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STANFORD BUSINESS SCHOOL LAUNCHES EXECUTIVE PROGRAM FOR WOMEN LEADERS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Barbara Buell, Stanford Graduate School of Business, 650-723-1771, buell_barbara@gsb.stanford.edu
March 2008
STANFORD—For the first time, the Stanford Graduate School of Business will offer a five-day executive education leadership program designed exclusively for women. It will cover the strategies and skills women need to manage their careers and maximize their professional and personal goals. The program will be offered May 12 to 16, 2008. The application deadline for the program is March 31.

The program is aimed at women who are currently in supervisory roles, as well as those who have been identified as having high leadership potential by their organizations. Entrepreneurs and business owners will also benefit from this course.

Through a combination of lectures, interactive exercises and leadership diagnostics, this forum encourages women executives to explore tactics that will help them achieve professional goals. Sessions include “Influencing Without Authority,” which examines the importance of influencing small groups, and “Creating Value,” a hands-on exercise introducing concepts of distributive and integrative negotiation structures as well as identifying strategies for improving your negotiated outcomes. While each of program’s topics focus on developing interpersonal and organizational skills, a special emphasis is placed on highlighting the unique challenges that women face in organizations as well as strategies to respond to these challenges.

“Women often struggle with how to develop their own leadership styles and how to enhance their status within an organization,” said Margaret Neale, who is a faculty director of the Executive Program for Women Leaders and the John G. McCoy-Banc One Corporation Professor of Organizations and Dispute Resolution at the Business School. “To reach the highest levels of management, it is essential for women to recognize, understand, and transform common business challenges into career-building opportunities.”

Also serving as faculty director of the program is Deborah Gruenfeld, the Moghadem Family Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at the Business School. As a social psychologist, Gruenfeld’s current research examines the psychological consequences of attaining power.

Other Stanford Business School faculty scheduled to teach in the program include Jennifer Aaker, the General Atlantic Professor of Marketing; Francis Flynn, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior; and Larissa Tiedens, Professor of Organizational Behavior.
Program content also will include team effectiveness, techniques leaders use to persuade others, social networks and influence, and communication. Faculty will help participants interpret subtle messages of power, as well as understand management styles, and manage meetings involving many individuals with different goals.

The program tuition is $8,700. It will be held at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and participants will reside in the Schwab Residential Center, a short walk from the school.

For enrollment information, contact Luz Deras, associate director of programs for the Office of Executive Education, at 650-724-6301, or call toll-free at (866) 542-2205 (US and Canada only), or email deras_luz@gsb.stanford.edu.

For more details, please visit: http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/exed/epwl/index.html