Women of Influence

Elevate your Influence

A program designed for emerging leaders and trailblazers
"The ability to influence without authority is arguably, the most important skill you can possess today"

A Woman of Influence is...

  • An Authentic Leader
  • An Inspiring Role Model
  • An Extraordinary Achiever
  • A Catalyst for Change
  • Engaged in Life

Does this sound familiar?

You need to ‘manage up’ to attract attention and resources in your organization.

Your role has more accountability than authority and you need to get things done without direct control.

You are negotiating increasingly complex deals with more sophisticated partners.

You want to be seen as an attractive candidate for succession.

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What is Elevate your Influence?

Elevate Your Influence is a program designed for women who fit in one of the following leader community groups:

High-potential emerging business leaders

  • As a high potential emerging business leader, you are early in your career path. However, what you may lack in management experience you make up for in capability and drive!
    Elevate Your Influence is an ideal opportunity to develop and showcase your leadership skills: making you an ideal candidate for succession.

Trailblazers approaching the summit of their careers

  • As a trailblazer, your passion, drive and management experience have already led you to considerable success in your career. Elevate Your Influence provides an ideal environment to turn these traits into tools that will enable you to take this to the next level; the top job.
    You will gain a broader perspective of influence that will make you an ideal candidate to further your success and for you to become a Woman of Influence yourself!

Why You Should Attend?

Elevate Your Influence provides the rare opportunity for you to:

  • Obtain critical influencing strategies and tools you can apply immediately
  • Practice skills that will help you to thrive and make an impact in increasingly complex, matrixed business environments
  • Gain confidence that you can have influence in arenas that you may not have previously considered possible
  • Connect and network within a peer community through shared learning and experiences

The Program

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Kick-Off & Formal Learning Module

Elevate Your Influence Program Launch Breakfast
Learning Module One - joint session with all participants (1/2 day session)

Key Take-Aways:

  • Increased insight into the levers of influence
  • A process for influencing outcomes and relationships
  • A better understanding of the impact of gender on the practice of influence
  • Insight from a peer community on how to successfully influence within and outside your organization
  • Greater self-awareness of how you influence others – Becoming a Woman of Influence

Leader Community Sessions


Facilitated Peer Mentoring Groups (approximately 2 hours, once a month)

Communities of leaders will be created including High-potential emerging business leaders and Trailblazers

Knightsbridge trained coaches will facilitate the leader community group discussions to encourage skill integration of influence strategies and techniques related to the particular challenges and opportunities within each leader group

Formal Learning Module

Learning Module Two - joint session with all participants (1/2 day session)

Key Take-Aways:

  • New insights about the nuances of influence in complex environments
  • A greater appreciation of the personal and organizational mindset required for successful collaboration
  • Applied tools to build and leverage your strategic network to maximize collaboration
  • A better understanding of the role gender plays in both recognizing collaboration opportunities and working together collaboratively
  • A broader perspective gained through a discussion with your peer community of strategies for making collaboration work inside and outside your organization

Leader Community Sessions

Facilitated Peer Mentoring Groups (Approximately 2 hours, once per month)

Program End Celebration with all participants

Included throughout the Elevate Your Influence Program:

3 one-on-one coaching sessions with a Knightsbridge Coach



Program Cost:

$6000.00 per participant





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