Women Leadership Programmes at Barclays

Increasing the number of women in senior positions is integral to our long-term goal for Barclays, to create a more inclusive leadership culture in which everyone is equally able to progress and access opportunities to support their career development. International Women's Day, sponsorship and mentoring initiatives enable us to support the considerable achievements of the talented women across our business outside of structured programmes on a day to day basis.

We operate leadership programmes which provide a platform to help develop high-performing female colleagues:

• Aspire, is a programmatic development experience designed to empower, connect and mobilise our high-potential colleagues at Vice President level with the skills and knowledge to thrive in a complex and uncertain world.
  
  
• Launchpad, has been designed to accelerate the career advancement of ethnically diverse and female colleagues as Assistant Vice President and Vice President level. The programme focuses on helping colleagues to build their leadership capability and confidence, and successfully shift the Barclays culture today and in the future.
  
  
• Strategic Leader, is a leadership experience that is designed to build a long term inclusive talent pipeline of diverse senior leaders by supporting and challenging our high potential Directors to build the skills to lead transformational change at Barclays.