This program is suitable for a wide range of departments and positions and is highly beneficial for women who are already leading in higher education and looking to consider the next phase of their career journey. While our popular Women’s Leadership Success in Higher Education conference focuses on building leadership skill sets, this course helps you to manage conditions for career growth and gain invaluable feedback. Due to its highly experiential nature, it is limited to just 30 participants to maintain a productive learning environment. Register early to reserve your seat!

Session 1: Identifying Your Strengths
Monday, January 28, 2025 | 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. ET
In this kickoff session, you’ll meet your cohort and the program faculty, unpack the features of the program, and dive right into the Five Paths to Leadership^SM Self-Assessment to identify your strengths. The Five Paths assessment will help you to understand ways of achieving greater balance among five forms of intelligence so that you can improve your overall effectiveness as a leader. This assessment will ask you to assess your leadership style under “normal” circumstances as well as under “stressful” circumstances. In order to get the most value out of the conversation, we ask that you complete the assessment before the live session. Instructions will be sent in advance.

Session 2: Assessing Your Skill Sets for Career Growth and Surveying the Higher Ed Landscape
Monday, February 3, 2025 | 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ET | Live Learning Session
February 3-7, 2025 | Choose your Small Group Session with Yves Salomon-Fernandez
Your path to developing your leadership career depends primarily on two components: 1) building the necessary skill sets and demonstrating those skills to others, and 2) shaping the right conditions of support and advocacy as you move forward in your career. We will focus on the first component in this module.

You will learn how to:

• Build a strategic skill set and develop “horizon” thinking.
• Avoid getting trapped into outdated models of leadership and discover the importance of authenticity as you grow as a leader.
• Identify what conditions are necessary to thrive and grow as a leader, and what you can do to assess and create those conditions.

Session 3: Aligning Your Career with Your Goals and Values
Monday, February 10, 2025 | 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ET | Live Learning Session
February 10-14, 2025 | Choose your Small Group Session with Jill Johns
Now that you’ve identified your strengths, assessed your skill sets, and drafted your career narrative, this workshop provides the time to pause and consider what you want next in your career journey. This session will be a workshop designed to push you to dig deep and discern your next steps. Whether you already have a new position or path in mind or are seeking an answer to “what’s next,” this session will provide you with the space and time to intentionally consider, evaluate and sort through the cloud of information and emotion—and begin to crystallize your non-negotiables, your core values, and your goals.

You will learn:

• Strategies for evaluating external input about your career.
• A technique for identifying your non-negotiables, career values, and aspirations.
• How to apply a framework for choosing your next steps.

Week Off | February 17 – 21, 2025

Session 4: Composing Your Career Narrative
Monday, February 24, 2025 | 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ET | Live Learning Session
February 24 – 28, 2025 | Choose your Small Group Session with Kristine Barnett
Before you can take the next step in your career, you must reflect on where you’ve been and effectively communicate your career journey to others. Rather than just listing past roles you’ve held, you must also be able to detail your accomplishments and their impact, so that you are seen as a standout candidate for future opportunities.

You will learn how to:

• Quantify the impact of the projects you led in order to demonstrate your expertise in leading large-scale operations.
• Seize new opportunities as they come along, even when they don’t necessarily align with your current skill sets.
• Rewrite your résumé or CV to quantify accomplishments and show how those align with strategic initiatives.

Session 5: Strategically Building Your Network and Living Your Authentic Leadership Brand
Monday, March 3, 2025 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ET | Live Learning Session
March 3-7, 2025 | Choose your Small Group Session with Durga Suresh-Menon
As you grow in your role, it will be critical to not only build your authentic style of leadership, but to also identify mentors that can help you to hone your brand and leadership identity as you grow. It will also be important for you to be a part of helping future women leaders on their own paths to career growth.

You will learn how to:

• Build your unique brand of leadership.
• Identify advocates and mentors that span genders, levels, departments, and industries—and build crucial connections with them.
• Be an advocate for other women and proactively mentor future leaders.

Session 6: Bringing It All Together and Next Steps
Monday, March 10, 2025 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ET | Live Learning Session
In our final session together, you will have an opportunity to reflect and get feedback on your career growth strategy. We will close by sharing ideas for maintaining momentum after this powerful learning experience.