Through connection, embodied strategy, and amplification, we help the real-life humans who are birthing the new navigate transition more intentionally so that we can make a bigger impact in a more personally sustainable way.
We’re the intentionally intimate leadership lab for feminist change agents.
GCC is where impact leaders and entrepreneurs ready to reimagine our world join forces — because we know we go further together.
Our Story
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Our North Star
OUR VISION
Our north star is a future that works for all of us, powered by collective leadership.
OUR MISSION
Create a community of change agents ready to accelerate our leadership and amplify our impact.
Meet our leadership team
Drew Taylor Cohen
GCC operations lead + values Coach + teacher, Chosen Directions
Suprita Kudesia
GCC Co-Facilitator + COFounder, FETA
Jennifer Au
GCC Community Lead
Stephanie Dolmat
GCC Co-facilitator
Lis Best
founder of GCC
Meet our leadership team
Freya Williams
chief strategy officer, north america, revolt
Heather Mak
Co-founder, diversity in sustainability
Alison Taylor
Clinical associate professor, nyu stern school of business
Sam Hartsock
strategy lead + cofounder, qb. consulting
Aditi Mohapatra
VP of Global Social Impact and Sustainability,
expedia group
Maria Estrada
Director of Learning and Development, consultant
Sarah Deane
Founder, mevolution
Meet our advisory board
*after initial commitment period
member retention rate*
70%
community members
40+
alumni across programs
100+
of our members say they’ve made at least one new friend through GCC
83%
of our members report feeling more connected to other leaders in our space
94%
in partial scholarships and financial support provided to date
$20K+
connections made to date
1,500+
By the numbers
Meet our advisory board
Our Values
A NOTE ON TERMS
If you consider yourself a woman changing the world, we consider you a woman changing the world. Period.
That said, we also appreciate that gender is a social construct and not binary. We are borrowing the definition of women from Pooja Lakshmin, MD, who in Real Self-Care quotes Silvia Federici, who said, "To me it has always been mostly in terms of a political category." Pooja goes on to write, "I use the word women inclusively to mean all people who suffer under the oppressive conditions that have typically been associated with the female sex, which includes queer folks, trans and nonbinary people, and intersex and agender people."
We're inspired by adrienne maree brown’s definition of feminine leadership: “not just women leaders, but leaders who shift our understanding of how power can be held.” For us, feminine leadership is about collaboration, connection, and prioritizing the good of the collective over individual gain. If that approach and our space resonate with you, we would absolutely love for you to join us. And if there’s more that we can do to create a space that feels inclusive, please don’t hesitate to reach out.
We believe in collaboration over competition, and we know that we can accomplish more together than we can individually. We believe in name-dropping, opening doors, and connecting dots to lift up the leaders around us. We believe that changing the world is a team sport.
Mutual Support
Authentic Leadership
Curiosity First
Ambition Redefined
Radical Celebration
Mutual Support
Authentic Leadership
Curiosity First
Ambition Redefined
Radical Celebration
We embrace #realtalk and are willing to share our challenges as well as our wins. We don't just share the polished talking points version of what happened; we'll tell you how we really got something done so that you can borrow our approach or lessons learned to do the same. We're here for the hard stuff, and not just the good stuff.
Mutual Support
Authentic Leadership
Curiosity First
Ambition Redefined
Radical Celebration
Mutual Support
We want to grow as leaders, and we know we don't have all the answers. We ask questions before we offer advice, we give others the benefit of the doubt, and we seek to better understand each other before we judge.
Authentic Leadership
Curiosity First
Ambition Redefined
Radical Celebration
Mutual Support
What got us here won't get us where we're going. We're ready to ditch hustle culture and climbing the corporate ladder for the sake of climbing in favor of ambition on our own terms and creating a career that works for our lives (and not the other way around).
Authentic Leadership
Curiosity First
Ambition Redefined
Radical Celebration
Mutual Support
We believe in celebrating the big wins, the small wins, and everything in between. We celebrate other people bragging and taking up space, and we share our wins with the Collective with the objective of embodying possibility.
Authentic Leadership
Curiosity First
Ambition Redefined
Radical Celebration
Our Services
Girls Club Collective
Join a constellation of change agents ready to open doors, connect dots, lift you up, and cheer you on.
Girls Club Magicmind
Commit to a dedicated cohort of ESG leaders and rebels with a cause. We’ll meet monthly to supercharge your life and career.
Our Impact Commitments
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION
DEI is critically important to our mission and our vision: We believe that to create a future that works for all of us, we need to put more power in the hands of women, especially women of color, and nonbinary people. GCC is an anti-racist, anti-discrimination space.
ETHICAL PRICING
Taking a page out of Kelly Diels’s book: Women entrepreneurs are, all too often, undercapitalized. GCC is self-financed and bootstrapped out of cash flow…so if you can afford to pay in full, we really appreciate it. That helps us avoid things like predatory payment plans. And if you can’t, we do our best to offer payment plans that don’t unnecessarily penalize people who aren’t in a position to pay in full.
SUSTAINABILITY
While our carbon footprint is tiny (!) in the grand scheme of things, we are continuously evaluating opportunities to reduce our carbon footprint, from using cloud platforms run on renewable energy to sourcing local and primarily vegetarian meals for our gatherings.
ETHICAL SOURCING
We are big believers in using business to create the future we want to see. Whenever possible, we hire women and woman-owned businesses to support our operations.
PLEDGE 1% COMMITMENT
As part of our Pledge 1% commitment, we donate at least 1% of our revenue to increase women’s access to reproductive healthcare and 1% of our time to pro bono work with the Women’s Impact Alliance on an annual basis.
ELEVATING NEW VOICES
Through the Women Changing the World podcast, we are shining a light on the real-life humans who are birthing the new. As part of this effort, we are continuously looking to elevate new and diverse voices in sustainability, social impact, and entrepreneurship.