Women’s Leadership Lab

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The Women’s Leadership Lab empowers women to realize their leadership potential while driving systemic, sustainable change within organizations and society. The Lab focuses on developing authentic leadership, addressing gender-specific barriers, and equipping participants to influence not only their own careers but the broader systems in which they operate.

Through a combination of experiential learning, coaching, and action-based projects, participants gain the confidence, skills, and networks to lead with impact and purpose.

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Women leaders often encounter both individual and systemic challenges, including organizational bias, structural barriers, limited access to networks and sponsorship, and cultures that are not fully inclusive.

 

This Lab helps participants:

  • Recognize how personal experiences intersect with organizational and societal systems
  • Build authentic leadership presence and influence
  • Navigate and overcome systemic barriers
  • Become agents of change within teams, organizations, and industries
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Program Format

The Lab offers flexible, interactive formats to meet diverse learning needs:

 

  • Leadership workshops: In-person or online, ranging from one-day intensives to multi-session series
  • Individual coaching and mentoring
  • Networking events and guest speaker series
 

Action Learning groups to work on real organizational challenges

Modules & Activities

  • Systems thinking for women leaders: Understand and navigate complex organizational systems
 
  • Diagnosing and addressing systemic bias and barriers
 
  • Building authentic leadership presence and influence
 
  • Creating and leading inclusive teams and cultures
 
  • Resilience, self-care, and sustainable leadership

 Sessions can be combined and extended into multi-month programs, including peer coaching and systemic change projects.

The Lab is ideal for
  • Emerging and established women leaders, managers, and professionals
 
  • Women aspiring to leadership roles or seeking career advancement
 
  • Organizations committed to developing female talent and fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion

     

 

The program works for both individuals and groups, including women’s networks or affinity groups, with a focus on collective learning and systemic impact.

Methods & Tools

Leadership Role Model exercises

Experiential learning, case studies, and simulations

360-degree feedback, coaching, and peer learning

Collaborative action projects targeting systemic barriers

Frameworks and philosophies including Systems Thinking, Kolb’s Adult Learning Theory, Playing Big methods, Feminist and Inclusive Leadership approaches, Centered Leadership, Authentic Leadership, and Transformational Leadership

Key outcomes

Noticeable Effects​

  • Increased confidence and clarity in leadership roles
  • Expanded strategic networks and peer support
  • Enhanced skills in negotiation, communication, and systems thinking
  • Greater resilience and ability to navigate and influence complex systems
  • Ability to identify leverage points for systemic change

Skills, Tools & Perspectives Gained​

  • Strategies for overcoming gender barriers at personal, team, and organizational levels
  • Tools for self-advocacy, personal branding, and career advancement
  • Frameworks for building inclusive, supportive, high-performing teams
  • Systems thinking and mapping methods to diagnose and address root causes of barriers
  • Insights into balancing ambition, authenticity, and well-being

Most Significant Added Value​

The Lab’s greatest strength lies in its dual focus: empowering individual women leaders while equipping them to drive systemic change, resulting in more inclusive, equitable, and resilient organizations.

Our Expert

Dagmara Seliga-Krawczyńska

Organizational Psychologist, Executive Coach and Facilitator