Membership
Programmes
Structured. Curated. Commercially Focused.
FAB membership is a structured, high-intensity peer advisory programme designed for female business Founders, CEOs & MDs who are serious about commercial growth.
Every session has a purpose-built agenda that brings new insight, direct challenge and practical solutions to your most pressing business problems.
Members are drawn from non-competing sectors, so every voice in the room brings genuinely independent perspective. Between sessions, your Chair holds you accountable to the commitments you’ve made.
What you’ll find here isn’t networking or a support group. It’s your personal board of advisors, meeting every month, with accountability built in and commercial outcomes as the measure of success.
Membership is selective. Both our SCALE and ENTERPRISE boards operate with strict criteria to ensure every member is a genuine commercial peer.
Explore our Membership Programmes
Format
- 12 x full day advisory sessions per year (8am - 2pm monthly)
- Quarterly extended sessions (8am - 3.30pm)
- In-person 1-1 with you Chair every two months
- January Kick-Off & Annual Celebration Event (included)
- All materials, expert speakers, lunches and workshops included
Who it’s for?
- Established business leaders with £500K to £3m revenue
- Entrepreneurs ready to scale beyond current operations
- Leaders strengthening business foundations and systems
- Business owners developing senior leadership teams
- Founders refining strategic vision for growth
- Companies preparing for investor/funding engagement
What’s the benefit?
- Access to diverse perspectives from fellow entrepreneurs at similar growth stages
- Proven strategies from leaders who’ve navigated scaling challenges
- Insights into building and managing senior leadership teams
- Guidance on optimising operations during rapid expansion
- Support maintaining vision clarity through growth transitions
- Expert advice on funding and investment preparation
- Accountability and support during critical decision-making phases
- Avoid costly mistakes through shared experience and wisdom
- Accelerated path to sustainable growth and success
The Challenge
The Solution
The Result
The Challenge
You’ve become the bottleneck in your own business - too dependent on you to scale effectively.
The Solution
Learn from peers how to shift from indispensable to strategic, with accountability partners guiding you through proven approaches to scale beyond personal capacity.
The Result
Break free from operational dependency and scale with confidence through strategic leadership transformation.
The Challenge
Scaling beyond referrals and organic growth is difficult without an efficient sales and marketing machine driving your business.
The Solution
Connect with entrepreneurs who’ve successfully built scalable systems - learn their specific steps, mistakes, and proven strategies for systematic growth.
The Result
Transform from referral-dependent to systematically scalable with a clear roadmap beyond organic growth.
The Challenge
Building and managing productive teams is complex and exhausting - people management drains even the strongest leaders.
The Solution
Connect with peers who intimately understand this struggle - develop practical hiring, performance management, and communication skills through shared real-time experiences.
The Result
Transform team management from exhausting burden to confident leadership through proven strategies and peer support.
The Challenge
Business leadership is isolating - you’re steering the ship, making final decisions, with few people who truly understand the weight you carry.
The Solution
Join leaders who get it - experience immediate relief from isolation, shared decision-making burden, validation without judgment, and freedom from having all the answers.
The Result
Replace loneliness with understanding - break free from echo chambers, and find your trusted circle of peers who navigate the same challenges.
Who it’s for?
- Business leaders with over £3 million turnover
- Entrepreneurs managing complex organisational structures
- Leaders overseeing larger teams and established governance frameworks
- Business owners with existing investor relationships
- Executives answering to investment boards and stakeholders
- Entrepreneurs navigating sophisticated enterprise challenges
- Leaders considering or preparing for business exit strategies
What’s the benefit?
- Access to experienced leaders managing similar-scale organisations
- Insights into investor relations and stakeholder management
- Guidance on advanced governance structures and frameworks
- Support for leading and managing large, complex teams
- Expert advice on exit planning and strategic transitions
- Confidential environment for discussing high-stakes decisions
- Protection of stakeholder value through informed decision-making
- Enhanced outcomes for substantial business operations and exits
The Challenge
The Solution
The Result
The Challenge
Transitioning from hands-on leader to strategic governance while aligning all departments feels impossibly complex.
The Solution
Navigate this critical transition through FAB's structured support system - access proven frameworks, governance structures, and alignment strategies for immediate implementation.
The Result
Transform leadership complexity into confident strategic governance with tested systems and peer-proven approaches.
The Challenge
Planning your business exit feels overwhelming with countless considerations creating paralyzing inertia.
The Solution
Learn from FAB members navigating their own exits - gain reassurance and step-by-step guidance from industry experts who've been there.
The Result
Transform exit overwhelm into confident strategic planning with a clear roadmap and expert peer support.
The Challenge
Navigating the temperament and expectations of your Board and Shareholders feels overwhelming and isolating.
The Solution
Connect with experienced leaders who've faced similar challenges - gain emotional distance, clarity, and strategic perspective through shared experiences.
The Result
Transform shareholder relationships from overwhelming burden to confident navigation with ongoing peer support and accountability.
The Challenge
Business leadership is isolating - you're steering the ship, making final decisions, with few people who truly understand the weight you carry.
The Solution
Join leaders who get it - experience immediate relief from isolation, shared decision-making burden, validation without judgment, and freedom from having all the answers.
