Women's Leadership
Mission
The Women’s Leadership Program is designed and created to explore the challenges of under-representation of women within top leadership positions and offers creative solutions for women students to prepare for advancement into such positions.
About the Program
The Women's Leadership Program helps prepare female students to overcome barriers to their advancement into top leadership positions. To this end, participants attend seven intensive workshops over the academic year. Each workshop is focused on skills necessary to overcome specific barriers and challenges that are likely to be experienced, and to ultimately help students prepare to ascend into leadership over the course of their careers. To enhance leadership development, participants receive five individual coaching sessions with a certified professional coach.
Benefits
The Women’s Leadership Program offers $2,000 worth of direct leadership training relevant to the unique challenges women face in the workplace, and includes paid one-on-one coaching sessions, providing participants with a highly desirable competitive edge on their résumés when applying for jobs. Students report personal and professional growth that will positively impact their careers for the rest of their lives. Students who complete the program requirements also gain access to the WLP Private LinkedIn Peer Mentoring group designed to connect program graduates to alumni and other success female executives for advice and feedback throughout the participant’s career.
Program Requirements
All College of Business and Economics students enrolled as sophomores, juniors, seniors and graduate students with a minimum 3.0 GPA are eligible to participate in the program. Students need to participate in six of seven sessions scheduled throughout the academic year and complete five one-on-one coaching sessions to earn a WLP certificate of completion.