Our programme outcomes and schedule
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By the end of the programme you will:
1.Understand the concepts and principles behind feminist leadership, how it differs from traditional leadership models and why this is important to those seeking social justice
2. Be able to critically analyse how power operates in your organisation or community and understand/develop ways to bring about equitable changes in your workplace
3. Have a greater understanding of your own relationship to power, and of new ways to exercise power (for example, by sharing power) and with accountability
4. Understand how and why intersectionality is important for feminist leadership, and have developed ways to apply this lens to your approach to leadership
5. Have started to explore and build a radical approach to self and collective care, alongside an understanding of how to foster and support cultures of care in your organisations
6. Have explored examples of how feminist leadership principles can be put into practice in our organisations and have developed a plan of action to apply what you have learned
7. Create a network of peers with whom you will have an opportunity to continue to offer mutual support and learning beyond the course.
Key dates September 2025
Dates for our September 2025 programme are listed below.
The 12-week programme is delivered via a blended model of interactive webinars and self-led learning, including:
26 hours of live contact hours including one full-day training and four 2 to 3 hour webinars plus external speaker sessions.
In some weeks there will be self-led reading and critical reflection activities to complete individually. These self-led activities can be completed in your own time during that week.
Optional small peer groups to create space to continue discussions, share learning and build connection.
Two break weeks to allow participants the chance to rest and reflect.
We are running one group for our 12-week online feminist leadership programme starting in September 2025. The schedules and timings for the live webinars can be found below - please check this works for your timezone.
Week 1, Start of programme: Wednesday 10 September 2025. Self-led readings and reflection and an opportunity to connect with your peer group.
Week 2: 17 September 2025. Live webinar. 10.00am - 12.30pm London; 12.00pm - 2.30pm EAT. Plus one hour guest speaker ‘fireside chat’ at 1.00pm London, 3.00pm EAT, 5.30pm Delhi, 7.00pm Bangkok
Week 3: 24 September 2025. Live webinar. 10.00am - 12.00pm London; 12.00pm - 2.00pm EAT. NB there will also be follow-up readings assigned this week so please factor in extra time for this.
Week 4: 1 October 2025. REST WEEK and optional peer group meeting 10.00am - 11.00am London; 12.00pm - 1.00pm EAT.
Week 5: 8 October 2025. Self-led readings and reflection. Plus one hour optional social with other participants on Wednesday 8 October 1.00pm London; 3:00pm EAT; 5.30pm Delhi, 7.00pm Bangkok
Week 6: 15 October 2025. Live webinar. 10.00am - 12.15pm London; 12.00 - 2.15pm EAT
Week 7: 22 October 2025. Self-led readings and reflection.
Week 8: 29 October 2025. Live webinar. 10.00am - 12.15pm London; 1.00pm - 3.15pm EAT
Week 9: REST WEEK
Week 10: 12 November 2025. Live full-day online training. 10.00am - 4.00pm London; 1.00pm - 7.00pm EAT
Week 11: 19 November 2025. Live webinar (extended). 10.00am - 1.00pm London; 1.00pm - 4.00pm EAT
Three-week break to allow participants to start to apply learnings to practice. Including second one hour guest speaker ‘fireside chat’ on Wednesday 3 December 2025 1.00pm London; 4.00pm EAT; 6.30pm Delhi; 8.00pm Bangkok
Week 12: 10 December 2025. Live webinar (extended). 10.00am - 1.00pm London; 1.00pm - 4.00pm EAT
Programme schedule
Week One
Through core readings and reflection activities, participants understand the key concepts and principles behind feminist leadership. They also have a chance to interact online with other course participants and connect with a small peer group. Time commitment: Approximately 1.5 hours in your own time.
Week Two
Participants take part in a one-day training in an online ‘feminist classroom’. They get to know each other better, start to explore different definitions of feminist leadership, and learn to distinguish between ‘feminine’ leadership and feminist leadership. They’ll also explore how and why intersectionality is so important for feminist leaders. Time commitment: one-day live online training - with lots of breaks!
Week Three
Participants continue to deepen their understanding of intersectionality and how intersecting oppressions show up in our workplaces, primarily through readings and reflection activities. (Participants will have the chance to explore each other’s reflections and interact with each other in most of the reflection weeks.) Participants will also get the chance to spend an hour with a feminist leader who is already applying these principles to the way they work. Time commitment: approximately 1.5 hours in your own time, 1 hour in the external speaker session.
Week Four
Peer group connection. A chance to connect with your peer group, reflect on programme content to date and provide mutual care and support.
Week Five
Participants will begin to understand different dimensions of power and how they can adversely affect both ourselves and those we work with. They will reflect upon how these different dimensions of power show up in their own workplaces. Time commitment: approximately 1.5 hours in your own time.
Week Six
Via a live webinar, participants will explore a framework for analysing inequalities in our organisations, and will be introduced to strategies that can be used to promote greater equity in the workplace. They will start to reflect on what this means for their own organisations, their vision for feminist organisations, and their own leadership practice. Time commitment: approximately two hours.
Week Seven
Participants will understand how they as leaders can harness positive forms of power, and will also prepare for week nine’s webinar by starting to examine their own privilege. Time commitment: 1.5 hours in your own time.
Week Eight
Participants will participate in a live webinar where feminist ideas of power and privilege are explored in more depth, and where they are able to identify concrete ways their privilege effects their approach to leadership. Time commitment: approximately two hours.
Week Nine
Rest and reflection week! A chance to rest, reflect and recharge.
Week Ten
In this week we will hold our second one-day online training. We’ll kick off by exploring how specific feminist leadership principles can be translated into action, with a particular focus upon power-sharing and accountability. We’ll spend the rest of the day learning about radical approaches to self-care, and how to create cultures of mutual care for your team mates. Time commitment: one-day training with lots of breaks!
Week Eleven
In a 3-hour live session, we’ll discuss how and why collective action and building partnerships and alliances is so central to feminist leadership, and explore feminist approaches to partnership building in a live webinar. We’ll also spend some time collectively planning for how we are going to start to take action to apply what we have learned. Time commitment: approximately three hours.
There will be a gap of three or four weeks between the sessions in week eleven and twelve, which gives participants time to start to apply what they have been learning. During this period, participants will also benefit from the insights of a guest speaker who is already bringing feminist leadership principles to the way they work.
Week Twelve
Four weeks after week 11, participants will take part in a follow-up webinar, in which we share what we have been doing since the course ended, what has gone well and not so well, and how we can continue to support each other in our feminist leadership journeys. We’ll also identify key strategies to tackle some of the resistance we might face as we start to put feminist leadership into practice. Time commitment: approximately three hours.