Workshops & Keynotes
Transform Your Female Talent
The business reality is stark: When women don’t see clear paths for growth or feel undervalued in your organisation, they become disengaged.
This silent disengagement eventually leads to departure, not discussion.
The financial impact is significant.
Replacing talented employees costs your organisation between 100 to 400% of their annual salary.
Beyond these direct costs, you lose institutional knowledge, team cohesion, and momentum.
(For a deep-dive into this, check out Wies’ TedX talk on the subject).
Wies Bratby delivers keynotes and workshops that transform how organisations approach women’s career advancement and strategic negotiation. Her evidence-based programmes equip professional women with practical negotiation strategies whilst helping companies retain their most valuable talent.
Her talks and workshops address the critical skills gap that costs organisations millions in turnover: teaching mid-to-senior level women how to co-create meaningful roles, and advocate for strategic career progression. Whether you’re hosting a women’s leadership workshop, professional development seminar, or executive retreat, Women of Agency provides expert career coaching insights that create lasting change within your people and your organisation.
From intimate boardroom sessions to large-scale conferences, Wies’ talks combine real-world frameworks with honest problem articulation. She doesn’t just inspire; she provides the specific tools mid-to-senior women need to navigate their careers successfully. The result? Engaged, empowered employees who stay, contribute, and lead.
Why Female Employees Leave Instead of Negotiate
Here’s the pattern Wies has witnessed across industries during her years as an HR Director: Women assume their work will speak for itself; they rarely speak up or negotiate. When that recognition doesn’t come, they disengage. Or worse: they leave.
Why?
Women have been conditioned that self-advocacy is aggressive. They believe that their exceptional work will speak for itself. From an early age, they learn that speaking up or asking for advancement is inappropriate. So they stay silent.
The majority of professional women lack the frameworks for career conversations. Even when they recognise the need to advocate, they don’t have the language, strategies, or confidence to initiate meaningful discussions with decision-makers.
The result?
Your best female talent leaves quietly, often surprising managers who had no idea they were unhappy. This isn’t just a women’s issue. It’s a business issue that directly impacts your bottom line and organisational culture.
Women who feel recognised and see a strong path ahead will be your most passionate, dedicated employees. Wies’ workshops and keynotes make this a reality.
These sessions (available virtually and in-person) spark meaningful conversations that lead to measurable change in behaviour and outcomes.
Wies Bratby provides executive career coaching for women at scale, addressing the negotiation skills gap that silently drains organisational talent. She teaches senior professional women how to negotiate their worth, co-create roles, and position themselves strategically.
This isn’t motivational fluff. It’s evidence-based career negotiation coaching that changes how executive women approach their professional trajectory.
The result?
Women in leadership who stay engaged, companies that retain top talent, and organisations that benefit from fully empowered senior women contributing at their highest level.
Corporate Workshops: Gender-Specific Career Development Training
Wies’ corporate workshops and keynotes address the specific barriers they face in workplace advancement, combining academic research on gender dynamics with practical, immediately actionable strategies.
These aren’t generic “lean in” sessions or motivational talks. Participants learn to identify and articulate their unique value contributions, initiate strategic career conversations with stakeholders, and position themselves for higher opportunities. They master how to build internal relationships that accelerate their career growth, navigating gender dynamics in the workplace, and how to advocate for advancement without triggering backlash.
Wies Bratby delivers women’s career negotiation advice that transforms how professional women approach career advancement. This is executive career coaching for women at scale, providing the strategic career negotiation tools that keep your best talent engaged and advancing.
Companies that retain female leadership, and organisations where women in leadership thrive, whilst addressing the skills gap that costs you top talent.
Corporate Workshops
Taking Control of Your Career Path at [Your Company}
Duration: 45-90 minutes plus Q&A
Investment: EUR 2.5 -5 K
Format: In-person or virtual
Enabling your female talent to do their best work for you, not your competitors.
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This transformative workshop unlocks your female talent’s full potential by addressing both internal barriers (imposter syndrome, fear of asking) and external obstacles (bias, unclear advancement paths) that prevent women from taking control of their careers.
Participants learn the art of meaningful career conversations: strategic discussions with managers and stakeholders that create alignment around growth, advancement, and opportunity.
