Capability
Participants can perform the technical work of bookkeeping, accounting support, and tax workflow.
Workforce development · Professional identity · Economic mobility
Learn the profession. Experience the profession. Build the business. Become the professional.
Empower Her is a 12-week program of Rhonda's Stop Bullying Foundation for Girls. We prepare women and girls for bookkeeping, accounting support, tax preparation, and client-facing business ownership—so dignity is practiced, not postponed.
Training is not enough. Identity, access, practice, and a reason to finish turn skill into a livelihood.
The need we refuse to leave unaddressed
Bullying isolates. Poverty isolates. Both tell a girl she does not belong in rooms where money, clients, and decisions are made. Empower Her answers with a public, measurable pathway into professional work—not a slogan, a cohort.
Identity
They can present and conduct themselves as professionals—on time, prepared, confidential, client-ready.
Opportunity
They can pursue employment, clients, contracts, or business ownership with a 90-day plan.
Persistence
Visible, earned milestones make completion tangible. Progress is practiced, then recognized.
Theory of change
When the professional life can be seen and practiced, the future becomes real.
Empower Her tests a clear hypothesis: if participants can see, practice, and earn access to the professional life they are working toward, attendance, milestone completion, and graduation will improve compared with baseline cohorts.
Inputs include instructors, mentors, software, professional settings, and a corporate-sponsored program fleet. Activities include technical instruction, simulations, persona days, business planning, networking, and supervised travel. Near-term outputs are completed modules, client simulations, business plans, and mentor contacts. Outcomes are completion, employment or business launch, and client confidence.
Program at a glance
Twelve weeks. One professional identity.
Hybrid cohort. Signature method: professional personas plus real-world experiential learning. Completion strategy: Earn the Experience.
Discover · Weeks 1–2
Orientation, identity, goals, digital tools, bookkeeping foundation.
Build · Weeks 3–5
Workflows, statements, client files, confidentiality, quality control.
Launch · Weeks 8–12
Firm setup, pricing, clients, Accountant Persona Day, graduation.
“The message is not that luxury equals success. The message is that professional opportunities are earned through preparation, reliability, skill, and follow-through.”
Bateman & Associates is the current corporate vehicle sponsor and Founding Automotive Experience Sponsor—proof of concept for a model we now invite others to expand.