Empower Her

This training builds on our previous female leadership programmes, but has been sharpened content-wise to reflect the reality of young female professionals. The structure and proven modules remain, but are deepened and adapted to the questions and challenges faced by women with up to approximately five years of work experience.

An important reason to train this target group separately is that we can respond more directly to the conversations that are especially relevant in this phase, while also giving participants the space to actually have those conversations.

Duration: Tailored. From 8 to 12 hours, for example 1 full training day and 1 half-day follow-up session.

Programme

1. Drivers, ambitions & identity

Before we zoom out, we zoom in on the participants themselves. Do they already have a sense of what they are truly good at? We explore what drives them and where they want to grow in their careers. This forms the basis we return to throughout the training.

2. The influence of gender on your career

In this section, we introduce participants to the facts about how unconscious bias works in 2026. By using research and cases, participants gain insight into the system they are also part of and want to learn to navigate. What is specific to the experience of young women in today’s organisations? Which unwritten rules apply, and how do you deal with them?

3. Integration and action

The training ends with reflection. Participants explore how they can translate the insights they have gained into concrete goals and daily behaviour. They learn how to increase their visibility without overcompensating. Participants leave with a personal action plan.

4. Networking

During the training, participants expand their network of female talent. In addition, we encourage organisations to involve other female talent in the training. For example, this could take the form of successful colleagues sharing their career stories, offering a few key lessons and/or joining a networking moment connected to the training.

Trainers: Emmalotte Smit and Esther Mollema

For more information about Esther Mollema, see the ‘About Esther’ page on this website.

Emmalotte Smit

Emmalotte Smit is part of Generation Z herself, a zeitgeist journalist and a trainer in the field of diversity and inclusion. She is co-author of the book Micro-moments: small actions that make a difference, which will be published by Boom Publishers in June 2026. In the first years of her career, she specialised in sustainable inclusive behavioural change. Together with Esther Mollema, she also produced the podcast Zij aan Zet, aimed at supporting the careers of young women in the Netherlands.

Truly tailored

Together with our clients, we create tailored training programmes that support the learning goals of your team and/or organisation. Tailored really means tailored. We design and organise programmes that are 100% aligned with the wishes and objectives of our clients. We help you and your team or organisation gain insight and translate that into better results. We are happy to think along with you, design interventions and help you achieve the desired result.

Want to know more? 

Get in touch with us. We’d be happy to think along with you about a format that fits your team or organisation and your ambitions. You can contact Robert Smit at smit@dir.nl or +31 6 5425 3643. Please let us know which training(s) you would like to learn more about, which organisation you work for and how we can best reach you.