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The most impactful learning comes from powerful conversations, not classrooms. Conversations that will inspire new ideas, deliver keen insight, and reinvent thought patterns to revolutionize the way you think and lead.
The Linkage 20 Conversations @Smith is an exclusive by-invitation only program co-produced by Linkage and Smith College, the largest women’s college in the United States. The program is uniquely designed to help women leaders navigate the corporate labyrinth and yield superior results for themselves and for their organizations.
Be prepared to engage in rich conversations with world-class faculty and practitioners on challenges around s elf, t eam, o rganization, f amily and e nvironment for women leaders. Look forward to twenty 90-minute conversations over five days, with undivided attention from world-class faculty, including those from:
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Smith College
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Harvard University
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Boston University
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MIT Sloan School of Management
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The all-women peer learning environment of The Linkage 20
Conversations @Smith makes it more than a business school program — it is a women’s leadership center.
The Linkage 20 Conversations series distills the best of learning experiences in executive education by engaging participants in powerful conversations with leading thinkers on critical topics. All
Linkage 20 Conversations programs are uniquely developed for CEOs and C-level executives who have done it all — the MBA, the advanced management program, the leadership course, the immersion experience — and still want more.
Find yourself immersed in a world of higher learning and intellectual exchange. Each day begins with quiet time for participants to study and reflect on carefully prepared business dossiers. The rest of the day is dedicated to facilitated conversations with leading faculty who will challenge your existing mindsets and provide new insights. Strategic downtime is worked into the day to provide participants with “white space” to experiment with new learnings, followed by peer coaching to test the rigor of new ideas.
You will receive undivided attention from faculty, quality inputs from equally experienced participants and quality learning from professional facilitators.
Hotel Northampton www.hotelnorthampton.com
36 King Street
Northampton , MA 01060

Organization Team Self Family
The p rogram begins by focusing on the s elf and delving into the unique challenges which all women leaders face in managing their e nergy, e xecution and e xpectations.
From managing s elf to managing t eams, Day 2 looks at how women leaders differentiate and deliver on team performance, ultimately leading to impacting organizations differently.
On Day 3 we explore how women leaders are able to   harness their power and navigate the complexities of the modern o rganization at the highest level.
Day 4 zooms in on women leaders and the family, with discussions around strategies to integrate business leadership and family responsibilities. On Day 5, we focus on the broader e nvironmental landscape including the economics and politics of women ’ s leadership.
Self
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Revisiting the Women ’ s Leadership vs. Advancement Agenda
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What Women Leaders Want
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Using Vulnerability to Lead
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The Inner Critic
Team
Organization
Family
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Connectional Intelligence:
Gender, Generations and Groups
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What Makes a Team Smarter? More Women
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Gender Differences in Teamwork
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Women Managing Women
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Women on Boards
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Understanding the Persistent Gender Gap at the Highest Levels
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Gender in Negotiations: Going 10x
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The Female Vision: Women’s Real Power at Work
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Women Leaders and Their Families
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Work Life Balance for the Woman Leader:
Fact or Fiction
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The Evolving Role of Women
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Board Rooms and Living Rooms
Environment
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Why Marketing to Women Doesn’t Work
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Unequal Political Participation of Women
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Unlocking the Economic Potential of Women
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Women and the New Global Elite
The Linkage 20 Conversations
@Smith is uniquely developed for senior-level women executives and leaders in corporations, government agencies and other leadership positions globally. The program is for women leaders looking to achieve breakthrough leadership by making a few paradigm changes to their thinking and approach.
While participants have extensive experience in leading organizations and possess a keen level of self-awareness and mastery, they want fresh perspectives and rigorous thinking which will enlighten and enhance their understanding of the organizational and personal challenges they are facing.
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Successor women candidates for Cs uite executives
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Women board members

THE  LINKAGE
20  CONVERSATIONS  @SMITH
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Samuel M Lam
President
Linkage Asia
Expertise: Executive Coaching, Top Team
Effectiveness, Executive Assessment, Leadership derailment and rebound interventions.
Laura Stone
Principal Consultant and Practice Leader
(Diversity & Inclusion)
Linkage, Inc.
Expertise: Executive Coaching of Women, Diversity and
Inclusion, Leadership Engagement.
Susan Brady
EVP & Women Leadership Practice Leader
Linkage, Inc.
Program Chair, Women in Leadership Institute
Expertise: Advancing Women Leaders, self image of women leaders, leadership growth and role in organizations.
Barbara Kellerman
Professor
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
Expertise: Women Leadership, Power, Followership and Bad Leaders.
Judith Gordon
Professor
Boston College
Professor and Department Chair in Management & Organization
Expertise: Interface of work and family, mid life transitions of professional women, work family conflict in older women, role conflict of women leaders.
Kathleen McCartney
President Smith College
Former Dean of the Harvard School of Education
Expertise: Women and Family, Psychology of maternal roles, work and family, women leaders and their families.

