A report from The Asia Foundation shows how women’s STEM networks, such as Homeward Bound, play an important role in overcoming barriers and advancing opportunities for women and girls; for example, to create and sustain a space for sharing, support, and mentorship.
Giving women the skills to be willing and capable of taking their place as leaders means addressing and working on wellbeing. Homeward Bound is using the evidence-based set of tools in the Global Leadership Wellness Survey (GLWS) in the online component of the leadership program, helping participants gain a complete view of factors affecting energy, resilience, and wellbeing, and the resources to meaningfully improve them for themselves, their teams and their organisation.
Something happened to Podcaster Samantha Hodder as she dug into the tapes of the Homeward Bound inaugural voyage to Antarctica: “It gave me a magical feeling that I was virtually participating in this experience. This feeling stayed with me, and gave me the grist to turn what was meant to be a 20 minute story, into an almost four-hour serialized storytelling podcast – This Is Our Time.”