Emerging Women Executives in Health Care
“Every aspect of this program will benefit me in my organization. I plan to put together a 90-day plan upon my return to incorporate what I have learned. The lectures, workgroups and assignments were excellent and timely—absolutely recommend.”
—Tiffany Brown, JDMPH Deputy Chief of Staff ,CDC, Atlanta, GA
Notice: Application forms will be unavailable Sunday, Nov. 9 from 1:00-8:00am ET. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please contact enrollment@hsph.harvard.edu with questions.
Upcoming Program Information
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Emerging Women Executives in Health Care
This leadership development program focused on women enhances your skills to lead complex healthcare organizations, bridging gaps in your understanding and strategies, and preparing you for career advancement.
Program Fees
- Standard Price $4,900.00
Program Overview
Strengthening the Career Paths for Women in Healthcare
Women are the majority in the health care workforce, but remain underrepresented in senior leadership. Emerging Women Executives in Health Care empowers rising women leaders to lead with insight, influence, and intention. Drawing on the latest thinking in systems leadership, equity, and organizational strategy, this program helps participants accelerate their leadership trajectory and drive results across their teams and institutions.
You’ll leave with an expanded leadership toolkit, deeper relationships with like-minded peers, and a clearer sense of how to align your work with purpose, people, and impact. Through a blend of case studies, interactive workshops, reflective practices, and real-world simulations, you’ll build the skills and mindset needed to lead in today’s rapidly changing health care environment.
The program will help you develop the leadership skills needed to manage healthcare organizations efficiently and effectively by exploring topics that include:
- Applying effective leadership styles
- Building and leading teams
- Emotional intelligence
- Influencing with and without authority
- Managing and sustaining change
- Negotiation and conflict resolution
- Organizational politics
- Performance improvement strategies
- Strategic planning
As you move higher in your organization, you face a greater breadth of challenges. These require superior leadership and management skills and comfort dealing with ambiguity. This program will provide you with a set of tools and ways of thinking to become a more effective leader. The program will explore:
- The impact of the policy environment on health care systems and the challenges and opportunities facing your organization as a result. This will better equip you to think more creatively about your own and your leadership group’s roles and responsibilities in a rapidly changing environment and to prioritize more effectively
- Cutting edge research on women and leadership to learn what underlies women’s leadership styles and practices and to enhance your own effectiveness as a leader
- Structural, political, cultural and individual attributes of organizations and how recognizing opportunities, managing constraints, and understanding individual and organizational values alignment can enhance your effectiveness
- Methods to recognize opportunities, managing constraints, and understanding how individual and organizational values alignment can enhance your effectiveness
- Skills and strategies in negotiation, managing conflict, coalition-building, and influencing—key attributes fundamental to successful organizational life
- Organizational performance improvement techniques, particularly when such critical values as patient safety and innovation compete for resources and focus
- New management, leadership and change frameworks, models and best practices
Objectives & Highlights
This program supports women health care leaders who are shaping the future of their organizations by leading with purpose, navigating complexity, and creating space for others to thrive. Through an immersive, reflective, and applied learning experience, participants will:
- Develop deeper self-awareness and a values-based leadership identity to communicate effectively, engage in high-stakes conversations, and manage conflict productively
- Expand capacity to lead through complexity and change with agility, resilience, and clarity of vision
- Map and intentionally strengthen professional networks to amplify influence, collaboration, and access to opportunity
- Apply tools for inclusive team leadership, leveraging diversity, psychological safety, and stages of team development
- Gain strategic thinking and innovation frameworks to solve systemic problems, surface assumptions, and create meaningful, lasting impact
- Core sessions on personal leadership, influence and negotiation, adaptive change, strategy, health equity, and high-performing teams
- Emphasis on equity and belonging as drivers of system excellence
- Personalized engagement with Harvard faculty and senior health care leaders
- Focused peer learning and networking with women at similar leadership inflection points
- Real-time skill-building in collaboration, innovation, decision-making, and systems thinking
- Multi-modal learning experiences tailored to diverse learning styles, including case analysis, individual reflection, group dialogue, and applied exercises
Certificate of Specialization
Advance your Career with a Certificate of Specialization
This program contributes to the 3-program Executive Leadership in Health Care Certificate of Specialization. Click here for more information.
