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Women in leadership

with HR4Business
When leadership teams rely on diversity, businesses experience performance differently
Businesses with greater gender diversity among their leadership teams generally perform better in the market – they have higher revenue, are more socially responsible, and offer a better customer experience. Within the organization, women break up groupthink, improve communication and team dynamics, and energize the organizational culture.
An aspiring and early career manager, mid-level or senior leader, executive, or expert leader, as a woman, you face the request to be tough and warm at the same time. Demand for high performance from others while showing care, toughen up for credibility while inviting others to collaborate, focus on your own goals while meeting others’, maintain distance from others while developing close relationships with them. Women have to learn to lead while navigating this double bind.
Women in leadership programs help women and organizations build leadership presence and positive impact. The purpose is to enable women to reflect on their strengths and unique challenges – unconscious bias, a scarcity of role models, and seize the opportunities. The programs also equip the organizations with the tools to support and advance talented women in leadership roles and invest in gender diversity and equity to create a sustainable performance.
What we do: Elevating potential
Women in leadership programs show individuals and organizations where to improve.
Through our women in leadership programs, women have an open and safe climate to explore and align their goals with intentions, learn to adapt to the situations they face, reframe their experiences, build a strategic network, elevate their potential, and create balance in their lives.
Such programs involve the entire organization resulting in guiding and developing strategies and making gender diversity and equity a reality with tangible results in the workplace.
Good for you
Make the transition to a higher professional impact
  • Advance your career to a greater leadership role
  • Grow your mindset and genuine confidence
  • Develop the competencies to articulate your vision and manage key stakeholders
  • Develop self-reflection as you explore your own leadership style and experiment with new approaches
  • Build a network of peers with diverse backgrounds to support you as you progress
Good for your organization
Balance the leadership team composition and expand perspectives at the top
  • Build diversity into your leadership and succession pipeline to ensure strategic growth
  • Provide the mindset, confidence, competencies, and tools so diverse teams lead your business
  • Improve retention and career progression of talented women leaders
  • Develop your leadership toolkit based on relevant courses of action
  • Create role models and mentors for your future aspiring women leaders
How we help
Our women in leadership programs consist of specialized leadership training and coaching sessions for women tailored to their needs and the organization’s unique context and culture.
During the programs, we engage with you in thought-provoking dialogue. We discuss openly and safely the unique challenges you, as a woman in leadership, face both as an individual and a professional. Case studies based on hands-on experience, energizing discussions, group exercises, coaching sessions, and feedback enable you to positively impact your organization and drive your career progression.
The programs are tailored to the organizational context and scalable to answer your needs: to support the women talent in your organization and strengthen your culture and climate to be more diverse and equitable.
We connect women’s aspirations with business goals
Looking to make a leadership transition or at a key point in your career, we work with you, your sponsor, and the organization to advance your next steps in the business context.
We support women to strengthen their leadership in their path for advancement
The path for advancement is paved with many dilemmas. Research explains there are mixed messages and difficult realities that women have to overcome.
Learn about various leadership styles, remain true to your leadership style, have your definition of success, and build your development plan to prepare for the next steps in your career.
We support women to develop their voice and drive career progression
Improve communication, develop your voice, learn how to find and collaborate with mentors and sponsors and effectively build and use networks. Articulate your promise and create a career strategy to support your goals and return the benefit for the business.
What to expect
Our approach to women in leadership is strengths-based and focuses on tailor-made solutions.
We adapt based on your specific focus areas.
1
Discover and define together your organization’s goals and focus.
Involve the management or sponsor in the pre-work as a key element of success.
2
Work together to understand how we connect the women’s individual and professional goals with the organization’s goals.
Build stronger and more supportive relationships between the women leaders and their sponsors.
3
Design, develop, and describe the personalized program that supports your organization’s specific needs and according to your culture.
Involve the sponsor of each woman leader to design the action plan.
4
Deliver the program with operational excellence and the best client experience.
Involve the sponsors to execute the action plan.
5
Check with people at all levels to hear their thoughts on the program delivery.
Sustain learning and drive forward individual and organizational action plans.
Involve the management or sponsor in the follow-up as a key element of success.
We partner with forward-thinking and conscious leaders and organizations
We have developed strategic and long-term partnerships with national and multinational forward-thinking companies in Automotive, Manufacturing & Materials, Retail & FMCG, IT/Technology, Healthcare, and Utilities/Public services.
We work together with them to ensure that their women in leadership are supported when they are looking to make a transition or are at a turning point in their careers. By making sure they invest in women in leadership roles, gender diversity, and equity in the workplace, we contribute to a positive impact on women and organizational development and performance as a return for both individuals and businesses.
Partnership with TenarisSilcotub

Program: Gender Diversity Program design and rollout – part of a global Gender Diversity initiative
Duration: 2 years
Impact: over 200 women benefited from training and coaching sessions as part of Planning My Career Program

Our expert
“Leaders in business rarely talk about empathy. But, in today’s demanding and uncertain times, if there is one thing to know, it is that women bring empathy in their leading roles. Be aware of your strengths and how you can rely on them to support your teams and the business. Empathy is good for business. And it’s one of your strengths.”
Carmen Nicula PhD
Carmen Nicula is a Senior Consultant, Trainer, Executive Coach, and Facilitator of leadership and management-focused professional development programs, with a 20-year business and leadership background.
Carmen works with you as a strategic and long-term partner to deliver on HR4Business promise: to enable you, through women in leadership programs and genuine care for every interaction, to work towards elevating your potential and becoming a high-performer – lifelong, with more certainty, and well beyond your challenges – while transforming it into a return in business, for life.
Meet Carmen Nicula
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