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Date(s)
Jul 07 - Sep 15, 2026
Registration Deadline
Location
Online
Course Length
10 weeks
Course Fee
$2,900
CEUs
8
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Women now are in more positions of leadership than ever before. However, there is still a long journey ahead of us in achieving equity. To accomplish this goal, it is necessary for us all to educate ourselves on gender equity and dive into the fundamentals of leadership. It is time to break the glass ceiling.

Women in Leadership: Becoming an Agent of Change provides the curriculum, tools, and techniques to become a catalyst for positive change and equity within your organization. Empower yourself to take bold risks in order to advance yourself, your team, and your organization in the face of adversity.

Course Overview
Faculty Contributors


MIT Professional Education’s online course in Women in Leadership cohesively consolidates the skills of a modern leader and the facilitation of achieving equity in your organization.  This course offers a paradigm shift in all aspects of innovative direction to elevate your skills and knowledge regarding the quintessential definition of leadership without frontiers. Become a trailblazing advocate equipped to disrupt the status quo of your organization, industry, and the world.

Women in Leadership Becoming an Agent of Change, with curriculum developed and taught by MIT faculty, is delivered in collaboration with Global Alumni.  Contact Global Alumni for more information about this program:

Global Alumni is an ed-tech company that collaborates with institutions to manage enrollments (including all payment services and invoicing), technology, and participant support. 

Learning Outcomes

The skills you will develop:

  • To understand what innovative research tells us about the most effective approaches to leadership in the 21st century era
  • To acknowledge, understand, and address the challenges facing women who seek leadership roles
  • To provide practical strategies and tactics to achieve equity in any organizational context
     
Who Should Attend

This program is directed to:

  • Aspiring leaders who must identify the skills needed for successful leadership and how to put them into practice.
  • Leaders in STEM careers looking to refine and take ownership of their leadership skills in a field where female participation is accelerating.
  • Managers who want to better comprehend the challenges that women in particular face in organizations and businesses in order to make an equitable difference.
  • Corporate roles cultivating their leadership approach and persona, public presentations, working within teams, and discovering transformational leadership.

Testimonials

I found the course content incredibly valuable and thoughtfully organized. Each module built on the previous one, making it easy to connect the dots between topics like gender norms, communication, team dynamics, and negotiation. I especially appreciated the balance between theory and application. For example, the discussion around double binds gave me new language to describe challenges I’ve experienced, and the sections on conflict resolution and negotiation helped me reflect on recent experiences with more confidence and clarity. I also appreciated how the course included practical communication strategies throughout the modules, such as how to tailor a message to different audiences and apply techniques like gender flexing. These tools made the course even more relevant to my daily work and helped connect the theory to real leadership situations.
Karla Pena - Sr Manager Manufacturing, Edwards Lifesciences
This program is fabulous! The content is excellent and the insight from the MIT Professors is invaluable! This course provides a wonderful opportunity for self-reflection, evaluation of experiences, and a springboard for future growth and development. Highly recommend!
Lisa Beach - Engineering Change Manager, American Battery Solutions Inc.
I wish to have done this course 20 years ago! This course helped me to answer very fundamental questions that I tried to answer by myself through observation. It provided me the background of how the things are in the state of business as today. Also, this course made me reflect on different ways of leadership styles and helped me to acknowledge my own voice and the type of leader I want to be. It validates my way of act, but more importantly, it opened the door to be expose to other greater tools to sharpen my desire to become even better. I learned the key elements to growth my career that none else talked me about it with an open and true desire to share the real way to get up through the corporate ladder. It was fascinating to discover new resources to build a more clear career path and be able to redesign my future actions to continue to move up in my career. Finally, I would like to thank all the professors that facilitated the course. It was very inspiring to see their true interest to support and advance women in leadership to the best of their knowledge and capabilities. Thanks also to our facilitator for her dedication and always be there for me to revise assignments and provide additional comments to enrich the discussions.
Erika Enciso Sosa - Head of LATAM New Franchise Recruiting, The Wendy's Company
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