the Woman Leader (tWL)

Being a woman leader in a predominantly mans world is challenging. How do you manage your various identities in your job, your family, your community and your life?

There is more to prove and more to lose.

While there are more women moving in an upward trajectory, taking up more senior positions, and being elevated into leadership roles, there is so much more that can be done.

Its tough. We know.

tWL is a 3-day program followed by a 6-month learning journey. This initiative aims to create a sustainable community of mentors and mid-career women who will inspire and challenge each other to evolve into purposeful leaders.

With new perspectives and mindsets gained, skills and tools acquired, and behaviors recalibrated, each participant will be challenged to form her

unique identity as a woman leader and identify a unique leadership purpose. This is how she can bridge the gap between her intentions and the impact she can have on her workplace, family, community and more.

the Woman Leader (tWL)

IDENTITY PURPOSE GAPCreate an Commit to a Bridge the

The journey has just begun. Challenges that an Asian woman faces:

Getting to the top of the hierarchy and managing gender prejudices especially in Asia

Breaking the Glass Ceiling

Being successful in her career and her roles outside work

Managing priorities on all fronts

Solving multi-dimensional problems while balancing the polarities and tensions of being authentic as a leader and a woman

Mastering greater complexity

Connecting with a strong community of like-minded women executives and mentoring and inuencing others

Contributing into a network of Asian female leaders

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How do I lead more authentically and match my actions with the values and beliefs I hold deeply? How can I continue to learn, grow and adapt?

Gain clarity on her identity as a leader and a woman by combining the best of who she is as a woman with the leader she aspires to become

Primary Themes

How can I become a catalyst for change and make a dierence? How do I promote myself and my accomplishments and talents without being immodest or seeming boastful?

How do I expand and leverage my relationships with key stakeholders while maintaining my work-life balance? How can I create authentic relationships, inuence others, build networks and mentor others?

Program Outcomes

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BEING REAL MAKING POSSIBLE BUILDING CONNECTIONS

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Discover the You dierence by choosing to practice behaviors that are congruent with her values and improve her leadership eectiveness 2

Develop skills for communicating with authenticity and clarity in order to inuence others at every level within her organization and her external stakeholders3

Understand the importance of resilience i.e. the need to practice techniques for sustaining physical, social, mental, spiritual and work-life balance5

Create a plan for building networks and a community of practice that enables her to meet her leadership and career goals 4

tWL is a program that oers research-anchored insights under 3 themes:

By applying the lessons of tWL, the women leader will:

PrepareEngageApply

PREPARE

ENGAGE

APPLY

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tWL uses CCLs time-tested design motif: Prepare-Engage-Apply. P-E-A maximizes the transfer of learning from classroom to workplace. Participants are initiated to the program during the Prepare phase. They are immersed in a variety of demanding activities during the Engage phase. This is followed by six months of intimate small-group interactions in the Apply phase. tWL program introduces a process and learning journey to shift mindsets and build skillsets that will energize and embolden women.

Pre-program assessments and interviews are the heart of a tWL experience.

Comprehensive, holistic self and multi-rater assessments for self-clarity assessments help each participant to develop her identity as a woman and leader

Insight interviews with women of impact, inspirational role-models, their boss and/or key stakeholders these interviews help participants to become drivers of change in their organizations and community

For three days, participants are immersed in their personal data, experiential activities, video-taped communication

exercises, values clarication, exposure to role-models and dialogue sessions. Led by highly qualied faculty, tWL is a safe but challenging environment for learning, practice, reection and goal setting.

The 3-days include:

A two-hour personal session with a certied CCL coach to clarify thinking and plan next steps.

Deeper knowledge, insights and an action plan for building professional and personal networks

Gift for Paying it Forward: tool-kit for Creating Mentoring Circles

The tWL classroom experience is the launch-point for six months of interactions within intimate Mentoring Circles and

peer groups -- empowering women to sustain their personal development as leaders. Ongoing support will include a

mix of self-selected activities such as:

Interactive webinars with CCL faculty and senior women leaders from industry followed by small-group dialogue and coaching

Participation in Mentoring Circles and peer groups that oer guidance on select challenges that women face during their career and leadership journey

Follow-up eLearning designed to reinforce lessons from the program, including courses, books, podcasts, articles and quick reference checklists and tools.

Target Audience

Mid- to senior-level women managers with 8 to 15 years of work experience.

Women leaders with high potential who aspire to be more and to increase their circle of inuence and impact.

5Pilot Class Date September 23- 25, 2015

Course Fee INR 2,30,000Inclusive of 3 night stay at the venue hotel (local taxes may apply)

Discounts apply for three or more participants from the same organization

Rina Tan

Associate Faculty

An associate faculty of CCL since 2006, Rina is a core member of the team that is

designing and delivering AWIN. She has her own leadership consulting practice, and is

currently engaged in the design and delivery of various leadership and team

development initiatives to help leaders and teams develop and sustain high performance.

Her focus is facilitating CCLs signature Leadership Development Program (LDP) and

Leadership at the Peak (LAP), as well as CCLs customized leadership development

programs.

As VP and MD of CCL-APAC, Roland guides CCLs regional strategy and operations in Asia

Pacic and is an executive sponsor for AWIN. His work showcases an array of highly-rated

leadership development programs, organizational leadership solutions and an extensive

research agenda as well as several organizational change and transformational initiatives.

In addition to being a leading faculty for the Leadership At The Peak (LAP), Roland has

been heavily involved with initiatives around global talent, global senior executive

engagement, high performing teams, and notable research on the paradoxes of

leadership development in Asia, India and South Africa.

A versatile and dedicated professional, Meena has led several signicant start-ups during

her 22 years with CCL and is currently the team leader for AWIN. She was responsible for

setting up and launching the Asia-Pacic campus in Singapore as interim Managing

Director. She also launched the Singapore-based Research, Innovation and Product

Development unit and conducted regional research studies. Meena was Principal

Investigator, Lessons of Experience Asia, managing cross-organizational teams in India,

Singapore and China. She is the author of Developing Tomorrows Leaders Today: Insights

from Corporate India (Wiley, 2010) and has developed the Experience Explorer toolkit

(2014); these resources help organizations to intentionally use workplace experiences to

prepare future senior leaders for a fast-paced, turbulent global environment.

For more information and registration, please contact the Center for Creative Leadership:

Meena Wilson T: +91 776 691 4849 E: wilsonm@ccl.org

Pooja Khanna T: +91 9711007336/+91 124 6769210 E: khannap@ccl.org

Venue Gurgaon, India

Roland Smith

Vice President and

Managing Director,

APAC

Meena Wilson Senior Enterprise

Associate and Author