Women in Leadership

Women in Leadership May 2023 – October 2023

PROGRAMME ROADMAP

Welcome to your WIL1 Programme – Accelerating Female Leaders for Success with Cranfield University.

“Learning for myself, supporting the learning of women colleagues on the programme and, learning on behalf of others in the wider organisation”.

Week 1

Week 6

Week 2-4

Week 22

Week 5

Live Online Launch – 25 th May 10-11.30 CET

Celebrate Success 20 Oct 10-1CET

Self-paced learning 4hrs

Sponsor Engaged

Pay it forward/ On the job application

3.5 Days face to face Athens - w/c 19 th June

Sponsored supported Networking begins

Peer group learning

Articles

Creating your authoritative presence

Becoming the leader you aspire to be

Gender matters

Challenges facing Women in Leadership

This is me!

Strategic Influencing

Senior leader interview

This is my journey & vision for who I want to be

Plan networking

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Peer Learning groups - challenges & strategies for moving forward

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Invited to the leadership table

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Self-led projects to impact the organization and career

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Write my own Story – what is my contribution as a leader in CCH

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Pay if Forward to my colleagues

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Positive Leadership Contributions

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I NSTRUCTOR - LED • Estimated Learning investment in formal hours is 50 (not included sponsor meetings or on the job application ) • Each delegate works on 3 personal development missions. • Pay it forward approach – teach back to peer group in local language to extend programme impact • Senior leaders will sponsor each delegate for next 1-2 career steps (approx. 3 years)

Make your learning visible through our community

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Core Content

• Doing leadership differently as a woman; the new leadership landscape

• Your aspirations and values as a leader

• Navigating in a male dominated organisation

• Political skills and networking in organisations

• Increasing personal presence

• Creating and maintaining resilience and well-being as a female leader.

Programme Objectives

What will you get out of it:

• A clearer understanding of the challenges facing women leaders when taking up senior positions • An opportunity to step back and consider what you need to do to ensure your leadership practice is tailored to your organisation and to your personal context, including an appraisal of what is important for you in your life and career at this time • Advice on how to learn from role models at work, put together your own personal ‘board of directors’ and develop your professional identity as you move into an executive role • Understand the different stages of women's’ careers, where you are in those stages and the particular issues you face • A unique opportunity to differentiate gender issues and organisational issues in your context through working with a group of women leaders experiencing similar challenges – where do we as women need to change and what needs to change in organisation practices and culture for women to advance – what are our roles as senior leaders in developing the widest possible talent pool

• An elite network of female leaders in CCH to work with in the future.

• A CCH sponsor who will guide your career steps

context are needed for meaningful development

WIL 1 Programme Agenda – Face to Face Athens

Monday 19 th June

Tuesday 20 th June

Wednesday 21 st June

Thursday 23 rd June

Friday 24 th June

0900 Welcome day 1

0900 Reflection on the previous evening

0900 Strategic influence: beyond team and functional roles

0830 Reflect on learning from previous evening

Getting to know one another

Hurdles facing women day to day at work

Power and influence

Developing the idea of a leadership brand: intro to PLC

Myths of women and leadership

Impression management

Travel to Athens (arrival by 3 pm)

Putting the learning into a leadership context

Gendered cultures

Circle – summarising essence of the programme

How to manage key promotion and performance reviews

Being seen as women in leadership

Reminder leadership mindset

Moving further along the path led by CCH

16:00 : informal welcome & networking coffee

Debrief interviews

Leadership – individual leader focus

12.30 programme closes

17.00 Welcome

13.00 Lunch

13.00 Lunch

13.00 Lunch

13.00 Lunch (optional)

The path ahead

Leadership – collaborative leadership focus

E mbodying leadership

WIL Team Welcome by CCH

Where am I in my life

Prepare for evening's activities Acropolis Tour (optional)

Resilience for leadership and career progression

Career stages

18.00 welcome cocktail & discovering Greece

Career satisfaction and career interviews exercise

Making effective use of role models

19.00-21.00 Dinner Group dinner

17.00 Close Session

17.00 Close session

17.00 Close session

18:30 – 19:30 Fireside chat with guests

Free Evening

From 19.00 Conversations over formal dinner with guests

Faculty Biographies

Professor Sue Vinnicombe, CBE Susan's research interests focus on the lack of women in leadership and specifically on corporate boards, women's leadership behaviours and the issues involved in women developing their executive careers. Susan was Founder Director of the Cranfield International Centre for Women Leaders from 1999 to 2016 and the Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Endowed Chair in Women's Leadership at Simmons College, Boston, USA from 2013-2016. She and her co authors produce the annual Female FTSE Board Report, which she launched in 1999 and is regarded as the premier research resource on women directors in the UK and is renowned globally. She has written ten books and over one hundred articles, reports and conference papers. Susan receives regular recognition worldwide and was honoured in 2016 by the International Women's Forum as a woman who has "Made a Difference" in the world and become a Companion of the Chartered Institute of Management in the UK. Susan was also named in the HR Magazine Most Influential Thinkers, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 and has been inducted into the Thinkers50 Management Hall of Fame in 2021 (founded in 2009, the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame honours the legacy of an elite group of thinkers whose work has had a profound and lasting influence on the world of management). Susan has been presented with the Richard Whipp Lifetime Achievement Award by the British Academy of Management. She was a member of The Lord Davies Steering Committee on Women on Boards between 2010 and 2015 and a member of the Advisory Board of the Sir Philip Hampton/Dame Helen Alexander Review on the lack of women in the executive pipeline 2016- 2021 and that of Sir John Parker’s Review of the lack of ethnicity on FTSE 100 boards.

