Catalyst Women Leaders focuses on women who are either managing an entity or working directly under the manager. They are successful leaders and have the potential to become catalysts for supporting the career growth of younger women in their organisation.

We also welcome a few men in the program who have volunteered to become catalysts for women advancement, making sure that they represent no more than one third of the enrollment.

The leaking pipeline is an ongoing challenge in all markets across Asia. We are seeing a significant loss of women from one level to the next. While women represent 50% or more of hires, they comprise just 24% (or considerably less) at senior levels. In Asia, where the demand for talent is particularly acute, it is critical that organisations are able to retain the successful junior managers they have hired and grow them to become senior leaders. One of the challenges is that junior women leaders have limited access to senior women leader role models. Generally, the perception is that there are too few successful female role models. Top-level women leaders are viewed as having been unsuccessful in managing their work-life integration and bringing their whole self to work. Also, research shows women leaders are less effective at promoting themselves and at supporting one another. They have fewer sponsors and are less ready to grab the career opportunities that come their way. It’s clear that the wider cultural context in which companies are operating plays a significant role in the representation and participation levels of women in the workplace. Organisational culture also plays a role. It determines the extent to which messages are heard, programmes are supported and policies are acted on.

By addressing key women leadership challenges directly and training senior women leaders and catalyst male peers to be advocates for women advancement, @WWWL’s CWL Programme supports critical culture change at this key level in the organisation.

Catalyst Women Leaders (CWL) Programme

• Next session: 23-25 March 2015, Kuala Lumpur

• Tuition: $4,500 USD per participant ($4,300 if more than one from your organization and early-bird payment)

• Length: 3 days plus two 1-to-1 follow-on coaching and three follow-on group coaching sessions

• Average number of participants: 12-16

• Facilitators: 2 (+ senior leader involvement)

• Locations: Singapore, KL, Hong Kong, Indonesia, London, Paris

• Language: English

• Open enrollment and customised options

Why Women Leadership?   Who is CWL for?  

CWL at a glance

@WWWL’s Catalyst Women Leaders Programme boldly focuses on core women leadership challenges and opportunities. It is a women leadership programme developed by women for women and their male peers. It is for organisations ready to address women advancement at each key level in the organization.

The Catalyst Women Leaders Programme focuses on enabling senior women leaders and their male peers:

• to continue their growth as leaders, leveraging their unique strengths and career navigation enablers plus flexing and expanding their authentic style • to be inspiring role models for younger women leaders • to source ways to design and promote the career growth of the next generation of women leaders.

As these leaders have achieved their career progression to the level of managing an entity and beyond, CWL is not another generic leadership development program for women.

CWL is uniquely designed to inspire senior women leaders (GM, MD or GM-1, MD-1 level), and some male peers, to be advocates for women advancement within your organization (and beyond) and to support, mentor, sponsor and develop younger women managers to progress their careers.

Pre- Program: Call to heighten commitment and intention coming in to the program. Conversation with their boss to align around their catalyst potential. Pre-reading and pre-work (career time-line reflection and self-completion exercise).

Program Phase: 3 Days Face-to-Face Group Experience Research-based current data Personal and group reflection Inspirational stories and role models Experiential learning Peer sharing and interaction Useful frameworks and tool-kits Senior leader involvement and sharing Stretch assignment - Advocacy project Peer coaching Planning and goal setting Skills building (listening, powerful questioning, self-disclosure, voicing out) through experiential activities

Post Program Phase: To enable application and sustain change: 3 x follow-on group coaching sessions (same groups as within program) 2 x 1-to-1 follow-on coaching sessions

Catalyst Women Leaders (CWL) Programme

Why CWL?   What can I expect?  

Day 1: Self Discovery Day 2: Self & Beyond Self

Leadership Day 3: Shaping the

Future Current women leadership data: Surprises, feelings, connections, ambitions?

