We welcome female accountants and finance professionals, including CFOs, Finance Directors, NEDs, and Finance Department Heads across all industries.
Our mentoring-focused community exclusively supports female accountancy and finance leaders, accelerating pathways to CFO, NED, and board positions with quality connections.
Yes, we’re a not-for-profit dedicated to increasing female representation in finance leadership roles, reinvesting all funds into our community and programs.
We pair rising finance professionals with established leaders across four cohorts. After matching 31 pairs in year one, we’re targeting 70 pairs for year two.
We host regular networking events and CPD-certified workshops featuring prominent female finance leaders. See our events page for the latest schedule.
Currently, we don’t offer virtual options as we’re only in our second year, but we may explore this possibility in the future.
Complete our online application form, sharing your finance background and goals. We review applications in May annually for a September start.
Our membership team reviews your application and schedules a meeting to understand your goals and explain membership benefits.
We don’t currently have a waiting list. With the addition of two new cohorts this year, we expect our membership to grow in excess of 250 members by the end of 2025.
Members enjoy exclusive events, structured mentorship, CPD-certified workshops, plus our digital toolkit and members-only online community with professional resources.
We offer tiered corporate memberships providing priority access to CPD-accredited events, mentoring opportunities and brand affiliation.
We encourage organic business connections but prohibit direct selling or marketing activities that don’t align with our community-first approach.
Potentia was founded by Nerys Walters and Sian Penwarden to address the gender gap in finance leadership positions.