Lean In Girls: Girls’ School Cohort

ICGS and Lean In Girls have teamed up to empower students to embrace their leadership potential and lead boldly on their terms.

From an early age, girls begin to internalize limiting stereotypes about what they can achieve. Lean In Girls is a leadership program that aims to help girls, ages 11 – 15, see themselves as leaders in a world that often tells them they’re not. 

The curriculum is free and includes 15 one-hour sessions that cover important topics like taking positive risks, reframing failure, bias, and allyship, in an interactive and engaging format. 

With equal parts strength building and real talk on the bias and barriers girls face, the curriculum teaches girls to embrace their leadership superpowers and reject limiting stereotypes about what girls can’t do. The sessions equip girls with a foundational understanding of the biases they’ll likely face on their leadership journeys, and give them a range of tools to challenge them. When girls know how to identify and push back against unfair treatment, they’re less likely to internalize limiting messages and blame themselves when they experience bias.

Bring Lean In Girls to your students in 2025. Join a growing community of 50+ girls’ schools across nine countries running Lean In Girls sessions to help their students:

• see themselves as leaders 
• identify their values and strengths and how these shape their unique leadership style
• build skills to recognize and combat unfair treatment
• reframe failure and see setbacks as opportunities for growth
• practice allyship with real strategies they can use in school and at home

To join the cohort, schools will commit to kicking off programming in 2025 and running at least 4 sessions (of the 15 available). Lean In Girls provides optional free training and all the necessary materials (electronically, printed materials will be made available for schools in the United States with a demonstrated need). 

Facilitators will be invited to join our global network of like-minded girls’ school leaders and receive exclusive access to special events for our facilitator community. Plus, all U.S.-based facilitators will have the opportunity to unlock program benefits for their facilitators and girls. 

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis, with a priority deadline of May 15, 2025.

To learn more, view this flyer and register for a 45-minute info session offered by Lean In Girls. You can also contact Erikka Moreno (erikka@leaningirls.org) with any questions.