Smith College: Executive Education for Women

Smith College Leadership Consortium

Our Consortium enables your company to advance and retain more women leaders at senior levels 

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NEW MEMBERS WELCOME! The Smith College Leadership Consortium welcomes new members. Give us a call to learn more about the benefits of membership and to explore how your company can jump-start leadership learning for women.

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So, what exactly is a "consortium"?

A consortium brings together leading Fortune 500 companies (like Accenture, Johnson & Johnson, JP Morgan Chase, Chubb and Son, MetLife) as partners in the development of its high-potential women leaders. A consortium approach offers the best of “both worlds”:

• the key benefits of open-enrollment public programs – cost effectiveness; learning via networking and exposure to experiences of other companies

• the key benefits of company-specific custom program – input on curriculum and educating large teams of executives around key company issues

What is different about Smith’s Leadership Consortium?
Because we have the longest proven experience in women’s leadership in the executive learning industry, there are many ways Smith’s elite consortium program addresses the most pressing needs of corporations. Our member companies tell us that the following three are most evident:

1. Advance and retain more women leaders at senior levels
   The Smith Consortium is the only elite-level executive education consortium that is 100% focused on women leaders. It addresses head on, with the longest proven experience in the industry, one of the most critical issues facing the world's best companies: how to develop and retain high-potential female executives and managers to quickly and effectively move up the leadership pipeline.

2. Provide a cost-effective sustainable coaching model for women executives
   The Smith Consortium includes an innovative and effective peer coaching component to proactively guide participants as they connect their group learning experiences to their own individual development plan and company-specific issues. The goal: to achieve maximum benefit and applicability for the member company.

3. Prepare women executives to take risks and lead with confidence
   Smith’s unique all-female learning experience affords women the chance to network with and learn from their true peers – high-achieving women from different companies, countries and industries. Why is this important? Smith's all-female approach systematically creates an environment of shared experiences, common issues, personal connection, candor and trust – which research shows leads to increased risk-taking resulting in breakthrough leadership development.

We sincerely believe (and so do our member companies) that this is the most powerful consortium program available today, designed exclusively for Fortune 500 companies to quickly move high-potential women executives and managers up the leadership pipeline.

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“Smith has really an elite brand within our company. Chubb has been a long supporter of the Smith program and we have a pretty competitive selection process internally at Chubb to be one of the participants. We want them to be truly open to…developing the depth of knowledge that they’re going to need for their next opportunity and that they can draw upon.”

– Michelle Middleton, Senior Vice President, Chubb and Son Ltd.

Next Program Date: July 21 – August 2, 2013
Tuition: TBA

Programs take place on the Smith College campus, located in vibrant Northampton, Massachusetts – renowned center for culture and the arts.
Tuition includes all program materials, accommodations at the historic Hotel Northampton, and most meals.