Women’s Executive Leadership — India Cohort #2
27 February - 1 March 2025
Date, Location & Fees
27 February - 1 March 2025
JW Marriott Sahar, Mumbai
Program Fee: ₹ 4,75,000 + GST
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India is among the fastest-growing economies globally. As its workforce expands, it's crucial to ensure that every segment is fully prepared to lead and drive growth — including the many talented women leaders taking the helm in this burgeoning market.
From glass ceilings and office politics to work-life balance, women executive leaders face numerous challenges. As they ascend the corporate ladder and take on greater management responsibilities, women executives and their allies need a full understanding of how to navigate the dynamics involved.
Presented in collaboration with Corner Office Advisors, Wharton’s Women’s Executive Leadership — India applies the latest Wharton faculty research in work motivation and engagement, career development, internal coaching, and executive presence so that women leaders and their allies can gain the necessary insights and knowledge to succeed — but also to find clarity — as they ascend to the upper echelons of their organizations.
Program Experience
Highlights and Key Outcomes
In Wharton’s Women’s Executive Leadership — India, you will:
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Receive practical and quick-to-implement suggestions on how to address current business challenges, specifically through the lens of leading in complex environments
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Develop a leadership style based on strengths, identify opportunities for career progression, and increase self-awareness of how you create strong and impactful leadership
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Enhance your negotiation skills
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Discover concepts that are useful for understanding, analyzing, and harnessing power in organizations
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Manage organizational culture by recognizing and understanding how to navigate biases and barriers to effective working
Academic Director and Wharton School Deputy Dean Nancy Rothbard explains how Women’s Executive Leadership focuses on both leadership development and business acumen.
Experience and Impact
With a dual focus on clarity and confidence, Wharton’s Women’s Executive Leadership — India delivers sophisticated business and leadership concepts that have immediate and practical application for today’s women business leaders and their allies, allowing them to improve their leadership capabilities and advance their career.
Wharton faculty, led by Deputy Dean Nancy Rothbard, apply their field-based research and the latest strategic insights to help women leaders and their allies find clarity in their careers while advancing their expertise in areas for which Wharton is renowned: leadership, strategy, management, innovation, and negotiation.
What sets this program for women executives and their allies apart is its strong focus on leadership, combined with a practical approach to give learners a sense of their own potential for career growth by showcasing both strategic and leadership abilities.
Session topics include:
Leaning In: How Not to Fall Over
Negotiation
Influence and Persuasion
The Adaptable Leader
Complex Decision Making
Leading Inclusively
How Top Women Succeed
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Faculty
Nancy Rothbard is the David Pottruck Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She served as the chairperson of the Management Department from 2016–2021. She is currently the deputy dean of the Wharton School. Professor Rothbard earned her BA with honors in History from Brown University and her PhD in Organizational Behavior from the University of Michigan. She began her career in organizational behavior as a research associate and case writer at the Harvard Business School. Prior to joining Wharton, she was on the faculty at the Kellogg School of Management as a post-doctoral fellow. Since joining the Wharton faculty in 2000, Professor Rothbard has taught in the undergraduate, MBA, WEMBA, PhD, and executive education programs, receiving the Wharton Teaching Commitment and Innovation Award and numerous Wharton Teaching Excellence Awards. She is faculty director for several Executive Education programs including Women’s Executive Leadership.
Read full faculty bio on Wharton Executive Education website
Nancy Rothbard, PhD
Academic Director
Deputy Dean; David Pottruck Professor;
Professor of Management, The Wharton School
Professor Mary-Hunter (“Mae”) McDonnell received her PhD in Management and Organizations from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, a JD from Harvard Law School, and a BA in Philosophy from the UNC Chapel Hill. She is an associate professor of management in the Organizational Behavior subgroup. Previously, she served as an assistant professor of strategy at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and as a visiting professor of business law at Northwestern University Law School.
Read full faculty bio on Wharton Executive Education website
Mary-Hunter McDonnell, JD, PhD
Bantwal Family Goldman Sachs Presidential Associate Professor;
Associate Professor of Management;
Faculty Co-director, Zicklin Center for Governance and Business Ethics, The Wharton School
Group Enrollment
To further leverage the value and impact of this program, we encourage companies to send cross-functional teams of executives to this program. We offer group enrollment benefits to companies sending two or more participants.
