WORKSHOPS
Workshops that turn feminist ideas into practice.
Interactive sessions that take feminist theory seriously and turn it into actionable strategy for Monday morning. Bring your team, your cohort, or your class, and leave with practices you can put to work right away.
HOW I RUN A WORKSHOP
Rigorous thinking, ready to use.
I do the deep thinking to bring feminist ideas straight to you, then help your group apply them to real business challenges: how you design products, how you lead, how you structure the work, how you plan for the years ahead.
The thinking is rigorous, but you won’t need a PhD to follow it. You’ll leave with frame-shifting insight into your own business, well-earned confidence in the values behind it, and something you can put to work on Monday morning.
PAST WORKSHOPS & REPLAYS
Missed one?
Many of my past workshops are available as replays or as downloadable PDFs, so you can work through them on your own time. Click the title of each workshop to learn more.
Feminism for Business: Foundational Concepts in Feminism
Creating a shared foundation in a collective, inclusive, transformational feminism. A spirited, whirlwind tour of important feminist concepts and analyses, for feminist and activist business people.
A Brief and Exciting History of Feminist Entrepreneurship
What we’ve learned from pioneering Feminist Businesses and Feminist Management scholars.
Women's "Empowerment" Is Broken. Here's How We Can Fix It.
The ways we’re taught to be “empowered” aren’t making enough of a difference, for enough of us. Instead of leaning in, let’s apply real feminist values to the challenges of change.
Feminine Vs Feminist: When "Feminine" Isn't "Feminist"
Understanding how “feminine” business initiatives can reinforce sexism and obstruct real change. Dismantling the oppressive binary of masculine/feminine, and reconsidering what “gender” and “gender creativity” can offer us.
Transforming to a Feminist Economy
What makes an economy feminist (not feminine)? How can we redefine an economy to focus on care, on moving resources, and on flourishing?
Moving from "Women's Entrepreneurship" to Feminist Entrepreneurship
Why we should stop focusing on an identity group (women) and focus instead on a plan for change (feminism).
Worldbuilding Our Feminist Future: Envisioning a Feminist Economy
A co-creative group exercise to tickle our imaginations and excavate our visions of a new economy.
Worldbuilding Our Feminist Future: Envisioning a Feminist Enterprise
A co-creative group exercise to tickle our imaginations and excavate our visions of what feminist businesses could be.
Business Truths to Set Feminists Free
A bracing tour of “Business Truths that Feminists Can’t Ignore,” plus strategies for working through them.
What Makes a Business "Feminist"?
It’s not female CEOs or products for women. Understand all nine dimensions that define a business’s mindset and politics.
Stepping into Your Power as a Feminist Entrepreneur
What does it ask of us, to be a Feminist Entrepreneur? Using a feminist definition and framework for entrepreneurship, we will sketch out our own personal learning paths.
PathMinding: Get Aligned + Accountable in Your Feminist Business
How can we hold ourselves accountable to feminist values and feminist communities as business people and as ventures? Includes both (a) Creating Your Feminist Advocacy Portfolio (choosing your focus issues) and (b) Developing a Relationships-Based Accountability Process.
Making Our Feminist Prices Accessible: Revolutionary, Generative Practices
Learn to craft accessible prices to help you reach those who need your work, without diminishing you or them, while building community.
Feminist Business Mentoring: Guiding People, Relationships & Enterprises
Explore how to support other feminist entrepreneurs and help them grow their feminist enterprise, with deliberate power analyses and relationship reframes.
Making Your Job, Role, and Work More Feminist, with Feminist Job Crafting
An individually focused workshop to help you reshape what you do to maximize the difference you can make.
Drafting Your Feminist Organization Handbook
Principles, policies and practices.
Designing Your Feminist Business with an Anti-Oppression Lens
Anti-Oppression, Feminism, Decolonization, Anti-Racism: all oppressions are related and all initiatives are necessary. Choose where to address all of them within your own business.
Using Your Feminist Business Model to Unpack Your "Theory of Change"
(Previously Designing Your Business to Change the World.) Learn to describe what you’re doing, why you’re doing it, and how your work will make a difference.
Defining and Building a Feminist Business with the FBMC
A zippy introduction to feminist business concepts and the tool. Basic overview, working through a simple case study.
Meet and Compare Business Model Tools
From Osterwalder to the FBMC, understand how business modeling and canvases can help you focus any business.
Creating Your Business's Foundation with the Feminist Business Model Canvas
Focused on applying the FBMC to your business idea. A top-level experience of the full Canvas, without business model theory.
Exploring the Feminist Business Model Canvas
Overview, plus a sample of the “deep dive” of working fully through a few sections of the Canvas. Theory plus focused application.
Using the Feminist Business Model Canvas to Design Your Business
The full workbook, the full experience, for a full day.
Understanding the Design and Construction of the FBMC: Facilitators' Workshop
(60 to 90 mins)
Understanding Feminism and How Feminism Is Relevant to Business: Facilitators' Workshop
(3 hours)
Using the Feminist Business Model Canvas to Design Your Business: Facilitators' Workshop
(6 hours, with offline work, plus 60 to 90 mins to discuss teaching plans)
Meet and Compare Business Model Tools: Facilitators' Workshop
(60 mins, plus 30 mins on teaching plan)
How to Teach "Introducing Feminist Business Models and the FBMC"
Teaching materials discussion. (1 hour)
Helping Students Build Their Business's Foundation with the Feminist Business Model Canvas: Facilitators' Workshop
(90 mins, plus 30 mins on teaching plan)
How to Teach "Exploring the Feminist Business Model Canvas"
Teaching materials discussion. (1 hour)
Using the Feminist Business Model Canvas to Define Your Business: Facilitators' Workshop
(6 hours, with offline work, plus 60 mins on teaching plan)
Interested in bringing one of these workshops or talks to your group? Connect with me to let me know which topics interest you. I’m also happy to develop and host a bespoke workshop designed just for your group.
WORKSHOPS BY REQUEST
Bring it to your team, accelerator, or class.
Want a workshop for your own group? I’ll build one around what your people need right now, focusing on tools they can use. Start from one of my core topics, or tell me the challenge you’re facing and we’ll design something custom.
- What Makes a Business ‘Feminist’?
- Women’s Empowerment Is Broken. Here’s How We Can Fix It.
- Feminist Pricing: Revolutionary, Generative Practices for Making Our Products Accessible
- Why Business Needs Feminism (And Why Feminists Are Wrong About Business)
- Business Truths Feminists Can’t Ignore
- Custom topic, tell me what you want your group to walk away with
Click here for a full list of all workshop topics.
Read first: What to Expect from a Feminist Workshop.
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