According to a recent study conducted by The Chubb Insurance Group, graduates of Smith Executive Education programs routinely get promoted faster than their peers.

Dear Colleague,

My name is Iris Marchaj, Director of Smith Executive Education - for the last 7 years I have been part of a revolutionary approach that I believe has "discovered the success code" when it comes to developing strategic leadership capabilities in women executives.

Are you a talented woman frustrated by the typical "male competitive model" of leadership and promotion? Or are you a talent-hungry HR director or chief learning officer urgently seeking to attract and retain talented female executives? If so, I have a secret you will want to discover:

99% of leadership development programs offered by elite business schools are male-oriented...which is precisely why they fail when it comes to leadership learning for women!

Now, let me share with you four crucial but little known ways Smith's All-Women leadership approach offers an advantage over even Harvard, Duke, Wharton, Stanford, and...well just about any other top business school you can name:

Leadership Advantage #1 | Increased Risk-Taking

Problem: Most women executives experience isolation in their jobs and especially in "male-oriented" leadership development programs. They feel "on their own" and without support. And thus less inclined to take risks. Yet breakthrough learning only occurs when a person can step beyond their everyday boundaries and take risks!

Advantage: Smith's All-Female setting systematically creates an environment of shared experiences, common issues, personal connection, candor and trust - which leads to increased risk-taking, and results in accelerated leadership development.

Leadership Advantage #2 | Not Leadership, Women's Leadership

Problem: The curriculum of most "Top-10" leadership development programs is very good academically, but also very similar and often stubbornly narrow-minded when it comes to addressing how women executives actually lead.

Advantage: Smith Executive Education is not a business school, it is a "Women's Leadership Center". Our programs focus on the challenges women leaders are actually facing as identified by the Fortune 500 companies we work with, our participants, and the best thought leaders in women's leadership today. And since Smith is not a business school beholden to one set of faculty, we have the flexibility to handpick the best women's leadership experts from universities, corporations and consultancies - and thus focus on the leadership issues that really matter to you and your company.

Leadership Advantage #3 | Exposure to Your Real Peers

Problem: Most networking opportunities for talented women executives are male-dominated and devoid of accomplished women like themselves.

Advantage: Smith's All-Female executive programs afford women the chance to network with their real peers (other women leaders and high-potentials) from different companies, countries and industries in ways usually reserved only for their male counterparts. Here's a fact: 90% of our attendees report that Smith's all-women learning environment enhanced their network and networking capabilities in surprisingly meaningful ways.

Leadership Advantage #4 | Lead in Business and Lead In Life

Problem: Since 99% of leadership development programs offered by elite business schools are male-oriented, they simply miss the boat on one of the most basic cornerstones of Women's Leadership: Life Balance.

Advantage: Sure, Smith instills world-class strategic leadership, management, and technical competencies in its program graduates. But it also helps women learn, grow, and lead in all aspects of their lives. Our 360-degree approach to executive learning stresses the growth of authenticity, self-confidence, personal empowerment, reflection, balance, and emotional intelligence in women leaders. Ironically, these very qualities inherent in the women we develop also happen to be identified by researchers as essential to great leadership, no matter who you are.

Here's what you can do now:

Start a conversation with us! Just like forward-thinking chief learning officers from Johnson & Johnson, JPMorgan Chase, Accenture, and hundreds and hundreds of women executives from companies around the world already have.

If you want to, please call me or email me directly (really).

Or fill out our short Request Info form and we will email you information about how your company's women executives can become the best leaders they can be.

Lead in Business, Lead in Life, Lead in Education,

Iris Marchaj
Director, Smith Executive Education
413-585-2798

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