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Yale SOM Executive Education: Women's Leadership Program: Leading With Power and Influence

Effectively harness your unique sources of power to become a positively energizing woman leader and changemaker.

Effectively harness your unique sources of power to become a positively energizing woman leader and changemaker.

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6 weeks
4–6 hours per week
Starts Mar 5, 2025
Enroll by Mar 11, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

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6 weeks
4–6 hours per week
Starts Mar 5, 2025
Enroll by Mar 11, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

About this Course

Duration : 6 weeks (excluding orientation)

For years, power in the workplace has been associated with traits such as persuasion, charisma, and outward displays of authority and strength. This has caused some women leaders to disidentify with power as a concept, even undermining their own progression. However, as traditional productivity metrics become unsustainable in the face of growing burnout and disengagement, a new leadership approach focusing on well-being, purpose, and belonging is needed. Communication, empathy, authenticity, and honesty hold more value than ever before.

The Women’s Leadership Program: Leading With Power and Influence from the Yale School of Management Executive Education equips you to become the positively energizing leader to drive change. Over the course of six weeks online, you’ll discover a broader definition of power as a buildable skill set that incorporates both strong and empathic traits and can shift depending on context. You’ll explore existing power structures and dynamics in organizations, and uncover how a growth mindset can help you influence others and effect positive change in your sphere of influence. Guided by experts, you’ll also discover key strategies that can help you use everyday junctures for power and change, and enhance your ability to cultivate positive relational energy to promote organizational success. Walk away with the tools and knowledge to effectively harness your unique power as a woman leader, and an official certificate of participation from a world-leading business school.1

1 Yale SOM (Mar, 2021).

Yale SOM Executive Education offers multiple online, on-campus, and live-online women's leadership programs. This program is a natural continuation of the online and on-campus versions of the Women’s Leadership Program and the online Women’s Leadership Program: Leading Teams . Each can be taken independently, as a stand alone program, but they also build on each other to offer a holistic approach to leadership. View all Yale SOM programs for women and those who support them here .

This program will benefit women leaders, including those in the C-suite and entrepreneurs or owners seeking to generate long-term success. Mid- and senior-level women managers will have the opportunity to build their skill sets and networks to advance in their careers, and professionals such as product or project managers, analysts, and consultants will gain the tools to become highly effective and energizing leaders. Professionals from across sectors, such as business development, media and marketing, finance, education, and the public sector will find great value in the program’s insights. While the program is primarily aimed at women, it will also be of relevance to all who want to understand structures of power and support positive change.

Course curriculum

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Expand your understanding of power and leadership as you work through the weekly modules of this online program.

Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1: Reframing power

Module 2: Leading with positive energy

Module 3: Harnessing your power

Module 4: Navigating structures of power

Module 5: Growth and power

Module 6: The power of the changemaker

About the certificate

Get recognized for your knowledge when you earn an official certificate of participation from the Yale SOM Executive Education.

Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with your digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the course handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the program.

Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you digitally upon successful completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements.

Some facts about the subject

$1.4 million

The amount that women leaders save their organizations for every 1,000 employees by driving greater engagement.

Potential Project (Mar, 2022).

61%

The share of women managers that consistently check on employee well-being (7% more than their male counterparts), while 31% provide emotional support (compared with 19% of men), and 21% take action to curb burnout (versus 16% of men).

McKinsey (2021).

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