WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP PROGRAM

Leverage your unique leadership capabilities to drive business forward, and lead your organizations and teams effectively.

Duration

6 weeks, excluding
orientation

Effort

6–8 hours per week,
entirely online

Learning Format

Weekly modules,
flexible learning

On completion of this program, you’ll walk away with:

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The skills to harness your unique traits and characteristics as powerful leadership tools to effectively develop teams and organizations.

2

The ability to leverage relationships, connections, and interpersonal interactions to help drive business growth and innovation.

3

A personalized development plan that will help you to identify your strengths and guide you towards achieving your goals.

4

The opportunity to interact with like-minded women from diverse backgrounds seeking to add value to their organizations.*

*Upon successful completion of your program, you’ll also join the exclusive Yale School of Management Executive Education group on LinkedIn

Program outline

Over the duration of this online program, you’ll work through the following modules:

Module breakdown
Please note that module titles and their contents are subject to change during program development.

Module 1: Values-driven leadership
Explore your core values and traits to become an effective leader.

Module 2: Self-knowledge and self-mastery
Learn about the value of having self-awareness and practicing self-mastery.

Module 3: Leading growth through experimentation
Use experimentation to develop your personal and organizational approaches to leadership and innovation.

Module 4: Emotionally intelligent feedback
Draw on emotional awareness in order to have difficult conversations and use feedback effectively.

Module 5: Networks and structures of innovation
Understand the role networks play in developing personal strengths, innovation, and leadership.

Module 6: Positive leadership
Understand how using positive leadership practices can improve your personal leadership capabilities and strengthen your organization.

Program Co-conveners

Emma Seppälä

Lecturer in Management, Yale School of Management; Faculty Director, Yale School of Management’s Women’s Leadership Program

Seppälä graduated from Yale (BA), Columbia (MA), and Stanford (PhD). She consults with Fortune 500 leaders and employees on building a positive organization and has spoken at TEDx Sacramento, TEDx Hayward, and at companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook, Bain & Company, Ernst & Young, as well as a United States Congressional Hearing. Seppälä is also the founder and editor-in-chief of Fulfillment Daily, a popular news site dedicated to the science of happiness, and author of The Happiness Track.

Rodrigo Canales

Former Lecturer in Organizational Behavior, Yale School of Management

Canales graduated from Universidad Iberoamericana (BA) and MIT (MBA and PhD). He is the teacher of the Innovator’s Perspective at Yale SOM, and conducts research at the intersection of organizational theory and institutional theory, with a special focus on the role of institutions for economic development. Specifically, Canales studies how individuals’ backgrounds, professional identities, and organizational positions affect their relationships to existing structures and the strategies they pursue to change them. His work contributes to a deeper understanding of the mechanisms that allow institutions to operate and change. Canalas has acted as an adviser to the Mexican government on the US-Mexico bilateral relationship and sits on the board of the trustees of the Nature Conservancy, as well as on the advisory board of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.

An online education that sets you apart

This Yale School of Management Executive Education online program is delivered in collaboration with online education provider GetSmarter. Join a growing community of global professionals, and benefit from the opportunity to:

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Enjoy a personalized, people-mediated online learning experience created to make you feel supported at every step.

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Experience a flexible but structured approach to online education as you plan your learning around your life to meet weekly milestones.

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