Yale School of Management Executive Education
Women’s Strategic Leadership Program
Identify your unique strengths and develop your leadership style through a curated learning experience that integrates content from three prominent online Yale programs.
Start date
12 February 2025
Course duration
5 months
Excluding orientation
Language
English
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Effort
6–8 hours per week
Self-paced learning online
Program overview
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Potential Project (Mar, 2022).Duration: 5 months (Including orientation and 2 week-long breaks)
Globally, women in leadership roles continue to lack representation. To overcome this issue, women need to navigate both the internal and external obstacles that impede their progress.
The Yale School of Management Executive Education's Women's Strategic Leadership Program can help you realize your leadership potential. This online program emphasizes values-based leadership, emotional intelligence, and innovative thinking to tackle business challenges.
Participants will learn to develop their unique leadership abilities, enhance decision-making skills, and build networks. The program explores a new approach to power, focusing on purpose, empathy, communication, and well-being.
Led by esteemed Yale SOM faculty, participants embark on a five-month journey to become effective leaders that can drive positive change. This program empowers women to overcome barriers, transform workplaces, and maximize their leadership potential.
Is this program for you?
This online program aims to support women leaders at every point in their leadership journeys. It caters to senior business leaders who aim to leverage their influence to drive success. Additionally, mid-level women managers and aspiring leaders seeking to take the next step in their careers will find value in this program. Furthermore, individuals who champion the development of women's leadership abilities will also gain from it.
This program holds great significance for female professionals who desire to acquire practical strategies for successfully navigating power dynamics and advancing in their careers.
Program overview
Introduction
Duration: 5 months (Including orientation and 2 week-long breaks)
Globally, women in leadership roles continue to lack representation. To overcome this issue, women need to navigate both the internal and external obstacles that impede their progress.
The Yale School of Management Executive Education's Women's Strategic Leadership Program can help you realize your leadership potential. This online program emphasizes values-based leadership, emotional intelligence, and innovative thinking to tackle business challenges.
Participants will learn to develop their unique leadership abilities, enhance decision-making skills, and build networks. The program explores a new approach to power, focusing on purpose, empathy, communication, and well-being.
Led by esteemed Yale SOM faculty, participants embark on a five-month journey to become effective leaders that can drive positive change. This program empowers women to overcome barriers, transform workplaces, and maximize their leadership potential.
Is this program for you?
This online program aims to support women leaders at every point in their leadership journeys. It caters to senior business leaders who aim to leverage their influence to drive success. Additionally, mid-level women managers and aspiring leaders seeking to take the next step in their careers will find value in this program. Furthermore, individuals who champion the development of women's leadership abilities will also gain from it.
This program holds great significance for female professionals who desire to acquire practical strategies for successfully navigating power dynamics and advancing in their careers.
What will set you apart
The skills you need to harness your unique strengths as powerful leadership tools for success.
The ability to drive business growth through strategic relationship-building.
A personalized self-development plan for future growth and achievement.
Relationships with a diverse cohort of women united in their pursuit of adding value to their organizations.
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
Program orientation
Welcome to your Online Campus
Section I: Women’s leadership
In the first six weeks, you'll explore how emotional self-mastery impacts outcomes and strengthens leadership styles. You'll learn to align your leadership with core values, experiment with your strengths, and enhance innovation. By using emotional intelligence in challenging conversations, you'll learn how to exchange constructive feedback for effective leadership and a safe environment. With guidance from Yale SOM faculty, you'll understand the significance of leveraging your network to achieve goals and create a positive leadership development plan.
Section II: Women’s leadership program: Leading teams
Following a one-week program break, you will focus on three key topics that will elevate your ability to lead others — decision-making, understanding your network, and everyday leadership — and gain practical approaches to leveraging each effectively. Over six weeks, you’ll learn to connect your personal experiences with functional skills and strategies and uncover ways to improve your overall leadership style.
Section III: Women’s leadership program: Leading with power and influence
After a one-week break, you'll learn strategies to enhance your influence and power. The six-week program analyzes power in various contexts and presents it as a constantly growing skill set. You'll explore the significance of positive interactions for leadership and learn how to conduct a PARC analysis to identify power dynamics in organizational structures. Reflecting on creating a growth culture will bring insights into transforming your organization. Lastly, you'll be empowered to become a changemaker, by using everyday situations for power and change.
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Program Conveners
Rodrigo Canales
Former Lecturer in Organizational Behavior, Yale School of Management
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
Learn effective leadership in your organization and earn three certificates of participation from Yale School of Management 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 program handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the program.
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