Empower your Women Leaders to Drive Impact
Women often face overwhelming workloads and stress, resulting in higher levels of burnout. It’s time for the women leaders in your organization to thrive in leadership roles, and to have the tools to lead with intention and impact, without getting overwhelmed. Realize the benefits of a more engaged and high-performing workforce to drive improved team performance, profitability, and market share for your organization. This program is designed for women leaders and people managers in addition to high-potential leaders you are looking to retain, advance and grow at your organization.
For your Dispersed and On-the-Go Workforce
This virtual program, available as an instructor-led or self-paced offering, focuses on the practices designed to empower participants to lead effectively and help others around them do the same, fostering honest conversations and more engaged and impactful teams.
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or Self-paced |
23 hours live sessions 45-60 minutes per module |
Simmons University Certificate |
Proven Practices Based on Best-Seller Arrive & Thrive
The learning journey focuses on the six practices featured in the best-selling book Arrive and Thrive: 7 Impactful Practices for Women Navigating Leadership. Each practice is designed to help participants better understand and leverage their unique personal powers to uncover new ways to live and lead purposefully, reinvigorating their own leadership charter and inspiring others around them to create a more engaged, high-performing culture.
Bring this Offering to My Organization
Are you interested in advancing and/or retaining high-potential women in your organization? The Leading with Impact program is ideal for groups of leaders and can be customized to meet your organizational goals.
Who Should Attend
- Mid-career and high-potential women leaders and managers capable of leading your organization into the future.
- The program can also be tailored and delivered to the leaders in your organization.
6 expert-facilitated live sessions
Interactive virtual sessions that run 3-4 hours long, incorporate a blend of guided discussion on highlighted topics, small group work, and reflection exercises.
Independent and group work
Participants use a journal throughout the program that features our “Power Recap” of key points for quick reference, as well as designated prompts to record guided reflections.
Networking and peer group support
The program includes formal and informal opportunities for participants to cultivate relationships among the cohort and encourages ongoing connection for support after the program concludes.
Coaching
One-on-one coaching sessions facilitate self-awareness, reflection and real-time feedback to fast-track each participant's growth. Coaching is also available in a small group format, helping participants learn in real-time from their peers.
Action-Oriented Keynotes
Maximize Adoption to Scale Learning Impact
If you plan to roll out the self-paced version of this program, bring an Institute expert in to deliver a keynote as your kick-off event. Achieve greater alignment across your organization and realize high participation rates and greater impact.
Impact and Outcomes
As a result of attending this program, your participants will:
- Lead their teams with more purpose towards a clearly defined, shared vision in alignment with your organizational objectives
- Gain clarity on how to move the needle on their specific leadership issues, challenges, and barriers to thriving through executive coaching
- Learn how to create a healthy team environment that allows everyone to thrive, creating a more engaged and inclusive culture
- Bring a more authentic version of themselves to your organization’s culture by identifying who they are at their best and how to lead from the best version of themselves
Available as an Instructor-Led or Self-Paced Learning Journey
Instructor-led is ideal for:
Self-paced is ideal for:
Learn more about Leading With Impact as a self-paced learning experience.
Curriculum Overview
Investing in Your Best Self
Spend more time operating from your best self:
- Understand who you are at your best.
- Learn what enables you to be in your best self and what blocks you.
- Consider what would be possible if you lived more of your life from your best self.
- Discuss how harshness towards yourself and others impacts your ability to be your best self.
- Learn a process for returning to your best self when you are activated into harshness.
Embracing Authenticity
Navigate the complexities of authenticity to show up more authentically at work:
- Understand the relationship between your best self and your authentic self.
- Discuss how to navigate the desire to be true to yourself with the need to grow and evolve.
- Clarify your values to support your understanding of your authentic self.
- Explore how to show up as your authentic self in a balanced and measured way, especially when you aren’t in the majority population.
Cultivating Courage
Take courageous and thoughtful action when risks emerge:
- Understand the sources of courage and identify your personal sources.
- Discover how you have already created conditions for courage.
- Learn tools for taking courageous action.
- Discuss how to act with courage despite the risk of failure.
Fostering Resilience
Bounce back more quickly from setbacks and adversity:
- Understand resilience’s role in thriving and how it differs from coping.
- Use the “S Curve of learning” to understand your current state and how that impacts your need for resilience.
- Discuss the role of well-being in resilience.
- Develop your personal circles of support.
Inspiring a Bold Vision
Develop and compellingly enroll others in your bold vision:
- Capture the “whispers of your heart” to inspire your vision.
- Develop a vision statement for your organization and for yourself.
- Ground your vision in purpose.
- Practice how to communicate your vision with enthusiasm.
Creating a Healthy Team Environment
Help build a team environment where you and your team members can thrive:
- Discuss how to develop psychological safety.
- Learn how to bring an appreciative approach to challenging interactions.
- Explore how to understand and unleash team member strengths.
- Plan how your team can learn and develop together.
Our Faculty
Our Faculty
Audra Bohannon
Founder, Bohannon Advisory
Susan MacKenty Brady
CEO of Simmons University Institute for Inclusive Leadership
Samantha Tan
Consultant & Executive Coach
Kerry Seitz
Vice President, Women’s Leadership, Simmons University Institute for Inclusive Leadership
Elisa van Dam
Vice President, Allyship & Inclusion, Simmons University Institute for Inclusive Leadership
