Programmes


Programme

Enhancing Leadership Capacities and Potential among Professional Women

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Ms. Mahima Sharma: elcpw-exed@iima.ac.in | +91 63573 73945 (Office hours Mon to Fri, 9:00 AM to 5:45 PM)

Professional women in all domains will find an opportunity in this programme to reflect on their leadership potential and internalised constraints that stop them from taking leadership positions or restrict them from performing to their full potential. Participants can learn leadership skills, find ways to balance between personal and professional lives, and commit to future actions for a richer, more fulfilling, and meaningful professional and personal life. This is a very safe opportunity for a woman to set aside her everyday concerns and take on a learning journey along with other women from diverse backgrounds.

•   Learning leadership skills and concepts

•   Identifying gender entrapments that constrain one’s potential

•   Reconnecting to one’s inner potential and wisdom  

•   Managing and leading at the same time

•   Recognising the leadership capacity within self

•   Practising leadership skills

•   Power and leadership

•   Gender and self

•   Roles and role stress

•   Unearthing talents/identifying patterns

Experiential learning methodology will form the core of this programme which will include dyadic and small group work, self-rating instruments, etc.

Women from all professions – those in leadership positions in government, corporate sector, institutions, and self-employed – who want to enhance their leadership capacities and potential to manage complex professional lives and seek to integrate personal and professional lives will find this programme relevant. The programme will be meaningful for women searching for new energy and directions in their personal and professional lives.

Faculty Chair(s)
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Prof. Neharika Vohra

Promotion Coordinators
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Mahima Sharma

Programme Coordinator Promotion

iima-exed09@iima.ac.in
Introduction

Professional women in all domains will find an opportunity in this programme to reflect on their leadership potential and internalised constraints that stop them from taking leadership positions or restrict them from performing to their full potential. Participants can learn leadership skills, find ways to balance between personal and professional lives, and commit to future actions for a richer, more fulfilling, and meaningful professional and personal life. This is a very safe opportunity for a woman to set aside her everyday concerns and take on a learning journey along with other women from diverse backgrounds.

Objectives

•   Learning leadership skills and concepts

•   Identifying gender entrapments that constrain one’s potential

•   Reconnecting to one’s inner potential and wisdom  

Programme Highlights

•   Managing and leading at the same time

•   Recognising the leadership capacity within self

•   Practising leadership skills

•   Power and leadership

•   Gender and self

•   Roles and role stress

•   Unearthing talents/identifying patterns

Pedagogy

Experiential learning methodology will form the core of this programme which will include dyadic and small group work, self-rating instruments, etc.

For Whom

Women from all professions – those in leadership positions in government, corporate sector, institutions, and self-employed – who want to enhance their leadership capacities and potential to manage complex professional lives and seek to integrate personal and professional lives will find this programme relevant. The programme will be meaningful for women searching for new energy and directions in their personal and professional lives.

Faculty Chair
Specialist in behavioural science and currently working as Professor in Organizational Behaviour area at IIM Ahmedabad. Holds two post-graduate degrees and Ph.D from University of Manitoba, Canada. She was the first rank holder in graduation and post-graduation in India. Holds extensive experience with the corporate sector as an independent director, consultant, coach, and mentor. Has been involved with a large number of top companies in executive education. Has served as Chairperson of IIM Ahmedabad's Doctoral Program (Fellow Program in Management), Editor of Vikalpa. Has published over 70 peer-reviewed research papers in top-level international and national journals and authored 3 books. Has guided more than 15 Ph.D students at IIMA. Has been involved in Centre for Innovation and Incubation in Entrepreneurship at IIM Ahmedabad. Served as founding Vice Chancellor of Delhi Skill and Entrepreneurship University (a state university formed as an Act of the Delhi State). Has served on the board of IIMA and the academic council of several national level Institutions.

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Prof. Neharika Vohra

Dates

28 Sep 2026

to

01 Oct 2026

Duration

4 Days

Programme
Fees

INR 1,36,000

Plus 18% GST

Application Deadline

15 Sep 2026

Early Bird
Fees

INR 1,26,480

Plus 18% GST

Early Bird Deadline

07 Sep 2026

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