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Your Strategies for Leadership learning journey

Designed to ensure you can overcome obstacles and inspire others through genuine and impactful leadership.

Your Strategies for Leadership learning journey

Designed to ensure you can overcome obstacles and inspire others through genuine and impactful leadership.

Accelerate your leadership advancement through extensive executive coaching and experiential exercises

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.
Record a speech in preparation for the voice coaching provided in the program.

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.

The faculty, and the coaching, was extraordinary. In all parts of the program, they know how to keep the energy high and the intensity high in the participants. And I think that’s a very powerful sign of how intense, but also how valuable this program is.

Isabel Workel-Tijhuis Director HR International, ABN AMRO Bank N.V., The Netherlands

Bolster your ability to communicate strategy and vision and drive greater impact.

Boost your assertiveness and your ability to effectively manage upwards.

Enrich your networking skills to nurture and build your professional community.

Enhance your self-efficacy so you can perform at your best.

Strengthen your influence and visibility within your organization to create professional opportunities.

Schedule

Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4
Leadership Essentials	Leadership and Authenticity Life Chapters Exercise	Outdoor Day: Coaching with Horses	Parallel Sessions: 1x1 Coaching Skills Lab: • Influencing Skills • Voice Workshop
Self-Awareness and Leadership	Presence and Impact	Video Review Assignment Team Feedback Session	Self-Reflection
Opening Dinner	Free Evening	Working Dinner	Integration and Synthesis

Get a personal recommendation

Schedule a call with a Program Advisor to discuss your professional development and see if this is the program for you.

Join a free information session

Join online and experience a walkthrough of the Leadership programs, how they work, what you can expect and how it will impact your career.

See how this program has impacted past participants

Read success stories from Strategies for Leadership alumnae.