From Influence to Impact: How Women Change Systems

A free live webinar with Dr Sam Collins.

Influencing a person can change a conversation. Changing a system can change thousands of lives.
Much of the leadership conversation focuses on influence: how to be heard, how to persuade, how to build confidence, how to get a seat at the table. These things matter, but they are not enough.

The future is not changed only by individual influence. It is changed when systems shift.

Systems shape who gets hired, promoted, funded, believed, protected, included and listened to. Systems shape whether organisations reward courage or compliance, whether businesses serve society as well as shareholders, whether communities have access to resources, and whether brilliant ideas are allowed to become real change.

This Choose Freedom Global Conversation explores how women move from influence to impact. It asks how women can create change not only by succeeding within existing structures, but by changing the conditions that affect many people. That may mean challenging outdated workplace norms, redesigning how teams operate, building more inclusive businesses, shifting community narratives, changing funding priorities, or bringing a new kind of leadership into industries and institutions that need to evolve.

For women in corporate life, this is a vital conversation. Businesses and corporations are among the most powerful forces shaping the modern world. They influence how people work, what gets valued, how money moves, what technologies are built, what cultures are normalised and what futures become possible. Changing business is not separate from changing the world. In many cases, it is one of the most direct ways to do it.

For entrepreneurs, social innovators and community leaders, this conversation offers a way to think beyond individual projects and towards wider patterns of change. How do ideas spread? How do people organise around a new possibility? How do we create conditions where change lasts after the first moment of inspiration has passed?

In this conversation we will explore

• The difference between influence, impact and systemic change.
• Why changing people is often less powerful than changing the conditions around people.
• How women can influence organisational culture, business practice and wider social systems.
• Why corporations are crucial arenas for future-shaping change.
• How ideas spread across teams, organisations, communities and movements.
• What change leaders do when they encounter resistance, complexity or slow progress.