STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS

A highly-rated leadership development program for women

Overview

Strategies for Success is a highly-rated leadership development program for women managers. An effective complement to internal training and development efforts, Strategies for Success is designed to enhance the skills of high-potential women leaders, and equip them with the tools they need to become successful managers and senior executives. Leaders from corporations and nonprofit organizations alike are encouraged to participate.

OVERVIEW

Strategies for Success is a highly-rated leadership development program for women managers. An effective complement to internal training and development efforts, Strategies for Success is designed to enhance the skills of high-potential women leaders, and equip them with the tools they need to become successful managers and senior executives. Leaders from corporations and nonprofit organizations alike are encouraged to participate.

PARTICIPANTS WILL GAIN:

Greater self awareness and a stronger sense of accountability
Increased capacity to take on additional responsibility
Strategies to best emerge as a leader in a virtual environment
Knowledge of how to build networks to further business objectives
Understanding of how to build and manage inclusive teams
The tools necessary to navigate complex environments
A personal senior executive mentor
A peer mentor group to collaborate and reflect with

QUESTIONS? CONTACT LIZZIE DUNKLEE (ldunklee@thewomensedge.org)

SPRING 2025 PROGRAM SCHEDULE

This program will be offered in March and April, 2025. Please check back for exact dates and schedule. Registration opens in December.

HYBRID

Our Spring 2025 program will be a hybrid program, with * dates taking place on Zoom, and all other sessions in person in Waltham, MA.

**Please note session timing is listed in Eastern Time (ET). Participants are expected to attend all program sessions.

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STRUCTURED FOR MAXIMUM EFFECTIVENESS
Each participant attends seven virtual sessions over a three month period. This format is easily accessible for participants, minimizes disruption to companies, and allows each participant to test on the job the critical insights they have learned before returning to the next session.

ONE-ON-ONE & GROUP MENTORSHIP
A personal mentor with years of executive experience is assigned to each participant, who guides them through business challenges and coaches them in creating their professional development plan. In addition, participants are given an opportunity to build mentoring relationships with their assigned peer mentor groups through programming and extracurricular sessions.

REAL-TIME, REAL-WORLD SITUATIONS
Each participant spends time solving actual business challenges by working with peers, assessing options, weighing alternatives and agreeing upon solutions. By honing their collaborative and leadership skills, they leave the program with greater self-awareness, increased proficiency and a stronger sense of accountability.

ACTION PLAN FOR SUCCESS
Graduates of Strategies for Success will leave with an individual development plan created with their supervisor’s input, directly in line with their company’s business objectives.

“The individuals in my cohort formed a comradery and cohesiveness through our shared experience at this historic place in time. Several members will remain part of my ‘personal board of advisors,’ a testament to the strength of the program and caliber of the participants.”

Strategies for Success Participant

Strategies for Success Facilitators

Elizabeth Hailer

Chief Executive Officer
The Women’s Edge

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Kip Hollister

Founder & CEO

The Hollister Group

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Alesia Latson

Co-Founder & CDO
LeadvantEDGE

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Evelyn Murphy

President
The WAGE Project, Inc.

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Terri Nimmons

President & Co-Founder
Stone Lake Leadership

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Pam Reeve

Chair, Board of Directors
The Women’s Edge

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C. Payal Sharma

Racial Justice Consultant, Facilitator and Trainer

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“One of the most impactful aspects of the course was the opportunity to connect with a diverse group of women from various industries and backgrounds. It was a wonderful experience that helped me learn, share ideas, and form a supportive network that continues to inspire me today.”

Strategies for Success Participant

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Elizabeth Hailer

chief executive officer, The WOMEN'S EDGE

Elizabeth is responsible for the leadership, growth strategy, branding, and management of The Women’s Edge (TWE), a non-profit organization that works with women CEOs, corporate executives, entrepreneurs, sole proprietors, and the rising generation of women leaders to help them build successful business, organizations, and careers.

Elizabeth is a highly talented, pragmatic marketing and business development consultant who develops and implements effective strategies and programs needed for client development and acquisition. Prior to joining TWE in 2016, Elizabeth was President / Founder of Hailer Marketing Associates, where she provided clients with more than 35 years of deep hands-on experience in the professional services arena with specific expertise and success in marketing strategy and planning, marketplace positioning, business development programs and management, lead generation, and brand development and management. She has been long recognized as one of the marketing and business development “pioneers” in the professional services sector. Her enviable track record of success includes developing and leading international (Big 8, Big 4), as well as regionally recognized firms. She is a well-known and highly regarded brand builder who works collegially and effectively with firms and organizations, to adopt creative new strategies to advance and achieve measurable business objectives.

Elizabeth is well positioned and recognized in major business organizations throughout greater Boston, and is committed to the development and advancement of all women leaders. She was awarded as one of Boston’s Most Influential Women in 2020 by The Harvard Club of Boston. She is currently serving as a member of the City of Boston ’s Women’s Workforce Council. Her involvements in the business community have included: Board of Directors, Chair, Women’s Executive Forum ACG; Board of Directors, Executive Committee, Chair, Marketing Committee, Co-Chair, 40th Anniversary Year Celebration, The Boston Club; Chair, The Women of the Harvard Club Leadership Committee; Member, Mentor for Strategies for Success Program, The Commonwealth Institute; Member, ProVisors, Boston, MA, and Member, Conference Committee, New England Law Firm Marketing Association. She has presented to a variety of groups including Baker Tilly International, M&A International Global Conference, Massachusetts Society of CPAs, and Women’s Bar Association-Boston, and The Center for Women and Business, Bentley University.

