Empowering Women: From the Poker Table to a Seat at the Executive Leadership Table

Flip the table on work and life while building crucial leadership skills. Kellogg Executive Education is partnering with Poker Power to offer a unique and highly innovative program designed for mid- to senior-level women executives. Through the game of poker, participants will learn key leadership skills in an educational, supportive, engaging and entertaining environment. Grounded in our faculty’s expertise, the program content will address everyday matters such as decision-making, negotiation, emotional intelligence and nonverbal communication. These topics lie beneath the surface in a game of poker and successful players know how to use them to their advantage. Women deal with these same issues throughout their careers and can also learn to leverage them for their own success. Through a highly interactive approach, participants will discover how to enhance their careers by learning to: Take risks, Be aggressive, Step outside their comfort zone, Recognize biases, Conquer fear, Avoid decision making traps, Understand their decision's long-term impact, Be aware of emotional contagion, Improve probabilistic decision-making skills, Recognize the importance of emotional intelligence, Overcome confirmation bias, Say no.