Young Women's Leadership & Career Readiness Initiative.
High Heel Hustle™ equips young women with leadership capacity, professional confidence, financial capability, entrepreneurial thinking, executive communication, career readiness, community awareness, innovation skills, and meaningful exposure to opportunities in STEM and business.
High Heel Hustle™ equips young women with leadership capacity, professional confidence, financial capability, entrepreneurial thinking, executive communication, career readiness, community awareness, innovation skills, and meaningful exposure to opportunities in STEM and business.
Executive Summary
High Heel Hustle™ equips young women with leadership capacity, professional confidence, financial capability, entrepreneurial thinking, executive communication, career readiness, community awareness, innovation skills, and meaningful exposure to opportunities in STEM and business.
The name is part of the program's intellectual property, but the curriculum is not centered on fashion or footwear.
The program is designed to help young women recognize their voices, strengthen their capabilities, understand opportunity, make informed decisions, and prepare to participate in education, business, careers, leadership, technology, and community development.
Institutional Need
Young women are navigating academic expectations, career decisions, financial realities, digital visibility, leadership opportunities, entrepreneurship, workplace transitions, and social pressures at the same time.
High Heel Hustle™ creates a relevant and structured learning environment where participants can strengthen confidence, capability, professional readiness, economic awareness, and access to opportunity.
Core Competencies
- Leadership and self-leadership
- Confidence and communication
- Entrepreneurship fundamentals
- Financial capability
- Career readiness
- Executive presence
- Public speaking
- Networking and relationship-building
- Innovation
- Pitch development
- Community leadership
- Digital reputation
- Professional identity
- Decision-making
- Collaboration
- Young Women in STEM and Business
Program Editions
Expected Outcomes
Depending on the selected edition and implementation scope, intended outcomes may include:
- Increased confidence in communication and leadership
- Improved career pathway awareness
- Increased financial capability
- Improved presentation competency
- Increased entrepreneurial awareness
- Increased exposure to STEM and business pathways
- Improved understanding of professional expectations
- Development of a participant portfolio, presentation, pitch, or capstone artifact
- Improved goal-setting and decision-making
- Increased readiness to navigate academic, career, business, and workforce transitions
- Increased understanding of networking, collaboration, and relationship-building
Licensing
All curriculum, facilitator materials, participant workbooks, implementation guides, assessment tools, presentation materials, and supporting educational resources are published and licensed through Kenya Co Publishing House, a Division of McCarter Enterprise Inc.
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