In a world where leadership comes in diverse forms, women bring particularly unique perspectives and skills to the leadership landscape. But how does female leadership differ? Are there specific leadership concepts that are particularly well-suited for women?

The program enables a deep dive into diverse leadership issues and offers much more than just answers. It promotes your personal and professional development as a leader.

Your learning journey:

Begins with insights into current research findings and the success stories of female role models in top management positions.
Unlocks the importance of self-leadership and teaches how to confidently present your strengths and achievements and communicate effectively.
Deepens your understanding of emotional intelligence and empathy as central competencies of female leadership and shows how these can strengthen the team structure and improve leadership work.
Provides practical leadership tools for successful team management and offers insights into how organizations can support and promote women in leadership positions.
Engages with topics such as mental health, inner beliefs, and the significance of attitude for sustainable development of your leadership effectiveness.
Explores how parental leave and family obligations can enrich your leadership skills and what special challenges and opportunities leadership in the academic environment entails.

Female Leaders - Do Women Lead Differently? | April 26, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Insights into Leadership Research
What do we know about the situation of women in leadership positions, and what do we not know? Do women lead differently than men? What motivates women to take on leadership positions? Are newer leadership concepts more suitable for women?

The impulse lecture offers a compact and profound insight into the current state of leadership research with some surprising findings. It aims to answer the questions related to female leadership and to provide guidance, especially for women in (future) leadership positions.

Overview of contents:
- Women as leaders: different, but successful?
- What qualifications do women bring?
- Leadership claim and motivation of women
- Approaches to reducing the Female Leadership Gap
- Female Leadership Advantage: Do women lead better?
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Sabine Boerner is a professor at the Chair of Management, especially Strategy and Leadership, at the University of Konstanz. She teaches and researches in the field of management and organizational behavior and has published monographs and numerous articles in international journals.
Female Leadership | May 13, 2024 | 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Learning from the World's Most Successful Women
What makes women successful? What skills do women who have reached the very top possess? How do top female managers, leading politicians, Nobel laureates, and entrepreneurs think about the important questions of life? How do they handle resistance, setbacks, and constantly increasing external demands?

Kerstin Plehwe provides answers to these questions and shares the experiences and stories of international power women from her book Female Leadership - The Power of Women. Skillfully, she draws connections for her audience from the values and attitudes of top international women to the current diversity requirements of companies and her personal experiences in front of and behind the scenes of Hillary Clinton's US presidential campaign. The power and media expert offers valuable impulses for strengthening personal presence, impact, and communication and invites listeners to re-evaluate their own rituals for success and excellence.

In times when companies want to make leadership more feminine, diverse, and inclusive, this interactive lecture serves as a powerful inspiration and valuable source of knowledge - not only for women. It invites introspection, encourages change and personal growth, even beyond one's own comfort zone.

Speaker: Kerstin Plehwe, media expert, long-time successful entrepreneur, bestselling author, and philanthropist.
The Essentials of Leadership | June 14, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Effective Self-Leadership
Self-leadership refers to the ability to effectively lead, organize, and motivate oneself to achieve personal goals and positively promote one's own development. It also includes the ability to reflect on oneself, continue to develop, and deal with changes.

Being able to lead oneself is a prerequisite for perceiving and experiencing oneself as effective, as well as being able to fully unleash and contribute one's own potential. Self-leadership as a life skill is important for every individual. However, this is particularly true for people who lead others.

Overview of contents:
- Importance of effective self-leadership
- Inner Development Goals as indicators for effective self-leadership and development
- Self-awareness & self-assessment
Speaker: Friederike Leibinger is a licensed psychologist and independent coach for neurodiverse individuals in the workplace, a team coach for psychological safety, and a consultant for promoting neurodiversity in organizations.
I am Remarkable | July 2, 2024 | 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
The Art of Self-Promotion
In a world where self-promotion is often seen as a challenge, the #IamRemarkable initiative sheds fresh light on the matter. Its goal is to empower women with the tools to confidently communicate their achievements in the workplace and in their personal lives.

For female leaders, this initiative offers the tools and knowledge to see and present themselves and their achievements in a new light. It's about learning and refining the skills necessary to communicate effectively and boost self-confidence.

In this interactive lecture, you will delve deep into the art of self-promotion.

