About Aspire

Aspire Women Leaders Program

Aspire Women Leaders Program is a year-long development program specifically tailored to female insurance intermediaries who are looking to become future business leaders.

Our intensive 12-month program will equip participants with the executive skills to excel in a senior leadership position. Working with program peers, participants will be given the opportunity to grow both personally and professionally and make a difference to their organisation and the insurance community.

Participants will be eligible to receive a Certificate in Executive Management and Development from the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM). The course is also designed to provide credit points toward an online Master of Business Administration (MBA) from AGSM and/or credits to the AGSM Executive MBA. Participants will also be eligible to join the AGSM Alumni.

Hollard is looking forward to the opportunity to support our female brokers. We believe that our success and growth is inherently linked to that of our partners and that everyone needs someone in their corner including brokers themselves.

About Aspire

Why a course focused on females?

We know that women are under-represented at the higher levels of management within the insurance and financial industry with only 42% proportion of women in any level of management. And although growing, the representation of women in management declines with seniority and only 22.3% of CEOs/Head of Business across all industries in Australian are female.¹

Networking is identified as an important factor in gaining exposure to opportunities and advancement. One of the hurdles that women face is the ability to attend networking and sponsorship events due to wide and varied level of commitments beyond work. This program provides an opportunity for a sustained support network based on meaningful relationships developed over time. Participants will be mentored by senior women from across the insurance industry and beyond.

Course content

The program includes presentations and interactive content from highly reputable and renowned sources and was part of Hollard’s Australian Human Resources award winning leadership program securing the Best Leadership Development Program 2018.

Leadership Business Acumen Personal & Professional Wellbeing
Executive Leadership Finance Effective Mindsets
Personal Presence Marketing Work Life Balance
Networking Strategy Health and Wellbeing Strategies
Influence Innovation Career Planning
Insurance Regulation and Legislation

Eligibility criteria

Our Aspire Women Leaders Program is designed to equip participants with the tools they need to increase their leadership impact and step into a senior management role. Therefore we have certain criteria for applicants:

Open to female brokers in Steadfast brokerages
Maximum 20 participants to ensure effective learning
Tailored for women working insurance brokerages
Senior women eg Directors, Principals, senior leaders, identified future leaders
For aspiring female executives with at least 10 years (preferred) of work experience
Must be able to commit to 6 in person modules over the 12-month period and complete pre and post work assignments
Must have support from their business to attend regularly and sponsor financially the cost of travel and extra accommodation if required
No limit for nominations or participants from a single brokerage or network
All states of Australia (costs of travel to NSW is NOT included in the program cost and will need to be met by the participant’s business).