Women's Leadership Program
Women's Leadership Program
What You'll Learn
This four-course program examines issues facing employees through a proven process of coaching, team projects, collaborative engagement, and individual challenges. The coursework is designed for immediate applicability and development.
What You'll Engage In:
- One-on-one Executive Leadership Coaching from high-level integral coaches
- A cohort-based learning community that cultivates safety, challenge and practice-based learning
- Individualized mentorship & training to bring out your most powerful and authentic self
What You'll Walk Away With:
- Team model that expands your network and collaborative leadership capacity
- Specific skill and knowledge development in key business areas
- Business challenge process that offers visibility at executive levels
- One-on-one executive coaching that helps identify your unique gifts and purpose and teaches you how to leverage that in the workplace
Program Courses and Calendar - Classes start March 1
The Future of Leadership
Solving Strategic Business Challenges
Growing Your Network
Executive Management, Power and Presence
Program Calendar
Course 1: The Future of Leadership - taught by Doug Paxton
Course Outcome: Increase clarity about professional and personal goals, strategies and support for future growth.
Completion Activity: Deliver a leadership learning plan that includes a leadership metaphor guiding your growth, a statement of personal purpose, and a plan for future growth and support.
Course 2: Solving Strategic Business Challenges - taught by Lise Edwards
Course Outcome: Expand knowledge and practice of adaptive problem solving, the action-inquiry process and a specific business area of choice.
Completion Activity: Report out to the group (with invited guests) on the specific problem of focus, and the learning that resulted from an engagement with that area of focus.
Course 3: Growing Your Network - taught by Christine Rand
Course Outcome: Increase breadth and depth of social network as it relates to each woman's goals and strategies
Completion Activity: Complete a section of the leadership learning plan that will result from a self-directed in-person 360 process. This will include aspects of gifts/strengths, challenges/areas for growth, and specific people and entities that can support future growth.
Course 4: Executive Management, Power and Presence - taught by Jyoti Bachani
Course Outcome: Develop greater capacity for executive management, working collaboratively, exhibiting presence and problem solving creatively.
Completion Activity: Presentations of both the strategic business challenge process and the individual learning plan. This will include an articulation of the 'growth edge'; efforts during the program to utilize their network and resources to expand their capacities; and the future plan for continued growth in a particular area of their development.
Program Dates:
March 7 - June 30th
Commitment:
- Thursday evenings 6-8pm (on campus or virtually)
- 3 on campus Saturday retreats - March 23, April 27 and May 11
Schedule:
- Thursday, March 7 – Program Launch, SMC or Virtual, 6-8 pm
- Saturday, March 23 – Program Seminar, SMC, 9-1 pm
- Thursday, April 4 – Program Seminar, SMC or Virtual, 6-8 pm
- Thursday, April 27 – Program Seminar, SMC, 9-1 pm
- Thursday, May 9 – Program Symposium, SMC, 5:30 - 8:30 pm
- Saturday, May 11 – Program Closing Seminar, 9-1 pm
- Saturday, between May 11 and June 30th – Final coaching session
Learn more about the program at the next information session - February 13
A Top-ranked Institution
Created By Two Accredited Programs
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Talk With A Program Advisor
Meet The Program Director - Maura Wolf
A leader in the field of leadership, as a coach, teacher, speaker and author.
- Author of What Matters Most: Everyday Leadership at Home, at Work and in the World and a nationally-known speaker on the topic of work-life integration
- Certified New Ventures West Coach, with a focus on embodied leadership and alignment with values
- Faculty, MA in Leadership and the School of Economics and Business Administration at Saint Mary's College
- Leadership Development Consultant to organizations and companies for over 20 years
- Named as a 'Woman to Watch' by Diablo Magazine 2015
"There are many mid-level women who desire greater impact, alignment, and visibility - but they may need greater support to achieve those things. Our program provides just that."
Meet The Faculty
Lise Edwards
Senior Advisor, Women's Leadership Program
Expertise includes building and managing Women's Leadership, Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives, Vendor Relations and Community Outreach efforts.
- Named as one of the top 100 Silicon Valley Business Journal’s annual Women of Influence for 2013
- Recipient of The National Association of Professional Women (NAPW) Women of the Year – 2012- 2013
- 2007 YWCA Tribute to Women Honoree (TWIN Award for Leadership in Diversity & Inclusion)
- Watermark – Strategic Development Board Member - 2012-2013
- Worked for several Fortune 100 companies including Synopsys, EMC currently Dell, Genentech, Oracle, and SalesForce.
- Lead diversity and inclusion initiatives at EMC , Oracle, and Salesforce before creating their women’s leadership initiatives.
Doug Paxton
Co-Director of the Leadership Center, Saint Mary’s College
Currently focuses his teaching in the area of Values in Action, Leadership, and Sustainable Organizational Change.
- Ph.D. Transformative Learning and Change, California Institute of Integral Studies, May 2003
Ph.D. in Integral Studies – Concentration: Learning and Change in Human Systems. Dissertation: Facilitating Transformation of White Consciousness Among European-American People: A Case Study of Cooperative Inquiry. - MBA School of Management, Yale University, May 1988
Teaching Assistant in Financial Management and Political Analysis courses. - A.B. Economics and Government, Georgetown University, May 1982
magna cum laude
Christine Rand
VP, Project Management, Marketing Technologies at First Republic Bank
Proven Global Marketing Technology executive experienced in successfully delivering complex enterprise level mar-tech implementations.
- AgiIe certified (CSM); specializes in building strong alliances between marketing, IT and commercial functions by simplifying complexities and encouraging collaborative partnerships.
- Skilled in recognizing and mitigating business risk,
- Experienced senior leader in global markets, including 7 years living and working in Asia.
- Specialist in 21st-century leadership practices including; adaptive problem solving with complex and interconnected issues.
Develop Your Leadership Skills
Partner and Sponsor Opportunities
Partner with us as we form a powerful community offering mentorship, guidance, business challenges and new opportunities for visibility to mid-level women through the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Gain visibility as a regional and national leader in the area of Women’s Leadership
- ‘Build the bench’ of qualified, diverse and purpose-driven women in your company
- Collaborate, design and implement an innovative new program
ADVISOR | $2,500 - $5,000
- Internal advisors for women working on business challenges
- Input on structure and positioning of the program
- Invitation to launch event and business competition event
- Inclusion in all marketing materials and events
SILVER | $10,000
- Internal advisors for women working on business challenges
- Input on structure and positioning of the program
- Invitation to launch event and business competition event
- Inclusion in all marketing materials and events
- Corporate leader offers input on business challenges
- Optional teaching role for Executive
- 1 participant
GOLD | $20,000
- Internal advisors for women working on business challenges
- Input on structure and positioning of the program
- Invitation to launch event and business competition event
- Inclusion in all marketing materials and events
- Corporate leader offers input on business challenges
- Optional teaching role for Executive
- 3 participants
- Sponsorship of reception
Support Your Women Leaders
Last updated by Mary Gleason on February 12, 2019
Contact Us
Graduate Business 
1928 Saint Mary's Road
PMB 4240
Moraga, CA 94575
Phone: (925) 631-4888
Email: smcmba@stmarys-ca.edu
1928 Saint Mary's Road
PMB 4240
Moraga, CA 94575
Phone: (925) 631-4888
Email: smcmba@stmarys-ca.edu