Service Description

Women Leadership Development is a longer-term leadership support offer for women in civil society and non-profit organisations. Rather than a one-off training, the service is designed as a structured leadership journey that combines facilitated leadership trainings with individual coaching and peer learning. The format, duration, and intensity are adapted to each context, but always aim to support sustained leadership growth over time. 1. How the service can look A typical Women Leadership Development programme may include, for example, two leadership trainings (in-person or online) spread over several months, with individual leadership coaching and peer learning in between. This structure allows participants to reflect, apply learning in their organisations, and return to the group with concrete experiences and questions. The exact number of training days, coaching sessions, and overall duration is customised. 2. What women gain from the programme Participants strengthen their confidence, leadership clarity, and ability to act in complex organisational and social environments. The programme supports women to reflect on their leadership identity, navigate power dynamics, lead teams more effectively, and take on leadership roles with greater presence and self-assurance. Learning is closely connected to participants’ real work contexts, making leadership development practical, relevant, and sustainable. 3. Peer learning and peer coaching Peer learning is a core element of the programme. Through facilitated peer exchange and peer coaching sessions, participants learn from each other’s leadership experiences, practice reflective dialogue, and build supportive professional networks. Peer processes help maintain learning momentum between trainings and reduce the isolation many women leaders experience. 4. Individual leadership coaching Each participant is supported through individual leadership coaching, offering a confidential space to reflect on personal leadership challenges, goals, and organisational realities. Coaching helps translate learning into practice and supports women in addressing concrete leadership situations they face in their daily work. 5. Leadership trainings grounded in practice The leadership trainings are based on CSA’s tested leadership frameworks and facilitation methods, developed and refined over more than a decade of work with civil society Please email us for an intro session: sohini@civilsocietyacademy.de