For underestimated high-achieving women
Building businesses. Birthing babies. Becoming brands.
Upgrading Women exists to ensure no woman is overlooked. We help women with achievements, ambitions and authority gain power, grow their influence and make bank.
About Rebecca Leppard
From underestimated to oversubscribed.
I build brands for leaders, entrepreneurs and changemakers using strategy, storytelling and feminine intelligence, which means reading the room, understanding context, holding complexity, building trust and moving people towards action.
I’m a brand and communications strategist with 15 years of experience building growth engines across corporate, agency and startup environments.
I help people translate what they are building into narratives that move investors, customers and communities.
My work sits at the intersection of strategy and execution.
Who I help
I build personal brands, positioning strategies and content engines for:
- founders raising capital
- leaders stepping into visibility
- brands entering new markets
- businesses building communities
- organisations that need to tell a story people actually care about
Outcomes
The goal is not content for content’s sake.
It is to make your capabilities so clear, credible and commercially relevant that you can:
- close the round
- land the bigger role
- sign bigger clients
- be invited into the right room, onto the right stage or into the right conversation
A few receipts
- 2026 Canva SMB Brand Ambassador
- 2.5M average monthly views across social platforms
- 40K Instagram followers, 35K Threads followers and 10K LinkedIn followers
- Positioned founders who secured £50K and €30K in grants
- Global Women in Business Award finalist
- Award-winning social media work
- Built the Women in Tech UK community to 10K+ members, with sold-out events and partnerships with Wise, Salesforce, Google, Amazon and Turing College
- Delivered the Address the Harm® campaign, reaching 2M+ people with coverage in The Times and Politico
My sweet spot
My sweet spot is feminists of any gender who understand that visibility is a strategy.
People building something real who need help telling that story at scale.
Ventures entering new markets.
Brands positioning themselves inside niche communities.
What I’m building
I’m also building:
- Upgrading Women Academy, an online school for female remote workers
- Career Sisterhood, a diaspora community for 18–24-year-old career women
- ferst, investment relationship infrastructure for the female-inclusive economy
I’m an immigrant, a mother of three and an ADHD founder.
English is my second language, but apparently the internet has allowed me to yap professionally.
If you need a brand that is clearer, more credible and harder to overlook, let’s talk.
Book a free discovery call with meBuilding traction, going to market or preparing to raise?
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