At the current rate of progress, it will take until 2158, which is roughly five generations from now, to reach full gender parity, according to data from the World Economic Forum The mission to gender equality underpins Phoenix - Leadership for Transforming Business and Society, Aspire's new programme for 2025. Commencing on International Women's Day week with the 2025 global theme #accelerateaction. Accelerate Action is a worldwide call to acknowledge strategies, resources, and activity that positively impact women's advancement and equality, and to support and elevate the implementation in your life, workplace and wider world.
LONDON, Feb. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- For 24 years, Dr Sam Collins has been challenging traditional approaches to leadership and personal development to drive equality and social change.
Through Aspire, she's helped thousands of women transform their lives and careers by creating safe spaces where real change happens - no corporate jargon, no tick-box exercises, just genuine transformation.
Now, as we hurtle into 2025, she's breaking new ground again.
"The world is shifting rapidly," says Collins. "The challenges we're facing in business and society need something different. This is about creating what's next."
At the current rate of progress, it will take until 2158, which is roughly five generations from now, to reach full gender parity, according to data from the World Economic Forum
The mission to gender equality underpins Phoenix - Leadership for Transforming Business and Society, Aspire's new programme for 2025.
Commencing on International Women's Day week with the 2025 global theme #accelerateaction, a worldwide call to acknowledge strategies, resources, and activity that positively impact women's advancement and equality.
Spread across three connected events - Take Flight, Achieve the Impossible and Pioneer Change - it helps participants develop what Collins calls Make A Difference (MAD) projects in their lives, work and world.
"Think about it this way," she explains. "Your life project might be creating a healthy, happy body image. Your work project could be growing your business or transforming your career. And your world project? That could be helping to tackle equality in your company or making a difference in your community. The power comes from how they connect and support each other."
Collins particularly understands the challenges faced by her core audience - professional women working in demanding environments.
"They're time poor but ambitious to create impact," she says. "They're often working in tough, masculine environments, and while they're very intelligent, they also feel things deeply and sometimes lack confidence. They want to impact a lot of people positively but struggle with overwhelm and consistency."
"Consistency is the biggest issue for people. They'll do something for a week, maybe a few days or even a month. But how to be consistent is something I really want to help people with next year. It's not just about discipline and making yourself do it, but having systems in place and really recreating how we live and work."
While Aspire remains firmly committed to women's advancement, it's carefully opening its doors to include male allies.
"The men we welcome are pretty great," Collins notes. "They're open-minded and want to be allies and advocates. They support change through action, not just words."
For those considering the programme, Collins is clear about who it's for: "If you're sceptical of typical personal development courses, if you want practical tools that work in real life, if you're ready to think differently about what's possible - this is for you."
She's particularly focused on giving participants tools they can use immediately.
"You can go on all the courses in the world that tell you what you're meant to do, write this down, pros and cons, blah blah blah. But people have it going round in their head and don't do anything. We have to go deeper."
Looking ahead, Collins is both excited and determined. "The world needs something different right now. What worked yesterday isn't enough for tomorrow. But we know how to create real change - we've been doing it for 24 years. Now we're ready to do it on a bigger scale."
The Phoenix programme launches with Take Flight on March 3-4, 2025, followed by Achieve the Impossible on June 30-July 1 and culminates with Pioneer Change on November 10-11.
For more information visit www.aspireforequality.co.uk where you can find an overview of the Phoenix programme and details on each event.
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Dr Sam Collins, Aspire for Equality, 44 7727372327, [email protected], www.aspireforequality.co.uk
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