Retaining and progressing

Great womengrowing

within your STEM business!

Evidence-based career development for STEM employers who want to develop, retain and progress women in technical careers.

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Too many

Talentedwomenleave STEM

  • “We’re recruiting brilliant women. Why aren’t enough progressing?”
  • “How do we spot disengagement before somebody decides to leave?”
  • “How do we develop future leaders without losing them along the way?”
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Evidence shows that

Women staywhere theycan grow

You can invest heavily in attracting, developing and supporting women, and still see the pipeline leak at the very points where that investment should be compounding.

Often, it’s because progression becomes harder to see, the right opportunities aren’t always visible, and a future elsewhere can start to look clearer than a future in STEM.

I understand that tension from both sides. My career began in engineering, and I’ve since spent two decades heading training and career development in the STEM sector.

ShinyMe exists to help more women see a future they can contribute to — with you.

Holly McLoughlin,

BEng · MA Career Development · QCD · Published researcher · TEDx speaker

You can make stretch opportunities

Visible, valued, and viable

Every ShinyMe programme uses our evidence-based process to recognise contribution, make growth visible, and turn ambition into realistic progression.

Meaningful Mission

Recognise what you bring, and where you could grow.

not just a project

Choose a mission that connects your values and experience to problems the business needs solving.

Impactful Story

Make your voice and value visible where it counts.

not just self promotion

Communicate contribution effectively, so it resonates with leaders, sponsors, customers and those opening doors.

Collective Power

Build the route and backing to achieve your goals.

not just personal resilience

Map realistic stepping stones, strengthen resilience, and open access to sponsors, networks and stretch opportunities.

Let’s create afuture worthstaying for

in early and mid career :)

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Bring ShinyMe into your organisation through workshops, coaching, digital tools, talks and targeted training. Built on evidence-based career development that helps women see where they can grow, make their value visible, and build the route and backing to progress.

Start where the pressure is greatest: graduate retention, mid-career progression or your future female leadership pipeline.

If the leaky pipeline continues,

Talent loss costs more

When experienced women leave, the cost goes beyond recruitment.

You lose technical knowledge, continuity and future leadership. Then invest again in hiring, onboarding and rebuilding capability you already had.

In a sector where skilled talent is already hard to replace, every avoidable exit puts more pressure on time, budgets and the people who remain.

Make a change so that more

Women stay, grow, lead.

When women can see meaningful contribution ahead, and can build a realistic route towards it, staying becomes an active choice — not inertia.

You retain more technical expertise, organisational knowledge and future leadership, while more of your investment in women keeps building.

More potential realised. More progression made possible. More talent choosing to stay in STEM.

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