Education : Institute for the Future : Leadership International

LEADERSHIP INTERNATIONAL
A Program of The Women’s Museum: An Institute for the Future

EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW

Preparing qualified women for foreign assignment is a bottom-line issue for any organization that intends to be competitive in the global market of the 21st Century.

• Today’s global marketplace requires a working environment that visibly demonstrates a commitment to all people and enables each and everyone to contribute to their fullest potential.
• Organizations that exclude or limit the role of women in foreign assignments are looking to only one-half of the available talent pool, thus reducing their chances of recruiting the right people when and where they are needed.
• Women employees who do make it to foreign assignments are found to equal or outperform their male counterparts.

Leadership International will address the specific leadership opportunities and challenges that women face in seeking out and assuming responsibility for business and functional areas that are global in scope.

Participants will:

• Gain cutting-edge knowledge and skills, networks and tools to successfully navigate in the complex and fast-changing global environment.
• Enhance their long-term marketability and potential for advancement into top-level management through successful overseas knowledge and experience.
• Receive tactical information tailored to meet the specific needs of the female employee and her family on foreign assignment.
• Participate in interactive, trans-cultural learning experiences led by recognized experts.
• Engage in dialogue with influential leaders for in-depth analyses of critical economic, political, social, ethical and technical issues of the day.
• Explore and refine skill sets (including those ‘feminine’ behaviors) that prove particularly effective while working and living abroad.
• Attend a culminating field experience in an emerging foreign market to experience, firsthand, the cultural mindsets that are different than their own.
• Evaluate, validate and assimilate an invaluable set of new observations, experiences and information to significantly impact their own - and their organization’s – success in the global marketplace of the 21st Century.

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