Yale School of Management Executive Education
Women’s Leadership Program: Leading Teams
Cultivate your distinctive leadership style by capitalizing on your network, acquiring useful decision-making instruments, and utilizing everyday instances for significant influence.
Start date
12 March 2025
Course duration
6 weeks
Excluding orientation
Language
English
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Effort
6–8 hours per week
Self-paced learning online
Program overview
Duration: 6 weeks
Every leader possesses a distinctive style and approach that sets them apart from others. The Women’s Leadership Program: Leading Teams from the Yale School of Management Executive Education empowers you to harness your unique leadership potential. This six-week program centers around three crucial elements of effective leadership: decision-making, networks, and everyday leadership scenarios. The course also equips you with practical tools and strategies, including the Vroom-Yetton-Jago model, to augment your current skill set.
This online program offers live sessions and opportunities to interact with a global community of female leaders, allowing you to explore the future of work from a female perspective. With the guidance of accomplished faculty and thought leaders, you'll develop skills and strategies to blend your current competencies with newly acquired tactics for leading and influencing teams.
Yale SOM Executive Education offers multiple online, on-campus, and live-online women's leadership programs. This program is a natural continuation of the Women’s Leadership Online Program. Each can be taken independently, as a stand alone program, but they also build on each other to offer a holistic approach to leadership. View all Yale SOM programs for women and those who support them here.
Is this program for you?
This program prepares individuals to thrive in a constantly evolving leadership environment. It caters to professionals, including top executives, senior leaders, business owners, mid-level and senior managers, and aspiring leaders. The curriculum focuses on improving decision-making and developing leadership abilities while expanding and leveraging networks.
The program provides opportunities for senior leaders and business founders to refine existing leadership skills and cultivate new ones while growing their networks. Mid to senior managers can use the program to enhance their abilities and build connections to propel their careers forward. Aspiring leaders can gain valuable insight into what it takes to establish themselves as influential figures within their teams.
Program overview
Program overview
Duration: 6 weeks
Every leader possesses a distinctive style and approach that sets them apart from others. The Women’s Leadership Program: Leading Teams from the Yale School of Management Executive Education empowers you to harness your unique leadership potential. This six-week program centers around three crucial elements of effective leadership: decision-making, networks, and everyday leadership scenarios. The course also equips you with practical tools and strategies, including the Vroom-Yetton-Jago model, to augment your current skill set.
This online program offers live sessions and opportunities to interact with a global community of female leaders, allowing you to explore the future of work from a female perspective. With the guidance of accomplished faculty and thought leaders, you'll develop skills and strategies to blend your current competencies with newly acquired tactics for leading and influencing teams.
Yale SOM Executive Education offers multiple online, on-campus, and live-online women's leadership programs. This program is a natural continuation of the Women’s Leadership Online Program. Each can be taken independently, as a stand alone program, but they also build on each other to offer a holistic approach to leadership. View all Yale SOM programs for women and those who support them here.
Is this program for you?
This program prepares individuals to thrive in a constantly evolving leadership environment. It caters to professionals, including top executives, senior leaders, business owners, mid-level and senior managers, and aspiring leaders. The curriculum focuses on improving decision-making and developing leadership abilities while expanding and leveraging networks.
The program provides opportunities for senior leaders and business founders to refine existing leadership skills and cultivate new ones while growing their networks. Mid to senior managers can use the program to enhance their abilities and build connections to propel their careers forward. Aspiring leaders can gain valuable insight into what it takes to establish themselves as influential figures within their teams.
What will set you apart
Practical tools and strategies to improve your impact and lead others more effectively. 
The skills of a future-ready leader, and the agility to adapt to the changing leadership landscape with confidence. 
A better understanding of your authentic network type, and the ability to strengthen and build your network within your context.
A clearer perspective of women's leadership from a global network of professionals.
Unlimited access to edX’s Career Engagement Network, offering you exclusive resources and events to support your professional journey and drive your career forward.Program curriculum
Orientation module
Welcome to your Online Campus
Module 1
Decision-making for team leaders
Module 2
Contextual leadership and decision-making for teams
Module 3
Understanding your network
Module 4
Leveraging your network
Module 5
Leadership in the everyday
Module 6
The future of leadership
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Program Co-Conveners
Marissa King
Former Professor of Organizational Behavior, Yale School of Management
Heidi Brooks
Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behavior, Yale School of Management
Emma Seppälä
Lecturer in Management, Yale School of Management; Faculty Director, Yale School of Management’s Women’s Leadership Program
About the certificate
Receive acknowledgment for your expertise when you earn an official certificate of participation from Yale SOM Executive Education.
Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with your digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the course handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the program.
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The Online Campus will be your virtual classroom for the duration of your course. Through its easy-to-use interface you'll have access to a diverse variety of course content formats including: interactive videos, module notes, practice quizzes, presentations, assignment briefs, and additional web resources.
On the Online Campus, you'll also be able to ask questions and interact with your fellow students and teaching team through the discussion forums. If you are looking for your Online Campus login, please visit your Account page here.
