Women of Color in Leadership Support Group

While it’s important for both men and women to have a professional network, we believe it’s crucial for women to cultivate a strong inner circle of female peers if they want to reach top leadership positions. While there are more women in leadership positions than ever before, women continue to be underrepresented, underpaid, and at times, discriminated against in the workforce, and there are still more lessons from women in leadership we can learn. Despite these drawbacks, women continue to make progress, advocating for diversity, equity, and inclusion and pushing for more recognition and equality at work.  Creating these support systems is essential to strengthening women’s participation within the company.

We’ve also found that this programs as such can serve as a powerful place for women to connect and see that they are not alone.  As a woman in a male-dominated world, learning that we do have peers who want to support us can be the difference between growing or leaving.

Research shows that women showcase more effective leadership behaviors than men, such as empathy, self-awareness, mentorship, and humility. Women will not only learn how they can better support and learn lessons from women in leadership within their organization but also how to fine-tune their own leadership skills. In practical skill-building sessions, we cover topics like how to have crucial conversations, how to influence others without authority, and how to move people to act through storytelling. In other sessions, participants focus on their vertical development and learn how to build more self-awareness.

An authentic leader has self-awareness, listens to feedback, practices her values and principles, seeks intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, builds her own support team, and stays grounded.  We aim to develop the skills of influencing, focus on what is within our control, and ask powerful, thought-provoking questions to problem-solve by looking at our concerns from different perspectives.