▶︎ FUELLING WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP PIPELINES WORLDWIDE

Your talent engine for women that makes progress visible.

Yugrow is a leadership performance system that strengthens behaviour over time, surfaces talent risks early, and tracks leadership capability as it evolves.

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▶︎ TRUSTED BY HIGH-PERFORMING ORGANISATIONS ACROSS AFRICA:

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▶︎ THE YUGROW DIFFERENCE

Most leadership development programmes increase awareness. Few actually move more women into leadership.

The goal isn’t running another initiative. It’s seeing leadership capital improving and the pipeline growing. Yugrow is not a programme. It is a leadership performance system that transforms how organisations grow women leaders.

Most programmes:

  • Are episodic, fade after completion, and can’t be tracked over time

  • Measure only participation, not behavioural progress and increased leadership capability

  • Are generic, offer only basic personalisation, and don’t take into account different women’s needs, goals, and stages in life

Yugrow’s leadership performance system:

▶︎ Reinforces behaviour change so that it is sustained over time

▶︎ Gives you continuous visibility of leadership capital as it evolves, including detecting burnout and trapped talent early

▶︎ Integrates into talent profiling and enterprise reporting, creating a clear link between development investment and business outcomes

▶︎ THE YUGROW LEADERSHIP CAPITAL INDEX

Leadership capital compounds with activation, conversion, and stability

ACTIVATION — Is leadership capability being deployed at the right level?

CONVERSION — Does leadership influence translate into measurable organisational lift?

STABILITY — Is performance sustainable under pressure?

Conversely, oerformance weakens when any one dimension erodes. Through the Leadership Capital Index, Yugrow tracks and strengthens all three, continuously.

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▶︎ FOR ORGANISATIONS

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Yugrow’s Leadership Capital Index makes the invisible talent lens visible.

See how HR and executive teams use our longitudinal data to map unique behavioural patterns over time, measure capability improvement signals, and convert these into measurable uplift:

▶︎ FOR ORGANISATIONS

Continuous insight into what’s helping or quietly eroding performance

Real-time visibility of barriers and talent risks, giving HR a deeper understanding of women talent across the organisation.

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▶︎ FOR ORGANISATIONS

Personalised growth that drives measurable business outcomes

Each woman follows a tailored development journey that fits into daily life and leads to stronger leadership activation. Development shifts from a tick-box activity to measurable capability movement.

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▶︎ FOR ORGANISATIONS

Evidence of impact leaders can act on

Ongoing diagnostics show behavioural shifts and measurable progress, linking L&D investment to organisational outcomes, and providing actionable next steps at both individual and systemic levels.

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▶︎ THE YUGROW EXPERIENCE FOR WOMEN

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Yugrow strengthens leadership performance through intentional reinforcement layers.

See how behaviour change is sustained over time through personalised audio journeys, targeted coaching, and cross-organisational accountability, all wrapped into a lovable growth companion app:

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  • Your pace: Tune in daily or carve out space for a deeper session every week

  • Personalised to where you’re at in your growth journey

  • Inward-looking support to build new habits so that you can unlock your goals

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▶︎ THE YUGROW EXPERIENCE FOR WOMEN

A steady stream of bite-sized audio that transforms your mindset and habits

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▶︎ THE YUGROW EXPERIENCE FOR WOMEN

On-demand coaching with trusted experts for support on work, life, and everything in between

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  • Accredited, global expertise on a wide range of topics, including sustaining performance without burnout, being more present with loved ones, and taking control of your financial future

  • You choose the time and define the agenda

  • Pre-paid access to 12+ one-to-one slots — make deep progress with your favourite coach or tap into different perspectives

▶︎ THE YUGROW EXPERIENCE FOR WOMEN

Your tribe: A community that gets you and motivates you to follow through

  • Regular conversations with women just like you, facing the same wins and wobbles — solving collectively to navigate career risks and roadblocks

  • Faces from other organisations to bring fresh perspectives and new ideas to ‘old’ problems

  • No more than 6 women per tribe, hand-placed according to your individual needs

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▶︎ THE YUGROW EXPERIENCE FOR WOMEN

“Yugrow helped me identify what was holding me back and make a tangible plan to do something about it.

— Layla Dangor, Strategy Consultant at Accenture

▶︎ THE YUGROW EFFECT

From episodic development to sustained enterprise capability

Organisations partnered with Yugrow move from development activity to embedded leadership performance intelligence, resulting in:

  • Greater succession clarity

  • Reduced exposure to burnout risk

  • Visible capability progression and measurable movement

⇡82%

Of women believe Yugrow had a positive impact on their role

⇡94%

Retention of Yugrow women versus rest of organisation

  • "The critical gap was not performance, but delayed readiness. This was driven by a lack of visibility of high potential women at senior leadership levels, which Yugrow helped us to unlock."

