Multicultural Women Executive Leadership Foundation

The Executive Leadership Program for Multicultural Women is an intensive innovative 5-month immersion program that embraces the principles used in Harvard University's groundbreaking Authentic Leadership program. The program will: Fill the development pipeline with highly talented and capable women leaders to executive C-Suites at Fortune 500 Companies. Arm high-performing participants with the knowledge skills and tools to accelerate their development into the executive ranks for increasing optimal business performance. Provide culturally-relevant strategies that allow all program participants to step into higher leadership roles and promote the value of a diverse influence. Promote all women leaders as influential change agents who can align an organization's business initiatives with social responsibility. The Executive Leadership Program for Multicultural Women a program for all women is the first of its kind with the goal of addressing the sociocultural realities of today's emerging women leaders and is modeled after the highly successful Latina Global Executive Leadership Program. This curriculum based on state-of-the-art research is taught by University of Southern California USC faculty scholars and real-world practitioners with global insights to relevant experiences professional women leaders of all cultures face in the workplace.

The program is comprised of three main components: Development of Multicultural Entrepreneurial Leadership skills through Harvard's highly acclaimed Authentic Leadership curriculum. Integrated study of a comprehensive step-by-step systematic business growth model. A network of successful Multicultural Entrepreneurs to help business owners focus on their most critical business issues and increase business capacity. The Multicultural Entrepreneur Program is focused on unlocking the growth and job creation potential of multicultural-owned small businesses in California through greater access to business education financial capital and business support services. The program is co-sponsored and hosted in partnership with the USC Marshall School of Business and the USC Latino Alumni Association.