Gracelane | For all the lanes you’re graced to embrace

A PAUSE IN THE PACE

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A RHYTHM OF GRACE

Gracelane exists for women leading Australia’s small and medium businesses and charities - building enterprises and homes, carrying vision and responsibility, holding strategy, staff and families, laughter and loss - often before lunch.

Gracelane is where those lanes meet.

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WHAT IS YOUR GRACELANE?

Your life is not linear.
It is layered.

Boardrooms and school pickups.
Strategy and school forms.
Funding submissions and family dinners.

Much rests on you.

Gracelane is a pause in the pace
a space to breathe and strengthen how you lead.

Because grace is strength that meets you where you are.

Not force.
Not urgency.
Not self-erasure.
You are strong.
You lead.
You row.

But you are not the ocean.
And you were never meant to row alone.

Grace steadies the boat.
It teaches a different way to lead
strong, supported, shared.

Grace restores.

And restoration produces restful results -
strong, steady, lasting.

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LETTER

A monthly reflection for women leading SMEs and charities.

Delivered to your inbox.

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CONVERSATIONS

Honest dialogue through the Gracelane Podcast.

Real stories. Real life. Real leadership.

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CONNECTION

An annual Gracelane Gathering—bringing women leaders into the room.

Pause. Reflect. Strengthen.

AN INVITATION TO THE GRACELANE GATHERING

If you are leading a small or medium business or charity in Australia, this space is for you.

The Gracelane Gathering is not a conference.
It is a carefully curated day to pause, reflect and reconnect.

A space for women carrying vision, responsibility and care—often all in the same day—to step out of urgency and strengthen how they lead.

You won’t leave with more to do.
You’ll leave steadier. Clearer. Grounded.

Because grace doesn’t remove responsibility. It restores the one who carries it.

Gracelane.
For all the lanes you’re graced to embrace.

GRACELANE IS A
PRO PURPOSE INITITATIVE

Gracelane is a generosity initiative of Pro Purpose®, which exists to mobilise 70,000 SME leaders across Australia to generate $1 billion in collective social impact by 2035.

Gracelane focuses specifically on female leaders because the data shows both the opportunity and the risk.

Over 60% of Australia’s SMEs are now women-led, yet more than 80% of women in business report stress or burnout, driven by the compounding load of leadership, caregiving, and emotional labour.
At the same time, women are disproportionately shaping collective impact—accounting for 60% of all collective giving groups and over $3.1 billion raised since 2017 through relational, trust-based generosity.

Gracelane exists to ensure this engine of generosity is not depleted. By resourcing women to lead from wholeness rather than exhaustion, Gracelane strengthens the very leaders whose sustainability is essential to Pro Purpose’s long-term impact.

THE GRACELANE COFOUNDERS

Leadership Team - Alana Nicholls

Alana Nicholls

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PARTNER WITH GRACELANE

Gracelane is sustained by partners who believe that when women who lead flourish, families, businesses and communities flourish with them.

We are building long-term formation infrastructure for women leading Australia’s small and medium businesses and charities.

We invite values-aligned organisations and individuals to build this with us.

GRACE

Living with gentleness and strength in equal measure.

COURAGE

Leading with heart, even when the way is uncertain.

CONNECTION

Cultivating belonging in an honest, non-competitive community.

REFLECTION

Pausing long enough to remember who we are beneath what we do.

WHOLENESS

Embracing every lane of life as part of one story.

A PAUSE IN THE PACE

A RHYTHM OF GRACE

WHAT IS YOUR GRACELANE?