Grow your talent pipeline and elevate more women into leadership
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For companies that want to accelerate gender equity in their workplace, Meiava Elevate offers a professional development platform to build a pipeline of qualified women for leadership.
With Meiava Elevate, employers can:
Offer leadership coaching focused on topics of interest to women
Make it easier for women to access professional networks (internal and/or external) with a community of women and allies paying it forward to support women
In addition to the advisor matching platform for women, Meiava offers development workshops and online resources for women around a range of leadership skills topics.
Benefits of using Meiava Elevate as part of your career development initiatives
80%
HR leaders agree or strongly agree that mentoring and coaching leads to improved individual development.
(Source: HR Research Institute)
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Cultivate a talent pipeline of women leaders
Advance more women into leadership and support women’s career development
Higher retention of female talent
Improve workforce engagement
Offer sustained development support to new Managers
Gain insights on topics of interest to women in your organization to inform learning and development
Help women during life transitions, e.g. return to workforce, return after maternity leave or leave of absence
“Organizations need to create personal growth opportunities and empower employees to design development that meets their personal needs.”
We’re reinventing traditional mentoring
Meiava Elevate makes it easier women to connect with advisors.
Unlike traditional mentoring programs, Meiava Elevate is a self-directed experience offering resources, networks, and conversations on work and life topics when women want it.
Mentoring today
Structured, formal milestone programs
Closed program = Limited access + prescribed advisor match
Generic content
Some women serve as mentors
Meiava Elevate difference
Self-directed + informal conversations
Open platform = Greater access + diverse group of internal and external advisors
Content curated for women
Ripple effect – More women mentors
Meiava Elevate complements existing career development programs and can facilitate cross-company collaboration.
53% of women want more employer-sponsored networking and mentorship support from their companies.
42%
Percentage of women leaders who reached the C-Suite who reported having a mentor.
10%
Women with mentors are 10 percentage points more likely to report achievements such as being promoted, improving processes, and leading successful projects.
3X
Women leaders with mentors are more than three times as likely to pay it forward to mentor others, compared to women without mentors.
Source: Chief and Morning Consult. The Network Effect How Women Leaders Leverage Connections to Achieve Power and Drive Business Success. July 2023.
Why now?
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• Progress towards gender parity in leadership is slow. It will take 131 years to reach gender parity, according to the World Economic Forum.
• From the first step up the career ladder there is a broken pipeline of female talent. For every 100 men promoted to Manager, just 87 women are promoted, according to McKinsey & LeanIn.
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• Women are ambitious and do aspire for leadership roles yet face mounting biases and imposter syndrome.
• Finding advisors can be hard, especially for early career women.
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• The Great Breakup: Women are demanding more from work, including flexible work options, and leaving companies to get it.
• 1 in 3 women are considering downshifting careers.
“While there are leadership programs at my company, I have no one to turn to for ongoing mentoring or a support network to help guide my career.”
Size does not matter!
Meiava Elevate is available at competitive pricing plans to suit organizations of different sizes, unlocking advisor matches for women who work in small-to-medium enterprises through to large organizations.
From individual annual or monthly subscriptions to supporting 20 or 1,000++ women. Find a plan that works for your team. Let’s set up a time to talk and understand your needs.
Meiava also offers one-on-one career coaching sessions at affordable rates. CONTACT US TODAY.
Gender Diversity Strategy
Meiava assists organisations to develop a focused gender diversity strategy aligned with your business strategy.
It all starts with having a clear strategy and action plan underscored with strong leadership commitment and accountability. Afterall, what gets measured gets done.
GENDER DIVERSITY STRATEGY
Let Meiava help your business to:
Capture a current state analysis of gender diversity in your organisation. Highlight how your business benchmarks to others in your industry (based on available data). Uncover areas of strength and opportunities for the business to improve in relation to gender diversity efforts.
Facilitate gender diversity targets setting, engaging key constituents in collaborative dialogues to align goals around gender representation at leadership levels and earlier in the talent pipeline and targets, and goals relating to recruitment, promotion, and retention.
Create a strategic framework of interventions to improve gender diversity in the workplace including gender diversity policies; processes around performance management, talent identification, succession planning; career path design; and learning and development.
Develop your gender diversity strategy communications plan for internal and external stakeholders.
Be reporting ready, maintaining a dashboard to track progress towards goals.
Get started today!
INVEST IN THE CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH OF WOMEN ON YOUR TEAM TODAY.
