Location
Lausanne
Length
4 days
Fee
CHF 10,900
Next program starts
03 June 2025

As a woman leader, reveal your most authentic and effective leadership style for greater influence and impact

IMD’s Strategies for Leadership is a women’s leadership program, bringing together senior women leaders from around the world. The program is designed to enable you to develop greater influence and impact by revealing your most authentic and effective leadership style.

Since 2004, the program has provided women with the tools necessary for addressing a unique set of challenges and limiting biases women continue to face as they progress in their careers and assume roles of greater influence. You will learn how to build the leadership finesse, visibility, and influence to fuel your advancement and drive meaningful change within your organization.

Embark on this highly immersive leadership journey shared with other senior women leaders to explore your own leadership context and gain invaluable insights on how to navigate it effectively.

Through a combination of extensive professional coaching and powerful experiential exercises, you will develop a deep understanding of yourself as a leader, enhance your executive presence, and reflect on your personal leadership challenges. By discovering and unlocking your most authentic leadership style, you will be able to move onwards and upwards in your career.

Expand your self-awareness

Explore who you are as a leader and how you are perceived by others. Discover your unique strengths and qualities, and reflect on your personal and professional identity.

Lead with authenticity

Cultivate your unique leadership style, aligned with your strengths and values, and learn to lead others with authenticity, clarity, and self-assurance.

Gain practical tools and strategies

Learn strategies and hands-on tools for bolstering your executive presence, delegating to others, coaching your team, communicating effectively across the organization, and increasing your impact.

Cultivate adaptive leadership

Learn to flex your leadership style to confidently navigate the professional complexities, biases, and invisible barriers that may be holding you back.

Build a lifelong network

Share experiences with a global group of inspiring women leaders and become part of the program’s supportive alumnae network.

You and your class

Are you an experienced executive woman and want to move upwards and onwards in your career?

Connect with an inspirational group of senior women leaders, across industries, countries and cultures, who are all facing similar challenges to you.

Your journey continues after the program as you join a vibrant 1,000-strong alumnae community of more than 80 nationalities. Join us each year for the Strategies for Leadership alumnae event to enrich your network, re-energize, learn, and continue inspiring positive impact in the world. Read more about the admission criteria.

2023 class profile (average data)

19

years of experience

75%

senior & C-level

11

industries

20

nationalities

Information Session
Join us on 12 November 2024

Interested in an IMD leadership program? Don’t miss this opportunity to get all your questions answered by our Program Advisors at 12:00 (CET).

Information Session

Join us on 12 November 2024

Interested in an IMD leadership program? Don’t miss this opportunity to get all your questions answered by our Program Advisors at 12:00 (CET).

What women leaders say about the program
Niloofar Ghods

Senior Manager, Executive Assessment & Development, Cisco Systems, United States

Amazing things can happen when you get a group of highly intelligent, capable and inspiring women leaders together for an intensive few days. You build deep relationships with complete strangers, you gain deeper insights about yourself as a leader, and you gain a global network of like-minded women leaders you admire and want to work with again. All this within an environment that is safe and full of compassion and support. What more can you ask for?

Marina Corti

International HR Director, Workplace and Social Responsibility, Cartier, Switzerland

The highlight of this program is really the connections that you make because you establish very authentic relationships. They really impact you as an individual, as a person.

Tift Shepherd

Director Legal, Specialty Chemicals, AkzoNobel Legal Group, The Netherlands

I gained quick and easy tips which I use on an ongoing basis and shared with more junior women in my group. I also took a lot from the coaching sessions which I am applying in my daily life.

Feena May IMD President of Strategies for Leadership alumnae community
Feena May

President, Strategies for Leadership alumnae community

The Strategies for Leadership annual alumnae event deepens the connections made during the program. You meet a wider network. It’s a moment in time to re-energize, connect, learn, and continue inspiring positive impact in the world. And it’s so much fun.

Minna Wilkki

Head Of Department, European Research Executive Agency, Belgium

The major impact of this program for me in one word is empowerment. It has given me the power to be a better leader in my current position, or to move on to the next stage.

Experience the program
Discover the program highlights – Thrive as women business leader.
“Energy, intense and personal journey” – Hear more about past participant’s experience.

The program creates a supportive context in which women executives are challenged to explore their own leadership identities. You will learn how to advocate your mission
and address gender-specific career derailers.

Read more

Ginka Toegel Program Director
Next start & fee

Length: 4 days on campus, plus self-paced preparation & coaching.

Dates
3 Jun – 6 Jun 2025
Location
Lausanne
Length
4 days
Price
CHF 10,900
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16 Sep – 19 Sep 2025
Location
Lausanne
Length
4 days
Price
CHF 10,900