Your Smith Advantage
Smith’s leadership programs focus on just one thing: creating the optimal learning environment for accelerated leadership development.
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Why do some companies – like Johnson & Johnson, IBM, John Deere – excel at developing exceptional women leaders within their organization, while other companies struggle?
The answer is simple: It’s not about just leadership – it’s about women’s leadership.
Here’s proof: In a recent survey, 200 women who were either a past leadership program participant or an executive training decision-maker were asked, “What would you tell your CEO is the one thing that distinguishes Smith College Executive Education from other top providers?”
Here’s what they said:
- “Smith focuses on the unique strengths, challenges, and perspectives faced by women in business”
- “The program is designed by women for women.”
- “You are surrounded by top female talent who can really challenge your thinking to a higher level.”
- “Smith is focused on not just leadership – but women's leadership.”
That’s right: given the freedom to say anything to their CEOs about what advantage Smith leadership programs offer compared to other top providers (including the Harvard and Wharton of the industry), the number one response was Smith’s 100% focus on women.
Four Additional Advantages
Those same executives and managers surveyed also singled out four unique advantages Smith’s women-focused programs offer high-potential women and their companies:
Advantage 1
Smith has years and years of experience dealing with the unique issues women face navigating the corporate labyrinth. (Benefit: experienced insights and deep “ah-ha” moments about women’s leadership you won’t find anywhere else).
Advantage 2
Smith offers an all-women leadership learning environment (Benefit: an all-women learning environment encourages increased risk-taking, which research proves results in accelerated learning)
Advantage 3
Smith’s nimble curriculum is based on real-life leadership needs identified in collaboration with our corporate partners. (Benefit: a program and curriculum that is intensely reality-based and responsive to changing business imperatives).
Advantage 4
Smith is not a business school, it’s a women’s leadership center. (Benefit: Smith is free to choose a trusted team of faculty from leading business schools and consultancies around the world who are not just thought leaders in their field, but experienced experts in women’s leadership.)
So, no matter what leadership stage you or your organization are at – whether you are just beginning your leadership quest or you have already reached a position of success – Smith’s deep understanding of the forces shaping the future of women’s leadership will provide the unique tools, strategies and insights that will help you become the amazing leader you were meant to be.