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 and training for women students to prepare for advancement into such positions.

The curriculum and training is designed to address aspects of the challenges and rewards of women leaders to include empirically-based leadership training within the four leadership pillars of character, competence, context, and communication. The program is modeled on the leadership curriculum as developed by Callahan, C.W., & Grunberg, N. E. (2015). Among the many topics addressed, the program explores “Resilience in the workplace in the face of adversity or disappointment (CHARACTER), “The Art of negotiation and advocacy” (COMMUNICATION), “Various global, physical, psychological and social environments; how might this impact leadership effectiveness? (CONTEXT), “Competencies necessary for effective leadership: High emotional intelligence, self-awareness, empathy, self-management, relationship building” (COMPETENCE).

Benefits

Participants will gain access to a strong leadership curriculum, networking opportunities and a learning environment that encourages and enhances creative thinking. The curriculum includes leadership seminars and workshops, Q & A panels, career roundtables and guest speakers for Mihaylo students. Program participants are also assigned to meet and work one-on-one with professional business career coaches.

Program Requirements

All Mihaylo College of Business and Economics students enrolled as sophomores, juniors, seniors and graduate students are eligible for participation in the program. Students need to participate in five of six sessions scheduled throughout the academic year.