Strategic Leadership Programme for Women Executives (Batch 2)

IIM Ahmedabad - Executive Education

Leadership, People & HR

Application Deadline Approaching

Last date to apply: October 20, 2026 · Program starts on November 12, 2026

About Programme

Over the last couple of decades, women leaders such as Indra Nooyi, Leena Nair, Jacinda Ardern, Sheryl Sandberg, Falguni Nayar, Sudha Murthy, and Kamala Harris among others have made headlines for breaking ‘glass ceiling’ in their respective domains. While we celebrate these successful stories of women leadership, one needs to be reminded that these success stories are far and few. The narrative is not very different for middle and senior-levels managers at workplace.

Programme Content

Module 1: Strategic Thinking

Building blocks of strategy including analysis, formulation and implementation

Fundamentals of behavioural strategy (cognition and biases in strategy)

Analysis-driven decision making

AI and strategy formulation

Module 2: Strategic Leadership

Building strategic leadership skills: tools and techniques

Anticipate futures through scenario planning and analogical reasoning

Navigating uncertainty through strategic decision trees

Probability and possibility thinking

Managing paradoxes through integrative thinking

Stakeholder management frameworks

Strategic leadership: women leaders as change catalysts

Module 3: Strategic Facilitators

Gender-related challenges in the workplace: work-life balance, mentorship challenges

Negotiation and conflict management strategies

Understanding leadership styles

Strategic communication and storytelling to build powerful personal brands

Building financial acumen

Programme Objective

The overarching objective of this programme is to assist women executives upskill themselves as they stive to achieve top leadership positions in organisations by:

Developing their strategic mindset via learning building blocks of strategy.

Nurturing the strategic leader within them by exposing them to relevant tools and techniques and by understanding the role of cognition in strategy.

Preparing them to be a leader of the modern world by understanding role of digital and AI in strategy formulation of a firm Enhancing their financial acumen for strategic decision making.

Helping them to navigate gender-related challenges in workplace to break the glass ceiling.

Developing strategic communication and storytelling skills to build personal leadership brand.

Alumni Benefits

IIMA Alumni Status: Participants who are attending short-duration Executive Education Programmes for the first time, on or after April 1, 2012, will have to attend for a total of 21 days in one or more programmes in order to be eligible for alumni status and alumni identity card, both of which will be awarded on the payment of a one-time alumni fee of INR 10,000/- + GST.

Pedagogy

Case method pedagogy

Group Exercises and experiential learning

Interactive lectures

Programme Audience

The programme is targeted towards women executives in middle, senior, and top management positions who aspire to occupy leadership positions of medium to large-sized organizations. Women entrepreneurs, who are looking for sharpening their strategic mindset, will also benefit from this programme.

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Prashansa Uttam

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+91 9403890085[email protected]Mon – Fri, 9am – 5pm IST

IIM Ahmedabad - Executive Education

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https://www.iima.ac.in/

Ahmedabad, India

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