Entrepreneurship as your second act
Ladies who Launch is designed to support ex-corporate professionals in launching something of their own. The core value of this curated accelerator lies in its tailored support and powerful peer community.
Your Leap. Your Confidence.
Navigating your transition
Many mid-career women feel the urge to build something of their own - to create meaningful impact, or gain more freedom and control in their lives. Or maybe the thought of entrepreneurship comes after a lay-off. The transition from a stable corporate role to entrepreneurship often comes with doubts:
Where do I even start?
Is this too risky?
What if it doesn’t work out?
Am I too late to begin?
You're not alone - these are the challenges every new entrepreneur faces. Ladies Who Launch exists to help you navigate this journey with clarity, confidence, and a supportive community of like-minded women.
Your challenges, understood
When leaving corporate careers to start a venture, people often struggle with:
- Shifting from corporate to entrepreneurial thinking – How do you (re)define success, manage risk, and structure your time when there’s no boss setting deadlines?
- Loneliness & self-doubt – The shift from working in teams to working alone can be isolating. Finding a tribe that understands your challenges is crucial.
- Selling yourself & your business – Whether you’re creating a product or a service, you need to sell it - something many professionals have never had to do before.
- Overcoming chaos & procrastination – No one tells you what to do next. Structuring your time effectively is key to keeping momentum.
Guidance, Mentoring and Structure
Across 10 weeks you will get structure through Masterclasses, tailored support through 1:1 mentoring, and a supportive group of peers going through the same transition. A proven structure will ensure progress, and help you go from idea to commercial traction with clarity and confidence.
At the end of the programme you will be equipped with a sharp entrepreneurial mindset, deep customer insight, a refined value proposition, and a compelling pitch, and sustainable energy habits.
What will you gain from joining?
Entrepreneurial Mindset Training
Entrepreneurial Mindset Training
Entrepreneurial Mindset Training
A grand vision, the tenacity to execute, and the resilience to overcome valid excuses to quit are key predictors of success and can be learned.
Step-by-step Venture building
Entrepreneurial Mindset Training
Entrepreneurial Mindset Training
Based on hundreds of success cases, this proven methodology helps you to set up the fundaments of your venture. Packed with tools and templates.
Personalised Roadmap
Entrepreneurial Mindset Training
Personalised Roadmap
No two journeys are the same. Our programme includes personalised mentoring and guidance to help you create a clear roadmap for the next 6-18-36 months.
Curated Community
Entrepreneurial Mindset Training
Personalised Roadmap
You’ll be surrounded by other women navigating similar transitions, providing support, accountability, and inspiration.
Programme set-up: insights, tools and tailored support
1 - Masterclasses
2 - Venture building (self-guided)
2 - Venture building (self-guided)
A series of six 90 minute Masterclasses, focused on mindset shifts, customer clarity, building product, presenting yourself, pitching your business and maintaining your energy. All elements are essential for sustainable success. Packed with valuable insights, practical tools and templates, and candid conversations to integrate it all.
2 - Venture building (self-guided)
2 - Venture building (self-guided)
2 - Venture building (self-guided)
Venture building - the Venture Framework provides a structured, step-by-step methodology. No more going down rabbit holes - your next step is always waiting for you. With 8 units and 50+ bite-sized modules (10-15 min each), you’ll make steady progress at your own pace. This flexible, independent approach ensures you can build your venture in a way that fits your schedule, with expert guidance to support you along the way.
The Venture Map is also available stand-alone.
3 - 1:1 Mentoring
2 - Venture building (self-guided)
3 - 1:1 Mentoring
Because no 2 paths are the same - the programme ensures every participant gets tailored guidance to shape her venture, overcome roadblocks, and build with confidence.
Peer community: support and getting stuff done, together.
Inspiring courage and connection
At Ladies who Launch, you don’t just learn - you grow alongside a powerful cohort of like-minded women. You collaborate, soundboard, and celebrate successes, together.
Is this for me?
This programme is for you if you are:
- an ex-corporate professional
- at the beginning of your entrepreneurial journey (idea stage to recently launched)
- looking for a community of like-minded women to comfortably connect, build, brainstorm, vent, learn, grow and find re-assurance with
- Appreciate a structure and something/someone to be accountable to
Ready to Launch? Get in Touch!
I'd love to hear from you.
Building on my own leap from Deutsche Bank to entrepreneurship and seven years of investing in women-led ventures, I created Ladies who Launch to help second-act founders launch smarter, faster, and with more joy. Reach out if you would like to have a chat.
Email: hester@hesterspiegel.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hesterspiegelvandensteenhoven
Book a call: https://calendly.com/hesterspiegel