1. CLASS SESSIONS: 

• Mining Creativity (the IDEA)
• Recognizing Opportunities to Create Value (CONCEPT CONFIDENCE)
• Supporting Ideas with facts (MARKET, FINANCIALS, SALES & MARKETING)
• Creating a Plan: Resources, People, Energy (MANAGEMENT TEAM, TEAM WORK, SELF-STUDY)
• Articulating the Idea and the Action (PITCH PRACTICE, Feedback and special "COVID-relevant" points for the new way of doing business).

This means class sessions teach you the building blocks of how to do your plan and sell it.

2. TOOLKIT DEVELOPMENT engages students in readings, experiential exercises and self-assessment tools designed to evaluate leadership strengths and to identify areas for development. Skills include communicating effectively, negotiating a deal, delivering compelling presentations, building a network and harnessing emotional intelligence. In addition, basics of financial literacy, operations, management theory, and other class modules will be covered.

In normal-person speak, this means your assignments will give you readings and team assignments to work on practical hard and soft skills for the real world to help you as an entrepreneur.

3. NETWORKING gives students the opportunity to practice networking skills with peers, invited guests and faculty. Techniques for personal introductions,requesting a needed resource and appropriate follow up activities are taught, practiced and evaluated in a real network setting.

You have to go talk to people, and get off your computer.

4. MENTORING RELATIONSHIPS foster one to one interaction with successful women leaders. Students interact with and learn from women with similar interests and career aspirations. Students also interact with the class members as peer mentors.

Once again, you have actually talk to people – this time: one person in particular and do an assignment with them. In addition, you interact with peers in a peer mentoring group and learn a technique used by million dollar-plus entrepreneurs.

5. INDIVIDUAL ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP STRATEGY hones students' ability to self-reflect and develops thoughtful plans for action. The written strategy serves as a guide for continued personal and professional development.

This is one assignment that we highlight because people like the word “leadership." The whole class is about you leading self. Furthermore, you're not going to do anything on the plan if you don't believe in yourself. A lot of the class is about this.

What you’ll learn

• Learn about the secret toolkit: From Creativity, to Pitching, to Success Tips, Thinking Big, Mentors and Mentoring, Leadership, and Power Networking - see the favorite tools of the successful and thriving.
• Does Gender Matter? Yes. Learn about the confidence equation. Where we're thriving, and where we need to be ambassadors for one another.
• Mentor, Mentor, Mentor. Did we say mentor? Learn how to be one, to harness one, and to start a movement for yourself and others with a secret number: 5.
• Action. Explore research, and learn action steps, behind each major module. Are you tired of getting ready to get ready. These tools, and our community, will help propel you to the next level of thinking, doing, being - or all of the above. Go there - and invest in the community which is Women's Business Leadership.

Are there any course requirements or prerequisites?

No

Who this course is for:

• Women of all ages who want to explore their entrepreneurial or “intrapreneurial” side.
• Entrepreneurs who want to revisit and enhance skills sets.
• Men of all ages who identify strongly with women in their life, or want to learn about the “women economy” and – again – don’t want to ”miss the meeting.”
• People who want to be part of an elite educational community, learning from award-winning instructors and courses in the women’s leadership area.