Yale School of Management Executive Education
Women’s Leadership Program
Identify your unique strengths and use them to drive network-supported innovation.
Starting soon
Start date
19 July 2023
Enroll by 11 July 2023
Course duration
6 weeks
Excluding orientation
Language
English
Access resources from start date
Effort
6–8 hours per week
Self-paced learning online
Program overview
LinkedIn research reveals that emotional intelligence is one of the most in-demand skills for organizations.
LinkedIn (Jan, 2020).
The proportion of senior management roles held by women globally in 2021, up from 25% in 2017.
Grant Thornton (2021).
Duration: 6 weeks (excluding orientation)
Women remain underrepresented in leadership roles globally. To succeed, women must learn to navigate both the external factors that hinder their access to leadership roles and the internal factors that could cost them opportunities for advancement.
The online Women’s Leadership Program from the Yale School of Management Executive Education equips you with the knowledge and skills to develop your full professional potential as leaders in society. Through exploration of values-based leadership and emotional self-mastery, you’ll strengthen your emotional intelligence, understand your individual strengths, and learn to harness creative thinking to maximize the capacity for business challenges, innovation, and problem-solving. Embark on a personal leadership development journey and learn to utilize your distinctive abilities to help guide yourself, your teams, and your organization towards success.
Is this program for you?
This online leadership course aims to equip existing and aspiring women leaders with the confidence, self-awareness, networking, and leadership communication skills to effectively lead their teams and organizations. Business leaders and senior managers will benefit from gaining insight into the behaviors that have the potential to shape future business, as well as leadership skills to effect positive change within their organizations. It’s also beneficial to middle and junior managers looking to gain personal and professional leadership development in order to prepare to move into a senior or executive management role.
Yale SOM Executive Education offers multiple online, on-campus and live-online women's leadership programs. View all Programs for Women.
Leadership skills and development
Through a women’s leadership program, you can discover your personal leadership philosophy and develop a framework to help make ethical decisions in ambiguous situations. You’ll maximize your professional potential through fresh perspectives and new ideas to help organizations thrive.
Organizational behavior
Learn about ways to increase creativity and problem-solving abilities in organizations. Develop a better understanding of your emotions and those of others to build more productive relationships and navigate difficult conversations. You’ll also improve your leadership communication skills and explore what it means to be a values-based leader.
Program overview
Introduction
Duration: 6 weeks (excluding orientation)
Women remain underrepresented in leadership roles globally. To succeed, women must learn to navigate both the external factors that hinder their access to leadership roles and the internal factors that could cost them opportunities for advancement.
The online Women’s Leadership Program from the Yale School of Management Executive Education equips you with the knowledge and skills to develop your full professional potential as leaders in society. Through exploration of values-based leadership and emotional self-mastery, you’ll strengthen your emotional intelligence, understand your individual strengths, and learn to harness creative thinking to maximize the capacity for business challenges, innovation, and problem-solving. Embark on a personal leadership development journey and learn to utilize your distinctive abilities to help guide yourself, your teams, and your organization towards success.
Is this program for you?
This online leadership course aims to equip existing and aspiring women leaders with the confidence, self-awareness, networking, and leadership communication skills to effectively lead their teams and organizations. Business leaders and senior managers will benefit from gaining insight into the behaviors that have the potential to shape future business, as well as leadership skills to effect positive change within their organizations. It’s also beneficial to middle and junior managers looking to gain personal and professional leadership development in order to prepare to move into a senior or executive management role.
Yale SOM Executive Education offers multiple online, on-campus and live-online women's leadership programs. View all Programs for Women.
Leadership skills and development
Through a women’s leadership program, you can discover your personal leadership philosophy and develop a framework to help make ethical decisions in ambiguous situations. You’ll maximize your professional potential through fresh perspectives and new ideas to help organizations thrive.
Organizational behavior
Learn about ways to increase creativity and problem-solving abilities in organizations. Develop a better understanding of your emotions and those of others to build more productive relationships and navigate difficult conversations. You’ll also improve your leadership communication skills and explore what it means to be a values-based leader.
What will set you apart
An understanding of your unique traits and attributes, which can be used as powerful leadership tools to help develop teams, drive innovation, and stimulate business growth.
The ability to leverage your relationships, connections, and interpersonal interactions to achieve your leadership goals.
A development plan that aligns your strengths, goals, and constructive feedback from your network.
Unlimited access to 2U’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
Values-driven leadership
Module 2
Self-knowledge and self-mastery
Module 3
Leading growth through experimentation
Module 4
Emotionally intelligent feedback
Module 5
Networks and structures of innovation
Module 6
Positive leadership
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Co-Conveners
Emma Seppälä
Lecturer in Management, Yale School of Management; Faculty Director, Yale School of Management’s Women’s Leadership Program
Rodrigo Canales
Former Lecturer in Organizational Behavior, Yale School of Management
About the certificate
Learn how to strategically leverage your strengths through this Women’s Leadership Program and earn an official certificate 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 course handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the course.
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