What You'll Learn
This online program invites emerging women leaders to attend interactive online sessions designed to foster leadership and professional growth.
Women emerging into management roles will build their unique leadership skills through interactive exercises and powerful group discussions. They will gain the skills they need to communicate, negotiate, and lead with confidence.
Rising women leaders seeking a more in-depth program and intensive, on campus experience may be interested in Women Leaders: Advancing Together.
Topics Covered
Bringing a Strategic Focus to Your Role:
- Increasing your level of contribution
- Aligning capabilities with strategy
- Developing vision
Communicating as a Woman:
- Gender and its impact on communication
- Body language
- Persuasive methods
Building Productive Relationships:
- Becoming a trusted advisor
- Identifying key players in and outside of your organization
- Building confidence and credibility with those in your network
Gender and Negotiation:
- Creating impactful outcomes as a female negotiator
- Winning strategies for negotiations
- Achieving organizational support
Note: All program content will be delivered live and will not be recorded.
Who Should Enroll
This program is ideal for high-performing women with 3-7 years experience and the interest to advance their career in leadership roles.
Considering this program?
February Schedule
Week 1
- Communicating as a Woman
Week 2
- Bringing a Strategic Focus to Your Role
Week 3
- Building Productive Relationships
Week 4
- Gender and Negotiation
Week 5
- Coaching Session
July Schedule
Week 1
- Bringing a Strategic Focus to Your Role
Week 2
- Communicating as a Woman
Week 3
- Building Productive Relationships
Week 4
- Gender and Negotiation
Week 5
- Coaching Session
Week 1
- Bringing a Strategic Focus to Your Role
Week 2
- Communicating as a Woman
Week 3
- Building Productive Relationships
Week 4
- Gender and Negotiation
Week 5
- Coaching Session
Instructors
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![Headshot of PDP Instructor Jill Slye]()
Jill Abruzese Slye
Jill Slye has over 30 years of experience in business and teaches in multiple capacities across various schools at Harvard University. Her classes cover topics such as the fundamentals of public speaking and leadership communication. She is the founder of A Sounding Board, LLC, a global public speaking coaching company. -
![Pamela Rucker]()
Pamela Rucker
Pamela is a featured speaker at CIO events in the United States, Canada, and Europe. She brings over 25 years of experience helping executives to understand their business drivers. Pamela earned a master's degree from Harvard University. -
![Emily F. Epstein]()
Emily F. Epstein
Emily served as associate faculty at Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation and adjunct faculty at the Georgetown University Law Center. She specializes in teaching negotiation, facilitation, mediation, and communication skills. She is the founder of Oakbay Consulting and a lecturer of law at the University of California Berkeley School of Law. -
![Areen Shahbari]()
Areen Shahbari
Areen has over 17 years of corporate, business training, and consulting experience. Through her two self-founded ventures, Areen Training and Consultancy, and Cactus International, as well as her roles as an instructor at Harvard, Stanford, and Babson Executive Education, Areen has offered training, consultancy, and coaching services to numerous firms, governments, non-profits, and startups globally. -
![Laura Wilcox]()
Laura Wilcox
Laura has been in academia for over three decades at the intersection of business, innovation, and education at MIT, MIT Sloan, and Harvard. She is the Director of Management and Finance Programs at Harvard University's Division of Continuing Education.
Instructors
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![Areen Shahbari]()
Areen Shahbari
Areen has over 17 years of corporate, business training, and consulting experience. Through her two self-founded ventures, Areen Training and Consultancy, and Cactus International, as well as her roles as an instructor at Harvard, Stanford, and Babson Executive Education, Areen has offered training, consultancy, and coaching services to numerous firms, governments, non-profits, and startups globally. -
![Headshot of PDP Instructor Jill Slye]()
Jill Abruzese Slye
Jill Slye has over 30 years of experience in business and teaches in multiple capacities across various schools at Harvard University. Her classes cover topics such as the fundamentals of public speaking and leadership communication. She is the founder of A Sounding Board, LLC, a global public speaking coaching company. -
![Emily F. Epstein]()
Emily F. Epstein
Emily served as associate faculty at Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation and adjunct faculty at the Georgetown University Law Center. She specializes in teaching negotiation, facilitation, mediation, and communication skills. She is the founder of Oakbay Consulting and a lecturer of law at the University of California Berkeley School of Law. -
![Louise Weed]()
Louise Keogh Weed
Louise is an instructor in the department of health management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and is affiliate faculty at the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care. She is also the owner/principal at KW Facilitation. -
![Madeline McNeely]()
Madeline McNeely
Madeline teaches Non-Profit leadership and Community Engagement at Harvard Extension School and is Coach, Facilitator and Coach Recruiter at Harvard Business School. Supporting clients to think in innovative ways and develop new habits to solve their most vexing challenges is her sweet spot. -
![Clara Angelina Diaz-Anderson]()
Clara Angelina Diaz-Anderson
Clara Angelina Diaz-Anderson is the founder of ClaraFying Coaching and Consulting Institute, where she teaches, coaches, and consults with visionary leaders on how to implement systemic and lasting positive change, beginning with personal transformation. Clara teaches Authentic Leadership, Leadership Coaching Strategies, and Executive Leadership Coaching, and serves as an executive coach in our Women Leaders programs at Harvard DCE Professional & Executive Development. -
![Laura Wilcox]()
Laura Wilcox
Laura has been in academia for over three decades at the intersection of business, innovation, and education at MIT, MIT Sloan, and Harvard. She is the Director of Management and Finance Programs at Harvard University's Division of Continuing Education.
Instructors
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![Pamela Rucker]()
Pamela Rucker
Pamela is a featured speaker at CIO events in the United States, Canada, and Europe. She brings over 25 years of experience helping executives to understand their business drivers. Pamela earned a master's degree from Harvard University. -
![Headshot of PDP Instructor Jill Slye]()
Jill Abruzese Slye
Jill Slye has over 30 years of experience in business and teaches in multiple capacities across various schools at Harvard University. Her classes cover topics such as the fundamentals of public speaking and leadership communication. She is the founder of A Sounding Board, LLC, a global public speaking coaching company. -
![Emily F. Epstein]()
Emily F. Epstein
Emily served as associate faculty at Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation and adjunct faculty at the Georgetown University Law Center. She specializes in teaching negotiation, facilitation, mediation, and communication skills. She is the founder of Oakbay Consulting and a lecturer of law at the University of California Berkeley School of Law. -
![Areen Shahbari]()
Areen Shahbari
Areen has over 17 years of corporate, business training, and consulting experience. Through her two self-founded ventures, Areen Training and Consultancy, and Cactus International, as well as her roles as an instructor at Harvard, Stanford, and Babson Executive Education, Areen has offered training, consultancy, and coaching services to numerous firms, governments, non-profits, and startups globally. -
![Madeline McNeely]()
Madeline McNeely
Madeline teaches Non-Profit leadership and Community Engagement at Harvard Extension School and is Coach, Facilitator and Coach Recruiter at Harvard Business School. Supporting clients to think in innovative ways and develop new habits to solve their most vexing challenges is her sweet spot.
The Women in Leadership course helped me be more confident about speaking up. My skills in management and leadership expanded and the organization responded by promoting me.
Bernadette Boudreaux
Associate Director of Operations, The DesignLights Consortium, Atlanta, GA
Expand Your Network
With participants from more than 100 different countries and a variety of industries, Harvard Professional & Executive Development programs provide you the opportunity to gain fresh perspectives and unique insights as you learn alongside peers with similar roles who face like business challenges.
