ASPIRE & ASCEND
CONFIDENCE FOR FEMALE LEADERS
Play a bigger game and unleash your full potential
Welcome to Aspire & Ascend! This is my flagship leadership development programme for mid-senior women leaders who are committed to overcoming the barriers and limitations that are getting in the way of their career or business success.
This is the programme that inspired me to launch my coaching practice: after seeing first hand how challenges with confidence impacted women's career progression and their retention in our workplaces, particularly in majority male industries.
These women are not so much daunted by obstacles they encounter from the lack of gender parity in those environments, but by what goes on the inside their own heads: the constant self-doubt, the negative thought patterns and the limited thinking that create the gap between where you are now and where you want to see your career heading, completely undermining the hard work, dedication and focus you put into your work.
If you feel like you should be further along in your career by now, but keep somehow getting in your own way, know that you are not alone and that it is not an easy thing to navigate this on your own. But if now is the time for you to start playing a bigger game, then know that you are in the right place here.
Since 2021, I have been supporting women in leadership with exactly these same challenges.
So I know that when you start leading with your values, improve your mental game, set stronger boundaries and trust in your own wisdom through the help of coaching, that is when your confidence begins to feel unshakeable. Then there is nothing stopping you: you can go on to achieve the very milestones that have eluded you so far: whether that is a senior leadership or executive role, leading bigger teams or projects, or simply projecting a more powerful leadership style that is authentic to you.
Most importantly, you overcome the feeling that you can now
I created Aspire & Ascend to help women like you* to achieve those very results: so that you finally access and realise your full potential, fulfil your big career ambitions, and widen your influence and impact within your profession and industry: without being held back by the swings in your confidence level that leave you feeling less powerful than you truly are.
* You might also want to check out the Who I Work With section on the home page for a more detailed description.
Meet your coach: Ishoo
Your Aspire & Ascend coach Ishwariya Rajamohan FRSA is a former architect and pastry chef, now an accredited executive coach and speaker supporting mid-senior female leaders in majority-male industries with building the confidence to take the next step in their career or business, thus paving the way for gender equity and better representation of women in leadership in our workplaces.
Ishwariya has coached nearly 150 women in overcoming imposter syndrome and other limitations that set back their career progression when their confidence takes a hit. She is accredited with the Association for Coaching and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
“Ishwariya has been an incredible coach to work with. Her approach is very intentional and reflective, encouraging rather than pushy, which really works for me.
At the start, I was intrigued but a bit sceptical about the process but I am not exaggerating in saying that coaching with her has completely transformed my approach to myself in the context of my career but also has led to me to expect and ask for more from my career path. She has truly changed my outlook!”- Project Manager, NEON
What makes this programme an invaluable investment?
As women working in majority male industries, comparisons between how confidently we present ourselves versus how men show up in the workplace are inevitable. While we experience ups and downs in our sense of personal power and fear that others will notice this, they are supported and conditioned to present a more solid sense of self to the outside world, no matter what goes on inside.
True inner confidence is hardly cosmetic, nor does it come from putting on a façade. I know from my experience of coaching women since 2021 that it is possible to build that solid, unshakeable confidence that might dip momentarily when life happens, but no longer derails you, leaving you feeling powerless. This is where I support you with my expertise as a coach: because it takes deep work to overcome your conditioning from society and systems that didn't always allow you as a woman to own your personal power. So what once worked to keep you safe and small is no longer serving you and has to be replaced with new beliefs, more empowered behaviour, and small acts of bravery that expand your comfort zone.
I created this 3-month coaching programme to be your laboratory: a safe space where you can lay to rest your Imposter, any limiting beliefs, self-judgement and mindset blocks that currently run the show in your mind, depleting your personal power and eroding your confidence day in, day out. Here I help you find the courage and authenticity to show up how you really want to, and to go after what you want without holding yourself back. We work on these five aspects:
1) Vision: What are your big goals for the next three months and for the next 5-10 years? What kind of leader you want to be, what impact and influence do you want to create?