Key learning outcomes include understanding why career self-advocacy feels so difficult for women, identifying internal blocks and transforming them into action steps, mastering conversation frameworks for discussing career goals, creating individualised action plans for advancement within your organisation, and building confidence to initiate career discussions proactively.
This directly addresses women waiting for managers to notice them instead of advocating proactively, unclear career paths that lead to frustration and departure, manager-employee misalignment on growth and advancement, and the broken rung keeping women from reaching senior leadership.
For your organisation this means increased retention of high-performers, improved manager-employee relationships, clearer succession planning, and higher engagement scores among female talent.
Wies Bratby delivers women’s career advice and tools that transforms professional women into proactive advocates for their own advancement, helping you retain women in leadership whilst building a stronger talent pipeline.
Creating Visibility for Yourself and Your Achievements
Duration: 45-90 minutes plus Q&A
Investment: EUR 2.5 – 5 K
Format: In-person or virtual
When your female professionals shine, your entire company prospers.
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This high-engagement session tackles the unique challenges women face when discussing their accomplishments and positioning themselves for advancement. Through evidence-based mindset shifts and immediately applicable tools, participants learn how to identify their unique contributions and quantify their impact, communicate achievements to key stakeholders effectively, navigate the likability penalty women face when self-promoting, time and frame career conversations for maximum impact, and build visibility without feeling braggy or inauthentic.
The outcome: Your female talent gains the confidence and skills to advocate for themselves internally, leading to better retention, higher engagement, and promotions to positions where they deliver even greater value to your organisation.
This women’s career coaching programme is particularly valuable for companies experiencing high turnover among high-performing women, women clustering at mid-levels without advancing to senior roles, talented female employees being overlooked for promotions, or difficulty retaining women after five to seven years.
Women’s Network Workshop: Career Navigation and Negotiation Skills
For professional women’s networks and industry associations, Wies offers specialised sessions designed to empower women across organisations and sectors.
Womens Network Workshop
Navigating and Negotiating Your Career
Duration: 40-90 minutes plus Q&A
Investment: TBD
Format: In-person or virtual
Own your career trajectory, starting today.
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This dynamic session transforms how participants think about career advancement by addressing a fundamental question: Why does working on your career (not just in it) feel so daunting for women?
Through exploring internal conditioning and external workplace barriers, participants gain both the mindset shifts and practical tools necessary to take control of their professional futures.
Participants discover why letting your work speak for itself is a failing strategy, how women actually have natural advantages in negotiation (backed by research), why having it all is achievable with the right frameworks, and actionable steps to initiate career-defining conversations and negotiations.
Session outcomes: Participants leave energised, equipped with concrete action plans, and ready to advocate for their advancement with confidence and competence.
Keynote Speaking: Inspiring Change and Driving Results
Beyond workshops, Wies delivers keynote presentations for conferences, company-wide events, and leadership summits focused on gender equity, career advancement, and negotiation dynamics.
Her keynotes combine compelling personal narrative (lawyer to HR Director to advocate for women), academic research on gender dynamics in the workplace, real client success stories and tangible outcomes, actionable insights that spark immediate change, and energy and authenticity that creates lasting impact.
Popular keynote topics include:
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- The Hidden Cost of Women Not Negotiating: What It Means for Your Business,
- Beyond Lean In: What Actually Works for Women’s Career Advancement,
- Negotiation is Not a Dirty Word: Teaching Women to Advocate for Themselves,
- From Good Work to Great Career: The Navigation Skills Women Need
- The ROI of Gender-Specific Career Development
- The Hidden Cost of Women Not Negotiating: What It Means for Your Business,
Keynotes are customisable based on your audience, objectives, and organisational priorities.
These presentations combine women’s career negotiation advice with practical negotiation strategies for women, equipping senior professional women and women in leadership with the frameworks they need for strategic career negotiation.
This is career advancement coaching that transforms how organisations approach retaining and promoting their female talent whilst empowering mid-to-senior level women to take control of their professional trajectory.
Trusted by Leading Global Organisations
Wies’ corporate training expertise and keynote presentations are trusted by organisations committed to advancing women and retaining top talent. These include:
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