Phase 5

Scale your strategic leadership, visibility and influence. See how collaboration and dialogue  can translate into community-building , collective impact and social change.

Work with your WE sisters on a collective challenge and take the movement forward.

Signposts

• Practise your skills in facilitated dialogues and peacebuilding for conservation and how to have productive win-win conversations: explore power dynamics, and how to influence them.
• Explore visibility for collective impact: how collaboration and building a platform for influence can create larger shifts.
• Enhance your strategic mindset and capability to support larger causes to scale impact.
• Create a collective WE Africa challenge to grow the WE movement: what will you take out into the world, together?
• Celebrate your collective journey to date: share progress, celebrate challenges and accomplishments and commit to the way forward.
• Connect with leadership council members and key influencers across the world to continue to build the WE community and catalyse change in the African environmental space.
• Consolidate your leadership, relationships, visibility and wellbeing journeys.
• Engage in a personal assessment of your progress: celebrate your wins and challenges and adjust your roadmap for the coming year.
• Undertake the collective challenge with your WE sisters; bring the power of your connection and collaboration to life!
• Set your plan for living your leadership values and paying it forward with your teams, colleagues, and others to spark the movement.
• Participate in optional short sessions to improve your specific skills in topics such as:
  • Facilitation
  • Engaging with the media
  • Influencing policy
  • Digital transformation
  • Financial management
  • Fundraising
  • Board development
  • Organizational development (strategic planning and theory of change)
• Space is intentionally left here for the cohort to help create the final months of the program.