Leadership for women who refuse to shrink.
Michelle Pippin, Founder & CEO
Change the conditions of leadership — not women.
Empowering LeadHERS is a constructive challenge to the status quo. We reject the idea that leadership is something women must be taught to earn. The capacity is already here. What needs changing are the norms and incentives that penalize it. Our work translates research and lived experience into language and practice that shift culture while protecting integrity.
The defaults we challenge
- Leadership models built on conformity and erasure
- Advice that asks women to shrink, soften, or assimilate
- Systems that mistake palatability for competence
What we build
A practice and community where women lead without apology or erasure. We offer language, frameworks, and conversation that make room for how you already lead — and equip you to reshape the systems you move through.
Capacity, not compliance
Women don’t lack leadership; many contexts punish it. We center substance over performance, pairing evidence with lived experience to change culture at the level of norms, language, and incentives.
