Penn State Hosts Leadership Program For Women In Philadelphia

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (June 9, 2009) – Penn State Executive Programs is hosting a two-day leadership development program in Philadelphia this month focusing on the unique challenges and opportunities that women face in their work environments.

The Greater Philadelphia Program for Women Leaders, conducted in alliance with SHAMBAUGH Leadership, will be held June 23-24 at Deloitte's Philadelphia offices at 1700 Market Street.

Participants will learn essential beliefs, behaviors, and techniques that result in greater visibility and career opportunities as well as overall confidence and competence as business leaders. A main focus of this program is to develop the resiliency that is essential for strong leadership during difficult times. Through diagnostic instruments and action learning exercises, participants will learn to capitalize on essential strategies and behaviors to overcome specific obstacles in order to more effectively lead their teams and their organizations.

Topics include: building strategic networks, leveraging political savvy, creating a climate for engagement, taking prudent risks, making your words count, and establishing your executive presence.

The program’s content is based on nationally recognized leadership strategist Rebecca Shambaugh's book It's Not a Glass Ceiling, It's a Sticky Floor, published by McGraw-Hill. It utilizes targeted assessments and tools that create a greater awareness of the self-limiting beliefs, assumptions and behaviors—termed "sticky floors" by Shambaugh—that hold women back in their careers.

In addition to Shambaugh, the program will feature Lynette Demarest, SHAMBAUGH senior consultant and program director for its Women in Leadership and Learning Program. Tara L. Weiner, managing partner of the Greater Philadelphia Region of Deloitte LLP, will deliver a presentation entitled "The Leader of the Future – Called to Lead."

For more details and registration information, visit www.smeal.psu.edu/psep/topic/ppwl. 

About Penn State Executive Programs

Penn State Executive Programs, the executive education division of Penn State's Smeal College of Business, has been serving the development needs of the world's business leaders since 1954, providing both open-enrollment and custom programs. Nearly 42,000 executives from 43 different nations have participated in programs on topics ranging from strategic leadership to supply chain management.

Penn State Executive Programs was recently ranked as the No. 1 provider in the world of customized executive education programs by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the research arm of The Economist magazine publisher. The EIU also awarded Penn State Executive Programs its Award of Excellence for open-enrollment programs, making Smeal the only U.S. provider to be rated excellent in both categories.

For more on all the offerings of Penn State Executive Programs, visit www.smeal.psu.edu/psep.

About SHAMBAUGH Leadership LLC

Founded in 1989, SHAMBAUGH's primary mission has been to develop leadership capacity and skills. SHAMBAUGH works on improving the core skills that characterize excellent leaders—relationship development, creativity, innovation, and using continuous learning in a setting that allows participants to experience firsthand the success that is a natural outflow from this work. With three divisions, Leadership Consulting, Executive and Leadership Coaching, and Women in Leadership and Learning, SHAMBAUGH integrates specific corporate goals with individual leadership development.

Headquartered within 10 miles of Washington, and with offices in Boston, San Francisco, and Europe, SHAMBAUGH has developed leaders for corporations such as AOL, Fidelity, IBM, Marriott, MTV Networks, Microsoft, Sprint Nextel, Northrop Grumman, and Pfizer, as well as the Department of the Interior and other U.S. government divisions.

For more on all the offerings of SHAMBAUGH Leadership, visit www.shambaughleadership.com.