Leading Beyond Your Expertise · For Organisations
You’ve already invested in her.
This is how that investment turns into leadership
Most organisations have a group of women who are indispensable yet under-promoted: the technical experts everyone relies on, who don’t yet have the influence or visibility that senior roles require. Leading Beyond Your Expertise is a ten-session women’s leadership coaching programme built for exactly that transition — and it fits around her work.
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Prefer email? palena@unabridgedleadership.com

A 30-minute conversation about who you have in mind and whether this is the right fit.
The Problem You’re Solving
Your strongest performers are the ones who stall
The research is consistent: the gap in women’s advancement opens at the first step into management, compounding from there, and it isn’t a gap in competence (McKinsey & LeanIn.Org, Women in the Workplace). The women who stall are often your strongest performers. They’re rewarded for excellence, then expected to lead — with no map for the transition, and expectations about how women should show up that their male peers don’t face.
Generic leadership training doesn’t close that gap, because it adds skills on top of beliefs that get in the way of using them. This programme works at both levels — the inner work of mindset and identity, and the outer work of visibility and influence — in a small cohort, with an experienced coach.
What Your Organisation Gets
Five returns on one place

  1. An efficient intervention

    Ten two-hour sessions over ten weeks, on Zoom, with the work done in the session — twenty hours of contact time, no multi-day offsite, no one pulled out of the business.

  2. A stronger pipeline

    Women who leave with a leadership identity they can articulate, the confidence to hold the floor where it matters, and a practical plan for the next twelve months — ready for the next role, not only the current one.

  3. A leader who lifts the people around her

    Better decisions, stronger teams, and visible role-modelling for other women across the organisation.

  4. Retention

    A real development opportunity is one of the strongest reasons a senior woman stays and grows with you rather than taking the next step elsewhere.

  5. Outside perspective, brought back in

    She learns alongside seven senior women from other organisations and sectors, and returns with practices, comparisons and contacts your organisation wouldn’t otherwise have.

What organisations say

Her programme, focused on visibility and networking for women, was really well received and got positive feedback from our associates … What I liked most about her approach was the level of rigour and authenticity she brought.

Kelly Cuesta

Global Internal Communications Manager, Ingram Micro Cloud

How It Works for a Sponsored Participant

You nominate. She decides. Confidentiality holds
  • You nominate; she decides. Every participant has a short call with me before confirming, so the fit is right for her and for the group.
  • Confidentiality holds. What’s said in the room stays in the room, and I don’t report on individuals. If it’s useful, the participant can choose to share her development goals and progress with you — on her terms.
  • Minimal time away. Two hours a week for ten weeks, plus a short experiment between sessions designed to fit inside the work she’s already doing.
  • Nothing lost. Recordings and a private platform mean a missed session isn’t a lost one.

February 2027 cohort

Investment per place

€1,800

plus VAT where applicable

Places are confirmed after our call, not before — so neither of us commits until we both know it’s a fit.

Two instalments option

Early-bird: 10% off places confirmed by 15 January 2027

Sponsoring more than one place? Let’s talk

Programme at a glance

Ten sessions in two parts. The inner work: the leadership landscape, confidence, values and strengths, status and power, leadership identity. The outer work: strategic visibility, communicating with confidence, relationships and networks, influence and organisational dynamics, and a success plan for the next twelve months. See the full programme →

Who’s behind it
Palena Neale, PhD, PCC, AATC. Twenty-five years’ designing and delivering leadership programmes for the UN, governments, NGOs and universities; a doctorate in gender and international politics; published in Harvard Business Review, Forbes and Psychology Today. More about Palena →
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February 2027 cohort · Eight places

Talk to me about your people

Tell me who you have in mind, and we’ll work out together whether this is the right programme for them — and for you.

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Prefer email? palena@unabridgedleadership.com