Bright Women · Cohort One
You build the thing. We’ll bring the infrastructure.
A 12-week accelerator for ambitious women with a business, idea or project they want to move forward. A weekly rhythm, a Hive of 19 women who know what you’re building, and the support around the work brought into one place.
The idea
Building the thing turned into becoming nine other people too.
You have a business, idea or project you want to make happen. Somewhere along the way it also came to mean finding and coordinating a network, accountability, business expertise, communications support, PR, professional photography, video, chances to practise and ways to become more visible. Doing all of that alone is time-consuming, expensive and exhausting.
Bright Women brings more of that infrastructure together for you.
The journey
Three stages over twelve weeks. Every component feeds them.
Get Clear
Weeks 1 to 4
What am I actually trying to make happen?
Get Ready
Weeks 5 to 8
How do I get myself and my thing ready for the world?
Get Seen
Weeks 9 to 12
How do I put the thing in front of the people who need to see it?
The core experience
A consistent weekly rhythm, plus specialist interventions and two in-person days.
12 weekly LIFTT sessions
Every Monday, 8:00 to 9:30pm
Ninety minutes deliberately working on your own thing. Using TOOOCH's guided innovation process you reflect, identify where attention is needed, generate ideas, make decisions and commit to practical next moves. Your Hive provides perspective, challenge, accountability and support.
12-week digital workbook
One or two activities a week
A light curriculum provided at induction. Proposition development, SWOT-style analysis, customer understanding, storytelling, brand and messaging, speaking preparation, content planning and visibility strategy. LIFTT keeps the work moving; the workbook prepares you for what comes next.
3 expert masterclasses
Weeks 3, 7 and 10 · Thursdays, 8:00 to 9:30pm
Week 3, Sharpen the Story: proposition, narrative, audience and messaging. Week 7, Prepare for the Spotlight: hot seats, speaking practice, simulations and media-style preparation. Week 10, Put It Into the World: channels, content, consistency, implementation and measurement.
Workshop Day
Selected Saturday · in person
A major Get Ready immersion. You work on your proposition, story and communication through facilitated exercises, visual mapping, peer challenge, expert input and rehearsal. A working environment, not a conference, and deliberate preparation for Visibility Day.
Visibility Day
Selected Saturday · in person
The culmination of Get Seen. Professional photography, a filmed public-speaking stage, the EX/PRESS hot seat, an IWN media-style interview and access to relevant specialists. Everyone gets their moment, and everyone helps create somebody else's.
Closing
Final week
A final LIFTT session plus a virtual Closing Ceremony, with a report capturing your full 12-week journey.
The weekly rhythm
Week 0
Induction: platform orientation, facilitators, programme schedule and the digital workbook.
Every Monday
Weekly LIFTT, 8:00 to 9:30pm.
Weeks 3, 7 & 10
Masterclasses, Thursdays 8:00 to 9:30pm.
Selected Saturdays
Workshop Day and Visibility Day, in person.
Final week
Final LIFTT plus a virtual Closing Ceremony.
The LIFTT cycle
This is not a space to talk. We do the work.
LIFTT is TOOOCH’s repeatable methodology for structured thinking, real-world experimentation and peer accountability. Every week you leave with at least one meaningful action to complete within the next seven days, so progress compounds rather than resets.
Your Hive and Pod
You are placed with 19 other like-minded women in a Hive. The Hive becomes your centre, the peers you run alongside for the whole accelerator. Within it you also have smaller accountability Pods who support you, and who you support in return. Pods rotate, so over 12 weeks you meet and collaborate with every woman in your Hive.
Picture it: your Hive is one of many, all working in unison towards their own goals.
20 cohort portraits: you plus your Hive of 19
Your dashboard
Progress is tracked through four growth lenses.
If these four are consistently moving forward, the community is delivering on its promise.
Revenue
Money earned, saved or generated.
Opportunity
New relationships, introductions and opportunities created.
Progress
Milestones achieved and meaningful movement towards goals.
Learning
Skills developed, insights gained and confidence built.
Who it is for
Women who want to make progress. You set the rules of engagement.
You have something already in motion, or you wish that you did. Maybe you are already getting things done. Maybe you feel stuck, know you want something different, and are ready to pay the price of making it happen. You do not need to be a founder. You do not need to be working on something work-related.
You might choose to work on
This community is topic-agnostic. Every woman has her own ambitions, challenges and aspirations. Our role is the structure, accountability and community that helps her move them forward.
What she leaves with
Not inspiration. A body of evidence.
Every woman should be able to point to things that did not exist before she started.
Progress reports
Monthly LIFTT progress reports and a final report capturing your 12-week journey.
A completed digital workbook
Documenting the development of your business, idea or project from week one.
Professional photography
For your website, social media, marketing, press and professional profiles.
Professional video assets
Public-speaking footage, an IWN media-style interview and EX/PRESS hot-seat footage.
A visibility strategy in motion
With messaging and channels already being tested, not a plan you will get to eventually.
A Hive of 19 women
Women who genuinely know what you are building, plus connections across the wider cohort.
Access to experts
Relevant specialists you can return to when specialist support is needed.
Practice, repeatedly
Experience communicating, facilitating, presenting, answering questions and putting yourself forward.
Programme and price
12 weeks
Week 0 induction runs the week commencing 21 September 2026. Weeks 1 to 12 run from the week commencing 28 September to 17 December 2026.
19 touchpoints
Twelve weekly LIFTT sessions, three masterclasses, two in-person immersions, induction and closing.
£649
Flexible payment options are being explored, potentially from approximately £27 per week over 24 weeks.
Discover → Register → Confirm place → Choose payment → Enrol → Onboard → Begin
Bright Women
From Princess
Before you join, hear it from Princess.
[[Short video of Princess talking about Cohort One: why she built Bright Women, who it's for, and what the 12 weeks actually change. A separate recap video from the in-person launch event follows later, once that footage is ready.]]
Cohort One · 19 places
Still have to build the thing. Shouldn’t have to build everything around it too.
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