- Understand your unique leadership context and style
- Gain practical tools to bolster your leadership finesse
- Join a vibrant community of senior women leaders
Key benefits
Strategies for Leadership program brings together senior women leaders from around the world and is designed to enable you to develop greater impact by revealing your most effective leadership style.
Explore your own leadership context & develop your self-awareness by engaging in an immersive peer-to-peer interaction, professional coaching and thought-provoking plenary sessions.
Learn to flex your leadership style and confidently navigate the professional complexities, biases and invisible barriers that may be holding you back.
Share experiences with a global group of inspiring women leaders and become part of a supportive and lifelong network.
Move onwards and upwards in your career
How the program works
Strategies for Leadership is an immersive leadership journey. You will begin with self-paced preparation, before joining faculty, coaches and peers on campus for 3.5 days. After the program, you will have an individual follow-up session with your personal coach.
1. Explore: self-paced preparation
Before the program begins, you will meet your program director and go through self-paced assignments that are designed to help you identify your key leadership challenge, and maximize program outcomes.
2. Reveal & Apply: face-to-face
Engage in a deeply, immersive experience over 3.5 days - designed to explore who you are and how you lead, strengthen key leadership skills and allow you to build strong connections with other women leaders from around the world. Put all you learn and experience into context through thought-provoking plenary sessions, giving you new insights and fresh perspectives.
Your personal coach will help you to consolidate your learnings within the context of your leadership challenge. This will help you to find clarity on how to move confidently onwards and upwards.
3. Fly: individual follow-up
3 months after the program, your personal coach will help you take stock of how far you’ve come, where you stand with your leadership challenge and ensure that you have what you need to reach new heights in your career and professional life.
Program covers key topics such as:
- Your ability to communicate your strategy and vision and drive greater impact
- Your assertiveness and your ability to effectively manage upwards
- Your networking skills and how to build your professional community
- Your self-confidence and self-belief so you can perform at your best
- Your influence and visibility within your organization to create professional opportunities
Throughout the program, you will take part in wide-ranging and challenging discussions, intensive group assignments and experiential excercises. The program design gives ample opportunities for rich interaction with peers, faculty and professional coaching.
Participants profile
Connect with an inspirational group of senior women leaders, across industries, countries and cultures, who are all facing similar challenges to you.
Your journey doesn’t finish with the end of the program but continues as you join a vibrant community of alumni. Join us each year for the Strategies for Leadership Alumni event to further enrich your network and your learning.
What our participants say
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Learn to navigate the unique challenges women leaders face. Download program information to know more about:
- The program learning journey
- Benefits for you and your organization
IMD is ranked #1 in the world for Open Programs for the ninth consecutive year in the 2020 Financial Times Executive Education Rankings.
