Women in Leadership Masterclass

In recognition of the pivotal role women play in leadership, this dynamic one-day Women in Leadership Masterclass aims to develop leadership practice and gives women leaders the tools to increase their leadership impact.

This Masterclass has leveraged the existing framework of the three-day programme, High Impact: Women in Leadership, crafting a condensed yet impactful one-day introductory workshop. The Masterclass not only enriches the learning experience of women leaders but also opens avenues for them to seamlessly transition to the extended short course in the future.

• More fully recognise your leadership achievements and identify your leadership potential
• Specify common opportunities and challenges that women leaders face
• Develop a greater sense of confidence and collective agency in addressing challenges
• Practise leadership roles of negotiation and emotional intelligence through interacting with executive women leaders experiencing similar challenges
• Draw connections between experience and the theoretical base for ethical leadership

• Developing women-centred ways of working
• Recognising challenges and opportunities: celebrating our potential
• Creating and maintaining resilience and well-being as a female leader: women leaders as a resource for each other
• Theory on emotional intelligence, negotiation skills and ethical leadership

One day

Matric and/or relevant experience

Professor Cecile Gerwel-Proches

Professor Gerwel-Proches is an Associate Professor in the UKZN Graduate School of Business and Leadership (GSB&L). She holds a PhD (Leadership Studies), MCom (Leadership Studies), BCom Hons (Industrial & Organisational Psychology), and BCom (majoring in Business Management, and Industrial & Organisational Psychology). She lectures on the Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Commerce in Leadership Studies (MCLS) and the Postgraduate Diploma in Leadership. Her teaching, research, supervisory and consulting interests include leadership, change management, and organisational behaviour. Cecile served as Programme Coordinator of the Postgraduate Diploma in Leadership (and formerly Leadership and Management) in the GSB&L for close to 10 years. She is an experienced facilitator, who draws on experiential learning approaches and other interactive learning methods, having conducted many workshops and presentations, for diverse organisations and individuals, on topics, such as leadership, change, culture, and other aspects related to Organisational Behaviour.

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