ONLINE COURSE

Women in Leadership:

Becoming an Agent of Change
Inquiring For
Work Experience

Why enroll in this course?

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Refine your leadership style and discover the most effective approaches to coaching and negotiation.

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Promote policy that advances diversity and inclusion, fostering a culture of belonging and equal opportunity for all.

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Tackle gender disparities within the professional environment by learning how to overcome challenges faced by women.

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Engage in two live sessions with MIT instructors, and up to eight live sessions with learning facilitators, industry experts, and peers.

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Networking opportunities establish professional connections with industry experts and your cohort.

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Access to rich supplementary resources provides additional materials and content for a more thorough educational journey.

What will you learn?

What will you learn?

  • To provide practical strategies and tactics to achieve equity in any organizational context.

  • To acknowledge, understand, and address the challenges facing women who seek leadership roles.

  • Learn the principles and practices of transformational leadership; including how to build networks, how to motivate people, how to build a vision, and how to get people to buy into your vision.

  • To critically assess how intersectionality shapes recruiting and retaining talent while also addressing biases in recruitment practices.

  • To develop methods for managing sexism and discrimination within the workplace and learn to create a considerate working environment.

  • To dismantle traditional notions of leadership by implementing strategies such as negotiation tactics, a robust leadership identity and public speaking abilities.

  • To implement research-backed positive reinforcement models to achieve tangible results within your organization without compromising employee morale.

  • To understand what innovative research tells us about the most effective approaches to leadership in the 21st century.

All the participants who successfully complete their program will receive an MIT Professional Education Certificate of Completion, as well as Continuing Education Units (CEUs)*.

To obtain CEUs, complete the accreditation confirmation, which is available at the end of the course. CEUs are calculated for each course based on the number of learning hours.

*The Continuing Education Unit (CEU) is defined as 10 contact hours of ongoing learning to indicate the amount of time they have devoted to a non-credit/non-degree professional development program.

To understand whether or not these CEUs may be applied toward professional certification, licensing requirements, or other required training or continuing education hours, please consult your training department or licensing authority directly.

Course outline

Women in 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.

Lead instructors

MPE - Faculty - Edward Schiappa
Prof. Edward Schiappa

John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities and Co-chair of the Gender Equity Committee of the School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences - MIT | Coordinating Instructor

MPE - Faculty - David Niño
Dr. David Niño

Senior Lecturer in the Daniel J. Riccio Graduate Engineering Leadership Program at MIT

Faculty contributors

MPE - Faculty - Kerri Cahoy
Prof. Kerri Cahoy

Associate Professor Of Aeronautics And Astronautics, Co Director At Small Satellite Center, MIT School Of Engineering

MPE - Faculty - Kristala Jones
Prof. Kristala L. Jones Prather

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

MPE - Faculty - Anna Frebel
Prof. Anna Frebel

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

MPE - Faculty - Deborah Ancona
Prof. Deborah L. Ancona

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

MPE - Faculty - Kara Blackburn
Dr. Kara Blackburn

Senior Lecturer, Managerial Communication, MIT Sloan School of Management

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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