What women leaders say about Strategies for Leadership

Amazing things can happen when you get a group of highly intelligent, capable and inspiring women leaders together for an intensive few days. You build deep relationships with complete strangers, you gain deeper insights about yourself as a leader, and you gain a global network of like-minded women leaders you admire and want to work with again. All this within an environment that is safe and full of compassion and support. What more can you ask for?

Niloofar Ghods

Senior Manager, Executive Assessment & Development | Cisco Systems | United States


The faculty, and the coaching, was extraordinary. In all parts of the program, they know how to keep the energy high and the intensity high in the participants. And I think that’s a very powerful sign of how intense, but also how valuable this program is.

Isabel Workel-Tijhuis

Director HR International | ABN AMRO Bank N.V. | The Netherlands


I gained quick and easy tips which I use on an ongoing basis and shared with more junior women in my group. I also took a lot from the coaching sessions which I am applying in my daily life.

Tift Shepherd

Director Legal, Specialty Chemicals | AkzoNobel Legal Group | The Netherlands


Discover Strategies for Leadership program's impact

Individuals and teams from all over the world join this comprehensive strategic program to build essential skills that will take their businesses forward. Read some of their stories.

"What I really learned in this program is having some practical tools that fit my own leadership style"
says Isabel Workel-Tijhuis, Director HR International at ABN AMRO Bank N.V.

Isabel describes IMD’s faculty and coaching as “extraordinary” and found the program well-balanced, powerful and very valuable.

"The major impact that it had on me is that it made me very self-aware"
says Marina Corti, Group Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Director at Richemont

Moments of very honest, caring feedback from her classmates allowed Marina to learn a lot about how other people perceive her and what she can improve.

“Inspirational, empowering, invaluable"
says Nicole Watson, CEO of Econic Earth Foundation

Nicole says the program made her realize what she needed to shift within herself to become a stronger, clearer leader.

"I had a chance to work with the best coach I've ever had"
says Jessica Bobet, Global Expert Lead at GSK Consumer Health

Jessica describes the program as “Life-changing, powerful and challenging with care” and says, for her, it was key to bringing clarity to areas where women build their own biases and limitations.

"I don't think I would have done this project if I had not attended this program"
says Yumiko Toeda, President at Ango Hotels

Yumiko explains how she found inspiration through the program to create the hotel of her dreams in her native Japan.

"I created a totally new professional path for myself"
says Taina Mäkijärvi, First Vice President at Nordea

Taina describes the benefits of learning in an environment made up of women only, something which didn't exist in her workplace.

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