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MAKE YOUR MARK: Leaders in Heels launches crowdfunding campaign to inspire women

Announcement posted by Leaders in Heels 13 Nov 2014

Founder of popular online community for women in business, Leaders in Heels, Kasia Gospos, has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise $16,000 for new MAKE YOUR MARK notebooks designed to develop leadership skills and empower more female leaders

Update: Crowd-funding campaign to launch MAKE YOUR MARK leadership notebooks has been successful. The notebooks can be now ordered directly from Leaders in Heels Make Your Mark page.

Sydney-based Gospos is joining the crowdfunding revolution to enable women across the globe to get behind the Leaders in Heels campaign to fund inspirational notebooks using social enterprise platform StartSomeGood.com.

The Leaders in Heels MAKE YOUR MARK notebooks have been designed to encourage and inspire women to follow their passion, to be more creative and innovative in their lives, to feel more confident and determined in their endeavours and to maintain a kind heart while becoming successful. The campaign ends on 9 November 2014.

“My goal is to create more female leaders,” explained Gospos. “Women hold only 5.2 percent of Fortune 500 CEO positions and the gender pay gap in Australia currently stands at 17.5%. Women hold 9.2% of ASX 500 directorships.  We desperately need more female leaders.”

“I created the Leaders in Heels website to connect with successful women, learn about their leadership styles and then to share the experiences with other women. Our MAKE YOUR MARK notebook is an extension of our mission to nurture, inspire and empower future female leaders. We have already reached over 30% of our target goal within the first few days.”

“I often get opportunities to meet and interview successful, inspirational female leaders. After passionately observing women who make their mark in both the corporate and entrepreneurial sphere, I realised that there were common traits that they all used and shared in their careers,” she said.

“They were passionate, creative, innovative, confident, determined and kind. These traits are now part of the Leaders in Heels Manifesto and the core of our MAKE YOUR MARK notebook”

Every page of the notebook has been infused with positive quotes, thoughts and assignments to stimulate a new way of thinking. As women use the notebook daily and focus on each quality chapter by chapter, the traits become habits.

Former CEO of Apple Australia and Founder of Xplore of Success, Diana Ryall is supportive of the new venture by Leaders in Heels.

“I get really excited when I see young women like Kasia doing something that supports other women” said Ryall.

"In my career I have seen many women that were lacking confidence or were giving up too early. I encourage everyone to make their mark with this inspiring notebook."

Crowdfunding allows many small donations to be collected towards a large, concrete goal. Campaigns on the site StartSomeGood.com must be aimed at creating positive social change. 

"Our goal is to create a world where anyone can create a new future for their community," explained StartSomeGood co-founder Alex Budak. “We look forward to connecting more changemakers from Sydney and around the world with the resources they need to make a difference.”

 

Crowdfunding page:http://startsomegood.com/makeyourmark

Notebook RRP: AU$29;

Crowdfunding offer: AU$27 + additional rewards and discounts.

Campaigns ends: 9th November 2014.

 

High resolution images available at Dropbox: Media Folder

About Leaders in Heels
http://leadersinheels.com/

Leaders in Heels is an online community and a magazine where female leaders are nurtured, inspired and empowered. What started as a humble blog in 2011 it now reaches 50,000 page views per month and have over 20,000 social followers run by 7 team members and over 30 regular contributors.

About StartSomeGood
http://www.startsomegood.com

StartSomeGood aims to empower people from around the world to create social impact by connecting those with ideas for improving the world with the financial and intellectual capital they need to take action.

Notebook features:

- A5 size (strategically slightly shorter in length so it fits easily in your handbag)

- Elegant stylish cover with matt cello and UV spot (gloss)

- 140 beautifully designed pages

- 6 structured sections inspired by the Leaders in Heels Manifesto – to develop six leadership traits, one at a time: passion, creativity, innovation, confidence, determination, kindness.

- Each chapter has thoughts and assignments designed to inspire a new way of thinking.

- Each page has been infused with inspirational quotes directly related to these traits.

- Plenty of room to make daily notes, thoughts and set goals

- Just for this crowdfunding campaign the notebook price is AU$27 with free shipping in Australia and 50% off shipping outside of Australia (RRP AU$29)

- Just for this crowdfunding campaign the notebooks include complimentary Manifesto card

 

Media Contacts:

Kasia Gospos
Founder of Leaders in Heels
kat@leadersinheels.com
+61 450 787 442

 

Karen Gould

Communications Manager

karen@startsomegood.com