Who Should Attend
The program is designed for senior women executives and their allies who:
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Have 10 or more years of experience
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Have titles including senior manager, director, general manager, AVP/VP, principal, partner, and business owners
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Are on the rise and have high potential in their organizations
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Are currently in leadership roles, but recognize there is room to grow in their organizations and serve as role models to others in the firm
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Seek to enhance their professional influence
Participants leave the program with an expanded peer network, plus specific tools and frameworks they can use to enhance their leadership impact within their organization.
While the program is designed for women executives (and will be most beneficial to those who identify as such), the program is open to all executives who otherwise fulfill the admissions criteria. Please find the University of Pennsylvania’s Nondiscrimination Statement here.
Fluency in English, written and spoken, is required for participation in Wharton Executive Education programs unless otherwise indicated.
Composition of Wharton's Women’s Executive Leadership - India Cohort #1
Hemlata Nevetia
Allstate
The valuable perspectives I’m taking away from the program are sure to not only enrich my role as the CFO and Director of Shared Services, but also help me drive impactful initiatives and foster a culture of growth and excellence within my teams. The experience has also reinforced my commitment to continue coaching and mentoring.
Prachi Priya
Hindalco Industries Ltd
A wonderful experience of learning and unlearning, assessing and re-assessing, breaking it down and building it back together, competing and collaborating, making
mistakes and acknowledging them, agreeing to disagree, and more importantly unwinding and learning with the most inspiring cohort of women leaders cutting across so many sectors. Privileged to have Mae McDonnell and Nancy Rothbard as not just faculty but the most amazing mentors and guides.
Meghna Nooyi Talati
Amicus Capital Partners
The two-day Wharton’s Women’s Executive Leadership program organized by Corner Office Advisors was thought through, weaving in global insights to the Indian context.
The program was personalized, enabling each individual to better understand herself and her management style. The best part? Meeting exceptional women with diverse
backgrounds across India!
Aabha Bakaya
Ladies Who Lead
It was a great experience to be a part of the inaugural cohort with Dean Nancy Rothbard. It validated specific challenges faced by women in leadership. It also focused on personality development and negotiation, which are relevant across genders and were great takeaways from the session. Everything was super well organized, and the course material should keep you going for a while even after the two-day module.
Sudipta Chakraborty
Aditya Birla Group
Twenty-eight phenomenal, fearless women leaders across industries and functions, extraordinary conversations, sharing, storytelling, and learnings. Nancy Rothbard and
Mae McDonnell as faculty (privileged and blessed) and lessons that will hopefully shape my future leadership and make me a better human.”
Priyadarshini Gupta
Tata Sons
Connecting with an incredible cohort of women leaders across industries, hierarchies, and age groups was deeply inspiring. Hearing about their struggles, challenges, and milestones was both eye-opening and encouraging, and I loved the mix of entrepreneurs and corporate professionals, which made the learning richer. The beautifully curated learning space enabled a great learning environment. And the faculty? Both were absolutely exceptional—their insights left me reflecting deeply on my own leadership style, decision making, and the ways I influence and negotiate.
Geetha Rajarathinam
Autodesk
It was an absolute honour to learn from such brilliant minds, the guidance and insights shared were truly transformative. This meticulously curated program brought together an exceptional cohort of Indian women leaders from diverse sectors, sparking deep reflections on my professional growth, leadership style, and personal aspirations.
Wharton's Women's Executive Leadership - India Cohort #1
The first cohort of women leaders gained precious insights and perspective and walked away with tools and resources to enhance their leadership journey.
The carefully curated cohort was comprised of women leaders from India's largest diversified conglomerates, private equity and consulting firms, global corporations, and entrepreneurial ventures.
Wharton’s Women’s Executive Leadership – India, July 2024
Participants brought a spectrum of functional expertise across business management, finance, legal, human resources, marketing and communications, technology and product engineering, and plant management.
