Tuesday, September 17, 2024
By Olivia Coffin
Contributing Writer
NORTHEAST WISCONSIN – The Schreiber Institute for Women’s Leadership at UW-Green Bay has partnered with Honor Jensen to launch an executive coaching opportunity for women in northeast Wisconsin.
The program is nine months and is specifically for women who want to take charge and not wait for opportunities to come to them. “The Schreiber Institute for Women’s Leadership started in 2019 with some amazing women that were entrepreneurs, working in higher education. They were talking and networking with other women, found that there was a need in the Green Bay Area in terms of helping to provide opportunities for access programming for women as they continue to persist in their leadership journey,” said Pa Lee Moua, executive director for the Schreiber Institute for Women’s Leadership.
The partnership came about because Jensen had started her business and it was coming out at the same time that the institute was coming out.
“Bridget O’Connor had invited me to participate in (an event) and I became a part of it pretty early on and enjoyed it. And I got to meet Jess Lambrecht. The longer that I was involved and learned about what was going on and all the wonderful things like this, a great need that’s filled in our community, and I think we need more of this throughout the United States,” said Jensen, business and life coach and founder of Thriving with Honor.
Honor said she had no one to show her the ropes when creating her own business.
“I sort of figured things out as I go, which I think most people do. And I found through the years that if you have something that you’re aspiring to, you’re very much more likely to climb the corporate ladder or do whatever it is that you want in life, as opposed to waiting until somebody gives me an opportunity or an opportunity falls in my lap,” she added.
The coaching opportunity is for women who have a “go get it” mindset.
“Too often we go to the corporate world and we feel like we have to play this role. We have to be something that we think the rest of the world wants. Maybe we need to be more masculine than we are and that never feels good to us. At the same time, sometimes we just don’t know what we want, whether you’re a man or a woman. I find that a lot of my clients know what they don’t want, but they don’t know very clearly what they do want. When you have this very clear focus on what you want in life and business, things start for you. You start to know that the world is conspiring for you, not against you, and you start to see the things that will help you get that; but, when you don’t know what you want, all you see is the things that you don’t want and that feels very discouraging,” Jensen said.
“One of my goals is to help people get that clarity on what they want in their business, in their career and their life, so that they can kind of tell that energetic force that is there to help them succeed and to know that we don’t have to do it all on our own. I hope that by participating in this group that we realize that we’re better together; that when one person rises, the whole group rises.” Honor said. “Through interactive workshops, personalized coaching, and peer-to-peer support, committed women will gain the tools, strategies, and confidence needed to overcome obstacles, thrive as a leader and become ‘C-suite ready,’” Pa Lee added.
For more information, visit https://www.uwgb.edu/womens-leadership or contact Moua at mouap@uwgb.edu or Jensen at honor@thrivingwithhonor.com.
