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23 September 2026, Knight Frank

The moves that change everything.

The Ambition Series, 23 September 2026, took place at Knight Frank HQ.

An evening on the moves that change everything, hosted with Womxn@Knight Frank and HERitage. A panel of women who have made those moves, a room of women planning theirs, and a couple of hours of the kind of conversation that does not happen on a stage anywhere else.

The next one is being planned. The room stays small, so the waiting list decides who hears first.

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What it was
A small room, by registration, for women three years in and beyond
Where
Knight Frank HQ, London, with rooftop drinks
Hosted with
Womxn@Knight Frank and HERitage
Next edition
In planning, dates to be confirmed

We confirm guests individually and the room is kept deliberately small. The waiting list is how we build it.

On the panel

Senior women across property, banking, technology and retail, talking about the decisions that actually shaped their careers.

Melissa Max-Macarthy
Melissa Max-MacarthyManaging Director, Head of Strategy & Innovation, Retail Banking
NatWest Group
Natasha Forde
Natasha FordeHead of Digital Solutions
Grosvenor
Chanel Rodriguez-Moore
Chanel Rodriguez-MoorePartner & Head of Department, St John's Wood and Belsize Park
Knight Frank
Leona De Graft
Leona De GraftVice President, Global Ecommerce
Levi Strauss & Co.
Shauna Roper
Shauna RoperDirector
HSBC
Jade Tong
Jade TongPartner, Solutions Development Lead EMEA
Knight Frank

Ambition, said out loud

Most rooms want the tidy version: the promotion, the pivot, the plan that worked. This one wanted the rest of it. What she risked. What she wanted and said so. What it cost, and what she would do again.

No slides, no prepared answers. Low light, a rooftop, and women who had already made the moves the room was weighing up, talking properly.

What the room covered

  • The career decisions that proved most consequential in hindsight
  • Knowing when to stay, move or change direction
  • Taking opportunities before you feel completely ready
  • Asking for more, and becoming comfortable with ambition
  • Building influence, relationships and sponsorship
  • Being excellent at your job versus positioning yourself for leadership
  • Calculated risks, mistakes, and decisions that didn't work out
  • What they now understand about progression that they wish they had known earlier

The room

Three years into your career and beyond
Law, finance, technology, consulting, property, media and the public sector
Women mid-move, or deciding what the next one should be

Rooms have included women from Goldman Sachs, UBS, Vanguard, Paramount and Baringa, among others. It is kept deliberately small and deliberately cross-industry, so the conversation goes somewhere a conference never does.

How the evening ran

  • ArrivalKnight Frank HQ, London.
  • The conversationModerated, candid, no slides.
  • Rooftop drinksThe part where the introductions actually happen.

Hosted with

Knight Frank HERitage Womxn@Knight Frank

The waiting list

Two minutes. We will come to you before the next Ambition Series is announced anywhere else.

You're on the list.

You will hear from info@wcan.uk before the next Ambition Series is announced. Places are confirmed individually, so being on the list is the first step rather than the last.

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Partner with the series

The Ambition Series runs with a host firm and a small number of brands. Hosts put their people in front of a room of women building careers in their sector. Brands reach that room directly, through gifting, sampling or the conversation itself.

If your company wants to host an edition, support one, or put a product in the hands of the guests, tell us here and we will send the details.

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We have your details and will come back to you from info@wcan.uk with what partnering on the Ambition Series involves.

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The next room.

Small, confirmed individually, and announced to the waiting list first.

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