Taking Charge: Women's Executive Leadership

The program structure for our virtual program will deliver all program modules via eight, live virtual sessions. These sessions will run from 12:00-4:00pm EST, (which is inclusive of a 30-minute break). Our programming will remain highly interactive, employing group exercises, discussions and case studies by leveraging breakout room capabilities within our online delivery technology.

Women in Leadership

• What's in the water
• Leadership and you
• Leadership styles
• Management versus leadership
• What role does gender play?

Leading Through Change

• Managing and promoting change
• Engaging followers and stakeholders
• Measuring and communicating results

The Power of Communication

• Negotiating well – types and styles
• Advocacy
• Interests versus positions
• Power negotiation
• Ethical standards
• Difficult conversations

Strategic Leadership

• Why strategic thinking is important
• Characteristics of strong strategic leaders
• Levels of strategic thinking / leadership
• Challenges to strategic leading and mitigations

360° Leadership Assessment

Coaching‐ Leading Teams

• Leader as coach: how to coach your people
• Individual and team feedback

Committed professional mid-to-senior level women who are:

• In a significant management role, demonstrating career progression
• Designated to assume increased responsibilities
• In a period of transition or moving between functional groups
• Desire enhanced presence and confidence for the next career stage

Organizational titles of participants may vary dependent on the size and type of their business. The cohort of 15-20 women may include program managers, senior directors, CFOs and financial managers, general counsels, operating managers, vice presidents and similar.

• Participants should have a minimum of eight years of progressively responsible experience within a corporate or professional organization.
• All participants are required to obtain agreement from their selected peers, direct reports, and manager to complete an assessment tool three weeks in advance of the program start. All results are kept confidential (as outlined in a letter that is provided for this exercise).

Without exception, the instructors are highly qualified experts in their fields, with extensive real-world experience. Most are also regular lecturers at the MBA level and all are actively involved in senior management consulting roles with some of the world's leading organizations. Some faculty featured in this program include: 

Wiley Davi (Phd Tufts University) Wiley Davi is Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences at Bentley University and an Associate Professor in English and Media Studies (EMS). Wiley has published articles on leadership, on the value of liberal learning in a business curriculum, and on diversity in the classroom. Currently, they are working on a co-authored book on leadership and metacognition. Since 2015, Wiley has served as a Women in Leadership program facilitator for the Erasmus Center for Women and Organizations (ECWO) out of the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University in the Netherlands. Through ECWO, they have worked with women in organizations such as ING Bank, TNO (a nonprofit that focuses on applied science), and the European Central Bank.

Jill Brown (PhD Strategic Management University of Georgia) is an associate professor of Management at Bentley University. Prior to her position in academe, she worked as a Commercial lender for several financial institutions, including BNY Mellon and First Fidelity Bank in Philadelphia, PA. She is also an executive with a family-owned manufacturing business. Professor Brown’s research, teaching, and consulting interests include ethics, corporate social responsibility, corporate governance and strategic leadership facilitation.