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20  CONVERSATIONS  @SMITH
Lynda Moore
Professor
School of Management, Simmons College
Founding Director, Radcliffe Public Policy Institute, Harvard University
Co-Director, Institute for Women & Organizations, Academy of Management
Expertise: Gender & Leadership, Power and Authority Dynamics in Organizations, professional services and women partners development, impact of identity in women leaders.
Saj Nicole Joni
President
Cambridge International Group
Formerly served on faculty at Wellesley , Carnegie Mellon and MIT; Fellow of the Harvard Center for
Public Leadership; and Senior fellow at Booz & Co
Expertise: Strategy, Board Leadership and Strategic Leadership
Frank Dobbin
Professor
Department of Sociology
Harvard University
Expertise: Women on Boards, Gender Diversity and Stock Performance, Diversity and
Organizations, Economic Behavior and Board Behaviors, Inequities and Micro Inequities.
Robin J. Ely
Professor in Organization Behavior
Senior Associate Dean
Harvard Business School
Expertise: Advancing Women Leaders, self image of women leaders, leadership growth and role in organizations.
Jenny Darroch
Professor
Department of Marketing
Peter Drucker School of Management, Claremont Graduate University
Expertise: Marketing Strategy, Brand Management, Marketing to Women.

THE  LINKAGE
20  CONVERSATIONS  @SMITH
Q: What is the program outline?
A: This is the tentative program outline which may be subject to minor changes. And the final outline will be emailed to the participants when it is closer to the program dates.
TIME
DAY ONE:
SELF
DAY TWO:
TEAM
DAY THREE:
ORGANIZATION
DAY FOUR:
FAMILY
DAY FIVE:
ENVIRONMENT
08:30 – 10:00
Introduction and
Set-Up: Revisiting the Women’s
Leadership vs.
Advancement
Agenda
10:00 – 10:30
Connectional
Intelligence:
Gender,
Generations and
Groups
Women on Boards
Women Leaders and Their Families
Why Marketing to
Women Doesn’t
Work
COFFEE BREAK
10:30 – 12:00
What Women
Leaders Seem to
Want
What Makes a
Team Smarter?
More Women
Understanding the
Persistent Gender
Gap at the Highest
Levels
Work Life Balance for the Woman
Leader: Fact or
Fiction
Unequal Political
Participation of
Women
12:00 – 13:30 LUNCH
13:30 – 15:00
Using Vulnerability to Lead
Gender Differences in Teamwork
Gender in
Negotiations: Going
10x
The Evolving Role of Women
Unlocking the
Economic Potential of Women
15:00 – 15:30 COFFEE BREAK
15:30 – 17:00 The Inner Critic
Women Managing
Women
The Female Vision:
Women’s Real
Power @Work
Board Rooms and
Living Rooms
Women and the
New Global Elite

THE  LINKAGE
20  CONVERSATIONS  @SMITH
Q: Where will the program be conducted?
A: The program will be conducted on the premises of Smith College. It is located at 42 Green Street,
Northampton, MA, 01063.
Q: Am I required to apply for any visa to enter the United States for this program?
A: Please check with your respective country’s consulate. If you are required to apply for a U.S. visa for this program and require an invitation letter to facilitate the process, please let us know immediately and we can prepare this letter for you.
Q: Which is the preferred or nearest airport to Smith College?
A: Participants may consider taking a flight to New York’s JFK International Airport, and then taking a connecting flight from New York to either Hartford’s Bradley International Airport or to Boston’s Logan
International Airport.
Q: How do I get from Bradley or Logan International Airport to Smith College?
A: If you fly to Bradley International Airport, the most convenient way is to hail a cab. The ride from the airport to Smith College takes approximately 50 minutes and costs somewhere within the range of USD 65.00 to
USD 95.00. If you decide to fly to Boston’s Logan International Airport instead, the cab ride will take approximately 2 hours and cost approximately USD 130.00. Alternatively, it is also possible for participants to drive themselves from Boston to Smith College, and the journey should take under 2 hours.
Q: Where should I stay throughout the duration of the program?
A: Participants are free to choose their own accommodation but for their own convenience, they may consider the Hotel Northampton ( www.hotelnorthampton.com
). The Smith College is a 10-minute walk away from the hotel.

Smith College was founded at a time when there were practically no choices for women who wanted an education equal to that available to men. The idea of such a college was a radical notion in 1871, but its success has been dramatic and undeniable.
For more than 140 years, Smith has stayed true to its mission of providing women with the best education available in the liberal arts and sciences. Today, Smith is among the largest women’s colleges in the United States, with students from every state and 60 countries. www.smith.edu
Linkage is a global leadership consulting practice with 19 offices internationally.
As trusted advisors to executives for over 25 years, they are at the forefront of leadership development, executive coaching and team effectiveness.
Over 5 00,000 leaders have attended Linkage programs since 1988. Linkage’s flagship Global Institute for Leadership Development ® is ranked the number one leadership program for seven consecutive years by Leadership Excellence m agazine , and Linkage ha s been listed in Training Industry ’ s Top 20 Leadership
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