What You'll Learn
This program invites emerging women leaders to attend interactive online sessions designed to foster leadership, professional growth, and gender equity in the workplace.
Organizations thrive and out-perform their competitors when they have greater gender equality and a strong pipeline of diverse talent in which to tap. This unique leadership program is designed to help emerging women leaders achieve their goals.
The curriculum develops high-potential leaders at multiple levels with the skills to advance their own careers and to promote diversity in the workplace.
This 5-week program will blend pre-work, live instruction, self-driven action items, and group consultation to assist emerging women leaders in the development of their key attributes to become strategic leaders. During each week of live instruction, participants are led by industry professionals on varying leadership topics, creating a robust program.
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
Women emerging as leaders with 3-7 years of leadership experience. For high-potential women moving into leadership roles, this program provides the tools and unique perspective to be successful within their organizations. They will gain the skills they need to lead, communicate, and negotiate with confidence.
Instructors
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![Pamela Rucker]()
Pamela Rucker
Pamela Rucker brings more than 25 years of experience helping executives to understand their business drivers, and to develop solutions that increase their bottom line. She has worked in diverse industries, and her expertise and… -
![Jill Abruzese Slye]()
Jill Abruzese Slye
Jill Slye teaches multiple courses and Professional Development Programs on Public Speaking, Professional Presenting, and Leadership Communication at Harvard University Extension School. Additionally, she teaches at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine offering the MMSc… -
![Emily F. Epstein]()
Emily F. Epstein
Emily F. Epstein 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. In the past,… -
![Areen Shahbari]()
Areen Shahbari
Areen Shahbari has over 15 years of corporate, business training, and consulting experience, working with local and international companies, governments, and NGOs. She is the CEO of Shahbari Training & Consultancy, an instructor at Harvard… -
![Julie Jungalwala]()
Julie Jungalwala
Julie M. Jungalwala has over 15 years experience as a leadership consultant, trainer, and coach working with a wide range of for-profit and nonprofit clients across the United States and Europe. Her workplace skill-building programs…
Instructors
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![Pamela Rucker]()
Pamela Rucker
Pamela Rucker brings more than 25 years of experience helping executives to understand their business drivers, and to develop solutions that increase their bottom line. She has worked in diverse industries, and her expertise and… -
![Jill Abruzese Slye]()
Jill Abruzese Slye
Jill Slye teaches multiple courses and Professional Development Programs on Public Speaking, Professional Presenting, and Leadership Communication at Harvard University Extension School. Additionally, she teaches at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine offering the MMSc… -
![Areen Shahbari]()
Areen Shahbari
Areen Shahbari has over 15 years of corporate, business training, and consulting experience, working with local and international companies, governments, and NGOs. She is the CEO of Shahbari Training & Consultancy, an instructor at Harvard… -
![Julie Jungalwala]()
Julie Jungalwala
Julie M. Jungalwala has over 15 years experience as a leadership consultant, trainer, and coach working with a wide range of for-profit and nonprofit clients across the United States and Europe. Her workplace skill-building programs… -
![Madeline McNeely]()
Madeline McNeely
Madeline McNeely’s mission is to condition leaders and organizations to do meaningful work for decades. Conditioning Leaders LLC, the company she founded in 1994, works with organizational leaders to produce high-quality results, design collaborative processes,…
Instructors
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![Pamela Rucker]()
Pamela Rucker
Pamela Rucker brings more than 25 years of experience helping executives to understand their business drivers, and to develop solutions that increase their bottom line. She has worked in diverse industries, and her expertise and… -
![Jill Abruzese Slye]()
Jill Abruzese Slye
Jill Slye teaches multiple courses and Professional Development Programs on Public Speaking, Professional Presenting, and Leadership Communication at Harvard University Extension School. Additionally, she teaches at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine offering the MMSc… -
![Emily F. Epstein]()
Emily F. Epstein
Emily F. Epstein 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. In the past,… -
![Areen Shahbari]()
Areen Shahbari
Areen Shahbari has over 15 years of corporate, business training, and consulting experience, working with local and international companies, governments, and NGOs. She is the CEO of Shahbari Training & Consultancy, an instructor at Harvard… -
![Julie Jungalwala]()
Julie Jungalwala
Julie M. Jungalwala has over 15 years experience as a leadership consultant, trainer, and coach working with a wide range of for-profit and nonprofit clients across the United States and Europe. Her workplace skill-building programs…
Expand Your Network
With participants from more than 100 different countries and a variety of industries, Harvard Professional 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.
