High-Potential Women Leaders Program

Theres no time like the present to embark on your leadership journey. High-Potential Women Leaders Program gives you powerful skills, strategies, confidence, and connections to meet your professional goals and deepen your impact. This intensive, two-week

is a research-driven, career-accelerating experience that will not only transform the way you negotiate and manage teams, it will fundamentally change the way you lead.

Its no surprise that men and women differ in their leadership styles. But even when they do the same thing, they are often perceived differently. As a high-potential woman leader preparing to take on more responsibilities, learning how to navigate the workplace and broaden your executive presence are essential. High-Potential Women Leaders Program will help you understand where power comes from, and, more importantly, what you can do moving forward to increase your influence and impact.

Youll gain insights from Stanford GSB faculty members who make it their business to help you challenge your assumptions, confront your fears, and turn obstacles into opportunities. Explore the perceptions, behaviors, stereotypes, and backlash that women uniquely face, and transform those empirical results into effective strategies and solutions. And, experience it all in the company of other dedicated women as you create a personal and professional network you can leverage throughout your career. This program is open to individuals of all backgrounds and genders.

Where does power come from? What role does humor play in leadership? Is it better to be adversarial or collaborative at the negotiating table?

High-Potential Women Leaders Program has developed a highly-specialized curriculum to help you explore how to use your power, strengthen your influence, and transform your leadership skills and career trajectory. All optimized for a virtual environment. Sessions focus on the issues of power and relationships, negotiation, team effectiveness, social networks, and influence. Because these are the most critical and complicated issues facing women in the workplace.

In our live online classroom you will:

Engage directly with world-renowned faculty through real-time lectures, QA, and office hours

Participate in hands-on negotiation simulations

Collaborate and connect with other women leaders through discussions and group-based exercises

Program Highlights

Below are just a few of the sessions youll attend as part of the program.

The Challenges and Surprising Opportunities When Women Negotiate

In this session we will explore the reasons why women are less likely to initiate negotiations than their male counterparts. This session focuses on the basic components of preparation for negotiation as well as identifying the ways in which women can successfully frame their negotiations to mitigate the backlash that may accompany initiating a negotiation.

The AI-Powered Organization

Whether we like it or not, AI is changing how organizations operate. In this non-technical session, we will focus not on how AI works, but on the kinds of problems it can solve. We will distinguish between predictive and generative AI, and introduce frameworks for understanding which kinds of tasks can be fully outsourced to AI, which can be augmented by AI, and which should remain exclusively the purview of human decision-makers. As we will discuss, AI introduces many opportunities and risks. Successful organizations will integrate AI into their operations without ceding strategic decision-making to the machines.

Getting (more of) What You Want: Creating and Claiming Value

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We have chosen topics and designed sessions to improve the skills and tools of women and address the challenges that they uniquely face.

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Margaret A. Neale, Faculty Co-Director

Everyone negotiates. Yet many people often think of negotiation only as a relatively rare event, involving an interaction between a buyer and a seller. Yet, in its various forms, negotiation is a much more ubiquitous and routine process used to resolve differences and allocate scarce resources with two or more parties. Even though we may negotiate almost continuously, it is clear that we (and others) leave resources on-the-table, agree to contracts and outcomes that are not in our best interest, and do little systematic assessment of either the quality of negotiated agreements or the appropriateness of our behavior.

Acting with Power

In this session, Professor Deborah Gruenfeld and author of the new book Acting with Power: Why We Are More Powerful Than We Believe, addresses how what we need from our leaders is changing, and how women leaders, in particular, can rise to the occasion, by learning to wield power without fear.

A New Type of Leader Anchored on Purpose, Fueled by Humor

You, oh fearless leader of the future (and maybe present), are very important. You will make critical and far-reaching economic, political, and social decisions in your quest beyond Stanford to change lives, change organizations, and change the world. Thats serious stuff. So why humor? Our goal is to pin you down and not let you walk away from this session without a healthy dose of humanity, humility, and intellectual perspective that only humor can bring. Drawing upon the behavioral science of humor and laughter, this class is about the power (and importance) of humor to help leaders be more authentic and influential, cultivate more meaningful and productive relationships, produce more innovative ideas, and build more nimble and resilient teams and organizations.

Develop powerful negotiating skills and rethink your approach to negotiation.

Understand how to create and manage teams by analyzing team composition, leveraging information sharing, and resolving leadership issues.

Improve your executive presence, learn how your personal leadership style impacts others, and gain greater awareness of your personal strengths.