Leadership
Structured development that equips women to lead themselves, organisations, communities and institutions.
Explore She Rises Global Ltd.
Women rise powerfully when they rise together.
A women's development institution advancing women and girls through leadership, enterprise, wellness, purpose and community — founded in Abuja, Nigeria, and built for lasting impact across Africa and beyond.
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"You were not made to rise alone."
Who We Are
More Than a Moment. An Institution.
She Rises Global is a women's development institution building the structures, knowledge, community and opportunities women and girls need to lead, build, heal and rise.
Beginning in Nigeria, She Rises is being built with an African and global ambition — not as a single programme or seasonal event, but as an institution designed for lasting impact.
Discover She RisesOur Vision
"A world where every woman — regardless of where she was born, what she has been through, or how far she has yet to go — has the community, the knowledge, and the institutional support to lead, build, heal, and rise."
Our Mission
"She Rises Global Ltd. exists to empower women and girls across Africa and beyond through structured leadership development, entrepreneurship, wellness, advocacy, and community — building an institution that creates lasting, measurable impact in the lives of the women it serves."
Halimat Sadiya Hadi
Founder & Director General
The Founder
From a Story to an Institution.
Halimat Sadiya Hadi wrote She Rises: From Trauma to Transformation — a book born from her own journey and from a conviction that the experiences women carry are not the end of their story.
When that book found the women it was meant to find, they wrote back. And what they said, in different words, was the same thing:
"You wrote this for me."
That response revealed a profound institutional gap.
The women who needed She Rises the most were not short on talent, vision, or drive. They were short on access — access to structured support, to credible community, to the kind of institutional investment that says: I see who you are, and I will walk with you long enough to see you become everything you were always meant to be.
She Rises Global Ltd. was registered in Abuja, Nigeria in 2025 to close that gap.
Not with a single programme or a seasonal event — but with an institution.
One that would outlast its founder, operate to international standards, and serve women and girls across Nigeria, Africa, and the world for generations to come.
Our Five Pillars
The framework of the institution
Every She Rises programme is designed around five pillars — the disciplines through which we develop, support and accompany women over the long term.
Business & Enterprise
Supporting women to build sustainable enterprises, develop economic agency and pursue meaningful economic opportunities.
ExploreWellness & Wellbeing
Creating intentional spaces, resources and experiences that support women's emotional, psychological and holistic wellbeing.
ExplorePurpose & Identity
Helping women understand who they are, clarify their values and purpose, and build lives aligned with their identity and aspirations.
ExploreImpact & Legacy
Equipping women to create meaningful change and build work, institutions and legacies that extend beyond themselves.
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Featured Programme
CompletedShe Rises Leadership Academy 2026
The inaugural She Rises Leadership Academy brought together a founding cohort of 10 women for a structured leadership development experience designed to deepen self-awareness, strengthen leadership capacity and equip women to lead with greater clarity and purpose.
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- Women impacted
Explore the Academy Future cohort announcements to follow.
Wellness & Wellbeing
Wellness Is Part of the Work.
She Rises recognises that women cannot sustainably lead, build and serve while neglecting their own wellbeing.
Our Wellness & Wellbeing pillar creates intentional spaces for women to pause, reflect, reconnect and access supportive resources as part of their wider development journey.
Featured experience
CompletedA Room to Breathe
26 September 2026 · Abuja
25 women. One intentional room. An intimate wellness gathering designed to give women permission to pause, breathe, reconnect and simply be.
Discover A Room to Breathe
What We're Building
Built for the Future. Rooted in Africa.
She Rises Global is building toward a presence in a minimum of ten countries by 2030 and recognition as Africa's leading institution for women and girls' leadership development by 2035.
These are long-term institutional goals, not current achievements.
- 2025She Rises Global Ltd. established
- 2026Founding programmes and Leadership Academy
- 2027She Rises Inaugural SummitGoal
- 2030Presence in a minimum of 10 countriesGoal
- 2035Long-term institutional ambitionGoal
Coming in 2027
She Rises Inaugural Summit 2027
Our first global convening — 20 March 2027 in Abuja, Nigeria. Further details are being finalised and will be announced here.
- Date
- 20 March 2027
- Venue
- Abuja, Nigeria · venue TBA
- Theme
- To be announced
- Speakers
- To be announced
- Programme
- To be announced
- Registration
- Register on Eventbrite
- Partnerships
- Enquiries welcome
- Media
- Enquiries welcome
Our Impact
Every number is a life.
We report only what we can verify. Additional 2026 programmes and impact figures will be published as they are confirmed.
See our impact10
Women impacted
Impacted through the 2026 She Rises Leadership Academy founding cohort.
You were not made to rise alone.
Halimat Sadiya Hadi · Founder & Director General
A Message From Our Founder
"I did not set out to build an institution. I set out to tell the truth."
When I wrote She Rises: From Trauma to Transformation, I was writing to the woman I had been — the one who did not yet know that what she had survived could become the foundation of something. What I did not expect was how many women would write back to say that the story was theirs too.
It taught me something I have never been able to unlearn: women do not need more inspiration. Inspiration is generous, but it is brief. What women need is access — to structured support, to credible community, to people and institutions that will stay long enough to see them become.
That is why She Rises Global exists. Not as a moment, not as a platform, but as an institution — built with care, built to standards, built to last beyond me. We are beginning in Nigeria because this is home. We are building for Africa and the world because the need does not stop at our borders.
If you are reading this and wondering whether there is room for you here, there is. Come and build with us.
You were not made to rise alone.
Halimat Sadiya Hadi · Founder & Director General
The Origin Story
The book that began the institution.
She Rises: From Trauma to Transformation was written by Halimat Sadiya Hadi from her own journey — and from the conviction that the experiences women carry are not the end of their story.
The response of the women who read it revealed the gap that She Rises Global was established to close.
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