2) Strategy: What steps, strategies, support, skills and resources will help you create that vision?
3) Mindset and heartspace: Building both your resilience and courage to take on new challenges.
4) Personal Power Audit: We evaluate your personal power based on my teaching of the 7 Stages of Personal Power.
5) Energy management: What does balance look like for you personally? How can you protect your energy and create harmony between the various responsibilities and commitments you hold in your professional and personal life?
When all of these areas are aligned with your career goals, that's when the opportunities and offers start materialising, and door after door starts to open. So you can be assured that you will make a return on this investment many times over: not only from a monetary perspective, but in terms of the impact, influence and contribution to your field.
What results can Aspire & Ascend help you achieve?
These are some of the results I have helped my clients achieve that you can expect from coaching with me:
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Apply for and land your next leadership role that both excites you and terrifies you.
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Pitch for and successfully lead bigger projects on a scale that challenges you, rather than keeps you in your comfort zone.
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Assert your leadership, delegate tasks effectively and empower your team, rather than being overwhelmed from trying to do it all by yourself.
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Attract better opportunities and higher value collaborations that expand your influence and expertise.
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Build a strong self-trust in your decision-making abilities, vastly improving your productivity and performance when you are no longer second-guessing your every move.
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Assert your presence at meetings and clearly communicate with authority and confidence to all stakeholders present.
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Raise your profile and recognition within your company and industry, instead of continuing to be a best-kept secret.
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Set and maintain clear boundaries and learn to manage your energy to increase your capacity to hold a higher professional level and standard.
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Solidify your personal power stage by stage, and develop that unshakeable confidence that cannot fail to inspire others.
"Absolutely thrilled with the results achieved during this session with my coach. The process of gaining clarity has been invaluable to me. I appreciate the tangible output that has come out of it, and I'm excited to see how it will positively impact my goals and direction moving forward. Highly recommend this coaching experience." - COO, Ocean Bottle
What does the programme include?
3 x months of 1-1 coaching tailored to meet you where you are at with your goals.
6 x 1 hour online coaching sessions where we tackle the different aspects of your goal and break them down into small, achievable actions you can take right away.
Personal Power Audit to identify where you are on the 7 Stages of Personal Power, how it is keeping your confidence low and what you should do to change this.
Unlimited email support to keep you accountable and ensure your progress between sessions.
What is the investment?
As with anything, what you put in is what you get out of the Aspire & Ascend programme. Your commitment, focus and dedication to the process, showing up to each call, and staying the course even when change feels hard is the very thing that gives you the unshakable confidence in yourself and your abilities to meet any challenge that comes your way.
In addition to the energetic investment, there are two payment options to secure your spot:
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Pay in full (**SPECIAL LAUNCH OFFER) - £1600
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Payment plan (**SPECIAL LAUNCH OFFER) - £1800 (£600 deposit to secure your place, then two monthly instalments of £600)
** Only 6 places available. This special launch offer closes once all 6 places have been filled and then the programme fee increases to £2000.
What benefits can you expect from joining Aspire & Ascend?
● Your coach holds a safe space for you to receive confidential, personalised coaching. The focussed, dedicated attention means that you make huge leaps in your personal development, often in every single session.
● The programme is completely tailored to your goals and what you want to achieve both in the long term and also in the three months that we work together. Sessions can be scheduled around your commitments.
● With the help of an experienced coach, you safely uncover and gently work through the unconscious patterns and behaviours that negatively impact your success and how you present yourself at work.
● Our work together will help you design and develop your own leadership blueprint: at a time when we still have few role models as women working in majority male industries.
● We also put into place strategies to make your success sustainable through securing yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, energetically and financially - so that you always lead with your values and make uncompromising career choices.
Join Aspire & Ascend
Your first step is to book a confidential, no-obligation call with me so that we can clarify what is causing your current challenges and how Aspire & Ascend can help you achieve the results you want to achieve.