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Building Women's Communities at Work
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When Women Connect at Work, They Stay and Grow
Many companies have a women’s network. Keeping it alive, and getting women from different teams to meet each other, is the hard part. This is where I can help.
I help companies build a women’s community that people want to be part of: events for up to 150 people, facilitated coworking days in your office, small groups for women going through the same transition, and workshops on confidence and resilience. Everything is designed so that women meet colleagues outside their own team and keep in touch afterward.
I work in person, in English, at your offices or a venue you choose, in Berlin and within two hours of the city.
The result is more than a nicer office atmosphere. When women know each other across departments, work improves in very practical ways:
- A question that would take a week of emails gets answered in a five-minute call, because she knows who to ask in IT or finance.
- Projects get better ideas, because people bring perspectives from outside their own team.
- A woman returning from maternity leave has colleagues to turn to, and is more likely to stay instead of looking for another employer. Replacing her would cost far more than keeping her.
- A new hire from abroad settles in faster and becomes productive sooner, because she is not starting without contacts.
- Office days are used for what cannot happen on a video call: meeting, sharing ideas, and solving problems together.
- Sound Familiar?
Connection at Work Should Not Be Left to Chance
Your women’s network meets a few times a year, the same few people come, and it is organized by volunteers alongside their regular jobs. At events, people talk to the colleagues they already know.
With hybrid work, many women hardly know anyone outside their own team, and office days are spent on video calls. The women who need connection most, such as those back from maternity leave or new to the country, often feel the most alone. And when women feel alone at work, they may start looking for another employer.
- Meet Dawn
Bringing People Together Is What I Do Best
I know how to take a room of people who do not know each other and help them talk, mix, and connect quickly, in a way that feels natural, not forced. The feedback I hear most is that the time passes quickly.
I also know what it means to build a community from nothing. When I moved to Berlin in 2010, I had to build a whole life again without the language or a network. Today I am a certified systemic coach and business trainer, I have worked with hundreds of women, and I run a facilitated coworking community for women in Berlin.
Companies I have worked with, including Airberlin, EADS, Sony, ThyssenKrupp, Vattenfall, and Walt Disney World, have seen more women take on leadership roles, use their skills with more confidence, and take on new challenges.
- What I Offer
Four Ways to Bring Women Together
Events
Events, Large and Small
From an informal breakfast for a small group to a networking event for up to 150 people, designed so that women meet colleagues from other teams.
COWORKING
Cross-Team Coworking Days
Women from different departments work side by side in your office for a day: focused work time, coffee breaks to connect, and a facilitated Clarity Circle where colleagues help each other with a real challenge. Short, confidential 1:1 coaching is available in between. Also possible for single teams.
KEY MOMENTS
Back From Leave & New to Berlin
Small groups for women going through the same transition: returning after maternity leave, or relocating internationally for your company.
WORKSHOPS
Workshops & Training
Confidence, resilience, self-talk, growth mindset, and strengths assessments, as part of an event, as a series, or as standalone training.
- How It Works
Three Steps to Get Started
Getting started is simple. Three steps take you from a first conversation to your first event.
Listen
We talk about the women in your company today: who they are, which teams they work in, and what kind of connection is missing.
Plan
I suggest a mix of formats that fits your company, such as coworking days, events, or training, from a single session to a full year. You receive an individual quote.
Grow
We run the first event together, look at what works, and adjust. Step by step, the community grows into something your women want to be part of.
- Next step
Imagine Your Next Office Day
Women from different teams greet each other by name. Someone back from maternity leave already has people to have lunch with. Someone new to Berlin has a place to start.
Or another year passes, the network meets twice, and the same few people come.