| Location | Duration | Kenyan Cost | Non-Kenyan Cost | Upcoming Schedules |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nairobi, Kenya | 5 Days | KES 115,000 | USD 1,500 | Enroll |
| Kigali, Rwanda | 5 Days | USD 1,900 | USD 1,900 | Enroll |
| Kampala, Uganda | 5 Days | USD 1,900 | USD 1,900 | Enroll |
| Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | 5 Days | USD 2,000 | USD 2,000 | Enroll |
| Dubai, UAE | 5 Days | USD 3,900 | USD 3,900 | Enroll |
| Abuja, Nigeria | 5 Days | USD 4,000 | USD 4,000 | Enroll |
| Accra, Ghana | 5 Days | USD 4,000 | USD 4,000 | Enroll |
| Pretoria, South Africa | 5 Days | USD 3,900 | USD 3,900 | Enroll |
| Start & End Date | Duration | Kenyan Cost | Non-Kenyan Cost | Enroll | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 07āSep 15, 2026 | 7 Days | KES 90,000 | USD 1,000 | Register | |
| Sep 21āSep 29, 2026 | 7 Days | KES 90,000 | USD 1,000 | Register | |
| Oct 05āOct 13, 2026 | 7 Days | KES 90,000 | USD 1,000 | Register | |
| Oct 19āOct 27, 2026 | 7 Days | KES 90,000 | USD 1,000 | Register | |
| Nov 02āNov 10, 2026 | 7 Days | KES 90,000 | USD 1,000 | Register | |
| Nov 16āNov 24, 2026 | 7 Days | KES 90,000 | USD 1,000 | Register | |
| Nov 30āDec 08, 2026 | 7 Days | KES 90,000 | USD 1,000 | Register | |
| Dec 14āDec 22, 2026 | 7 Days | KES 90,000 | USD 1,000 | Register | |
| Dec 28, 2026āJan 05, 2027 | 7 Days | KES 90,000 | USD 1,000 | Register | |
| Jan 11āJan 19, 2027 | 7 Days | KES 90,000 | USD 1,000 | Register | |
| Jan 25āFeb 02, 2027 | 7 Days | KES 90,000 | USD 1,000 | Register | |
| Feb 08āFeb 16, 2027 | 7 Days | KES 90,000 | USD 1,000 | Register | |
| Feb 22āMar 02, 2027 | 7 Days | KES 90,000 | USD 1,000 | Register | |
| Mar 08āMar 16, 2027 | 7 Days | KES 90,000 | USD 1,000 | Register | |
| Mar 22āMar 30, 2027 | 7 Days | KES 90,000 | USD 1,000 | Register | |
| Apr 05āApr 13, 2027 | 7 Days | KES 90,000 | USD 1,000 | Register | |
| Apr 19āApr 27, 2027 | 7 Days | KES 90,000 | USD 1,000 | Register | |
| May 03āMay 11, 2027 | 7 Days | KES 90,000 | USD 1,000 | Register | |
| May 17āMay 25, 2027 | 7 Days | KES 90,000 | USD 1,000 | Register | |
| May 31āJun 08, 2027 | 7 Days | KES 90,000 | USD 1,000 | Register | |
| Jun 14āJun 22, 2027 | 7 Days | KES 90,000 | USD 1,000 | Register | |
| Jun 28āJul 06, 2027 | 7 Days | KES 90,000 | USD 1,000 | Register | |
| Jul 12āJul 20, 2027 | 7 Days | KES 90,000 | USD 1,000 | Register | |
About the Course
Women remain underrepresented at senior leadership levels across most sectors and geographies, with documented gaps in sponsorship access, negotiation outcomes and visibility for stretch assignments continuing to slow advancement even where pipeline representation has improved.
This programme builds career-advancement capability specifically for women leaders: negotiation and self-advocacy, building sponsorship (as distinct from mentorship) relationships, navigating visibility and credibility dynamics, and leading authentically within organizational cultures that were not always designed with women’s advancement in mind.
Participants leave with a personal career-advancement strategy and a sponsorship-cultivation plan, focused specifically on the advancement barriers the evidence shows most affect women leaders’ progression.
Target Participants
Women in current or aspiring management and leadership roles, Women identified for senior-leadership succession pipelines, Organizations running women’s leadership development initiatives, and Women entrepreneurs and business leaders.
What You Will Learn
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Apply negotiation and self-advocacy techniques in career contexts.
- Distinguish and build both mentorship and sponsorship relationships.
- Navigate visibility and credibility dynamics strategically.
- Apply authentic-leadership principles to personal leadership style.
- Build a personal career-advancement strategy.
- Build a peer-support and sponsorship network.
Course Duration
- Classroom ā 5 Days
- Online ā 7 Days
Course Outline
The Advancement Landscape for Women Leaders
- Current representation data
- Documented advancement barriers
- Self-assessment of career position
- Organizational-context mapping
- Case introduction
Negotiation and Self-Advocacy
- Salary and role negotiation
- Self-advocacy techniques
- Overcoming advocacy discomfort
- Negotiation role-play
- Self-advocacy practice
Sponsorship vs Mentorship
- Sponsorship-mentorship distinction
- Identifying potential sponsors
- Cultivating sponsor relationships
- Sponsorship-ask practice
- Relationship-mapping exercise
Visibility and Credibility Strategy
- Visibility-building tactics
- Credibility-signalling strategies
- Managing likeability-competence trade-offs
- Strategic-visibility planning
- Case-application exercise
Authentic Leadership Style
- Authentic-leadership principles
- Navigating style expectations
- Personal-brand development
- Style self-assessment
- Authenticity-case discussion
Executive Presence
- Executive-presence components
- Communication-presence practice
- Presence under pressure
- Presence-feedback exercise
- Presence role-play
Navigating Organizational Politics
- Reading organizational dynamics
- Coalition-building strategy
- Influence without formal authority
- Politics-case exercise
- Coalition-mapping practice
Work-Integration and Sustainable Advancement
- Sustainable-career planning
- Boundary-setting practice
- Support-system design
- Integration-case discussion
- Personal-sustainability plan
Building a Peer and Sponsor Network
- Peer-network design
- Cross-organization networking
- Sponsor-cultivation planning
- Networking-practice exercise
- Network-map finalization
Capstone: Career Advancement Strategy
- Strategy-document structuring
- Sponsorship-plan finalization
- Peer feedback session
- Presentation to cohort
- Post-training commitments
Practical Outputs
Participants will develop or work with the following tangible outputs during the programme:
- Personal career-advancement strategy
- Sponsorship-cultivation plan
- Executive-presence self-assessment
- Peer and sponsor network map
Training Approach
The programme combines structured self-assessment, negotiation and self-advocacy role-plays, sponsorship-cultivation practice exercises, and facilitated peer-network building, with participants developing a personal career-advancement strategy across the week supported by peer accountability structures.
Organizational Benefits
- Stronger, more diverse senior-leadership pipeline
- Improved retention of high-potential women leaders
- More effective internal sponsorship practice
- Better-prepared candidates for stretch and senior assignments
- Demonstrated institutional investment in equitable advancement
Certification
Participants who successfully complete this course will receive a Certificate of Course Completion from Devimpact Institute, recognizing the knowledge, practical skills and competencies developed through the programme.
Tailor-Made Course
This course can be customized and delivered as an in-house programme to address the specific policies, systems, sector context and capacity-development priorities of an organization. The course duration, modules, case studies and practical exercises may be adjusted following a training needs assessment.
