Women face a unique set of challenges when progressing into senior leadership positions, including unconscious bias, a scarcity of role models, and a peer group that continually shrinks the more senior they become. These can make striving for the top a lonely and frustrating endeavour even in organisations with the best intentions to support their top female talent.At the same time, organisations are awash with myths about why fewer women than men reach senior leadership levels. These myths can perpetuate flawed thinking and delay meaningful change. It is, therefore, vital to develop an understanding of the real challenges women face and how these manifest in daily behaviours and norms in organisations.In this webinar, Professor Svenja Weber will share about INSEAD’s ground-breaking research which sheds light on the true nature of these barriers. She believes that understanding and addressing the complex web of systemic, cultural, and structural issues that hold women back is essential to create an organisational environment where employees can thrive, reach the highest levels of leadership, and realise their full potential.

Contemporary organisations are beginning to recognise the importance of balancing instrumental imperatives – getting stuff done efficiently – with humanistic aspirations – helping people grow and connect across differences. Striking such balance requires leaders who value humanism just as much as instrumentality, freedom as much as efficiency. But that is, unfortunately, not yet the way leaders are raised and trained. So how are we to change that? How can we develop and become leaders who can foster that balance?INSEAD Professor Jennifer Petriglieri will argue that one way to do so is through a deeper engagement with works of art in general, and literature in particular. In this webinar, she will provide and elicit examples of how such works can help leaders recognise, honour, demonstrate, and foster humanity at work, and in doing so help all members of organisations thrive.

For years, the 1.5 °C goal of the Paris Agreement has been the anchor of climate ambition, shaping global policy, corporate strategy, and investor expectations. Yet with emissions still rising and the carbon budget shrinking fast, many scientists now warn that staying within 1.5 °C may soon be out of reach.What does this mean for finance and business leaders? Should strategies built for a 1.5 °C world be abandoned, adapted, or completely reimagined?Join Lucie Tepla, Senior Affiliate Professor of Finance at INSEAD, for a thought-leadership webinar that explores how the 1.5 °C goal became central to climate action and what its shifting reality means for investors, companies, and regulators.This session will cover:How disclosure frameworks and climate scenarios evolved around the 1.5 °C benchmarkWhat new transition pathways could look like in a hotter, riskier futureHow leaders can respond with credible, forward-looking sustainability strategiesThis webinar also offers a preview of the INSEAD Business Sustainability Programme, which will be held in Singapore for the first time from 30 March to 3 April 2026.Experience how INSEAD equips leaders to drive systemic change and turn sustainability into long-term advantage.

Join Professor Saskia De Maat in this exclusive Masterclass as she explores Unconscious Dynamics, Trust, and Disempowerment in the Age of Intelligent MachinesThis session will be moderated by Katharina Kopf, Assistant Director, Recruitment and Business Development, Specialised Degrees.This is an online webinar and will be available on-demand post the session.Masterclass Topic: AI in the Mind - Unconscious Dynamics, Trust, and Disempowerment in the Age of Intelligent MachinesMasterclass Synopsis:Artificial intelligence is emerging as a powerful new social actor, reshaping daily life and organizational realities. Amid the many unknowns about how it will evolve—intensified by wider social, economic, and geopolitical shifts—AI evokes strong emotions: fear, desire, shame, guilt, and unconscious phantasies and defensive reactions.This webinar will explore how psychoanalytic and system psychodynamic ideas—such as the unconscious, projection, mirroring, and transference—can shed light on our contemporary encounters with AI. We will consider how AI shapes experiences of trust, authenticity, authority, and disempowerment at both individual and systemic levels and what leaders might consider moving forward. Participants will be invited to reflect on their own responses, as well as those of their organizations, to the profound technological changes underway.

Leaders today face a constant wave of challenges: technological disruption, shifting generational expectations, new competitors, unpredictable geopolitical forces and more. You're likely bombarded by advice on what to do—yet the crucial question of how to make needed changes happen is often left unanswered. INSEAD for Impact redresses this lack.In this infosession, understand how this programme can enable you to make sense of disruption, turn information into decisive action, and strengthen resilience to deliver real impact with Professor Narayan Pant.

Join us for an interactive online session with our INSEAD Summer School alumni. Discover the curriculum, get admission tips, share feedback and of course, ask questions.(live session was held on 22 January 2026)Joining us at the event:Carlijn NijhuisISS'24 | Current MIM StudentJosé SampaioISS'25 | Current MIM Student

Find out more about the INSEAD Certificates in Negotiation - the Online Certificate in Negotiation and the Advanced Certificate in Negotiation - directly from the Programme Directors.These two certificates offer a unique opportunity for those interested in becoming expert negotiators. Across 3 executive education programmes, you will gain in-depth knowledge from multiple INSEAD Professors and coaches, delivered through diverse methods including practice-based learning. You will come away able to tackle any negotiation challenge with confidence.

You are warmly invited to attend our upcoming Online Information Session dedicated to meeting our women EMBA alumni. During this session, Amandine Cornut, Assistant Director of EMBA Marketing and Recruitment, will facilitate the discussion and provide a brief overview of the INSEAD EMBA Programme.You will also have the opportunity to hear directly from our women alumni about their EMBA experience and ask your questions during a live Q&A.Please register to confirm your participation. To view the session time in other countries, click here.Joining us at the event:- Amal Marc , GEMBA'25, Responsible AI Enablement Executive Advisor - Sabah Seghrouchni , GEMBA'25, Senior Manager Audit at PcwC-Ulrike Kirtzberger, GEMBA'26, Business owner and podcast host at ONE.OF.A.KINDintheknow.insead.eduDiscover In The Know, INSEAD’s content platform that shares insights, experiences and perspectives from our global community.insead.edu/master-programmesExplore INSEAD’s master programmes and learn how we develop leaders who transform business and society across cultures and industries.

Securing an international advantage requires executives capable of rapidly adapting to an ever-evolving, highly competitive global marketplace, mastering cross-cultural relationships and creating winning strategies that integrate both local and global perspectives.Join Erin Myer, Professor of Management Practice and Author of international best seller, The Culture Map, for insights regarding INSEAD's Leading Across Borders and Cultures programme.

Should your organisation bet on AI? If so, how? There is no buzzier word than AI in innovation and tech circles these days. The mere mention of AI excites leaders, collaborators, and investors. But is it worth the hype? More importantly, how should you and your organisation catch this wave? Join our exclusive webinar with Michaël Bikard, Associate Professor of Strategy and Programme Director of Leading Growth through Innovation and Technology (LGIT), who will share insights into how AI is transforming the business world. Find out what are the opportunities and pitfalls associated with its rise.Related Programmes:Leading Growth through Innovation and TechnologyAI for Business