Overview of contents:
- Self-promotion: Data and research findings
- Unconscious bias
- Effective communication of achievements
Speaker: Nadine Nembach, licensed psychologist, certified trainer & coach, expert in female leadership, and founder of N² Consulting & Training. With an international focus for over 20 years - working in 34 countries and with 68 nationalities.

International Co-President of EWMD (www.ewmd.org), board member at EWoB (https://europeanwomenonboards.eu/), and mentor at Ouissal (www.ouissal.org).
Sovereignty | August 22, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Convince with Confidence and Charisma!
It's a proven fact: Generally, women find it harder to talk about their qualities, achievements, and accomplishments than men do. Many feel significant insecurity and nervousness when it comes to presenting themselves in front of others. But why is that?

Our social environment and gender-specific norms and role expectations influence our self-confidence, self-worth, and behavior from childhood. Therefore, it is crucial to engage intensively with one's own self-image and the image perceived by others to specifically improve one's presence and impact.

In this impulse lecture, you will discover what matters in true charisma:
- Recognize the differences between self-confidence and self-worth.
- Learn how self-confidence is formed and which factors influence your self-worth.
- Analyze your self-perception and its external impact.
- Learn about the influence of your personal frame of reference on your reality.
Speaker: Alexandra Link, independent trainer, business coach, consultant, and speaker. Her focal points include leadership culture, self-leadership, confidence in presentation and communication, as well as diversity and female leadership.
Emotional Intelligence | September 12, 2024 | 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
A Foundation for Harmonious Coexistence and Professional Success
According to the World Economic Forum, emotional intelligence and the ability to empathize are key skills for the future of work. They were often seen as weaknesses, but it's crucial to view these qualities as strengths and to learn new ways of thinking.

"Emotions" and "work" may seem incompatible at first glance, but for professional success, it's essential to reflect on one's own emotions as well as understand those of others. Emotional intelligence, which is based on empathy, is a foundation for harmonious coexistence and professional success.

Women play a decisive role in shaping a work culture based on understanding, collaboration, and emotional intelligence. We must debunk gender stereotypes and unlearn old patterns of thought. Only then can we create a humane, sustainable work environment.

Speaker: Magdalena Rogl, Ambassador for Emotions (STERN), author, speaker, and Diversity & Inclusion Lead at Microsoft. Magdalena Rogl has been recognized for her extraordinary career transition from a childcare worker to the digital industry, receiving awards such as the Digital Female Leader Award and being named one of the "25 Women Revolutionizing Our Economy."
The Coaching Leader | October 28, 2024 | 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Team Coaching Insights for Successful Team Leadership
This interactive lecture offers you a comprehensive introduction to integrating coaching principles into leadership practice. With practical insights, exercises, and concrete examples, you'll expand your repertoire of leadership tools for effective team leadership.

Discover the key features of a coaching leader and the basics of team coaching. You can expect interactive elements, case studies, and group work that provide deep insights into the dynamic aspects of team leadership. The goal of this lecture is to provide you as a leader with action-oriented insights and tools that can help you successfully lead teams and fully tap their potential.

Overview of contents:
- The role of the leader as a coach
- Basics of team coaching
- The importance of team dynamics and psychological safety in the team
- Practical tools and methods for team coaching
Speaker: Claudia Voigt, psychologist and certified systemic business coach (ECA/QSA certified) with experience in various national and international HR positions. She supports professionals and teams in developing their strengths, potentials, and their own goals and visions to be able to proactively shape collaboration.
Breaking Barriers" | November 25, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Paths to Empowering Women in Leadership Positions
For every 100 men promoted to leadership positions, there are only 87 women. Gender diversity is not just a socio-political imperative but also relevant from a business perspective. Yet, women remain underrepresented in both executive boards and leadership positions today.

Rather than focusing solely on the agency of individual women, Dr. Lioba Gierke sheds light on what organizations can do to empower female leaders and those aspiring to be. In her lecture, she draws on evidence-based findings and discusses with participants approaches and strategies within the academic context.

In addition to insights into the world of science, the impulse lecture also provides an opportunity for exchange about personal leadership experiences and best practices.

