Alissa Leadership Forum
A leadership education and knowledge-sharing space for female founders of growth-stage tech companies. Master your leadership for sustainable growth.
Book Discovery InterviewThe Founder Ceiling
Solving the Founder Ceiling
We built Alissa Forum for those amazing women who are building incredible businesses against the odds of a complex venture ecosystem.
The Forum specifically responds to the founder's need to break the "founder ceiling" - the internal limit where your current leadership competences and inner barriers hit the demands of a rapidly expanding system. Often, this becomes a primary bottleneck to your company's sustained growth. We provide you with a development space for the continuous mastery of your leadership.
Beyond the education, Alissa offers you a safe harbor for deep connection to transcend the common, yet often unspoken, sense of founder loneliness. We work to be the founder's space for practical support, resourcing and growth alongside a strong peer community.
"Women don't need empowerment. We hold innate leadership power. All that's needed is to activate & grow it. And the right environment for "the flower to bloom."
KEY PRINCIPLES
The Forum - Three Pillars
Inner Mastery
Impactful leadership happens when we grow our self-awareness and self-leadership.
Systemic Maturity
Leading with systems thinking and learning to transition between different leadership modalities (builder, innovator, manager, architect).
Synchronous Connection
We prioritize the luxury of human connection and insight over static content delivery.
The 24 Touchpoints
The Curriculum
Think of Alissa Forum as an executive leadership program from a business school , but built specifically for founders. A rolling 12-month calendar of 24 live-only touchpoints.
The format is deliberately intimate: curated cohorts where every participant has built something real, and radical candour is the baseline.
12 Masterclasses
8 Leadership Labs
4 Connect & Learn Summits
Distinct Features
- Members for members first — an education that you can shape to maximise its value.
- Balanced education density that doesn't compromise your business schedule.
- Monday morning utility — learnings that can be applied immediately in your day-to-day leadership work.
- Leadership Board — available as long as you find it valuable.
- Culture of discretion — rigorous rules to secure the confidentiality and safety for this space for you.
The Return on Investment
What Alissa Forum Is - and Is Not
Alissa is a leadership education and knowledge-sharing space for founders.
- Leading your company with more confidence and skill.
- Mastering your CEO competences and resources to support your decision-making, leadership judgement, team scaling, stakeholders relations.
- Leading Yourself with higher sense of authenticity and resilience.
- Access to relevant business connections through a top notch international business networking with Alissa Forum members, faculty and partners.
- More visibility and recognition.
We do not offer funding or investor introductions. We are not an accelerator, a business mentoring program, or a women social club.
The Circle
A Vetted Community of Founders
You will be joining a vetted community of up to 55 members. Alissa Forum is an application-only community of active female founders representing a diverse group of pan-European entrepreneurs of different nationalities.
Our members are ready to commit their time and genuinely engage in developing their own and their peers' leadership mastery.
Our Typical Members
- Female Founders only (CEOs or C-level)
- Growth stage companies (Seed to Series-B+)
- ARR of minimum 1 Mio CHF
- 15+ employees
Shared complexity milestone in people and organisation management matters more than above labels. If that resonates, we'd like to talk.
The Faculty
Built With and For Founders
We believe the biggest power lies in unleashing your founder identity and uniqueness. Individually and in relation to others.
Between us: 20+ years inside scaling companies — as operators and as leaders. We've sat across the table from founders navigating exactly what you're navigating. We know what the ceiling looks like. The Alissa Forum curriculum has been tested with hundreds of participants, powered by science-based content and effective, interactive development methods.
Anna Sagalova
Leadership Coach & Co-Founder
Christian Erhard
Leadership Coach & Co-Founder
Member Voices
What founders say
Anna was a huge part of my founder journey. I was lucky to be part of the beta group, and it turned out to be so much more than a program - a place where inner work meets entrepreneurship, and women lift each other through real stories.
Tanya Parfenyuk
Serial Tech Founder
This is my honest recommendation for all women founders in tech. If you wanna boost your leadership skills, find inspiring insights, and join a truly unique community - this program might be exactly what you need.
Natalia Shahmetova
Tech Scale-up Founder
The program insights helped me to stay grounded as a leader in times of a significant organisational shake-up and helped my wellbeing.
Juliette
Global Tech Leader(6 months after)
Discover the Alissa Forum - Start with a conversation
Are you an active female founder of a growth stage tech company? Let's have a chat. The Discovery Interview is a 30-minute conversation to explore whether the Alissa Leadership Forum is the right fit for where you are in your founder journey.
In our conversation, we'll share more details about the syllabus, learning formats, time commitment and subscription fee.
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