WISE Emerging Leaders Program

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Own Your Ambition — Learn the Skills You Need to Lead.

 

About the Program

The WISE Emerging Leaders Program takes a comprehensive approach to training midlevel managers to thrive under pressure from both above and below. Through a practical, skills-based approach, develop the practices required to execute long-term strategy, build influence across the organization while also leading teams and manage complexity on a day-to-day basis.

Our training programs are focused on helping you uncover new opportunities today, prepare for future roles, and progress to the next stage of your career. This program's hybrid design includes one in-person training day and four virtual training sessions each followed by small group coaching for hands-on practice of the skill. Learn from certified coaches and get individual access to tools for sustained learning and prioritizing personal development.

 

Who Should Attend

Midcareer professionals and emerging leaders:

  • Manages the complexities of managing up and down
  • Frontline leaders leading individual contributors
  • Routinely exposed to the "big picture"
  • Manages a budget with some exposure to P+L management
  • Interacts with multiple functions across the organization
  • Oversees a major project and/or people
  • Regularly interfaces with senior leadership
  • Expected to build internal and external relationships with partners, B2B and industry peers
  • Seven or more years in career
  • This is a member-exclusive program offered to WISE professional-level members in good standing. You membership must remain current for the duration of the program.
Schedule and Format
  • In-person session on April 16 in New York City, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
  • Four virtual, interactive sessions — April 22, May 6, May 20 and June 3, 3-5:30 p.m. ET.
  • Each virtual class (via Zoom) is approximately two-and-a-half hours long, comprising 60 minutes of teaching with skill demonstration and 90 minutes of breakouts (practicing the skill, while giving and receiving coaching and feedback). Be prepared to actively participate.
  • Sessions are facilitated by Proteus, a WISE professional development partner.
Tuition

Tuition is $2,800 per person. Cohort size is limited to 60 participants.
Travel, accommodations, meals and other expenses during your stay in New York City is on your own.

NOTE: Due to the popularity of this program, most of the seats have already been reserved. There is a possibility that a few limited seats will be made available on a rolling basis beginning in February.
MEMBERS: To add your name to the waitlist, log in and complete this form. Not a member? Join now.

Professional development is a common employee benefit to which you may already be entitled. Speak to your manager or HR Department to ask if your organization will support you. Because in your career, you'll never get what you don't ask for.

No scholarships are offered for this program.

 

Curriculum and Key Outcomes

Each session includes a skill-based approach facilitated by certified coaches that empowers you to build relationships through practicing skills in small groups, giving support as a peer coach, and receiving practical and relevant feedback to address real challenges and opportunities. You'll also receive:

  • Sustained learning practice through a Habit Builder tool with digital coaching to help establish new habits and measure progress.
  • A Development Playbook to document your strengths, opportunities, goals, action plans and progress measures.

Thursday, April 16
In-person | Increasing Self-Awareness and Confidence

  • Closing the Confidence Gap: Address the confidence gap most WISE members experience to better support career development.
  • Managing Mindset: Unlock your potential by managing self-talk.
  • Understanding Your Style: Uncover your preferred working style with a multi-rater assessment, then understand its implications, including how gender can influence the perception of your typical behavioral patterns.
  • Increasing Versatility: Gain strategies for “flexing” your habitual working style to improve collaboration, influence and impact — with special attention to gender-based biases associated with each style.

Wednesday, April 22, 3-5:30 p.m. ET
Virtual | Advanced Listening
Learn to listen in ways that draw people out and demonstrate you understand in any context, then practice the skills in realistic, challenging scenarios.

Wednesday, May 6, 3-5:30 p.m. ET
Virtual | Delegating to Create Capacity
Hone practical skills to build your own capacity for more strategic responsibilities, and to elevate your profile and accelerate your career.

Wednesday, May 20, 3-5:30 p.m. ET
Virtual | Managing Tough Conversations
Learn to communicate effectively so others can hear difficult messages, even when they're defensive or don't agree.

Wednesday, June 3, 3-5:30 p.m. ET
Virtual | Building Support and Influence
Learn to navigate organizational dynamics and increase your capacity to drive change.

 


NOTE: This is a new program and different from the Emerging Leaders Certificate Program previously offered.