About Wedu

Our journey began with a simple belief that half of all leaders worldwide should be women.

Every woman deserves the chance to lead, and at Wedu, we’re committed to making that a reality.  We enable women leaders in South and Southeast Asia through providing leadership development programmes, a community of support, and education funding.

 

Our Vision

A world where half of all leaders are women. 

Our Mission

To provide women leaders in South and Southeast Asia with leadership development opportunities, a lifelong supportive community, and plentiful capital to achieve their leadership aspirations.

We focus on three enabling factors to ensure that women leaders thrive:

Capability

Through leadership development programmes, we equip women with decisional capital: the confidence and mindset to succeed in their chosen paths.

Capital

Through our Income Sharing Agreement programme, we equip women with financial capital to unlock access to education and opportunity.

Community

Through our mentorship and peer-to-peer learning programmes, we equip women with the social and dream capitals (the ability to dream freely) to sustain their lifelong leadership journeys.

Our values

We take purposeful action

We embrace a profound sense of responsibility to be a force for change in our contexts, systems, and home planet. We are passionate about (un)learning and we celebrate reflective practice.

We build collective power

We believe power is multiplied when it’s shared. Our work is animated by principles of solidarity, care, and reciprocity. We call in diverse allies to be active champions and sponsors of women leaders.

We show up with courage

Because our vision requires boldness, we cultivate resilience and transformational presence.

We lead by example

We strive to model the feminist future we’re co-creating, even if we don’t get it right 100% of the time.

How we work

Our Theory of Change builds on the idea that women need more than leadership skills to thrive as leaders. 

They need access to the capital, opportunities, and communities that sustain their leadership journeys.

 

We believe that if we provide women with:

  • Leadership capability development to strengthen their skills, confidence, and capacity to lead;
  • Education financing capital to pursue their education and career goals; and
  • A community of mentors and peers to provide connection, support, and opportunities,

then women will strengthen their leadership capability, achieve their education goals, and become part of stronger communities.

Because women thrive when they have access to the four leadership capitals and are better positioned to pursue opportunities that influence decisions or ignite change.

Together, these pathways contribute to more women in leadership roles and move us towards a world where half of all leaders are women.

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Our partners

Through our partners we are able to continue to drive impactful change – enabling women to pursue their leadership journeys confidently.