About This Course
How does this benefit your organisation?
Every leadership programme promises the same things: innovation, engagement, future-ready leaders. Most of it is unfalsifiable. Here is what Let’s Lead! actually does for the organisations that send people on it, described plainly enough that you can judge it for yourself.
You keep people who would otherwise leave.
Development is one of the clearest signals an organisation can send that it is serious about someone’s future — and it is a signal women are statistically less likely to receive. Sponsoring a woman onto a serious external programme tells her, in concrete terms, that you are investing in where she is going. That matters most for precisely the people you can least afford to lose.
You strengthen a pipeline you are probably struggling to fill.
If your organisation looks like most — well represented by women early on, thinner towards the top — part of that gap sits at the individual level: readiness, visibility, and the confidence to be considered for senior roles. The programme works directly on that. It will not fix structural barriers on its own, and we don’t pretend otherwise, but it addresses the part of the problem that genuinely belongs to the individual.
You get changed behaviour, not just a trained employee.
Because the development is built on a 360° review and three one-to-one coaching sessions, it is anchored in how each participant actually operates day to day, not in abstract content. What comes back to you is someone managing, influencing and making decisions differently — not someone who can recite a model they heard on a Tuesday.
You widen the range of judgement in senior decisions.
More women operating with confidence at senior level changes who contributes to the decisions that matter, and how those decisions get made. This is a point about decision quality and governance, not a diversity box to tick — and it shows up in the rooms where it counts.
You do it without losing people from the floor.
Eight half-days online, spread across several months. Your people develop without disappearing for a week at a time, without travel, and without a serious dent in delivery. The format is built to make development something you can say yes to.
Who is this for?
WHO THRIVES HERE
Let’s Lead! is a small group by design, made up of women who are serious about leadership. Beyond being established in your career, it’s the right fit if:
- You’re ready to be deliberate about leadership, not just busy with it.
- You want development with evidence behind it, not a motivational hit.
- You’re prepared to look honestly at how you lead, including the feedback that doesn’t flatter you.
- You can protect the time the programme asks for — and use it well.
- You’re here to act on what you learn, not only to attend.
WHAT YOU’LL LEAVE WITH
Five things you’ll take away.
Clarity on what you actually want
Identify the career goals that genuinely matter to you, and map a concrete path towards them — in place of a vague sense that you should be aiming higher.
Confidence in the relational side of leadership
Handle complex relationships and the politics of organisational life with more skill and at less personal cost. We treat this as a learnable skill rather than a dark art.
A deliberate way of leading
Understand your real strengths and how you operate under pressure, and lead from them on purpose — rather than defaulting to whatever got you here.
Resilience that holds
Build the personal resources to sustain leadership through pressure and setback — not a temporary lift that fades the moment you’re back at your desk.
People who stay with you
A network of equally serious women, including a dedicated programme buddy, that lasts well beyond the final session.
Testimonials
“During the course I got promoted to a new leadership role within my organisation, and I have no doubt that the “Let’s Lead” programme was a key driver of that success.”
Dr. Susan Gill, Green Skills Programme Office, SOLAS
“The toolkit I have gained on the DCU leadership Course continues to assist me navigate many workplace challenges as they arise in practice as well as build on my ability to influence with impact.”
Mary O’Donoghue, Prosecution Solicitor, Office of Director of Public Prosecutions Service
