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Women's Leadership Excellence

Executive education program in English

Women`s Leadership Excellence (WLE.6)

Duration 3 Days
Location Berlin
Dates 7. - 9. Dec 2022
3,800 €

Women's Leadership Excellence (WLE.7)

Duration 3 Days
Location Berlin
Dates 28. - 30. Jun 2023
3,900 €

Women's Leadership Excellence (WLE.8)

Duration 3 Days
Location Berlin
Dates 6. - 8. Dec 2023
3,900 €

Maximize your impact as female leader

This program is about the excellence women bring to leadership. Maximize your and your team’s impact and learn how to overcome bias, strengthen your leadership talent and evaluate your career options. Learn how to emphasize both yourself-development and that of others in a supportive and collaborative environment.

  • Your profile

    • Female executives with responsibility for a team(s) or large projects.

  • Benefits

    • Learning how gender diversity is key to sustainable organizational success
    • Working on your own authentic female leadership excellence
    • Understanding policies and practices that attract more women into senior positions
    • Challenging stereotypes and bias
    • Recognizing what will support/hinder your individual career progress

  • Topics

    • Debunking leadership myths
    • Promoting yourself and others
    • Maximizing your impact
    • Remaining authentic to your inner leadership style
    • The relative importance of mentors, coaches, and networks for leading  women
    • Creating presence and charisma
    • Communicating with clarity and flair

Your profile

  • Female executives with responsibility for a team(s) or large projects.

Benefits

  • Learning how gender diversity is key to sustainable organizational success
  • Working on your own authentic female leadership excellence
  • Understanding policies and practices that attract more women into senior positions
  • Challenging stereotypes and bias
  • Recognizing what will support/hinder your individual career progress

Topics

  • Debunking leadership myths
  • Promoting yourself and others
  • Maximizing your impact
  • Remaining authentic to your inner leadership style
  • The relative importance of mentors, coaches, and networks for leading  women
  • Creating presence and charisma
  • Communicating with clarity and flair

Women`s Leadership Excellence (WLE.6)

Duration 3 Days
Location Berlin
Dates 7. - 9. Dec 2022
3,800 €

Women's Leadership Excellence (WLE.7)

Duration 3 Days
Location Berlin
Dates 28. - 30. Jun 2023
3,900 €

Women's Leadership Excellence (WLE.8)

Duration 3 Days
Location Berlin
Dates 6. - 8. Dec 2023
3,900 €
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Application for admission
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Group picture ESMT Women's Leadership Excellence Program 2020
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Video

Program Director Nora Grasselli provides an overview of the program.

Video

Lucy Han, a participant in Women's Leadership Excellence 2020, offers insight into her experience

Testimonial

Aleksandra Sienkiewicz

Global Application Development Manager, Clariant Produkte (Deutschland) GmbH
Testimonial

"Many businesses try to improve outcomes by thinking about diversity. In order for that diversity to work, it must be focused and cognitive. You have to identify, accept and then bring in skill sets that you or your team currently lack."

Learn more about Helen's experience at ESMT in her blog article.
Leadership Transition Survey

Please support our research by completing the ESMT Berlin Leadership Transition Survey

Link to survey

Meet our teaching staff

The programs have been 
designed – and will be led –
by ESMT faculty members 
and ESMT visiting faculty. 
They will also guide and 
advise you throughout 
your studies.

Nan Guo

Program Director, Executive Education, ESMT Berlin

Gianluca Carnabuci

Professor of Organizational Behavior and Ingrid and Manfred Gentz Chair in Business and Society, ESMT Berlin

Didi Hopkins

Actor, Director, Voice-over Artist & Lecturer

Tatiana Lluent

Assistant Professor of Strategy and Volkswagen Group Junior Chair for Diversity in Organizations, ESMT Berlin
Program Structure

Teaching methods

  • Innovative exercises
  • Workshops with peers and faculty
  • Pair and group work
  • Group coaching
  • Interactive lectures
  • Plenary discussions
  • Networking events

Day 1

  • Women’s Leadership
  • Context Gender at  work
  • Leadership  transitions  and  gender  dynamics
  • Building effective networks

Day 2

  • Women’s Leadership Toolset
  • Feedback
  • Group coaching
  • Peer consulting

Day 3

  • Women’s Leadership in Action
  • Projecting authority and confidence
  • In the spotlight

Listen to the podcast featuring Didi Hopkins, lecturer in the Women's Leadership Excellence program

Postgraduate Diploma in Management

Postgraduate Diploma in Management

This program can also be taken as part of the Postgraduate Diploma in Management curriculum. Bring your career to the next level and gain the formal recognition of your professional development with this university-level certificate.

Earn your certificate
Your Program Advisor

Contact

​​​​​​​Beatrix Becker
Manager Business Development, ESMT Berlin

Phone: +49 30 21231 6205

Request a call back

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