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Increase your influence and drive impact as female business leaders
Despite compelling evidence that more diversity in senior management ranks increases organisational performance, the proportion of women in key leadership roles remains low in most organisations. Women in business 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.
Women executives rarely have an opportunity to come together and share their leadership experiences in a learning environment that has direct relevance and personal impact. INSEAD’s Women Leaders Programme is a course that’s designed to create just this environment, while providing leadership training for female executives. It addresses leadership issues that affect all executives, in a forum that hones in on the unique challenges women encounter. It creates a network of today’s senior women leaders, empowering them to take hold of their careers and aim for the top.
Key learning concepts in the programme curriculum
The Women Leaders Programme trains women in business to enhance their leadership impact and achieve lasting personal and professional growth. The intensive curriculum fosters thought-provoking discussions on challenges faced by women leaders, encouraging participants to engage and critically reflect on their leadership journey.
Key programme topics include mastering the critical leadership skills for today, developing your unique communication styles, learning how to effectively use networks, mentors and sponsors, as well as understanding hidden barriers to change for female leaders and strategies to overcome them.
Personalised coaching, expert and peer guidance, and experiential exercises ensure tailored leadership development. Post-programme support includes follow-up coaching to reinforce learning and drive action plans.
Our Participant Profile
INSEAD’s Women Leaders Programme brings together an elite group of women business leaders, who:
- have a minimum of 15 years of professional work experience (with 8 - 10 years of people management experience)
- have reached the office of vice president or a global directorship within their organisation
- are seeking to enhance their global leadership skills, and demonstrate a strong drive to reach the top of their organisation
Skills you will develop
- Self-awareness
- Building Inclusivity
- Communication
- Persuasion
- Executive Presence
- Leadership and Vision
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How You Benefit
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Hear cutting-edge ideas about leadership, and learn tried and tested techniques you can apply to overcome the unique challenges faced by women leaders.
Develop greater confidence and a better understanding of your personal leadership style, enabling you to carry out and lead change effectively within your business.
Work with a professional coach to develop clear aims for your ongoing personal and professional development
Access a community of peers, women succeeding in senior leadership roles around the world.
This programme qualifies for the INSEAD Certificate in Global Management.
The certificate is a formal recognition in areas of global management and leadership. Please refer to the certification requirements here.
Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour
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Chigusa Hara
Managing Director, Internal Audit - Finance Industry
In audit, we talk a lot about controls. At the end of the day, to be limitless is to not be bound by others or by the limit you create for yourself - only you can take control of your own agenda.
Claire Johnsen
Head of ESG and Innovation in the care industry
Education is a useful tool because it introduces you to a new network, it gives you confidence, it gives you insights—everything you need to reinvent yourself comes with education.
Kalyani Martinelango
Associate Director in Corporate Research and Development, Dow
I’ve always had a drive for empowering others to achieve their potential and that’s very much behind my desire to transition from a technical role to a more managerial profile.
Rachel Woodhatch
Head of Human Resources & Office, Leonardo Australia
I see our feminine essence as women an asset and potentially very powerful to reaching our best potential as business leaders
Stephanie Huard
Head of EMEA Credit Solutions Sales, S&P Global Market Intelligence
Networking, volunteering, and getting involved in women development initiatives is so important in identifying and addressing the diverse issues that diverse people face.
Mukwandi Chibesakunda
Chief Executive Officer, Zambia National Commercial Bank
Leaders have a responsibility to determine the best way forward and to model the kinds of values, strengths and possibilities that inspire others to follow suit, even in adversity. And that’s who I am, as a woman and as a leader.
Saleha Williams
Global Head of Strategy, Next Gen Application Services and Digital Engineering at Cognizant
We are so much more dynamic as individuals when we come together and blend our different ways of learning, thinking, creating, diagnosing and solving problems: that’s where we deliver real value – to our clients, to our industries and above all, to ourselves.
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