    — Chantal Brooks, Vodacom (Executive Head: Talent & Performance Management)

  • "We need leaders who are commercially sharp, strategically strong, and competitive in the market. Yugrow helps us build exactly that."

    — Vukani Mngxati, Accenture (CEO)

  • "Yugrow is helping us to build a critical mass of women leaders who sustain peak performance and lead with clarity, strengthening the leadership engine at RMA.

    — Gamelihle Nxumalo, RMA (Group Executive: People & Culture)

  • "Growth is human before it is organisational. Yugrow creates environments where people feel seen, stretched, and supported. When individuals expand, organisations come alive — not just evolve. HR's role is to unlock potential, not just manage talent. We don't follow the future of work. We shape it."

    — Vanessa Goonahsylin, Accenture (HR Director)

▶︎ WHY CLIENTS LOVE US

Yugrow gives organisations a measurable competitive edge in attracting, growing, and keeping exceptional women leaders.

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EVP Lever: A Tangible, Differentiating Employee Value Proposition

“Yugrow is a proof point in your EVP — a concrete, high-value investment that signals to talent that your organisation backs women, not just employs them.”

  • Clients use Yugrow as a strategic differentiator in a competitive talent market. It shows employees (and future employees) that the organisation is willing to invest meaningfully in their personal leadership and long-term growth. This becomes a powerful attraction and stay factor: women see unmistakable evidence of the value placed on their potential.

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Performance Lever: Turning High-Potential Women into High-Impact Leaders

“When organisations want a step change in women’s performance, they turn to Yugrow — and they get a critical mass of women leading with purpose, clarity and capability.”

  • Companies partner with Yugrow to accelerate the advancement of women at key inflection points: entry-level, mid-management or the ready-now pipeline. Through our behavioural-science driven journeys, women gain the leadership DNA required to step up, take ownership, and contribute at a higher level.

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Retention Lever: Keeping Your Most Valuable Women Inspired and Committed

“Women on Yugrow stay longer, perform better, and remain deeply engaged — because they feel genuinely valued.”

  • Time and again, organisations tell us: “We cannot afford to lose this talent.” Our data validates what leaders see: Yugrow participants show meaningfully higher engagement and tenure. The experience becomes a strategic retention tool, ensuring that the women most critical to your organisation’s future choose to grow with you, not elsewhere.

▶︎ SEE YUGROW IN ACTION

Ready to make your organisation’s leadership performance visible?

If capability movement cannot be measured, it cannot be strengthened. Book a 30 minute, no-commitment strategic conversation to explore your exam question and see how Yugrow can support your leadership pipeline.

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▶︎ FAQs

Got questions? We’ve got you

  • Yugrow is designed for women at all career stages, from junior professionals just starting their leadership journey, to mid-level managers developing their skills, and senior executives refining their leadership presence. Our deep personaliation ensures each woman receives content and support tailored to exactly where she is in her career progression.

  • Yugrow starts by understanding each woman’s starting point through a short diagnostic, which creates a personalised growth journey. As she engages with tailored content, coaching, community, and goals, the platform surfaces ongoing insight for HR/L&D, highlighting themes, roadblocks, and emerging risks. Ongoing diagnostics show measurable shifts and organisational impact.

  • Women represent the largest concentration of under-activated Leadership Capital in enterprise systems.

    Yugrow deploys its leadership performance system initially within women talent populations — where structural activation gaps, burnout risk, and progression friction are most visible.

    The system itself is population-agnostic. If Leadership Capital cannot be measured, it cannot compound.

  • Position Yugrow as a strategic talent investment with measurable business impact. Share case studies that demonstrate improvements in retention, engagement, and the cost savings of reduced turnover.

    Crucially, this isn’t just an L&D expense, it’s about strengthening your future leadership pipeline. We can support you with executive briefings and, over time, build a tailored ROI view based on your organisation’s own data, helping you track impact as it emerges and make the case with confidence.

  • Getting started is simple:

    1. Book a demo to see the platform in action

    2. We’ll work with you to understand your goals and tailor the experience

    3. Invite your women leaders across teams and geographies, and

    4. Launch with our comprehensive support and start unlocking dynamic insights through the Yugrow Talent Engine.

    We provide ongoing training, resources, and dedicated customer success support throughout your journey.

  • Yugrow can be implemented in less than one week. Our streamlined onboarding process includes technical setup, user invitations, and initial orientation. There's minimal IT overhead, and we handle most of the heavy lifting. Your team can start benefiting from the platform almost immediately with our mobile-first, intuitive design.

  • Yugrow is designed for continuous, long-term growth rather than a fixed-term program. Unlike traditional one-off training initiatives, our platform evolves with your organization and adapts to each individual's learning journey. Women can engage with bite-sized daily content, participate in ongoing community discussions, and progress at their own pace. This sustained approach ensures lasting behavioral change and skill development, not just a checkbox exercise.