Applications now open · Cohort begins September 2026
Women don't need more mentors.
They need advocates.
AWE — the Ambitious Women Elevator — is an invitation-only club of 40 ambitious corporate women with 20+ years of experience in Fortune 500 multinationals, supported by 20+ global C-suite leaders across functions and sectors.
Inside your own organisation, there are questions you cannot ask and counsel you cannot seek. AWE is the trusted circle where those walls come down. Learning together breeds honesty. Honesty breeds trust. And trust turns 40 individual careers into one unstoppable collective. Rise. Connect. Lead.
mentors
The AWE Difference
Mentors give advice. Coaches ask questions.Sponsors put their reputation behind you.
A sponsor recommends you for the role you didn't know was open. Opens the door to the room you weren't invited to. Advocates for you inside their personal trust circle — when you're not there to do it yourself.
AWE is engineered to create those relationships. Not transactional networking. Not another webinar series. A small, trusted circle where corporate women and C-suite leaders show up, repeatedly, in person, for one another.
Why AWE — Why Now
The five things holding capable women back —the ones nobody fixes alone.
Every woman in AWE has heard these before. Most have lived all five. The program is built around them — directly.
No one is sponsoring her
Capable women are over-mentored and under-sponsored. Mentors talk to you. Sponsors talk about you — in the rooms where promotions, P&Ls and board seats are decided.
The bias she can't name out loud
Assertive becomes 'aggressive'. Detail-oriented becomes 'not strategic'. The double standard is real, exhausting, and rarely safe to raise inside her own company.
Speaking up costs her
Speak up and risk the label. Stay quiet and stay invisible. Corporate women need a trusted circle to rehearse the hard conversations before they walk into the boardroom.
Her internal network has a ceiling
Twenty years in one ecosystem builds depth, not breadth. The next move — a regional remit, a board seat, a pivot — needs relationships that don't exist on her current org chart.
Nowhere to be fully honest
She can't show doubt to her team, fatigue to her boss, or ambition to her peers. Without a confidential circle of equals, the loneliest seat in the company stays lonely.
Four Pillars
Elevate together. Go further.
Ambition
A peer group of women already operating at the top — and reaching higher.
Support
A safe circle to ask the questions you can't ask inside your own company.
Visibility
Be seen by C-suite sponsors who can open doors across sectors and geographies.
Impact
Translate access and insight into measurable career and business outcomes.
The Experience
A year of in-person access to leaders most people only read about.
Across 12 months, AWE introduces members to 20+ female and male C-suite leaders from diverse functions and sectors — almost entirely in person, where trust is actually built.
Masterclasses
C-suite teaching, not coaching
C-suite executives of global multinationals lead masterclasses exclusively for AWE members — the kind of candid, unfiltered sessions you can't buy a ticket to.
Intimate Dinners & Lunches
The conversations that change careers
Curated sit-down dinners and small-table lunches with C-suite hosts. Real exchange, not small talk. Designed for the kind of bond that turns a stranger into a sponsor.
AMA Panels
Ask the questions you can't ask at work
Off-the-record AMA panels with C-suite leaders across functions and sectors — finance, tech, consumer, industrial, healthcare — so you can pressure-test your next move with people who've made theirs.
Who It's For
Only 40 seats. Curated, not crowded.
We're hand-selecting a powerful group that grows together and is committed to support each other. That's why we take time to get to know about where you are right now and where you are heading.
- Currently working at a Fortune 500 multinational
- 20+ years of experience in a Fortune 500 multinational
- 20+ years of corporate experience
- Ready to be sponsored — and to sponsor others
Cohort 01 · Begins September 2026
Be seen. Be supported. Be unstoppable.
A 30-minute conversation is the first step. We'll explore fit, answer your questions, and tell you everything we couldn't fit on this page.