14.10.2025
At ESSEC Business School, entrepreneurship is inseparable from inclusion, commitment, and impact. With Lead’Hers, designed in partnership with CentraleSupélec, the school supports women entrepreneurs with diverse backgrounds, often shaped by career or personal shifts. What unites them is a shared ambition: to build meaningful projects that open doors for others and contribute to a fairer society.
Meet Jennifer and Tahnee. Both are entrepreneurs who joined Lead’Hers, a five-month program for ESSEC and CentraleSupélec students and alumnae designed to strengthen their entrepreneurial mindset. The program is coordinated by Morgane Effroy, who ensures a demanding yet supportive environment, tailored to each participant’s needs.
Lead’Hers currently supports 15 women entrepreneurs, combining personalized and group guidance. From the outset, a day dedicated to collective intelligence helps identify each participant’s specific needs and build group cohesion.
The program includes learning expeditions in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, workshops, masterclasses, and conferences, with long-standing partner VO2 Group playing a key role in women’s empowerment. Its purpose: to give participants the tools to overcome gender stereotypes, barriers to funding, and personal biases. Beyond the program itself, they also benefit from mentorship and individualized follow-up.
Through this collective journey, participants learn to better understand themselves and one another. Together, they gain the confidence to take action while exploring the ecosystem that supports women’s entrepreneurship.
Lead’Hers Program Coordinator
At 37, Jennifer Alidor founded ClevHer Camp, a career accelerator for experienced women. A former L’Oréal executive with expertise in AI and recruitment, she helps women between 35 and 45 – often at turning points such as career changes, parental breaks, or shifts in direction – to regain momentum.
“I used to think doing a good job was enough. But opportunities don’t just fall into your lap. It’s not only about skills, but also about strategy, visibility, and networks. Women are often less aware of this and tend to undervalue or under-negotiate compared to men,” she explains.
Her venture, ClevHer.AI, launched six months ago, helps women structure their positioning and reclaim control of their careers.
In a rapidly evolving job market, where 85% of 2030 jobs don’t yet exist and 70% of recruiters already use AI (Dell, LinkedIn), Jennifer has developed a method combining AI, collective intelligence, personal branding, and networking.
Her goal? To give women agency: whether to leave, negotiate, or advance to positions at +\$50K, +\$70K, +\$90K, or +\$120K. Over an intensive four-week program, participants map their skills, refine strategy, and prepare for negotiations.
For Tahnee Perrot Ramirez, 32, strength also lies in her personal journey. After a first career in consulting, she founded Balanced France, a firm dedicated to physical and mental health in the workplace. Her mission: to make balance a strategic business skill.
“The impact of physical and mental health on performance, engagement, and leadership is underestimated. Addressing it at the root unleashes both economic and human potential,” she emphasizes.
Her “Balanced at Work” method blends neuroscience, positive psychology, and mind-body tools. In just two years, she has supported more than 600 professionals, trained over 700, and guided 30+ companies. By delivering diagnostics and tailored solutions, she helps organizations create cultures where balance drives sustainable performance and leadership.
Clients include PwC, General Electric, Caisse des Dépôts, as well as many SMEs and startups. Working with a network of experts, Tahnee acts as consultant, trainer, and mentor, convinced that a healthy professional future is the foundation of success.
An alumna of the CentraleSupélec-ESSEC MSc in Entrepreneurship, Tahnee returned to study to launch her business. “Equality is advancing, but for women to truly take their place in society, they must first invest in the real economy. ESSEC gives us the tools to do so” she says.
She highlights the unique impact of Lead’Hers: “It creates real synergy between complementary skills. I especially valued the session on ambition, led by Émilie Daversin, co-founder of VO2 Group and program partner. Her approach goes far beyond the usual discourse, with remarkable precision and practical insights.”
Jennifer, who graduated from ESSEC’s Specialized Master in Marketing and Management in 2015, reflects: “Women’s entrepreneurship requires digging deep, pushing your limits, and seeing the world differently. It’s a true life journey, an extraordinary adventure.”
Challenging the usual startup pace, these mother-entrepreneurs advocate a different relationship to time, success, and impact. Their goal isn’t to check boxes but to create new ones. And they are not alone: Lead’Hers provides them with tailored support and a collective sisterhood.
“Some arrive with early-stage projects, others with established ventures. Lead’Hers helps them move forward at their own pace, in a supportive community that lifts everyone higher” concludes Morgane Effroy.
