Strategies for Leadership

IMD Business School

Leadership

About Programme

Research consistently demonstrates that gender diversity in senior leadership teams brings tangible value and financial returns for organizations. Yet women continue to face a unique set of challenges and limiting biases as they progress in their careers and assume roles of greater influence.

During this highly immersive leadership journey, you will have the opportunity to connect with senior women leaders from around the world. Together, you will explore your own leadership context and gain invaluable insights on how to navigate it effectively.

Since 2004, IMD’s constantly evolving Strategies for Leadership program has provided women from more than 80 countries with the tools necessary for addressing those challenges and strengthening their impact as leaders. You will learn how to build the leadership finesse, visibility, and influence to fuel your advancement and drive meaningful change within your organization.

Through a combination of extensive professional coaching and powerful experiential activities, you will develop a deep understanding of yourself as a leader, enhance your executive presence, and reflect on your personal leadership challenges.

By discovering and unlocking your most authentic leadership style, you will be able to move onwards and upwards in your career.

Expand your self-awareness

Explore who you are as a leader and how you are perceived by others. Discover your unique strengths and qualities, and reflect on your personal and professional identity.

Lead with authenticity

Cultivate your unique leadership style, aligned with your strengths and values, and learn to lead others with authenticity, clarity, and self-assurance.

Gain practical tools and strategies

Learn strategies and hands-on tools for bolstering your executive presence, delegating to others, coaching your team, communicating effectively across the organization, and increasing your impact.

Cultivate adaptive leadership

Learn to flex your leadership style to confidently navigate the professional complexities, biases, and invisible barriers that may be holding you back.

Build a lifelong network

Share experiences with a global group of inspiring women leaders and become part of the program’s supportive alumnae network.

This program is part of our broader portfolio of leadership programs for executives , designed to strengthen how you lead people, teams, and yourself, and build the kind of leadership that makes organizations perform.

Programme Content

Step 1 – Prepare

Self-paced preparation and online kick-off call

Prepare for the program with Program Director Ginka Toegel and peers in a preliminary call.

Complete the Big Five Personality Traits assessment to discuss the outcomes with your coach and peers on campus.

Write about a key leadership challenge you have encountered and wish to address, and reflect on key events that have influenced your personal and professional journey so far.

Step 2 – Explore

On campus and off-site, 3.5 days

Engage in a deeply insightful experience designed to explore who you are, how you lead, and how you can amplify your key leadership skills and qualities.

Gain fresh insights on women in leadership during plenary sessions.

Delve into your unique leadership context and challenges with an expert coach and peer group.

Experience a powerful off-site day of coaching with horses (no riding involved).

Acquire practical tools for enhancing leadership efficacy, including effective communication, delegation, and coaching skills.

Step 3 – Consolidate

One-on-one coaching session and program wrap-up

On the program’s final day, you will have a one-on-one session with an IMD expert coach to consolidate your learnings and experience. Your coach’s guidance will enable you to move forward with greater clarity, self-assurance, and a renewed connection to your authentic leadership essence.

Testimonials

"The program was a transformative experience in self-awareness and personal growth. One of the most unique and memorable components was working with horses – a profound reminder of the subtleties of leadership and the importance of alignment between mind, body, and message."

Valerie Konings

Finance and Admin Manager, NextWorld, Luxembourg

"Amazing things can happen when you get a group of highly intelligent, capable and inspiring women leaders together for an intensive few days. You build deep relationships with complete strangers, you gain deeper insights about yourself as a leader, and you gain a global network of like-minded women leaders you admire and want to work with again. All this within an environment that is safe and full of compassion and support. What more can you ask for?"

Niloofar Ghods

Senior Manager, Executive Assessment & Development, Cisco Systems, United States

"The highlight of this program is really the connections that you make because you establish very authentic relationships. They really impact you as an individual, as a person."

Marina Corti

International HR Director, Workplace and Social Responsibility, Cartier, Switzerland

"I gained quick and easy tips which I use on an ongoing basis and shared with more junior women in my group. I also took a lot from the coaching sessions that I am applying in my daily life."

Tift Shepherd

Director Legal, Specialty Chemicals, AkzoNobel Legal Group, The Netherlands

"The Strategies for Leadership annual alumnae event deepens the connections made during the program. You meet a wider network. It’s a moment in time to re-energize, connect, learn, and continue inspiring positive impact in the world. And it’s so much fun."

Feena May

President, Strategies for Leadership alumnae community

"The major impact of this program for me in one word is empowerment. It has given me the power to be a better leader in my current position, or to move on to the next stage."

Minna Wilkki

Head Of Department, European Research Executive Agency, Belgium

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Prashansa Uttam

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

IMD Business School

Executive Education Office

https://www.imd.org

Lausanne, Switzerland

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