Mentoring & development
Structured mentoring and development for every stage — from first leadership role to the boardroom.
Mentoring Programme
Six-month partnerships matched on discipline, goals and career stage.
Mentors and mentees meet monthly with a shared framework and group check-ins. Pairings deliberately cross generations and lines of defence, so both sides learn.
- One-to-one matched partnerships
- Intergenerational and cross-discipline pairing
- Mentor briefing and a shared framework
- Peer circles for group learning
Rising Leaders Track
A development track for early-career professionals in the control functions.
Participants build foundations across GRICC+AI, practise presenting to senior audiences and join a cohort of peers from other organisations and countries.
- Foundation sessions across all eight pillars
- Presentation and influence practice
- Cohort-based peer learning
- First speaking and writing opportunities
Career resources
Practical tools from our Career Accelerator for every career move.
Executive branding
CV, LinkedIn and biography reviews that show your impact, not just your responsibilities.
Career pathways
Role profiles and routes into senior risk, compliance, audit, privacy and AI roles.
Career guidance
Sessions with experienced members on moves, promotions and negotiations.
Interview preparation
Preparing for panels, regulator interviews and board nomination conversations.
Leadership development
Programmes on the skills that turn expertise into influence.
Influence with boards
Writing and presenting so boards can decide — clear messages, the right level of detail, confident delivery.
Leading teams through change
Building and leading control teams as regulation, technology and expectations shift.
Personal resilience
Sustaining performance in roles that carry pressure, scrutiny and difficult conversations.
AI governance careers
AI governance is creating new roles at the meeting point of risk, compliance, privacy, audit and technology. We map the skills, credentials and paths into this field.
Emerging roles
AI risk manager, AI assurance lead, responsible AI officer, model risk specialist.
Core skills
Model risk, data governance, regulatory analysis, ethics and control design.
Learning paths
Credentials such as the IAPP AIGP and ISO/IEC 42001 implementer and auditor training.
Executive development
For senior leaders and aspiring board members.
Board-readiness preparation, non-executive director pathways, executive presence and confidential peer advisory circles with women in comparable roles.
Find a mentor, or become one.
We invite women working across Governance, Risk, Internal Control, Compliance and related disciplines to express their interest in joining Ladies in Control and contributing to its development.