Want to take your success
to the next level?
The UK’s first all-female, cross-industry peer advisory group helping business leaders break through ceilings with confidence.
The UK’s first all-female, cross-industry peer advisory group helping
business leaders break through ceilings with confidence.
Introducing our new GROW, SCALE & ENTERPRISE Membership plans
The world needs
more female
leaders
Female Advisory Board (FAB) is a community where high-calibre business leaders come together to learn, grow and thrive through shared experiences. Connect with like-minded peers, commit to working on your business and deliver your strategies at scale.
For too long, female leaders have faced unequal access to growth opportunities and support. At a global level, achieving gender equality is set at a 286-year climb, making a fair future seem a distant goal.
We’re here to change that.
Hear from our members
Find your FAB sweet spot,
AKA your competitive edge
Running a business requires growth on all fronts. From personal and professional development to how you progress. Channelling all your efforts into just one or two of these areas takes you down an unsustainable, unfiling and uncompetitive path, limiting your future success.
You find your competitive edge when you unite your progress with professional and personal development. At FAB, we focus on all three core areas to ensure your business, progress, and self-development thrive.

UK female founders get less than 2p for every £1 of venture capital investment*
Joining the Female Advisory Board empowers female leaders to achieve more.
133% increase in a positive mindset
200% growth/knowledge/leadership ability
75% increase in reducing loneliness
60% increase in working “on” instead of “in” your business
65% increased financial control
FAB Features
Tap into the real-world experiences of accomplished female leaders from non-competing industries. Our peer advisory boards are a safe place to let your guard down, address business challenges and work through opportunities. We also host expert guest speaker workshops on a regular basis, providing valuable insight that helps you thrive personally and professionally.
Depending on the board group suitable for you, you can meet your Chair for monthly one-to-one mentoring sessions that hold you accountable for the change commitments you make in the group. Your Chair will offer personalised support and guidance and help you make breakthrough decisions to drive your business.
For FAB GROW members, you can benefit from group mentoring sessions with your Chair and peers, alongside your board meetings and Accountability Partner matching.
Celebrate your successes with other FAB groups at our exclusive annual events. Hear from guest speakers and grow your powerful network. Forge new ways to move forward while being championed by your peers.
Shape and guide the success of ambitious leaders as a FAB Chair
Offer your expertise as an accomplished CEO, MD, Founder or Business Owner by chairing one or more of our peer advisory groups. Create a space for female leaders to show up without judgement, where they become the best version of themselves and their business.
Join the movement and help level the playing field for ambitious female leaders.
When Sam called me to explain the concept of the FAB group, I knew instantly that this was a resource I needed and would benefit from. I have run my own business for 20 years and it is often the loneliest, and most exhausting place, full of self doubt. The first session was everything I expected and more. Incredibly well structured, warm, inclusive, and safe. My biggest take way from the programme so far is “it isn’t just me”. I am not alone, others have similar challenges and self doubt, I already feel that I have support, challenge, and more belief in myself and that I can address the issues in my business and grasp the opportunities. I know this programme will change my life (not just my business) and I feel so proud to be part of this pioneering group.
Diane Coolican
Founding Director – Redsky Learning
I am so pleased I joined FAB, the experience so far has been invaluable. I now have a clear idea of my personal goals and a strategic plan for where I need to take my business to achieve those goals. The support from both Sam and the other board members is huge, they have boosted my confidence so much. I’m grateful to all the board members but particularly Sam for being able to put such a great bunch of people together.
Victoria Moulds
Director – Moulds Accountancy & Financial Advisory Services
I had no idea what to expect when joining FAB, but I knew it was something I wanted to be a part of from the first meeting with Sam. Her enthusiasm as a cheerleader for successful female founders and women in business aligned with my own views and I knew I had to get involved. It was one of the best things I’ve decided to do in the past year. I’ve met an incredible group of inspiring business people who help support me with strategic business decisions and challenge me to be better. I have learnt a lot from the sessions and continue to feel more motivated and inspired after each one. I would highly recommend for any female business leader who can relate to it ‘being lonely at the top’, who needs a support system of people who get it, all whilst feeling like you’re spending time bettering yourself and your business.
Claire Daniels
CEO – Trio Media
Being invited to be a board member on the very first FAB board has been a game changer. Our monthly meetings are not only a place to seek advice, offer support to others and be challenged on our own thinking by other amazing leaders, it has given me access to an array of incredible guest speakers on a wide range of topics that are so important in the world of business and entrepreneurship. The time spent in the board meetings really allows me to work on my business and not in it, paving the way for clearer thinking, strategic planning and growth. Its a wonderful board of highly ambitious women who have big goals and its a pleasure to see every month how each of us moves further towards them. Sam has done an amazing job of creating a high vibe environment and a high vibe board that I am proud to be a part of. Being a member of FAB is an investment you cant afford to miss out on!
Hayley Hoyle
Founder – The Harrogate Wedding Lounge
Kim Van Elkan
Co-Owner & MD – OurCreative Collective
FAB
When I was first introduced to the idea of the Female Advisory Board I really wasn’t sure, a female only group, really, this day and age.
How wrong can a person be.
As a female leader, in the Energy industry and I would imagine any industry to be fair, I forgot how lonely it is, how you have to be careful what you say and how you come across in fear of being perceived as too emotional, or aggressive, hormonal, or too weak, or even too soft, we would never say any of that to a man would we?
FAB is all of those other great peer groups and so much more. Having a team of likeminded women leaders in a safe place, who get you, understand and support, hold you to account but do so in a way that is generous and nurturing. It’s so enriching, inspiring and motivating being part of each other’s lives, and seeing others flourish is wonderful. If you get an opportunity to be part of it, trust me you won’t regret it.
Jacqui Hall
N.E.D. & Former MD CNG Energy
FAB is the place I have been looking for since I set up my business. Finding your tribe is so important as a business owner, particularly if you run the business on your own, and that’s what I have found through FAB. The ladies are exceptionally talented, inspirational, supportive and fun, and Sam is so invested in everyone’s success that her positivity shines bright. I wouldn’t be without this fabulous group of ladies and I’m excited to see what the future holds for all of us.
Sally Bendtson
MD Limelight HR