For women leaders
Breakthrough Journey
A transformative journey for women leaders to assess their readiness and wellbeing, and work on the barriers that hold them back.
Runs fully digital. Live sessions with Dr Niru and Dr Akshay can be added for cohorts that want them.
Start your journeySPEAR profileBaseline
Strong on Acumen. Running thin on Physical.
Her baselineCohort mean
Roadblock releaseStart → close
Three roadblocks, loosening.
Self-Promotion4.6 → 3.1
Inner Critic4.2 → 2.6
Bold Requests3.9 → 2.4
Commitment madeJust now
“Ask for the stretch project directly, in one sentence.”
Due Fri 17 Oct · One thing, this week
Nudge · Thu 09:00Tomorrow is the day. What is your first sentence?
Growth Readiness IndexWeek 12
71of 100+9 since baseline
Baseline 62Close 71
Ready for the bigger role, with reserve to spare.
SPEAR profile
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The framework
What the journey addresses
A practical framework for understanding current capacity, addressing common roadblocks, and strengthening the capabilities that sustain leadership over time.
Wellbeing and Readiness
The GROW read
Wellbeing is her capacity. Readiness is her appetite for the next step. Read together, they place her on one map.
High
Readiness Index
Low
LowWellbeing IndexHigh
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Project Breakthrough
The seven roadblocks
Inward
01Inner Critic
02Guilt
03Likeability Need
Outward
04Self-Promotion
05Bold Requests
06Networking & Negotiation
07Masculinized Leadership
Whole Being
The five pillars
Five dimensions that together shape resilience, judgment, and sustainable performance.
01SpiritualPurpose as the glue that holds the rest together.
02PhysicalThe body as the container for everything she carries.
03EmotionalRegulation and self-worth under pressure.
04Acumen for BusinessThe career engine, and the trade-offs of time and money.
05RelationshipsThe people who sustain her, and the ones who drain her.
How the journey works
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Evidence she keeps, and movement you can see
Her reports
A baseline report and a close report, reviewed by our team before she sees them. They are hers alone.
A personal letter, written to her
Her SPEAR profile and GROW read
Her seven roadblocks, then and now
Her commitments, and what she did with them
Reflections stay with the person who wrote them.
Your organisation’s reports
A reviewed cohort view of where the group began and how it moved.
Where the cohort starts, pillar by pillar
The GROW map, and the roadblocks the group carries
Sustainable Progress, Follow-Through and Culture Signal
What the group wrote, and how deeply
Employers see group results, for groups of five or more. Individual answers stay private.
Participant reportBaseline reportWhere she starts
Self Discovery
Her SPEAR profileHer score against her cohort, 0 to 10
HerCohort
Spiritual8.1
Physical5.1
Emotional6.1
Acumen for Business6.1
Relationships6.5
Her GROW readReadiness and wellbeing, 0 to 100
Growing
Winning
Overcoming
Ready
Her GROW readReadiness 62.
Wellbeing 41.The capability is present; the reserve is thin.
Wellbeing 41.The capability is present; the reserve is thin.
Participant reportClose reportWhere she moved, start to close
Start → close
Where she started, where she is nowSame questions, asked at the start and at the close
Sustainable61up 9
Ready to move78up 4
The gap17narrowed 5
Her seven roadblocks1 not at all, 5 a great deal
StartClose
Inner Criticeased 2
Self-Promotioneased 2
Likeability Needeased 2
Guilteased 1
Bold Requestseased 1
Networking & Negotiationheld
Masculinized Leadershipheld
Cohort reportBaseline cohort reportWhere the group starts
n = 29
The GROW mapParticipants in each quadrant at the start
Cohort centreBenchmark
Growing7
Winning6
9Overcoming
7Ready
What this showsSixteen of 29 participants sit below the wellbeing line, and the cohort centre sits 4 points below the benchmark on wellbeing.
Starting point by pillarCohort mean, 0 to 10
CohortBenchmark
Spiritual7.2
Physical5.9
Emotional6.1
Acumen for Business6.1
Relationships6.6
Cohort reportCohort movement reportWhere the group moved, start to close
n = 24
Movement across the GROW map22 participants measured at both ends
StartClose
Wellbeing
Growing
Winning
Overcoming
Ready
9closed in Winning, from 2 at the start
3still in Overcoming at the close
Each line is one person, start to close. No names, ever.
Sustainable Progress and Follow-ThroughThe two figures the report leads on
41%
Sustainable ProgressMoved toward higher wellbeing and higher readiness, and did not round-trip63%
Follow-Through RateCommitments made during the workshop, checked one question at a timeCulture Signal+18net score, from −100 to +100
Roadblock Release58%eased by at least one point
