Leadership Development for Early Career Women
Formerly Athena
Leadership Development for Early Career Women addresses fundamental leadership competencies and offers participants effective strategies for performance and career management.
About the program
The Program promotes personal authenticity and self-cultivation as stepping-stones to team leadership and increased accountability. The Program includes a pre-program EQ Emotional Intelligence assessment and a post-program coaching session to enhance learning and establish a strategy for personal and professional growth.

Program Dates
Two full days at Rotman in Fall 2024
Fall 2024 Dates TBD
Program fee
$3,750* + HST
Participant profile
Project and Team Leads, Managers and aspiring Leaders with 3 to 8 years' experience
Program Themes:
Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
Personal assessment of key strengths and growth areas, and understanding of Emotional Intelligence as an essential skill for effective team and individual performance
Effective Leadership
Understanding leadership style, communication strategies and techniques, gender, culture and relationship insights, and leading through change and uncertainty
Professional Effectiveness
Personal branding, self-assertion, negotiating for success, personal and organizational goal alignment and professional networking
Negotiation
Learn to use five negotiation strategies and discover how to harness these approaches and develop your own negotiation strengths.
Program dates and schedule
The program schedule includes:
- 2 day in person program from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM* (EST) with meals included
- Pre-program readings and assigned pre-work
- One individual coaching session online
- Networking opportunities with peers
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- Welcome
- Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
- Effective Leadership
- *Networking Reception (5 - 7pm)
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- Personal Brand Power
- Get the Negotiation Edge
- Managing your Career and Personal Action Planning
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Who should attend
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Candidates for the Leadership Development for Early Career Women are female Project and Team Leads, Managers and aspiring leaders with 3 to 8 years' experience who aspire to career growth and greater professional influence. Participants are first-line managers, middle managers, and individual contributors
This program will be particularly valuable if you:
- Have been identified as high-potential
- Are looking to develop your leadership and influencing skills
- Are seeking effective strategies and tools for professional success
- Are a new manager
APPLICANT SELECTION
Each application is reviewed by Rotman's admissions committee to ensure suitability of participants.
PARTICIPANT NOTIFICATION
If space is available and eligibility requirements are met, participants will receive a notice of admission within 10 days of receipt of their completed application and fee deposit.
Program benefits
Organizational Benefits
- Improve team leadership & performance
- Equip employees to take on more responsibility and accountability
- Enhance leadership effectiveness
- Develop high-potential female talent
Participant Benefits
- Learn how to assess your leadership style and its impact on a team
- Understand the power of influence
- Tap into your Emotional Intelligence to augment your effectiveness
- Develop your authentic brand
- Learn a negotiation approach that is sophisticated and effective
- Gain an external peer network
Fees and payment
PROGRAM FEE
$3,750* + HST
Class-day meals (breakfast, lunch and snacks)
Networking
PAYMENT
Deposits are required at the time of application (refundable only to applicants not accepted to the program). The balance of the program fee is due 30 days after receipt of invoice or 30 days before program start date, whichever is first. Payments can be made online. Applicants will be redirected to a secure online payment website after completion of the application form.
ALUMNI DISCOUNT
Rotman Initiative for Women in Business participants or Rotman MBA / EMBA alumni are eligible for a discount equivalent to 10% of the Program Fee. One discount may be applied per person
CANCELLATION POLICY
Please review the full version of our PROGRAM POLICIES » for cancellation information.
TAX INFORMATION – EMPLOYMENT-RELATED TRAINING
If the Program is employment-related training, Rotman must receive a letter from the employer confirming that the Program constitutes such training within the meaning of Canada Revenue Agency Interpretation Bulletin IT-470R. Generally, the Bulletin states that where the training is taken for the benefit of the employer, there is no taxable benefit to the employee.
If the tuition fee is paid for by the employer, it is the employer’s responsibility to determine whether or not the fees paid on behalf of the individual is a taxable benefit and should be included on his/her T4 slip.
TAX INFORMATION – NON-EMPLOYMENT-RELATED TRAINING
If an employer has not sanctioned that the Program is being taken for employment reasons, any discounts are taxable benefits to the individual participant and should be included on the individual’s tax return.
