The SUBLIME Toolkit: Leading through a feminist lens and new podcast series

The SUBLIME Toolkit: Leading through a feminist lens is a free resource for organisations and teams who want to practice feminist leadership in everyday work, individually or together. 

Even values-driven organisations can unintentionally reproduce hierarchy and unequal power. Feminist leadership invites us to lead differently, with accountability, shared power, and practices rooted in intersectionality.

The Toolkit uses an inclusive, intersectional understanding of feminism. This approach helps us see how overlapping systems shape people’s experiences and why leadership for justice must reflect that complexity.

This practical resource was developed to support, through a transformative leadership approach, civil society groups advancing work on climate change, the circular economy, and sustainable communities in border regions. These change makers will have the opportunity to embed feminist leadership in everyday work to:

• examine power, leadership, and ways of working
• translate feminist principles into concrete behaviours, decisions, and team practices
• use it individually or together as an ongoing team resource

The toolkit is intentionally inclusive and relevant for all actors, not only women: it  invites reflection on personal leadership behaviours while situating them within organisational relationships, decision-making, and power dynamics.

Organised into thematic sections, it’s designed to be adapted across different cultural and organisational contexts, supporting an ongoing practice of learning, unlearning, and shared responsibility.

The Toolkit includes guided reflections and principles on:

• self-awareness and care for self & others
• dismantling bias and practicing inclusion
• sharing power responsibly and accountable collaboration
• respectful feedback, courage, and zero tolerance for abuse of power
• hands-on exercises, reflective questions, and real-life examples to be used in training sessions or as part of ongoing organisational development

Together with the Toolkit, the SUBLIME Leading through a Feminist Lens podcast series brings together practitioners, activists, and leaders from different contexts to explore how feminist leadership is lived, practiced, and challenged in everyday work. 

Download the SUBLIME Toolkit here and enhance your learning experience exploring the full podcast series.

Developed by Impact Hub Athens and Impact Hub Network and authored by Gerasimos Kouvaras within the EU-funded project SUBLIME – SDGs Uniting Border Communities as Leaders of Inclusiveness, Mobilisation, and Empowerment.