Unearth your unique sources of power and learn how to utilize them to energize others, enact positive change, and drive organizational success.
6 weeks,
excluding orientation
4–6 hours per week,
self-paced learning online
Weekly modules,
flexible learning
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A new and up-to-date view of power as an ever-developing skill set, comprising both strong and empathetic attributes.
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Enhanced knowledge of how you can excel within existing organizational power structures, while bringing about meaningful change.
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Practical strategies for leveraging your unique power, cultivating a growth mindset, and using everyday junctures to become an energizing leader.
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Access to a global network of like-minded women leaders from diverse backgrounds, seeking to grow their impact.*
*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 Reframing power
Examine power as a two-dimensional entity of strength and connection that can be shifted depending on the context.
Module 2 Leading with positive energy
Explore positive energy as a powerful predictor of leadership and organizational success.
Module 3 Harnessing your power
Address the internal factors that can prevent you from harnessing your power.
Module 4 Navigating structures of power
Explore how to navigate organizational structures and generate power from within.
Module 5 Growth and power
Explore the practical implications and challenges associated with implementing a growth approach in organizations.
Module 6 The power of the changemaker
Explore what you can do in everyday junctures to create a sense of agency and meaningful impact.
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.
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.
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.
Michael Kraus
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, Yale School of Management
Kraus is a social psychologist and specialist in the study of inequality, with a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. His current work explores the behaviors and emotional states that maintain and perpetuate economic and social inequality in society. He also studies the emotional processes that allow individuals and teams to work together more effectively. Kraus’ research has appeared in Psychological Review, Perspectives on Psychological Science, and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. He currently teaches the courses Power and Politics and Global Virtual Teams in the Yale SOM core curriculum, and is also the director of the university’s summer internship in organizational behavior.
“Your strengths are a gift to everyone around you. They can really help you excel as a leader, and they are probably talents, gifts, strengths that make you happy when you engage in them. So, there’s really something to take in and think about: are you using them currently in your life and how can you use them more? How can they inform you about how to lead a team and how to bring out the strengths in others?”
– Emma Seppälä, Lecturer in Management, Yale SOM; Program Lead Convener
GetSmarter (Nov, 2021).
This Yale SOM Executive Education online program is delivered in collaboration with online education provider GetSmarter, part of edX. Join a growing community of global professionals, and benefit from the opportunity to:
Gain invaluable competencies and recognition from an international selection of universities and institutions, online and in your own time.
Enjoy a personalized, people-mediated online learning experience created to make you feel supported at every step.
Experience a flexible but structured approach to online education as you plan your learning around your life to meet weekly milestones.