability, and trust.
When you bring in an external Take Effect facilitator you add a new level of energy and challenge. Our facilitators offer an objective perspective, ask the questions others won’t, and create learning experiences that truly stick. This results in: engaged participants, lasting behavioural change, and leadership development that translates into tangible business results.
Track improvements and shift the behaviours that drive performance
At Take Effect Training, we believe leadership development should be judged by more than feedback scores alone—it should be proven through real, measurable change. That’s why we build measurement into every stage of our programmes.
Tracking progress
We agree success measures from the outset, then track progress through practical assessment, including baseline and post-programme checks, scenario-based skill scoring, structured feedback, and observation during realistic simulations.
Objective data
Assessment options can include 360-degree feedback, behavioural analytics, and psychometric tools to highlight strengths, patterns, and growth over time. This shows what’s improving, where gaps remain, and how behaviours evolves over time.
In the flow of work
If required, we include AI-enabled, in-the-flow-of-work reinforcement—micro-actions, prompts, and reflective questions that support leaders to apply new habits where it matters most.
Meaningful outcomes
Behind the scenes, we’ll integrate everything into your LMS so you have real-time visibility of progress. More importantly, we connect learning activity to business outcomes—tracking capability growth, measurable behaviour change, and clearly demonstrating the return on your investment in.
Common queries about our leadership programmes
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