Yale School of Management Executive Education
Women’s Leadership Program: Leading Teams
- Real-world curriculum: Learn critical skills, frameworks, and research-backed strategies to manage people and teams in your context more effectively.
- Fully online: Attend live sessions and complete weekly asynchronous modules, videos, real-world case studies, and assignments.
- Expert faculty and a global network: Learn from industry leaders who are experts in their respective fields. Receive 1:1 support and expand your global network.
Start date
30 September 2026
95%
Cohort-based learning
Group learning, expert guidance
6 weeks
Excluding orientation
English
Access resources from start date
6–8 hours per week
Self-paced learning online
Program overview
Women with larger female peer groups/networks are 8.4% more likely to reach senior management roles.
Yale Insights (Aug, 2025).
The percentage of women in C-suite roles in a 2025 survey, unchanged from 2024.
McKinsey & Company (Dec, 2025).
Duration: 6 weeks (excluding orientation)
The most effective leaders possess a distinctive style and approach that sets them apart. The online Women’s Leadership Program: Leading Teams — from the Executive Education team at the Yale School of Management — teaches you how to discover and harness your innate leadership strengths to become a better manager.
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 management 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 managing, 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 here.
Is this program for you?
The online Yale SOM Executive Education Women’s Leadership Program: Leading Teams prepares women in leadership roles to thrive in a constantly evolving leadership environment. It caters to professionals who manage people or teams, including top executives, senior leaders, business owners, mid-level and senior managers, and aspiring leaders. The curriculum focuses on improving management skills in decision-making, developing leadership abilities, and expanding and leveraging networks.
The Yale SOM Executive Education Women’s Leadership Program: Leading Teams also provides opportunities for senior leaders and business founders to refine existing leadership skills and cultivate new ones while making valuable new connections. Mid- to senior-level managers can use the program to enhance their abilities and expand their professional network. 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 (excluding orientation)
The most effective leaders possess a distinctive style and approach that sets them apart. The online Women’s Leadership Program: Leading Teams — from the Executive Education team at the Yale School of Management — teaches you how to discover and harness your innate leadership strengths to become a better manager.
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 management 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 managing, 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 here.
Is this program for you?
The online Yale SOM Executive Education Women’s Leadership Program: Leading Teams prepares women in leadership roles to thrive in a constantly evolving leadership environment. It caters to professionals who manage people or teams, including top executives, senior leaders, business owners, mid-level and senior managers, and aspiring leaders. The curriculum focuses on improving management skills in decision-making, developing leadership abilities, and expanding and leveraging networks.
The Yale SOM Executive Education Women’s Leadership Program: Leading Teams also provides opportunities for senior leaders and business founders to refine existing leadership skills and cultivate new ones while making valuable new connections. Mid- to senior-level managers can use the program to enhance their abilities and expand their professional network. Aspiring leaders can gain valuable insight into what it takes to establish themselves as influential figures within their teams.
Get this course for your team
Leading organisations recognise the value of this course and invest in it to enhance their employees' skills and expertise.
What will set you apart
Practical tools and strategies grounded in research and applied directly to your context to improve your impact and the way you lead.
The ability to adapt to the changing leadership landscape with confidence, understand how context shapes your decisions, and build trust through feedback.
A sharper grasp of power dynamics, relationships, and influence, allowing you to establish credibility with key stakeholders and build a clearer case for your next career step.
Access to the exclusive Yale School of Management Executive Education Community group on LinkedIn upon successful completion of your program.Program curriculum
Orientation module
Welcome to your Online Campus
Module 1
Decision-making for team leaders
Module 2
How context shapes your decisions
Module 3
Understanding your network
Module 4
Leveraging your network
Module 5
Creating trust through feedback and psychological safety
Module 6
Leading through complexity and change
What past students
think
Yudany O.
Pro Bono Manager, Cleary Gottlieb
"I am walking away feeling much more confident and excited to lead with strategy and flexibility. I am committed to cultivating empowered teams while leaning into my network and leveraging those connections respectfully and wisely. The interactive sessions were exceptional!"
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. It culminates in a final capstone project. In order to be issued your digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the program handbook. You can chat to an enrollment specialist to learn more about the program requirements before you register, or view the program handbook once you start. You can also view general assessment information here.
Your digital certificates will be issued in your legal name and sent to you upon successful completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements.
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Discover the Online Campus
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.
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