The Homeward Bound Project
The Homeward Bound Project (HB) is a leadership initiative that aims to increase the influence and impact of women and non-binary people in decision-making to shape our planet.
Each year HB selects 100 remarkable women and non-binary people from STEMM* fields around the world to join this program that improves and draws attention to the systemic lack of gender equity in leadership positions.
*STEMM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and Medicine.
This happens in 3 steps:
- 12 months of intensive online training that focus on strategy, leadership, sciences and wellbeing.
- A three-week, totally immersive training expedition in Antarctica.
- By 2036, a globally diverse leadership network of 10,000 women and non-binary leaders making actions with impact for the betterment of our communities and planet.
The year-long structured program culminates in a three-week intensive training on expedition to Antarctica. This program timeline was altered because of the COVID-19 pandemic — but Samantha is ecstatic to travel to the bottom of the earth now in November 2023!
Throughout the program and on ship HB participants will collaborate on a number of projects surrounding issues that affect the health of our planet. After Antarctica, the initiative continues as alumni work together in The Convergence, a fortified network of ten thousand leading femme in STEMM all taking actions with impact for the good of our globe. Samantha is a foundational teammate, a member of the Homeward Bound leadership initiative’s 6th cohort (HB6).
Homeward Bound emerged in recognition of the lack of women and non-binary people in leadership, both in STEMM specifically and in global leadership generally, and how this has an impact on our planet.
This leadership initiative has three key strategic drivers:
- Every participant is willing and able to lead
- Every participant understands we are stronger together
- We are taking actions with impact.
