Level Project Action Planning Toolkit

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The Level Project Action Planning Toolkit has been launched aimed at helping businesses develop gender balanced leadership teams which are proven to achieve higher sales growth and better profits.

The Project is an initiative of Enterprise Ireland’s “Women in Business” action plan aiming to achieve greater representation of women in business and leadership.

The online Action Planning Toolkit will assist companies to assess their own position across six key themes and to put measures in place to help improve gender balance within their own senior teams. The Action Planning Toolkit produces an individual action plan for each business.

Officially launching the Level Project Action Planning Toolkit, Minister of State for Trade Promotion, Digital and Company Regulation, Robert Troy TD said:

“Businesses that reflect the make-up of our society and are more balanced are proven to perform better. The Level Project Action Planning toolkit from Enterprise Ireland is a welcome initiative which provides practical steps for companies to put in place measures to address their specific gender balance needs. Gender balance at senior level is critical to organisational success and I want to encourage all Irish companies to look at how this toolkit can help them to achieve greater diversity and greater business success.”

Leo Clancy, CEO Enterprise Ireland said:

“Our role at Enterprise Ireland is to support Irish companies to be the best they can be, and we believe that taking action on gender balance in decision making is one way they can do this. The Level Project highlights the real opportunity that exists to broaden the talent pool for knowledge. The Toolkit is the result of the combined effort of people across our own organisation, with a huge amount of help and support from, in particular, the 30% Club and the Balance for Better Business initiative. We encourage Irish businesses to use the toolkit to put in place their gender balance action plan.”

Evelyn O’Toole, CEO, CLS said:

“My ideal balance is 50/50, I think it’s really important to have that diversity in gender as some people work better with female leadership and others work better with male leadership.

“I think if you start a trend at the start of a company, that trend intensifies as the company gets bigger. As CEO, I need to make sure that gender diversity is there by bringing the men along with us, to ensure we have that good mix in the company. If there’s skill, performance and ambition, then it’s about nurturing that and kicking the door open.”

Over the past decade, Enterprise Ireland has delivered a number of initiatives to encourage diversity, promote female entrepreneurship and increase the number of women-led HPSUs, including dedicated funding for early-stage female entrepreneurs, showcasing roles models, capability building combined with peer to peer networking. Strong gains have been made in this area, including:

  • in 2020 42% supported companies under Competitive Start Fund were to women led business
  • in 2020 24% of our High Potential Start Ups included a woman founder, up from 7% in 2011 and 22% of deals supported under the Halo Business Angels Network (HBAN) had female founders
  • Enterprise Ireland has a dedicated €1m funding stream for woman entrepreneurs under the Competitive Start Fund programme
  • since 2013 75% of the funds that Enterprise Ireland supports through the Seed &Venture Capital investment have a woman at partner/investment manager level
  • in October 2021, European tech magazine SIFTED listed Enterprise Ireland as the number one VC in Europe by deal counts in Female Founders over the past five years

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