The Mission of Smith Executive Education for Women

Smith Executive Education for Women seeks to provide senior level managers, directors and high-potentials from cross-industry and cross-functional backgrounds, the knowledge, competencies, and innovative insights to drive change and performance in their organizations.

The Vision of Smith Executive Education

At Smith, our goal with Executive Education is to help women learn and grow across their lifespan. We are concerned with building world-class leadership, management, strategic, and technical competencies in female executives. But we also focus on helping women achieve greater professional satisfaction and work-life integration. To achieve these objectives, we offer intense executive learning experiences in all-female settings where we:

1. Create programs based on research, knowledge, and an understanding of today's global business needs and priorities
   
   
2. Address current issues facing women in business
   
   
3. Bring together a select world-class faculty comprised of thought-leaders from around the globe
   
   
4. Build networks of professional peers in an environment that encourages authenticity, risk-taking, and accelerated leadership learning
   
   
5. Encourage self-reflection, wellness, and the pursuit of an integrated and balanced life that enhances leadership capacity

Smith's approach to executive education blends academic rigor with a discussion of real world business issues in an environment where women also build bonds of trust, mutual respect, common experience, and personal friendship that often last many years. When women's executive education is designed this way, it not only makes for effective and meaningful learning, but also creates experiences that are often life changing for participants.