Seminars and Workshops

Springboard develops customized curriculum for leadership workshops and seminars for teams as well as larger audiences. The specific curriculum recommendations are often a result of Springboard’s culture assessment work with the client. Springboard combines our core research and knowledge base (both academic and field work) with the client’s day-to-day business issues. Employees are able to bring their work situations into clear focus by using business case studies developed from the organization’s actual experiences and challenges. This situational learning ensures that relevant insights are brought back and immediately applied for lasting impact.  Key components of Springboard’s leadership curriculum include cultural competence, conflict & negotiation and feedback & coachability. 

Women’s Leadership Seminar and Workshop Series

Springboard's Women's Leadership Seminar Series is specifically designed for women on the fast track who not only seek to break through barriers but also seek to live and work a balanced, healthy and fulfilling life. The Seminar Series was first developed as the Women of Color Leadership Seminar Series at the Harvard Club of New York City in 2005-2006, and later expanded to include the broadest range of issues for all women leaders.   These and our other seminars and workshops can be tailored to meet the needs of women in your organization.

Seminar topics include:

Workstyle-Lifestyle®

WorkStyle – LifeStyle®: “You Can Have It All, But Not All At Once”
After the daily joys and sometimes grind of shouldering career advancement requirements, family demands (whether married or not, with or without children) community service obligations and the like, how do professional women avoid winding up in the ‘lost and found?’ How do we as women effectively balance the 4 key life components:  Career Mastery, LifeStyle Management, Interpersonal Effectiveness and Personal Enrichment? These and other important life and career management balance questions are put on-the-table for honest dialogue, debate and solution-building in WorkStyle – LifeStyle® leadership seminar.

Keep the Score, Know the Score

Keep the Score, Know the Score: How Successful Women Get Promoted and Paid
In this seminar, our experts discuss how the performance review process impacts you in at least four important ways:

• career and skill development
• compensation
• promotion
• succession opportunities

Every professional, but especially women must be proactive in strategically preparing for the performance review and compensation discussions if you expect to be the master of your destiny. Turn your self-evaluation into a personal pitch book highlighting your accomplishments and value to the organization. Finally, learn the strategic use of emotion to negotiate what you deserve -- a competitive pay and benefits package.  Learn to engage in the annual process of career mapping.

Stress: The Career Killer

Stress: The Career Killer - Rx for Stress Relief
Has imbalance in your work and life pushed you into the ‘Lost and Found?’ A panel of medical and health professionals engages in ‘straight-talk’ on why women are especially prone to the deadly effects of stress as we climb the ladder of success. Focusing on body, mind and spirit, this panel of experts provides critical insights, recommendations and daily tips for rejuvenating your life and career. You will leave this seminar with several effective stress management tools and regimens for both immediate and long term results. This seminar could literally add more enjoyable, stress-free years to your life.

Creating Optionality

Creating Optionality means building and sustaining your internal and external networks so they work to promote your career progression. For example, the strategic participation in organizations, associations and non-profit boards is an excellent training ground for almost every aspect of leadership development. You have an opportunity to practice and develop leadership and power management skills in progressively sophisticated settings. Through new skills learned and old skills honed, as well as through new relationships developed, non for profit boards and professional associations are an ideal way of enhancing your optionality.  Download this highly practical graphic on building and creating optionality through non-profit board membership. (PDF)

Women of Color Leadership Initiative and Assessment

The Black Women Executives Research Initiative, conducted by Springboard Partners on behalf of The Executive Leadership Council was designed to uncover success factors and impediments for senior black women executives.

Until now, there hasn’t been a playbook to help women black women attain C-Suite (chief of office) positions.  This landmark study provides surprising insights on the perceptions of black women executives about their progress on the quality of their relationships and networks, the availability of feedback and their openness to feedback, and the all-important skills and experience metrics … and how their perceptions differ from the views of CEOs and peers.
In the Black Women Executives Research Initiative report, Springboard provides you with actionable answers to those insights by revealing…

• The 8 biggest impediments for black women executives in reaching leadership positions; these are the main sources of disconnect between top management and black women executives aspiring to C-suite positions
• Insights from a broad range of  successful leaders, including  Ken Chenault, Jamie Dimon,  Ursula Burns, Vernon Jordan and Alexis Herman — on ways institutions successfully develop, retain and promote black women executives
• Specific recommendations from these and other leaders as to what black women can do to be more visible and valuable in their organizations
• Concrete steps organizations and individuals can take immediately to begin fully developing and retaining women executives
• A new Leadership Assessment that women of color executives at all levels can use to support their professional and leadership development. 

Take the Leadership Assessment today and review the results with your executive coach, mentor, manager or use for your own self-development initiatives (PDF)

Learn more about the Black Women Executives Research Initiative Report... and how to receive a copy of the full report.