Women Leaders Institute
Agenda

Two days. Three weeks apart.

Lead yourself, put your learning into practice, then return to lead others.

Pre-program survey

Before Day 1, every delegate completes a short online survey. Your answers shape the day, the facilitator uses them to tailor content, group exercises, and discussion to the real challenges in the room. The survey covers:

  • Your current role, industry, and leadership level
  • The single biggest challenge holding your career advancement back
  • A senior stakeholder conversation you need to have but haven’t yet
  • What you want to walk away from this program with

Tuesday 23 February & Tuesday 16 March 2027

Facilitator

Lead Yourself and Be Seen

9:00am – 4:00pm

Start Here: Your Next Level

  • Welcome, introductions, and program ground rules, setting the tone for a confidential, high-trust cohort environment
  • The Career Stall Diagnostic: identify the specific pattern holding you back, whether it's visibility, confidence, sponsorship, or strategic positioning
  • Map where you are now against where you want to be and define what "next level" looks like for you personally
  • Facilitated peer exchange: hear how other women in the room are navigating the same stall points

Executive Presence and Influence

  • What executive presence actually looks like in practice, and why it has nothing to do with personality type
  • Stakeholder mapping: identify who matters to your progression and where you currently sit in their line of sight
  • Build your 90-day visibility plan, practical, specific actions to shift how decision-makers perceive your leadership
  • The sponsor conversation: how to open the door with someone who can actively advocate for your next move

High-Stakes Communication Lab

  • Live practice: deliver a high-stakes message, a pitch, a pushback, a difficult conversation, in front of your cohort
  • Real-time facilitator coaching on delivery, framing, and presence under pressure
  • Peer feedback calibrated to your specific development goals from the morning sessions

Gap Briefing

  • Facilitator walk-through of each gap assignment: what to do, when, and what to bring back on Day 2

Upon completion of both days and the three-week gap program, participants will receive a Certificate of Completion.