We create opportunities for every young woman to build workforce skills, meet industry mentors and plan their future pathways. "If you want to change a generation you start with the girls." girledworld was launched through the University of Melbourne (Melbourne Business School) in 2016 when co-founders Madeleine Grummet and Edwina Kolomanski undertook a Master of Entrepreneurship and examined the problem of low participation and high attrition rates of women in the current global workforce, and the critical role of entrepreneurship and STEM in the 21st century economy. Their combined research revealed a key insight: approaches to addressing digital skills, knowledge, diversity and gender deficits in the leadership, STEM, entrepreneurship and innovation domains weren’t working, and needed to be accelerated for Australia’s future economic survival. To date we’ve engaged with 40,000+ students and 200+ Australian schools and universities, leading global industries, Silicon Valley tech startups and outstanding female business mentors to give young women the real-world industry knowledge, enterprise skills and rockstar career role models they need to learn from so they can see what they can be, thrive in the future of work and step up to be the leaders of tomorrow. Our high-impact work has seen us feature in national media, win the 2019 Tech Diversity Award, 2020 University of Melbourne Leadership Award and scale to hundreds of female students enabling them to access powerful networks of industry mentors, national work experience programs, World of Work Summits, digital learning programs in STEM, leadership and future skills, and student-led Design Thinking innovation sprints with the likes of Microsoft, Atlassian, NSW Parliament and Virgin Australia. The truth is that you can’t be what you can’t see. And you don’t know what you don’t know. So we hope through our continued work connecting girls and women across geographies, cultures, careers and circumstances, that the next generation of fierce, talented and smart young women will learn, fortify, galvanise, and then step up to be the leaders, CEO’s and heroines of tomorrow. The world needs them to. Learn more at www.girledworld.com or reach out at [email protected]
