Male Allies Programme: Cultivating Gender Equality Advocates

Influencer Circles are workshops where participants are grouped in smaller cross-sector groups to discuss key gender issues, led by our IC Leads – our Male Allies, who are past programme participants. These sessions are a psychologically safe space for participants to learn, ask questions and share their experiences.

The programme also consists of larger-scale engagements for participants to meet outside of their Influencer Circle sessions. To create stronger connections across the TWF community, our Cross-Programme engagements bring together participants from Male Allies and the Mentoring Programme for Women Leaders to facilitate best-practice sharing and peer learning.

We empower our allies to take action and create meaningful change in their spheres of influence through two components:

• The Organisation Project, which aims to empower teams of Male Allies from each corporate partner to identify and deliver a concrete output that contributes to their organisation's gender diversity, equity and inclusion goals, enabling participants to action what they are learning in the programme.
• The Leadership Pledge, an individual pledge that each ally commits to at the start of the programme. This aims to empower allies to reflect on their personal allyship journeys and role-model inclusive behaviours at work and beyond.

At TWF, we want to highlight the diversity of industries, seniorities, nationalities, and ethnicities in our programme cohort. Our participants, and the diverse perspectives and experiences they bring, help create a strong network of gender equality advocates ready to Listen, Learn, and Act together.