Women in Leadership Program

CLASS OF 2021

The Women in Leadership Program is designed for women in mid-to-upper-level management roles. These women and their organizations aspire to increased effectiveness in leadership and/or continued advancement in leadership. 

Phoenix Class Dates:

•      February 17, 2022
•      March 25, 2022
•      April 22, 2022
•      May 19, 2022
•      June 24, 2022
•      August 26, 2022
•      September 30, 2022
•      October 28, 2022

All classes will run from 8am – 3:30pm.

Download 2022 Application

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Program Outcomes:

•      Advance skills, competencies, and applications relevant to excelling in a leadership capacity
•      Benefit from quality best practices and shared experiences with women colleagues in the industry
•      Positively impact professional well-being, the organizations, and the industry in which these women contribute

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Elements of Program Include:

•      Eight (8) full-day Professional Learning and Development Sessions
•      One-on-one Coaching Sessions with an Executive Leadership Coach
•      Monthly Application Focus with collaborative Trios

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Sessions will Address the Following:

Acumen in the following areas, which are all integral to the highest levels of performance: 

•      Systems perspective
•      Leadership of operations, people, and processes
•      Bringing one’s best self to the role of leader.

Content includes such areas as:

•      Aligning leadership to industry trends
•      Stakeholders’ input
•      Complexities and relevant challenges
•      Capitalizing leadership toward organization’s mission, goals, and strategic priorities
•      Balancing the load of leadership by setting strategic and tactical targets
•      Understanding the need for adaptive leadership in complex times
•      Maximizing shared leadership models
•      Managing communication, collaboration, confusion, and change
•      Bringing your best self to leadership
•      Increasing confidence with aligned competency
•      Managing the tensions, disruptions, and inner balance
•      Finding purpose and satisfaction

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What participants Can Expect?

•      Eight full-day sessions, including content outlined above.
•      Each participant will engage with Dr. Sharon Adele Kortman in three 1:1 executive coaching sessions. These sessions will provide focused coaching in targeted areas of growth and development, providing processes for reflection, processes for analysis, and processes for ongoing planning, decision-making, and goal-setting to refine practice and lean toward excellence in leadership. These coaching sessions will be highly individualized for the participant related to their career and leadership goals, as well as their ongoing growth and development.
•      Each participant will engage in focused applications relevant to their leadership context. Each participant will: be engaged with collaborative trios for support and accountability aligned to monthly growth targets related to content and processes within the professional learning sessions; identify and address an adaptive challenge to benefit their organization; engage in ongoing assessments, reflections, and leadership practices.
•      Each participant will have the option (for an additional fee) to engage in additional one-on-one coaching with Executive Coach, Dr. Sharon Adele Kortman

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Presenter:

Dr. Sharon Adele Kortman is an executive/life coach and leadership/organizational consultant.  She specializes in inspiring leaders and their organizations in well-being and impact.  She engages in the ongoing development of strategy, business acumen, and personal growth.  Dr. Kortman works with leaders in business, industry, education, and government as well as in diverse settings of social impact.  

Dr. Kortman enjoys challenging those she serves toward their growth edges while leveraging successes and building on their competencies.  She is especially known for her ability to differentiate support aligned to her clients and their contexts, ask critical questions, address diverse challenges, celebrate ongoing development, and maximize human capital. The outcome leans toward the blessings within self, relationships, and systems of work and community.  

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Some of her clients have this to say: 

•      “From the moment I met Sharon, I felt as though I had known her my entire life. Through her coaching, I have found clarity and promise in targeted life priorities.”
•      “Sharon’s executive coaching has helped me become the leader I have wanted to be. I have now reached goals I have had throughout my career but just didn’t know how to bring about the change and progress needed.”
•      “Sharon has a presence that makes you feel cared for and deeply challenged simultaneously. I am more strategic and more practical. I am more authentic to myself and with others. Our organization is more focused and more flexible. The impact is palpable.”