Kip Hollister

Founder & ceo, the hollister group

Kip Hollister is the Founder & CEO of The Hollister Group – Staffing and Cultures. Since 1988, Kip has been committed to building a company that best serves clients by offering a full suite of services aimed at bringing exceptional people together to ignite business culture and unleash individual contribution. Kip received her Leadership & Mentoring certification through the Michael Shankin Arch of Leadership Program, her Leadership and Coaching certification from the John Maxwell Team, and is a Deepak Chopra certified meditation instructor. In her more than 30 years as business owner, Kip has grown the company into New England’s leading woman-owned staffing consultancy.

As an award winning and nationally recognized entrepreneur and business leader, Kip attributes The Hollister Group’s success to the trust and integrity that characterizes the leadership of her organization. Kip is a frequent keynote speaker on topics including: REAL™ Leadership, the power of imagination, letting go of limiting beliefs, resilience, and so much more. Kip is also a highly sought-after executive coach, helping leaders break through challenges to create new possibilities and opportunities in their careers and personal lives. At Kip’s core is the belief that each of us matters and has real impact and that everyone is a leader of their own life. She is innately committed to strengthening connection, creativity, and productivity by inspiring this realization in all.

Alesia Latson

Co-Founder & CDO, LeadvantEDGE

Alesia Latson is principal and founder of Latson Leadership Group. Alesia has worked with hundreds of leaders at all levels to expand their management and leadership effectiveness, by supporting them in creating work relationships and environments that enhance employee development and the achievement of business goals.

Evelyn Murphy

The WAGE Project, Inc.

Evelyn Murphy is President of The WAGE Project, Inc., a national organization to end wage discrimination against working women, and author of Getting Even: Why Women Don’t Get Paid Like Men and What To Do About It, published by Simon & Schuster in October 2005. She is Chair of the Board of Directors of SBLI USA Mutual Life Insurance Company and a Director of Citizens Energy Corporation.

Terri Nimmons

President & Co-Founder, Stone Lake Leadership

Terri is the President and co-founder of Stone Lake Leadership Group LLC and is an expert in the area of leadership development, facilitating programs for thousands of leaders in financial services, law, IT, telecommunications, entertainment, and engineering. Ms. Nimmons stays current on the real world demands of leaders today through executive coaching in a number of Fortune 500 companies. She brings rigorous “real world” leadership oferings to committed leaders in top global organizations, start-ups and to large federal agencies, such as DIA and USPS.

Pamela Reeve

Chair, The WOMEN'S EDGE

Pamela Reeve is Chair of The Women's Edge, working with women CEOs, entrepreneurs and business leaders to help them grow their businesses and their careers. She is the former CEO of Lightbridge, Inc. a company she headed from start up in 1989, took public in 1996, and ran for 15 years. Prior to joining Lightbridge, Reeve spent eleven years at the Boston Consulting Group, one of the world’s leading management consulting firms. Her prior experience includes National Project Manager for a program funded by National Endowment for the Humanities, and real estate finance and development.

C. Payal Sharma

Racial Justice Consultant, Facilitator and Trainer

C. Payal Sharma (she/her/hers) is an independent racial justice consultant, facilitator, and trainer, who believes in the power of empathy, knowledge, courage, and action to create lasting equity and change. She has over 15 years of experience in the Boston area leading workshops, trainings, and facilitated conversations. Having partnered with numerous institutions, organizations, state agencies, school, and corporations, Payal works closely and intentionally with groups to “move the needle” - individually and collectively. She is also an affiliate/trainer with the Interaction Institute for Social Change (IISC), which works nationally to build collaborative capacity in individuals, organizations, and networks working for social justice and racial equity.

“The Women’s Edge supports systematic, sustained progress for women into leadership roles throughout the business community.”

Elizabeth Hailer, CEO

“There aren’t many places that you can go where the only agenda is for you to be successful.”

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“The Women’s Edge supports systematic, sustained progress for women into leadership roles throughout the business community.”

Elizabeth Hailer, CEO

Registration now open for Strategies for Success Program. Leaders from corporations and nonprofit organizations alike are encouraged to participate.

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“The Women’s Edge supports systematic, sustained progress for women into leadership roles throughout the business community.”

Elizabeth Hailer, CEO

A highly-rated leadership development program for women

Read The Latest Brochure

Program Value &Key Differentiators

“The individuals in my cohort formed a comradery and cohesiveness through our shared experience at this historic place in time. Several members will remain part of my ‘personal board of advisors,’ a testament to the strength of the program and caliber of the participants.”

Strategies for Success Participant

Strategies for Success Facilitators

Elizabeth Hailer

Kip Hollister

Alesia Latson

Evelyn Murphy

Terri Nimmons

Pam Reeve

C. Payal Sharma

“One of the most impactful aspects of the course was the opportunity to connect with a diverse group of women from various industries and backgrounds. It was a wonderful experience that helped me learn, share ideas, and form a supportive network that continues to inspire me today.”

Strategies for Success Participant

Questions about the program? Contact us.

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Kip Hollister

Alesia Latson

Evelyn Murphy

Terri Nimmons

Pamela Reeve

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