The Result
Replace loneliness with understanding - break free from echo chambers, and find your trusted circle of peers who navigate the same challenges.
In a recent study by ICF (International Coaching Federation),
companies going through leadership development typically saw...
19% ROI, which is at least 50 x ROI on initial investment.
28% saw a return of 10-49 times
The median company return is 700% (7 x initial investment)
What happens in the Room
Peer advisory boards tackle the full spectrum of business and leadership challenges. Here are the key themes we explore in our sessions
- Navigating leadership loneliness
- Building courage & confidence
- Developing your personal brand
- Learning to let go of control
- Identifying personal bottlenecks
- Setting boundaries & saying “NO”
- Managing overwhelm & burnout
- Balancing personal & professional life
- Addressing health & wellbeing
- Managing growth at the right pace
- Strategic planning & mapping
- Building scalable foundations
- Innovation & disruption strategies
- Strategic pivoting decisions
- Optimizing business sale value
- Diversification opportunities
- Timing strategic moves
- Understanding & managing your numbers at growth stage
- Cashflow management during rapid scaling
- Funding & investment readiness
- Preparing for due diligence and investor conversations
- Financial governance and board reporting
- Exit valuation and how to maximise it
- Managing the complexity of a larger team and structure
- Knowing when and how to bring in a FD or CFO
- Building and protecting your reputation
- Managing investor and shareholder expectations
- Customer retention and reducing churn
- Identifying and attracting your ideal clients
- Employee engagement and culture at scale
- Contract negotiation and renegotiation
- Managing board relationships & dynamics
- Building strategic partnerships & alliances
- Understanding your numbers
- Time management & prioritization
- Systems & process optimization
- OKR implementation
- Communication strategies
- Governance structures
- Cross-functional management
- Infrastructure development
- Delegation & team empowerment
- Managing shareholder or partner disputes
- Handling underperformance and difficult exits
- Navigating redundancies sensitively and legally
- Dealing with a crisis or reputational threat
- Managing breakdown in key client relationships
- Separating emotion from commercial decision-making
- Difficult conversations with senior team members
- Succession planning and leadership transition challenges
One thing I have realised as a member, is that although our businesses and skillsets are very different, we all suffer similar challenges, fears and bouts of loneliness and the solidarity of the group offers intelligent advice, solutions, practical help and friendship. I couldn’t recommend FAB highly enough!
Kim Van Elkan
Co-Owner & MD, OurCreative Collective
Being invited to be a board member on the very first FAB board has been a game changer. 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.
Hayley Hoyle
Founder, The Harrogate Wedding Lounge
FAB was one of the best things I’ve decided to do. I’ve met an incredible group of inspiring businesspeople who help support me with strategic business decisions and challenge me to be better. 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
I’ve been a member of the Female Advisory Board for over a year and it’s been one of the best things I’ve done for myself and my business. The structure of the workshops has encouraged me to sort out certain areas of my business and the support from the group is amazing.
Victoria Moulds, Director,
Moulds Accountancy & Financial Advisory Services
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. Being part of a network of supportive female business owners has both helped build my confidence and identify areas of my business that I can actively work to improve.
Diane Coolican
Founding Director, Redsky Learning
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. 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.
Vickie Rogerson
Founder, North PR
The Female Advisory Board is not like all the other women’s business networking groups. It is a totally transformative experience where business peers inspire and support each other to help them succeed. I can’t recommend it highly enough.
Michelle Holmes
Founder, Holmes & Partners
I am so pleased that I joined this wonderful network of women have truly changed my life – both personally and professionally. Nothing is ever forced, but there is an underlying current of unity by all the women involved to grow and become the best versions of ourselves by sharing, encouraging and inspiring one another in a safe space
Louise Wynne
Founder, Wild Kind Interiors
Whether it’s thought-provoking discussions, practical advice, or simply the feeling of being surrounded by like-minded, ambitious women, every meeting leaves you energised and ready to take on new challenges. If you’re looking for a space to connect, learn, and thrive alongside other incredible women, the Female Advisory Board is absolutely worth your time.
Gillian Robson
Founder, TanCream
As a female CEO working in the SaaS EdTech space, I’ve found the Female Advisory Board (FAB) to be an invaluable community. The sessions are a unique blend of practical insight, peer support and strategic challenge. Being part of a network where female leaders openly share their experiences, best practices and perspectives has been both inspiring and grounding
Mary Ahern
CEO, Alps Education
Running a business as a woman really is different to running one as a man – that’s just the reality. The advice, learning and conversations I get at FAB are ones I wouldn’t find anywhere else, and they’ve been genuinely invaluable.
I joined FAB at the start of the year. I’d always steered clear of female-only groups and boards before, but after chatting with Sam, this one felt completely different.
Being surrounded by such impressive and inspiring female leaders has pushed me to massively raise my game. I’m so glad I chose to invest in this, and I’d recommend to any female business owner looking for some direction and support.
Rachel Deeks
Co-Founder, Fortem People
- 65% increased financial control
- 60% increase in working “on” instead of “in” your business
- 75% increase in reducing loneliness
- 200% growth/ knowledge/ leadership ability
- 133% increase in a positive mindset