Professional Development & Training

During this retreat tailored for women, you will:

1. Identify individual strengths you can count on and apply to your work and life.
2. Explore female leadership attributes that complement, rather than compete with, male leadership attributes.
3. Discover beliefs that are limiting your future and release them.
4. Practice ways to renew energy and sustain engagement on a daily basis.
5. Enhance techniques for creating the results you want in your life.

Outcomes you will leave with include:

1. Insights and strategies for leading from grounded strength to create powerful results in your career and in significant relationships.
2. Ways to integrate multiple demands on your time in ways that encourage balance, meaning and purpose in your professional and personal life.
3. Clarity and confidence dealing with complex responses to your leadership.
4. Methods for practicing new competencies “back home” after the retreat.

You will discover that Lead Like A Woman:

• Means doing something different, not the same thing better.
• Means seeing connection as the basis for collaboration and, as a result, tends to build solid teams.
• Means understanding the need to build trust to accomplish complex tasks
• Means understanding the roots of and ways to resolve woman-to-woman work collisions
• Means knowing the wisdom of gaining buy-in to achieve sustainable results.
• Means feeling alone when you step out to lead.
• Means having your leadership strengths minimized, even by yourself.
• Means questioning your ability to lead in cultures that confuse “style” with “substance”.
• Means dealing with complex responses to your leadership from others.

Research and Methodology:

Although you will be reconnecting with the ancient core of our female essence, there is nothing “old” about what you will be learning in this course.  The program is built on solid research and field-tested material in the behavioral sciences from such thought leaders as:  Carol Gilligan, Margaret Wheatley, Edgar Schein, Angeles Arrien, Marija Gimbutas, Deborah Tannen, Leonard Schlein, Chris Argyrus, Marion Woodman, Louann Brizendine, Peggy MacIntosh, Eckhart Tolle and Shelley Taylor.

Lead Like a Woman will incorporate highly interactive techniques for learning, such as Socratic dialogue, self-assessments, small group work, and certain tools borrowed from sports psychology such as guided imagery and feedback solicitation.