Meet Femme Palette

Meet Femme Palette

Femme Palette is a mentoring platform and community helping individuals and companies thrive through mentorship, a personalized approach to career development. Our mentor base consists of 1200+ experienced professionals who support mentees in reaching their goals by sharing experience and providing guidance. On top of that, we have built a worldwide community of 5000+ like-minded members who want to discuss their professional challenges in a safe space. We organize regular online and offline events where attendees can learn and network. Our main hubs are in Prague, Berlin, and London.
Lucie Neumanova and Klara Holikova, Founders of Femme Palette
Photo by Michaela Lunackova, yummypaleo.cz

Our mission

We're here to help (not only) women to thrive professionally through mentoring, providing support needed to unlock their full potential and achieve success in their chosen fields. We strive to provide guidance, resources, and opportunities for individuals of all backgrounds to thrive professionally. Through collaboration, mentorship, and empowerment, we aspire to create a diverse and equitable landscape where everyone has the opportunity to flourish and contribute meaningfully to the professional world.

What we want to change

We're on a mission to help (not only) women thrive and make workplaces more inclusive.
5.8%
of Fortune 500 Global companies have female CEOs.
*Fortune, 2023
75%
of female executives have experienced imposter syndrome in their careers.
*2020 KPMG Women's Leadership Summit Report
32%
of tech roles are estimated to be held by women today, which is less than in 1984.
*Accenture Resetting Tech Culture Report, 2020
87
women for every 100 men get promoted from entry-level roles to manager positions.
*McKinsey Women in the Workplace 2022 Report

The impact of our programs

90%

Mentees increased their confidence

84%

Have a better vision of their career

87%

Are ambitious for more responsibility

87%

Improved their feedback skills

87%

Learned new things

90%

Improved their hard/soft skills

The data shown is from all our mentees who filled out the final feedback (Updated in February 2022)

Our journey

We've come a long way since we started out. Check out our proudest moments and milestones along the way.
2018
Femme Palette was born. We launched our community for professional women and hosted our first meet ups.
2019
We introduced our Mentoring program, matching our first mentees for 1:1 mentoring.
2020
The Coaching & Mentoring program was added. We ran our Femmepreneurs program.
2021
We became incorporated and started working with companies, organized our first conference, and ran the Leadership program.
2022
Our second conference with 250+ attendees took place in Prague. We also launched our community in Berlin.
2023
We held our 3rd annual leadership & career conference and introduced our own mentoring platform.
2024
We launched new platform features, expanded our community to Amsterdam and Barcelona, and introduced new event topics.

Meet the team

Meet the team behind Femme Palette and discover opportunities for how you can join us.

In the news

There is more..

February, 2023
Z komunity pro ženy je mentoring pro všechny. Femme Palette loni utržila přes 10 milionů [Czech Crunch]
September, 2022
Ženy musí podporovat další ženy [Vogue]
January, 2022
Začaly komunitou pro ženy, teď vidí mentoring jako pomoc firmám. Femme Palette vyrostla na milionové tržby [Czech Crunch]
May, 2021
Lucie Neumanova - Mentoring zblizka [ELLE.cz]
April, 2021
Lucie Neumanová: Aby byl člověk dobrým leaderem, musí na sobě pracovat [Vogue.cz]
December, 2020
Češky na sobě makají. Platforma Femme Palette roste navzdory pandemi [Forbes.cz]
December, 2020
Není důvod, aby ženy braly méně peněz než muži. Ve Femme Palette to pomáháme změnit, říká Lucie Neumanová v podcastu [Czechcrunch.cz]
October, 2020
Výzva Women Startup Challenge zná své výherkyně [Roklen24]
October, 2020
Projekt Femme Palette napomáhá ženám s kariérním i osobním rozvojem [Dobryzpravy.cz]
October, 2020
I pro ženy je na vrcholu místa dost. Český projekt pomáhá profesionálkám v kariérním růstu [Pozitivnizpravy.cz]
June, 2020
Pomýšlíte na vyšší pozice, ale nevěříte si? Nakopnout vás může mentoring pro ženy [LMC]
June, 2020
Objevte sílu mentoringu a nakopněte svou kariéru či podnikání [E15]
May, 2020
Mentoring žen pomáhá změnit společnost [E15]
September, 2019
Evropská startupová soutěž CESA vyhlásila nejlepší české startupy ve 13 kategoriích [Tyinternety]
July, 2019
Pro architektky i právničky. Profesní skupiny, kde si ženy vyměňují zkušenosti a podporu [Forbes]