Shape Talent
Gender equity consulting and women's leadership coaching in London
| Hourly rate range | $125 to $275 an hour |
|---|---|
| Focus areas | |
| Works with | Women and Executives |
| Also coaches | Career coach and Health coach |
| Based in | London, United Kingdom |
Shape Talent is a London practice that helps large organisations reach gender equality and helps women move into senior leadership. It offers gender equity consulting, talent accelerator programmes and Breaking Barriers coaching. Its Three Barriers Model looks at societal, organisational and personal obstacles to women's progression. Clients include Openreach, BMI, Ericsson, TT Electronics and Beiersdorf. Its work is built on its own research.
What Shape helps with
Shape Talent works on the hidden obstacles that keep women and diverse talent from senior roles. It also helps organisations fix the systems behind those obstacles.
- Women not progressing into senior leadership roles
- Attracting and retaining women in an industry
- Gender equity efforts that are not producing results
- Removing bias from recruitment systems
- Building promotion readiness in future leaders
- Lack of access to sponsorship and networks
- Finding the root causes of gender imbalance
Who Shape works with
Shape Talent works with complex multinational organisations that want gender equality. Participants are high potential women and diverse talent, and leaders preparing for promotion. Programme participants come from many countries. HR and talent leaders also hire the team for advice on inclusion and talent strategy.
How Shape works
Shape Talent uses its Three Barriers Model. It targets societal, organisational and personal barriers together, instead of only trying to fix women. All work follows a five-element approach: Create a climate for change, then enable and sustain it. Services include a diagnostic tool, a debias audit, gender equity consulting, talent accelerator programmes and Breaking Barriers coaching. The Tailored to Lead programme uses experiential learning built around each leader's own challenges and goals.
Background and qualifications
- Works with large multinational organisations
- Clients include Openreach, BMI, Ericsson, TT Electronics and Beiersdorf
- Runs the Breaking Barriers coaching programme
- Built the Three Barriers Model from its own research
Shape Talent pricing
Programs and services
- Gender equity consulting
- Diagnostic tool
- Debias audit
- Talent accelerator programmes
- Breaking Barriers coaching
- Tailored to Lead programme
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The CoachVouch take
Shape Talent focuses only on gender equity and combines organisation-wide consulting with coaching for women.
Best for large organisations that want more women in senior leadership.
Common questions
How much does Shape Talent charge?
Coaching with Shape runs $125 to $275 an hour. Message Shape from this page for an exact quote.
What does Shape Talent help with?
Shape Talent helps with women not progressing into senior leadership roles, attracting and retaining women in an industry, gender equity efforts that are not producing results and removing bias from recruitment systems.
Does Shape Talent work with individuals or organisations?
It mainly partners with large multinational organisations. Their people take part in its coaching and accelerator programmes.
What is the Three Barriers Model?
It is the Shape Talent framework that targets societal, organisational and personal barriers to women's progression.
How do I contact Shape Talent?
Send Shape a message from this page. It's free and takes a minute.
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