How to Improve GENDER EQUITY Outcomes

Moving Beyond Quotas to Real Readiness

A new approach to workplace equity — building readiness, confidence, and capability across your organisation.

How does your company measure up? We need to ‘Measure to Manage’ Evidence-based strategies for advancing gender equity and workforce readiness start with the analysis. You need metrics to move forward.

Inside this free briefing, you’ll learn:

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The latest data on gender equity progress and performance outcomes.

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How the “readiness gap” impacts innovation, engagement, and retention.

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Four organisational levers for building readiness-based equity.

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An introduction to the Every Woman Can framework and measurable outcomes.

6% of women applied for an expert role

Men applied at c. four times that rate. (Harvard,2024)

Many capable women don’t feel  ready! That’s why it’s imperative to build internal confidence, self advocacy and the ability to negotiate at work on equal terms.

 

Key Insights:

 

  • For every 100 men promoted to manager, just 87 women were promoted (McKinsey & LeanIn, Women in the Workplace, 2023). It shows exactly where the pipeline leaks: at the first step up, long before CEO level.
  • 60% of women report feeling underqualified for higher roles despite equal performance scores (WGEA, 2024).
  • Companies with gender-diverse executive teams were 21% more likely to outperform on profitability (McKinsey, Delivering through Diversity, 2018).

Be part of something bigger

Every Woman Can is a six-week, evidence-informed development programme designed to stregthen communication, self-advocacy, and relational resilience among women who are “Ready but not yet confident.”

The programme supports organisational objectives by:

  • Enhancing leadership readiness
  • Improving engagement and retention
  • Creating measurable cultural impact

Pilot Study Invitation

We’re inviting partner organisations to join our February 2027 pilot  with 15 places per cohort.

Each participant receives a structured development pathway, plus six weeks’ bonus membership of the Courageous Women Circle Patform with group coaching.  Participating organisations receive aggregated insights on confidence, communication, and self-advocacy.

Investment

Standard price $1,750 pp | Free for Gender Equity members during the pilot.

Meet Elena Lennox

I’m a wellbeing and resilience trainer, and founder of DevelopMental Safety & Wellbeing at Work and Courageous Women.

For more than a decade, I’ve helped women — and workplaces — understand that confidence is not a personality trait. It’s a skill that grows in safe, supported environments.

Through Every Woman Can, I bring research-based practice and human insight together to help women reconnect with their value and voice.

Elena presents to a group of inspirational women

The 3 Hidden Habits That Hold Women Back at Work

Only 15 places available

DevelopMental Safety & Wellbeing at Work presents Every Woman Can — a Courageous Women initiative.

✉  elena@courageouswomen.com.au