A global leadership intelligence & impact initiative
Ready should never have to wait.
How She Rises brings women’s voices, male allies, credible research, and practical action together to shorten the leadership runway.
WOMEN’S VOICES •
GLOBAL RESEARCH •
REAL ACCESS •
ORGANIZATIONAL ACTION •
WOMEN’S VOICES •
Find your way in
Leadership Latency delays the opportunity women are ready for—and the leadership organizations need.
Choose the path that matches your role, then help shorten the distance between readiness and opportunity.
For women
I’m ready to rise.
Find access, practical growth, stories, and a community that helps you rise—and reach back.
For people leaders
I’m responsible for talent.
Use the Management Readiness Index to see where your leadership pipeline is ready—and where it is delayed.
For sponsors & partners
I want to create impact.
Fund, collaborate on, or amplify the work that makes advancement more visible and actionable.
START HERE
Your role in the work
Different entry points. Shared impact.
How She Rises grows with people as they rise—and gives organizations and partners a clear way to change the conditions around advancement.
Rising leader
Make your next move visible.
Use the book, podcast, $49 Insider membership, and annual survey to turn readiness into access and momentum.
Established leader
Make the runway shorter for someone else.
Share your story, mentor, speak, or help host a conversation that creates access for more women.
Talent & people leader
See the pipeline clearly.
The MRI brings pipeline readiness, succession horizons, and advancement conditions into view.
Executive champion
Fund access. Measure the return.
Pair sponsorship with actionable intelligence—including the MRI—to make leadership support visible and measurable.
Impact partner
Collaborate on impact.
Foundations, universities, media, and ecosystem partners can expand research, reach, and practical action.
The HSR signal
Stories give the data its meaning. Data gives stories their power.
We listen to women’s lived experience, measure the conditions around advancement, and create places where insight becomes opportunity.
01
Listen
The How She Rises Podcast makes qualitative insight audible through women’s real leadership stories.
02
Measure
The annual survey and Management Readiness Index make leadership latency visible.
03
Mobilize
Community, the book, convenings, and partnerships turn understanding into action.
Grant support received from
Supporting the work behind the insight.
Hello Alice
The Allstate Foundation
BOTOX ® Cosmetic
The HSR Podcast
A conversation can become a
signal for change.
Women building the future
Not just leadership stories. The conditions behind them.
From technology and AI to entrepreneurship, infrastructure, and the C-suite, the podcast brings forward the experiences that research must not overlook.
Research & intelligence
Where insight becomes a point of impact.
Radius Impact is the HSR magazine—home of the Global Impact Report and Global Impact Index. It brings an editorial lens to the data, ideas, and action reshaping women’s leadership.
RADIUS IMPACT
Make it real
Community & events
Join the Community — free
Rise. Reach Back. Repeat. Start free, then become an Insider for year-round programming, leadership resources, meaningful connections, visibility opportunities, and select member experiences.
Global Summit
One global room. A year of momentum.
Our flagship annual convening brings the ecosystem together—alongside Summit sponsors including Towson University, Exelon, BGE, and PEPCO.
Inside the Global Summit
A real room. A wider point of impact.
Women’s voices, sponsors, corporate leaders, and practical action come together to shorten the leadership runway.
Opening the roomGlobal Summit 2026
Allies in the roomGlobal Summit 2026
Real conversationsGlobal Summit 2026
Women’s voicesGlobal Summit 2026
Insight you can useGlobal Summit 2026
Honoring leadersGlobal Summit 2026
Rise and reach backGlobal Summit 2026
Leading from the stageGlobal Summit 2026
The details matterGlobal Summit 2026
Research without borders
Global research begins with the next voice.
Help HSR expand the annual survey and women’s leadership conversations across regions—so the intelligence reflects the conditions women are navigating now.
Research should travel before the events do—so future community and convening efforts are rooted in real, regional insight.
Research without borders
Bring a shorter leadership runway into view.
Rise. Reach Back. Repeat.
A global leadership intelligence & impact initiative.
An initiative of Virtual Partner.
© 2026 How She Rises · Virtual Partner, LLC