Women in Leadership: Becoming an Agent of Change

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Lead Instructor(s)

Date(s)

Dec 17, 2024 - Mar 11, 2025

Registration Deadline

Dec 17, 2024

Location

Online

Course Length

10 weeks

Course Fee

$2,900

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Women are now 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 and Leadership 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

Kara Blackburn

Senior Lecturer, Managerial Communication, MIT School of Engineering

Kerri Cahoy

Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Co-Director at Small Satellite Center, MIT School of Engineering

Kristala L. Jones Prather

Arthur Dehon Little Professor, Department Executive Officer, MIT School of Engineering

Anna Frebel

Professor of Physics, Division Head for Astrophysics, MIT School of Science

Deborah L. Ancona

Founder of the MIT Leadership Center at the MIT Sloan School of Management

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:

professionalprograms@mit.edu or
call:+1 617 870 0270 USA

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.
Not only for women but especially for women.

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