Future Female Leaders

Offer this program for your future female leaders. This program is designed to support women on track for management and leadership roles, or early in their leadership careers.

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Here are the The Details:

12 - 1.5 hour group learning and coaching sessions Live on Zoom
Or Run this program over two days with your employees in-person
An EQ-i Online Assessment and Leadership Report (Emotional Intelligence) for each participant.
Workbooks for each session with supplemental materials, resources, and exercises
Small group learning environment
Facilitated by Elaine Maxwell

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Why I started the program

The Future Female Leaders Program came from my desire to provide women the level of support that I wish I’d had as a young professional progressing through my career.
When I graduated from business school in 1984, 50% of my graduating class was female, yet according to the 2021 Osler report of diversity in Canadian Public Companies, women only hold 23.4% of board seats and only 4.8% of CEOs are women.
I believe that if young women were given tools to build and sustain self-confidence and resilience earlier in their career, we could close the gender gap in leadership faster, more effectively, and sustainably.
What I want for you and all young women is to support you in understanding yourself, how you think, how you feel, how you process the world, and how you nurture self-confidence. I learned from a brilliant psychologist years ago, after I’d left the corporate world, that self-confidence is an inside game; you can still perform at a high level and achieve amazing results when your inner self-confidence is misaligned to your outside achievements, but it takes a huge toll on you.
With that in mind, I want to provide you with a set of tools and techniques that you can use throughout your career, and life for a more fulfilling and balanced experience.
My hope is that you and the next generation of young women will face fewer barriers to advancing to the most influential levels of leadership, that you will be equipped to reach your goals with ease, that you will seek support when needed, and that you will set the path of your career on your terms.

About Future Female Leaders

The program is grounded in the principles of emotional intelligence and is designed to support you in:

Understanding and nurturing self-confidence and resilience
Understanding your thinking process and how to direct thoughts
Understanding your emotions, expanding emotional skills, and managing emotional energy
Developing awareness of beliefs, assumptions, and brain filters; and developing skills to create change
Learning fundamental coaching skills to enable peer coaching
Learning how to set and achieve goals for personal development and embrace personal growth positively and enthusiastically
Increasing ability to seek out and process developmental feedback and overcome assumptions about areas needing improvement

Identifying your unique talents, strengths, and values and creating plans to nurture and develop each
Identifying blind spots and innate weaknesses and learning ways to mitigate, delegate, or cope so you can focus on developing strengths
Understanding the concept of Imposter Syndrome and identifying if and/or how it shows up for you, and how to work through it
Creating a development plan to address leadership strengths & gaps
Learning process-based decision making
Exploring and coaching on leadership and personal development topics identified by the group (e.g. skill in giving feedback, leading teams, communicating, managing change, etc.)

What you’ll get out of the program

Increase confidence and resilience
Develop your vision and pathway to confident leadership
Increase awareness of self, how thoughts and emotions impact behaviour and the impact of these on self and others as leaders
Learn the facets of emotional intelligence and how to strengthen it

Learn tools and techniques of leadership and personal development
Understand the value of building and leveraging a support network
Learn a process that can be used continuously to “ground” self
Leverage the coaching process and fellow participants, to change, grow, and learn

What future female leaders are saying

Rachel, UX Designer

“Working with Elaine has been an incredibly rewarding experience. Elaine truly listens without judgement, provides constructive feedback, and goal-oriented strategies. Her coaching method has helped me to shift my mindset to better identify, hone, and celebrate my strengths. With Elaine’s guidance, I found the confidence to pursue a career path that at one point felt impossible. Elaine has helped me get on track to a more fulfilling professional life!”
Steph, Efficiency Program Manager

“I honestly believe I am better person today because of my work with [Elaine]. It's very likely that I would have been where I am right now physically (in this seat, in Berlin) whether or not I had started coaching, but it's because of our work together that I have been/am more mentally prepared and aware. I have felt supported and hopeful throughout my process. Like we are a team, and like it's not just me alone against the world (and my career planning which is SO daunting). Thank you!”
Natalie, Founder of Yours Truly

“Elaine sparked an evolution in me. She coached me through the process of starting a business from scratch with incredible dedication and excitement. I felt supported through every step. Having someone so wise and positive to meet with regularly gave me the backbone and accountability I needed in order to take such a risk on myself. She encouraged me to question the limitations I believed of myself and that has been powerful beyond words.”
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