You have a lot to say. Wouldn’t it be great if you had a platform to be heard? The Thought Leadership Greenhouse at Stanford is looking for the next women thought leaders and wants to arm you with the tools for success. For the cost of a tech conference you can be connected to and learn from some very high level people who will help you find your voice. Who’s joining me?

The Thought Leadership Greenhouse
The Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, The OpEd Project, and a small team of leading Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have come together to create a new and experimental Thought Leadership Greenhouse aimed at identifying and arming the highest potential thought leaders and thinkers in Silicon Valley with the skills, training, research, access, and close-knit support to dramatically increase the influence of women in defining the future.

Seminar Format
The four-session program (spanning eight-weeks) will combine action-based learning (high stakes scenarios, Socratic dialogue and experiential exercises), cutting-edge research, and high-level conversations informed by top women executives. All participants will have ongoing access to the Thought Leadership Greenhouse network. The pilot dates are:

• Session 1: Foundations of Thought Leadership
October 6, 2010
1:00 – 6:00 pm, dinner 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Cutting-edge research offers insights as participants explore their expertise with a hands-on exercise designed to make them think far more expansively about their knowledge and experience, and how to use it for greatest impact.
1. Introduction (Shelley Correll)
2. Exercise in Expertise (Katie Orenstein)
3. Foundations for Leadership: examining the foundations for power and re-norming beyond stereotypes and traditional models (Deborah Gruenfeld)
4. Leadership in action: conversation with industry leaders

• Session 2: Make Your Case: The Elements of Persuasion and Influence
October 20, 2010
1:00 – 6:00 pm, dinner 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Participants will tackle key questions that push them to think more expansively about their knowledge, ideas and causes, and map the greatest impact.
1. In-depth OpEd Project training (Katie Orenstein). Evidence: building a credible, solid case; Building consensus – empathy and respect; Getting results: how to make a case that people will act on; and Thinking bigger
2. Leadership in action: conversation with key thought leaders and gatekeepers

• Session 3: Facing Opposition: The difference between being right and being effective
October 27, 2010
1:00 – 6:00 pm, dinner 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm)
Do women ask? In this session, we explore and practice negotiation and the impact of how we negotiate on our career and our influence.
1. “That’s Ridiculous!” exercise (Katie Orenstein). An exercise on addressing opposition—whether using empathy and respect, acknowledging and dismissing, or validating and then trumping another point of view
2. Getting (More of) What You Want: Strategies for Creating and Claiming Value in Negotiations (Maggie Neale)
3. Leadership in action: conversation with industry leader

• Conference Call: Media Experts
November 3, 2010

• Session 4: Buy In: Creating impact with your ideas, mentors invited
November 17, 2010
1:00 – 6:00 pm, dinner 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm)
1. Pitching yourself and your ideas for results ( Katie Orenstein )
2. Building your executive brand
3. Panel representing thought leadership forum
3. Celebration of accomplishment
Cost per person: $4,500
All sessions will take place at Stanford University.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/gender/greenhouse/