Developing 5000 female leaders in 5 years. That’s the unique and exciting vision of Leadership 5000, a new business venture, just launched and co-owned by MD Sarah Coleman of The Business Evolution Business Ltd.

Research shows that balancing a board of directors to have at least 20% female directors has a significant positive impact on a businesses’ growth in equity and profitability. You might have read slightly different figures, but report after report shows that having a balanced board is good for growth, good for profitability and good for sustainability.

The 2011 Davies Report has helped shape the agenda for FTSE 100 boards, but for organisations across the UK it’s not all about a failure to appoint women to director positions: it is clear there is not the pipeline of female talent ready for, or applying for, director positions.  Leadership 5000 itself is a unique collaboration of three businesses, using their significant experience and expertise in delivering leadership development in over 40 countries to support those organisations that recognise the benefits of developing female talent in order to boost business performance.

We help UK and international businesses identify and develop their pipeline of female talent to make the transition from management to leadership, and subsequently into the boardroom.  This helps businesses reduce their reliance on the same familiar faces to populate senior management levels and board rooms, and reduce their investment in recruiting suitable candidates developed by other organisations.

Sarah Coleman comments “Experience has shown us that developing women business leaders is a learning curve even for the “savviest” of women.  Leadership 5000 recognises that at senior management team and board level a different level of sophistication, engagement, ownership and participation is required.

Our experience has shown us that it is one thing to develop and promote talented females, and it is another to ensure the senior management team or the board is prepared and ready to receive her.  So we also work with businesses both to develop “readiness” at these levels to receive and make best use of female talent, and to develop the senior management team and the board’s own performance and effectiveness.”

To find out more, visit us at www.leadership5000.com, or call Sarah Coleman on 020 3303 0732 or 01636 893716.