Navigating gender and culture challenges of (organisational) life

Programme highlight

Group coaching on Advocacy project and / or key leadership development goal(s)

My woman leadership journey to date: • How I have navigated my career • Challenges and triumphs • Enablers and detractors • What fuels me at my best • What drives my less than best

Expressing and flexing my leadership style: reflective, experiential exercise

Firo-B assessment tool Developing clear self development and advocacy plans

My inner world of unconscious beliefs that take me away from ME Bringing my whole self to work

Advocacy:

• Being a role model

• Increasing my impact

• Leading conversations that matter

Post Program Phase

To enable application and sustain change:

• 3 x follow-on group coaching sessions (same groups as within program)

• 2 x 1-to-1 follow-on coaching sessions

Stretches for expanding my range as authentic leader

Navigating the organisation: getting it known, building influential partnerships, seeking out mentors and sponsors, managing my career

Sparking passion, confidence, resilience and commitment to sustain my self-leadership (and leadership of others)

Mastering the skills to support others:

Self-disclosure, sharing, deep listening perspective taking, powerful questioning, giving and seeking feedback and support

Woven Throughout Our CWL programme also involves:

• Next-level-up senior male and female role models as speakers and influential supporters. This inclusion of senior leaders further enables the organizational culture shift towards greater women advancement and provides networking and exposure opportunities. Senior leader guests are invited and briefed to share their own personal leadership journey, relevant challenges and triumphs (eg. bringing whole self to work, getting it known).

• Wholeness focus: nutritional food, yoga, pilates, zumba (optional).

• Conducive Environment: residential, light, varied spaces, indoor and outdoor.

• Social space: group dinners (one built in, others optional).

• Personal space: reflection time and alone time.

Catalyst Women Leaders (CWL) Programme

CWL: Programme Outline

Catalyst Women Leaders (CWL) Programme

What CWL Participants Appreciate?  

“Excellent program, extremely helpful and encouraging”

“I particularly enjoyed the strategic collaboration that emerges amongst the participants thanks to your facilitation”

“I appreciated the open, committed atmosphere”

“It really helps me to understand what I can do to develop the team by leveraging women’s strengths”

“It was an eye opener for me as leader”

“The sharing of experience…it will not be easy to sustain this but I am encouraged to keep trying”

“Inviting male and female General Managers to exchange and share was very useful and insightful”

What is the most important thing you have received from this program?

“Realizing the power I have, being a role model”

“Be proud of myself”

“The most important thing has been the importance of women network, discovering that women can support women in the work life…it makes your life easier, more comfortable…it works. The second element is dare to be different, I don’t have to copy men. I can be myself and follow my own way”

“The program was a life changing experience for me. I was at at a crossroad, reaching my 40th birthday and looking at my glass half-empty. I was not satisfied with what I had achieved so far. I was only when I went through “reconciliation process” with my family that I realized that I was chasing a dream that was already reached. I make sure I don’t lose sight of this”

How to register

“Choice is the matter, not the gender. Let-Go, Focus on big things, these are big competencies for women leaders to improve on”

What is the most important thing you were able to give back as a result of this workshop?

“Becoming a true advocate for women leadership, wherever I go, whatever I do”

“Accept myself and others around to be imperfect”

“One of the first things I did was to organize each year, the same workshop for another group of leaders. In addition, each time I have an opportunity to mentor junior women, I do so”

“With a few alumnae from the program we created another program for more junior women, through a supportive and inspiring network of positive, ambitious and caring women that enjoy career and life everyday”

“I built a network amongst the female co-workers and sharing practice and experience”

Why @WWWL?

III. Personalized Service Flexibility: we can customize and offer pick & mix module options, taking your context into account. Agility and Reach: we can travel to you (light) and we can source and match trusted facilitators & coaches from our Associate pool around the world.

IV.  Specialist Expertise & Facilitative Style Leadership, women leadership, programme design expertise, collaborative group methods, process facilitation and coaching. We create and model open environments conducive to collaborative working and learning from peers.

1.  Grounded Role Models We are passionate about and catalysts for this important societal topic of women advancement. As highly experienced coaches and process facilitators your agenda is the agenda. We are working mums (and dads) and have worked as leaders in large organisations. We model self-disclosure and learning agility through our story-telling and sharing.

II. Evidence- Based Practice We have coached hundreds of leaders - male and female at different levels in Asia and worldwide and have a good sense of the gender, cultural challenges and biases at play.

Request, complete the form and scan it to : claire@workwithwomenleaders.com

Questions ? Singapore, Hong Kong, London: ask Denise denise@workithwomenleaders.com +65 9843 9263

KL, Indonesia, Paris: ask Helene helene@workwithwomenleaders.com +60 12 698 2065