Improve your decision-making approach, leverage your network, and utilize everyday leadership moments for maximum impact within your team.
6 weeks,
excluding orientation
6–8 hours per week,
self-paced learning online
Weekly modules,
flexible learning
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Practical tools and strategies to improve your leadership impact and lead others effectively.
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The agility to adapt to the changing leadership landscape confidently, and the skills and capabilities of a future-ready leader.
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An understanding of your authentic network type, and the knowledge to strengthen and build your network within your unique context.
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Access to a global network of like-minded professionals, along with a clearer, broader perspective of women’s leadership.*
* Upon successful completion of your program, you’ll gain access to the exclusive Yale School of Management Executive Education Community group on LinkedIn.
Over the duration of this online program, you’ll work through the following modules:
Module 1 Decision-making for team leaders
Discover the Vroom-Yetton-Jago model, a research-backed approach to making superior decisions when leading teams.
Module 2 Contextual leadership and decision-making for teams
Discover the role of contextual factors in your decision-making and how the Vroom-Yetton-Jago model can improve your approach.
Module 3 Understanding your network
Reconsider your perspective on networks, and explore the benefits and drawbacks of your own network.
Module 4 Leveraging your network
Learn how to strengthen and build your network.
Module 5 Leadership in the everyday
Engage with moments of impact that make up the experience of everyday organizational life.
Module 6 The future of leadership
Face the future of work with agility.
Please note that module titles and their contents are subject to change during program development.
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.
Heidi Brooks
Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behavior, Yale School of Management
Brooks is a life-long experiential learner with a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. She teaches and advises on the subject of everyday leadership, and is passionate about creating more courageous communities — especially within organizations. Brooks specializes in large-scale culture change projects that focus on individual and collective leadership effectiveness in business. Her MBA elective, Interpersonal Dynamics, is one of the most in-demand courses at Yale School of Management.
Marissa King
Professor of Organizational Behavior, Yale School of Management
With a PhD from Columbia University, King is interested in social networks, social influence, and team dynamics. Her research has covered various topics from the role that networks play in addressing opioid abuse and the loneliness epidemic to the behaviors necessary for large-scale organizational change. She’s also the author of Social Chemistry: Decoding the Elements of Human Connection. Her research and book have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, and National Public Radio.
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