Susan was awarded an OBE for her Services to Diversity in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List in 2005 and subsequently awarded a CBE for her Services to Gender Equality in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2014.

Professor Kim Turnbull James Kim Turnbull James is Professor (Emerita) of Leadership and Executive Learning at Cranfield School of Management. During her time with Cranfield, Kim’s leadership roles included membership of the School Executive, Dean of Faculty for Academic Affairs, Director of the Executive Doctorate in Business Administration, Director of Faculty Development and Director Women as Leaders programme. She is on the international editorial board of the journal Management Learning, with many publications on leadership and leadership development for both academic and practitioner readership. Kim received her PhD from the University of Aston in Birmingham for research into the leadership development of senior leaders. Kim is a Chartered Psychologist. Kim has worked with women’s leadership development throughout her career. She is interested in how women’s leadership in organisations is underrecognized and under -promoted. Kim researches new leadership practices that enable organizations to respond to complexity, work with adaptive challenges, and create the capacity for rethinking leadership. Her work includes the political and emotional dynamics that impact strategic change, drawing on systems psychodynamic thinking.

Kim designs and delivers leadership development interventions, including leadership programmes, coaching and team consulting, focused on learning embedded in real organisational problems. Her wide range of clients enables her to gain insight into many different organisations, cultures and working practices.

Outside of her leadership development activity, Kim is Chair of the Trustee Board for a charity which supports survivors of domestic abuse and violence.

Why Cranfield

Cranfield’s Expertise in Women in Leadership

Cranfield is home to the International Centre for Women Business leaders (now Gender and Leadership Inclusion Centre). The Centre was established by Professor Susan Vinnicombe in 1999. At the time we were shocked by how few women managed to get promoted into serious leadership positions in organisations, despite the fact that women did better at school and university than men and entered work in equal numbers to men. We have focused our research on why this is the case, covering such issues as why women lack social capital, the myth of meritocracy, the problem of international assignments, the masculine language used in job adverts, the differences between how women and men use role models, the challenge of identity at work, impression management, why women find politics difficult, how women are disadvantaged in interviews, gendered cultures and the implications for women. Our executive development work lies at the interface of gender diversity (and diversity more generally) and talent management. We are specifically focused on the issues involved in the successful promotion of women stuck in the middle and senior levels of their organisations. Our approach is distinctive in that we are less interested in personal development per se, but rather in seeing women getting promoted into these top jobs. Professor Vinnicombe is author of the Female FTSE Women on Boards report (an annual report which pioneered the measurement of the number of women on our top FTSE boards in 1999 and continues). The latest report will be launched on the 7th October 2021 and focuses on the need for companies to take female talent management more seriously by identifying high potential females early on in their careers and developing them for promotion. Professor Kim Turnbull James specialises in executive learning and leadership. She ran first the women leaders programme in the UK, a government sponsored initiative, and has worked with women’s leadership programmes at Cranfield for many years, both in company and open programmes. As a professor in leadership her interest lies in how can women identify what they bring to organisational leadership, demonstrate and articulate their contributions so they are recognised as ready for senior leadership roles.

Cranfield Executive Development

About us

Leaders in critical thinking, contemporary education and organisation improvement

Since our inception in 1946, Cranfield has been committed to unlocking the potential of people and organisations by working with business leaders and their management teams to overcome industry specific challenges. Cranfield’s business school is one of the oldest in Europe, having grown out of industrial need for management training in the 1950s and 60s. Our contribution to global innovation is world-leading; changing the way society thinks, works and learns. We have pioneered innovations, solutions and new standards in how leaders, managers and their teams overcome challenges. Our success has transformed many global organisations and had a positive impact throughout the world. We design our programmes in flexible and innovative ways, supported by state-of-the art learning technologies.

Rankings | Cranfield School of Management is consistently ranked as one of the top 10 business schools in the UK and the top 30 business schools in Europe for customised executive development in the FT Executive Education Rankings. We were awarded Gold in the EFMD Excellence in Practice Award for 2016 and Silver in the EFMD Excellence in Practice Award for 2021.

Cranfield School of Management

Accolades

• As part of Cranfield University we are uniquely placed to connect technology and leadership.

• Over 15,000 attendees of executive and professional development programmes each year.

• World leader in management education and research.

• Globally recognised for excellence in leadership development, powerful industry links and real-world focus.

• Consistently ranked highly for MBAs, management qualifications and executive education.

• One of an elite group of schools to hold triple accreditation: AACSB International (the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business), AMBA (the Association of MBAs) and EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System). r

Cranfield – Our Global Reach

Developing individuals, teams and leaders globally

As this map demonstrates Cranfield are a truly global

provider, working with our clients wherever we can usually make the greatest impact in the world.