ASPIRING WOMEN LEADERS
LEAD WITH CONFIDENCE AND DESIGN YOUR CAREER WITH INTENTION
The Aspiring Women Leaders Program helps you understand your own leadership style, build self-confidence, and navigate the unique challenges women leaders face.
THE PROGRAM IS DESIGNED FOR
Women aiming to move forward in their careers while navigating expectations and organizational realities
Professionals who want to lead with confidence and build on their authentic strengths
Female leaders aspiring to take the next step in their leadership journey
Journey
In preparation for the program, you take part in an individual intake interview to define your personal challenges and goals for this program and complete a personality profile to deepen your self-awareness.
The first camp focuses on understanding yourself as a leader by exploring your identity, values, and leadership aspirations.
Participants strengthen their self-awareness, reflect on their strengths, and learn how to build confidence and authenticity in their leadership style. The camp also addresses gender bias and equips you with practical ways to navigate it while building trust and influence in your environment.
Between the camps, you will have the opportunity to join a mentoring session to reflect on your progress, strengthen your leadership presence, and apply your learning in your day-to-day role.
The second camp centres on strengthening your leadership presence and advancing your career with intention.
Participants develop their communication, feedback, and stakeholder engagement skills, while building the confidence and gravitas needed to lead with impact. The camp also helps you leverage your network and align your career aspirations with your broader life goals, enriched by real experiences shared by guest speakers.
Before the closing, you can take part in a mentoring session to move forward with clarity, sharpen your career direction, and take the next steps in applying your learning.
At the end of the journey, you reflect on your progress and continue forward with greater clarity, confidence, and a stronger support network to sustain your development.
ABOUT
THE PROGRAM
OVERVIEW
2×2 days on-site in Budapest
Spring: 23-24 April 2026 and 29-30 June 2026
Fall: 29-30 September 2026 and 24-25 November 2026
Early Bird Price: EUR 3000*
*Apply 7 weeks before the start of the program.
Normal Price: EUR 3500
PROGRAM OBJECTIVE
The lack of women leaders in our organizations continues to be a challenge even with their proven positive impact on economic returns and growth.
Women’s self-confidence and awareness of their authentic leadership style and strengths are the foundation for purposefully building their business interactions, trust, and success.
How can we build self-confidence? How can we draw on each other’s experiences to reveal our authentic leadership style and personal vision that support our leadership aspirations?
This course will enhance your self-awareness, and will provide you with the broader understanding on women’s challenges at the workplace, and tools and techniques how to address them.
For whom: Rising female talents, team leads to mid-level female leaders who aspire to higher-level leadership positions.
PROGRAM INTRODUCTION
MAIN TOPICS
The purpose of the Aspiring Women Leaders program is to
- Understand and cultivate each participant’s own leadership style and utilize its strength to create impact and build partnerships in the workplace.
- Build self-confidence.
- Craft a personal leadership vision that can be integrated with your life-goals.
- Reveal and address the systematic gender-bias barriers and develop skills to address them.
- Improve communication skills and emotional intelligence; understand the elements of gravitas to elevate your executive presence.
- Learn how to support each other through coaching-style conversations.
- Build a community of peers and develop partnerships through shared goals.
Key words on the agenda: self-awareness, confidence, executive presence, gravitas, communication, appearance, emotional intelligence, gender bias, partnership, personality traits, diversity, authentic leadership, work-life integration.
ABOUT THE FACULTY
Anita is an innovation and business leader, with more than two decades of experience working in European and North American Energy Companies. She has a wide arrays of leadership experience including designing and building interdisciplinary research and service teams, developing, managing, and implementing portfolio of projects across multiple organizations, and transforming large organizations to support business needs.
Fanni is an performance coach, trainer and HR executive, member of Y2Y Consulting. She leads individual and team coaching sessions for senior leaders as well as full scope development programs for executive teams in various industries (i.e. retail, energy, air-traffic, banking etc.). Recently she was the head of HR at one of the most prestigious hospitality groups in Hungary. Before, she spent 12 years leading global, regional and local HR consulting projects in Switzerland and in Hungary.
Testimonials
Maja Bazina Tomašković
INA Grupa – New Businesses Expert
Diána Pelyhe
Schneider Electric – Customer Satisfaction and Quality Business Partner for Hungary
Judit Borsfay-Horváth
MOHU MOL Hulladékgazdálkodási Zrt. – Head of Value Chain & Product Management
Rita Párkányi
KCG Partners – Partner
Katalin Magyar
Trans Lex Work – Managing Director
