LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT & COACHING
EMPOWER YOUR FEMALE LEADERS
Improve gender equity & the representation of women on your leadership team
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The problem
Ishwariya has worked almost exclusively with women in majority male industries since she set up her coaching practice in 2021. She finds that confidence issues can compound as a result of both traumatic events (facing job loss or redundancy, bullying, harassment or discrimination), as well as repeated microaggressions. Her experience has helped her identify certain patterns that give rise to women's confidence issues and roughly align with various career stages:
- In early career, women first start doubting their capabilities and contributions to their teams and projects
- In mid-career, women can get stuck in behaviours of proving themselves worthy of their roles, keeping them as 'doers' without helping them grow into 'leaders', compounded further by the pressures of balancing this with caregiving responsibilities when they start or grow their families
- At senior level, women's confidence issues arise when they consistently face barriers or judgements that diminish and undermine their track record of accomplishments, often on account of trivialities that have nothing to do with their capabilities. Perimenopause and menopause symptoms can also trigger their self-doubt even if they might never have experienced this previously.
Ishwariya can support you with identifying systemic barriers that lower women's psychological safety and work with you to design appropriate interventions that also enhance the support they receive from their managers, mentors and allies.
"It was a pleasure working with Ishwariya. Her workshop on confidence was very well received by our female graduates who are navigating their journey in hospitality. The group particularly enjoyed the peer support activity at the end.
Ishwariya's calming presence created a safe and supportive environment, encouraging everyone to openly share their experiences. The session has inspired us to organise peer support sessions in the future. I look forward to working together again." - Dana Hallam, Hotel School, June 2025
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Strategies and solutions
Ishoo Rajamohan Coaching can partner with your organisation to tailor and deliver bespoke solutions that inspire, equip and empower the women on your teams with the confidence, skills and acumen needed to thrive as leaders in majority male industries and environments, and close the leadership gender gap.
Some of the outcomes Ishwariya has helped women achieve include:
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improving their productivity and performance day-to-day by eliminating imposter syndrome and minimising self-doubt
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helping them navigate overwhelm through building their confidence following a promotion
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ensuring that they avoid burnout through practising key skills such as delegation and negotiation in order to sustain their effectiveness and productivity, and empower the growth of their team
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supporting them in developing their communication skills and their leadership presence when working with clients and external stakeholders
We work towards these key objectives by supporting the development of the women on your teams:
CLOSE
your leadership
gender gap
MINIMISE
your gender
pay gap
RETAIN
your female talent
Services for Organisations
Here are some of the service offerings that your solution could include, adapted to suit your organisation's, needs, objectives and budgets:
Executive Coaching: A thinking partnership for your senior women leaders, offering a confidential space to receive 1-1 support, brainstorm day-to-day decisions and sense check new ideas, while renewing their courage and conviction to achieve ambitious outcomes.
Leadership Development: A hybrid of 1-1 or group coaching programmes, blended with workshops to enable your mid-level and emerging leaders to develop their leadership skills and acumen.
Workshops and talks: Inspiring and empowering talks speaking to the lived experiences and professional development of women on your team who might be at various career stages. Visit Ishwariya's speaker profile.
Coaching Clinics: Half-day coaching clinics run either online or in-person, providing the opportunity for select members of your team to receive 1-1 coaching and experience deeper integration of the training topics.
Consultancy: Ishwariya supports organisations in designing and delivering structured initiatives to develop their pipeline of female leaders with a particular focus on the mid-career plateau.
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"I’d like to thank Ishoo, on behalf of our Gender Network at The King’s Trust, for delivering such impactful leadership and confidence workshops for my colleagues. Having Ishoo come in and genuinely make a difference to people’s working lives was invaluable.
Her sessions were engaging, thoughtful, and truly empowering. Most heartening of all has been the community they’ve created, a space where women and allies empower and support one another. Thank you, from the heart." - Daisy Goddard and Clara Marks, KT Gender Network
