Collective ChangesSocial Investment in Women’s Economic Empowerment, Business

and Leadership Programming Impacts Clients, Governments,

Departments and Employees

2014 AWARD WINNER TOP 100 e-COMMERCE

2014 AFRICA, MIDDLE-EAST, ASIA Women’s Leadership Forum

Problem

• 127 million resourced women from 63 global economies

started businesses in 2012 Dun & Bradstreet

• 80% failed in 1st year

• Typical male failure rate – 23-27%

• Causes

• Lack of business skills

• Lack of networking options

• Lack of mentoring

• Lack of leadership skills

• Lack of access to capital

• Increases Gender Based Violence (GBV)

• Reduces social, civic and economic stability globally

Program Design

• Virtual, large scale holistic approach to growing businesses and jobs for women in emerging markets or fragile communities of resourced women

• Culturally designed with linguistic relevance - 19 languages

• Participants learn business and leadership skills

• Training to build a global network through LinkedIn

• Mentor/mentee computer match with #1 software Chronus

• Engage in a community of industry associations through forums – textiles, technology, small manufacturing, retail, services, recycling, graphic design, etc.

• Profile and group on LinkedIn during and after graduation

• Long-lived associations and network tracking

• Sophisticated data collection and surveys

Competition

• Numerous programs offer mentoring for business women

• Typically they are available to elite groups in bricks and mortar - only for the top half of the top 1% of the world’s population .

• Provide limited accessibility to networks, mentors, business skills AND long term tracking of their success

• None offer survey opportunities to their partnerships

• None offer 24/7/365 day access to forums and content

• None of the current business mentor programming provides long term engagement with peers or business sector networks

• There are currently well over 250 million resourced women in emerging markets that could use economic empowerment, business and leadership skills today.

• There are currently over 400 million women in lower governmental roles that could use leadership skills training to take a role in upper government or elected office

Program Deliverables

• Large scale virtual mentoring for business and leadership

skills in emerging markets

• Increased businesses and jobs

• Increased GDP

• Increased social, civic and economic stability

• Reduced gender based violence

• Business curricula is World Bank SME Toolkit as a

proven leader in programming available in 19 languages

• Platform captures data and tracks successes with

interventions when appropriate

• Kinesthetic, auditory and visual learning options

• Credit certification upon graduation

• Mentees become mentors producing virtuous cycle

Added Value Proposition

• GLEAN ™ Leadership Skills for all participants

• Global Mindset

• Leadership Quotient

• Ethics

• Agility and Focused Thinking

• Negotiation and Communications in a Virtual World

• Corporate highlights on website

• Interviews of general advisory board members highlight their experiences

• Magazine article story of mentor/mentee

• Newsletter opportunity

• Corporate Advisory Partner (CAP) Annual Membership

• Survey opportunity in emerging markets

Platform Expansion

• Governmental leadership skills programming designed for

women in government to excel and grow into leadership

roles in democratic environments - requested

• Medical Coding for single mothers under 18 – in process

• Healthcare Basics for rural community leaders - requested

• Financial literacy for emerging economies - proposed

Corporate Benefits

Human Resources Employee

• Attraction, retention and engagement catalyst

• Consistent, long-term leadership training with measureable results and reports

• Daily, short-term practical learnings

• “Whole community” approach

• 87% of female employees believe that global gender empowerment programs are important Aspire Survey 2011

• Leadership training is consistent and available 24/7/365

• Does not impact HR training budgets

Corporate Marketing Benefits

External Outcomes

• Marketing/branding

impact with global

audiences including

• Governments increase

GDP and reduce GBV

• Policy leaders – see

actionable and

leveraged impact

• Clients note

opportunities for similar

interactions

Internal Outcomes

• Highlighting

commitment to engage

in developing

leadership

• Highlighting

commitment to

building new markets

• Data accumulation on

gender equivalencies

Program Costs

• Program startup per region $50,000

• Implementation $25,000

• Annual costs $25,000*

• Cost per individual varies per program $250.00

• Scholarships paid by Corporate Partnerships

• Economies of scale for larger numbers

• Program manager per region range $20,000-$80,000

• Total annual costs per region $25,000*

(does not include program manager)

Startup, implementation and program test costs to date $527,000

Corporate Advisory Partners• Annual Membership $50,000 (typically goes towards programming support and

includes recognition on our partnership webpage and annual report)

• CAP membership is limited by sector

• Sectors include:• Textiles

• Technology

• Consulting

• Retail – clothing

• Retail – office supplies

• Retail – technology

• Retail – e-commerce general

• Food and Beverage

• Banking

• Media

• Manufacturing

• Services

• Hospitality

• Energy

• Associations – multiple

• Academia

• Alternate

• Airlines

CAP Duties

• Attend 10 conference call meetings a year or review recorded call

• Become the Collective Changes Ambassador for their sector to engage other corporations into partnership agreements (not CAP) to provide mentors and support for “just in time” education for women and youth

• Attend one annual meeting or international conference - TBD

• Take on a leadership position within their three year term

• Guide the organization to provide appropriate curricula for incoming participants relative to their business sector

• Keep the organization up to date on trends, new information and reports relative to their sector to be shared with participants

• Provide one in person or video interview about their job and the impact of mentoring to be used in mentoring recruitment

Current Partners

• Ashoka

• Centre for Gender Economics and Innovation

• Chronus Software

• Concero Connect – A Grameen Social Business

• Google

• LinkedIn

• Microsoft

• World Bank