World Woman Club celebrates 20 Years

On March 1, 2026, World Woman Club opened the anniversary season of its 20th jubilee — a journey that began in 2006 and, according to the club’s official materials, was formally registered on March 1, 2007. This jubilee year is envisioned not as a single evening or one ceremonial event, but as an entire international season of recognition, remembrance, and a renewed vision for the future.

The summer culmination of the celebrations will take place in Davos as part of the World Woman Forum 2026, with a gala celebration on July 12, marking the high point of this historic year.

Over twenty years, World Woman Club has grown from the idea of uniting strong and ambitious women into a full-fledged international ecosystem. The club defines its mission as bringing together women leaders and women’s organizations from around the world into one multilingual global network for real progress, business cooperation, and global development. What began as a bold initiative has evolved into a respected international platform that connects women across countries, cultures, industries, and generations.

This is precisely the club’s greatest historical achievement: World Woman Club did not simply organize meetings — it built an international infrastructure of women’s influence. Around the club, a model gradually emerged that combines business networking, education, forums, mentoring, media promotion, project launches, international delegations, and social initiatives. Over the years, it has become a place where women do not merely meet — they create, lead, collaborate, and shape history together.

If we speak about the club’s achievements over these 20 years, they are best understood as a whole system of impact developed across multiple directions.

The first major achievement is the creation of an international network of women’s leadership. World Woman Club brought together entrepreneurs, CEOs, public figures, politicians, diplomats, academics, educators, designers, and women from many other professions into one global environment. This is important not only as a symbol of representation, but as a practical mechanism for advancing women in international business and public life. The club has consistently created a space where women’s leadership is seen not as decoration, but as an economic, intellectual, and social force.

The second major achievement is the development of international forum diplomacy for women. 

Over the years, the club has organized and supported major platforms such as World Woman Forum, EuroWoman Forum, AsiaWoman Forum, Global Business Week, Women’s Entrepreneurship Day, Startup World Cup Championship, national startup championships, and local startup forums. This means that the club created not just one annual conference, but an entire architecture of forums through which women gained access to international audiences, strategic contacts, partners, investors, and media attention.

The third achievement is turning networking into a real tool for growth. World Woman Club has given women not just a circle of communication, but access to a global network for cooperation, public speaking, media publications, partnerships, invitations to global forums, and international promotion. In this sense, it became one of the rare initiatives that transformed a women’s community from a “club of interests” into a true global platform of opportunity.

The fourth achievement is the creation of an educational vertical for women leaders. Through the Women Business Academy, workshops, mentoring programs, and practical training in areas such as franchising, leadership, and personal branding, the club has focused not only on inspiration, but on transferring real tools — knowledge, models, competencies, and practical skills. This is one of its major contributions to the global women’s movement: the understanding that empowerment must be supported by education and action.

The fifth achievement is the institutionalization of women’s entrepreneurship. Through business incubators, international startup forums, startup championships, business presentations, business PR, family business tours, and rankings of successful women, World Woman Club has worked not only on the personal brands of women, but also on the ecosystem of women-led business itself. It has helped women gain visibility, build partnerships, present their ideas, and scale their ventures internationally.

The sixth achievement is the creation of its own system of recognition and symbolic capital for women. Through awards, TOP-100 rankings, recognitions, and media formats, the club has created a space where women leaders receive international acknowledgement, public legitimacy, and elevated status. For the global women’s movement, this is deeply important: recognition is not a decoration, but a social resource that amplifies women’s voices in business, politics, education, culture, and philanthropy.

The seventh achievement is the development of its own media ecosystem. Through World Woman Magazine, digital and print publications, and the club’s media and social platforms, World Woman Club has created not only a community and event structure, but also a media infrastructure dedicated to promoting women, their ideas, and their achievements. In the 21st century, media is one of the central levers of influence, and the club has successfully woven it into the growth of its members.

The eighth achievement is the expansion of representative offices and international presence. The club developed a model of opening representative offices around the world, emphasizing that this is “not a franchise, but a mission.” That phrase itself is significant: World Woman Club expanded not merely as a commercial structure, but as a network of values, standards, and women’s leadership influence. This is one of the reasons it has been able to establish itself in many countries and build a strong international core of ambassadors and local leaders.

The ninth achievement is the integration of business, social mission, and charity. Over the years, the club has supported charity fashion projects, wish campaigns, humanitarian initiatives, female angel support, cross-social projects, cultural diplomacy, and women-centered development programs. This broadened the very meaning of women’s leadership: within the World Woman Club, a woman is seen not only as an entrepreneur, but as a bearer of social responsibility, philanthropy, cultural continuity, and humanitarian vision.

The tenth achievement is becoming a real humanitarian voice during critical periods of history. One of the most meaningful examples has been the club’s support for Ukraine and its humanitarian solidarity through international branches and partner initiatives. This represents an especially important contribution to the global women’s movement: the demonstration that an international women’s community is capable not only of discussing values, but of acting in moments of crisis — in support of peace, sovereignty, humanitarian aid, and international solidarity.

The eleventh achievement is long-term event continuity. The club has built a living archive of forums, programs, conferences, summits, awards, and public activities across many years. This matters not only as memory, but as proof of institutional consistency: World Woman Club has not been a one-time burst of enthusiasm, but a stable international movement that has maintained rhythm, presence, and relevance year after year.

The twelfth achievement is participation in global partnership ecosystems. Through collaboration and connections with international women’s entrepreneurship structures, development institutions, and global platforms, the club has helped elevate women’s leadership to a broader level of visibility and influence. It did not develop in isolation; it built bridges with the wider international community.

If we summarize the contribution of World Woman Club to the global women’s movement over 20 years, it can be seen in several historically important dimensions.

First, the club helped shift the focus from abstract conversations about “women’s empowerment” to a practical model based on connections, education, public platforms, media, projects, international travel, mentoring, and access to global forums.

Second, it consistently united women from business, politics, diplomacy, education, science, and the social sector, creating not a casual social circle, but a vertically strong and influential environment.

Third, it promoted the idea that women’s leadership is not only about career growth, but also about peace, culture, family, social responsibility, international development, and the future of society.

Equally important is that the club developed its own language of dignity. In its spirit and values, one can see recurring ideas of confidence, prosperity, opportunity, global development, leadership, grace, noble purpose, and positive impact. This creates a distinctive ethic of community: success without cynicism, status without coldness, ambition without losing the human dimension. That is one of the reasons World Woman Club has earned a meaningful place in the international landscape of women’s leadership — as a platform where leadership is combined with culture, and influence with values.

The jubilee year of 2026 is therefore not just a retrospective, but a point of transition. It is a bridge between the club’s remarkable history and its even bigger future. From March 1, 2026, when the anniversary celebrations began, until the great gala celebration on July 12 in Davos, the club honours its past while shaping its next chapter.

That is why the 20th anniversary of World Woman Club is not only the jubilee of an organization. It is the celebration of an entire model of global women’s movement — a model in which a woman does not wait for a seat at the table, but creates her own tables of dialogue, cooperation, and power. She does not wait to be invited into the world agenda — she helps shape it herself.

For twenty years, World Woman Club has proven that women’s unity can be at once beautiful and powerful, inspiring and institutional, heartfelt and strategic. And that is why its 2026 anniversary is a meaningful event not only for the members of the club, but for the broader history of women’s leadership in the world. You can join the club here: WORLD WOMAN CLUB