Mentoring is the most effective way to shorten your learning curve to success.

Rise & Lead is OWIT Lake Geneva's international mentoring program - a focused, one-month sprint to help women in business grow faster, lead with confidence, and build connections that last. This Spring 2026 edition goes worldwide.

Rise & Lead is OWIT Lake Geneva's flagship mentoring program, now in its third edition and scaling globally as a fully virtual, worldwide sprint. Running June 1st – June 30, 2026, this one-month intensive connects mentors and mentees across industries and borders, grounded in design-thinking methodology and anchored to OWIT's core mission.

Mentoring is the most effective way to shorten your learning curve to success — and Rise & Lead makes that acceleration accessible, structured, and measurable.

OWIT Lake Geneva's mission - "United to foster international trade and women's advancement in business through a global network" - drives this program.

Rise & Lead directly advances:

• SDG 4 – Quality Education & Lifelong Learning

• SDG 5 – Gender Equality

• SDG 8 – Decent Work & Inclusive Economic Growth

• SDG 10 – Reduced Inequalities

• SDG 17 – Global Partnerships

Coordinated by: Iulia Popescu (President) & Rodica Zerguine (Co-Coordinator)

Key Dates:

Practical Info:

• All workshops are free for OWIT members

• Hybrid format where possible; always available virtually via Google Meet

• Each session: 45–60 minutes

• Recordings shared in the OWIT WhatsApp group when available and on our Youtube channel - OWIT Voices section

• Questions: president@owit-lakegeneva.org

Registrations: 

→ Workshop proposals: president@owit-lakegeneva.org

→ Mentors: mentoring@owit-lakegeneva.org

→ Mentees: Register at the May 30 kickoff

Active OWIT membership mandatory for mentees

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