Overview of contents:
- Historical perspective: Women and their (in)visible achievements
- Organizations as actors in empowering women
- Transferring scientific findings into the practical daily work of women at the University of Münster
Speaker: Dr. Lioba A. Gierke is a psychologist. She studied at the University of Bremen, Humboldt University of Berlin, Dickinson College (Pennsylvania, USA), and earned her PhD from WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management. Her research focuses on the future of the workplace. Key topics include diversity management in organizations and effective communication between leaders and employees in the work context.
Female Leadership Personality | December 5, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
In Business and Science
Leaders inevitably reach points in their development where intuitive behaviors no longer work. These moments are often starting points for further development. What seems self-evident can be questioned, allowing the leader's thinking and action space to expand. In this impulse workshop, we will deal with the role of attitude, inner beliefs, and the associated expectations of oneself and others as keys to further developing effectiveness as a leadership personality.

Speaker: Claudia Schmeink, Professor of Business Psychology, Diploma in Psychology, Systemic Consultant. She supports organizations and the individuals within through change situations. Clarifying roles, building on experiences, linking perspectives, and collectively envisioning the future are, for her, success factors for sustainable change and development.
Mental Health @Work | January 14, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
A Future Skill?
Mental health is now an integral part of our working world - and that's a major breakthrough. But what exactly does "Mental Health" entail? How do we take care of ourselves and, most importantly, our teams?

In this interactive lecture, we will shed light on the following questions and leave the session with hands-on tools:
- Is the mental health trend just hype or a real shift?
- Mental Health @work - what is it and why is it essential in the job?
- Why is it so hard for us to talk about it?
- Myth of mental health - which taboos and stigmas do we need to break?
- What challenges do we face in the job and especially as female leaders?
- How do we create a real culture of vulnerability?
- What role do I play as a leader?
- And how can we invest hands-on in our mental health personally, as a team, and as an entire organization?
Speaker: Nora Dietrich, Mental Health Expert, CBT Psychotherapist, People & Culture Strategist, and Keynote Speaker
Parenting is Leadership | February 12, 2025 | 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Leadership Skills from the Family
Are you a leader and also a mother?

Then you are likely familiar with the stereotype that mothers might pose a risk from the organization's perspective:

The child who is again lying in bed with a cold,

The repeated cancellation of school classes,

Or the daycare closing due to water damage.

Your professional flexibility seems to be compromised by your private flexibility, which takes precedence.

However, this one-sided view of mothers overlooks the fact that parental leave initiates a personal maturation process and leads to a significant increase in social skills and leadership competencies.

At home, you are the role model, setting goals, providing feedback, finding the right balance between freedom and control, and juggling many tasks at once while staying as calm as possible.

In other words: As a mother, you learn everything a modern leader needs today and what is in demand in almost every organization.

The good news: You can learn to integrate these leadership skills from the family into your professional role. You can recognize the synergistic effects, expand them, and transfer them to your professional tasks.

Speaker: Dr. Stephanie Robben-Beyer, Coach, Moderator, Mentor
Leadership in Science | March 21, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
(Not) A Discipline in Its Own Right?
Leadership in science, sometimes dismissed as a stepchild and time-eater, and other times heralded as a driver of excellence and future viability, often remains a vague concept. However, upon closer examination, it becomes clear: leadership in the context of universities is not only highly significant but also follows its own unique logics and requirements. Based on observations from working with universities, this impulse lecture examines these peculiarities and describes the sometimes ambivalent relationship of scientists to power and leadership. Convinced of the high relevance of leadership in science, it makes a case for a clear and context-appropriate understanding of leadership, as well as an invitation to take a fresh look at one's own leadership profile.

Overview of contents:
- What are the unique challenges of leadership in science?
- In which leadership roles do scientists act, and what value do they create with it?
- What approaches and attitudes help to effectively shape leadership in an academic environment?
- What does this mean for one's own profile development as a successful scientist?
Speaker: Dr. Kristina van Dawen is an Associate Partner at grow.up. Management consulting and supports individuals and organizations in their development as a consultant, trainer, and coach. A key focus area is the development of leadership competence, in businesses as well as in universities and scientific organizations.

Registration

Requirements for participation in the program:

Leadership Role: You hold a leadership position at the University of Münster (e.g., as a professor, department head, team leader, group leader) or a position with leadership responsibilities such as project management.

Self-Reflection: You are open to reflecting on your own leadership role.

Commitment: You are willing to participate in all 12 live online sessions.

Cooperation: You are ready to actively contribute to a mastermind group in person.

Participation: You complete a matching form for the formation of mastermind groups.