WomenOnly Executive Development

This article focuses on designing a leadership development program exclusively for female managers and executives. Barbara Reinhold, director of Executive Education for Women at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, presides over a portfolio of women-only executive education programs and services designed with fast-track, high-potential women managers and executives in mind. She and her associate, Iris Marchaj, also consult widely to companies that want to custom design their own program offerings for women executives. According to Reinhold, there are a number of reasons that companies stand to benefit from offering or sponsoring women-only executive education programs.