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Women Impact Certificate

Identify your strengths, assert your leadership style and expand your professional network through a programme combining insight into gender diversity challenges, self-awareness and practical application.

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Domain
Leadership & Management
Target audience

Women seeking to progress into key positions within their organisations, with at least 10 years of professional experience.
Duration

3 days (including some sessions in person in Paris)
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Fees
  • Standard pathway (3 days): €1,650
  • With individual support: €3,150

PWN members benefit from a 10% reduction on this programme.
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Overview

The Women Impact Certificate is designed for women who wish to strengthen their legitimacy, assert their positioning and enhance their capacity to act in demanding professional environments.

Over three days, the programme provides practical insight into gender bias and the link between gender diversity and performance, while also helping you gain a deeper understanding of your own behavioural style through the DISC questionnaire. This combination of reflection, self-awareness and work on professional situations enables you to strengthen your leadership stance in a structured way.

  • Strengthen your legitimacy and leadership presence
  • Build greater assertiveness in key situations
  • Develop your influence within the organisation
  • Increase your visibility and expand your network

  • AT THE HEART OF GENDER DIVERSITY AND PERFORMANCE

You explore gender bias, understand its impact on professional trajectories, and identify practical levers for action within your own environment.

  • A STRUCTURED EXPERIENCE TO STRENGTHEN YOUR LEADERSHIP STANCE

You combine reflection, focused input and key stages of the programme to refine your positioning and enhance your effectiveness in demanding professional contexts.

  • AN EXPERIENTIAL AND COLLABORATIVE PEDAGOGY

You learn through action, with practical exercises, peer exchange and focused content designed to embed new practices over time.

  • OPTIONAL PERSONALISED COACHING

You may benefit from tailored individual support delivered by your certified coach-facilitator, helping you remove barriers and turn your development priorities into concrete action.

Skills are assessed through continuous assessment and a final assessment, in the form of work situations, case studies and multiple-choice questions.

Certification is awarded to participants who complete the entire course and pass the final assessment.​

Programme Structure

 

Onboarding

An introductory session to meet your certified coach-facilitator, discover the structure of the programme and prepare for your learning journey.

  • You complete your DISC©® questionnaire to better understand your communication style, motivations and ways of interacting within a team.

    DISC assessment
    DISC test

    A key component of the Women Impact programme, the Arc En Ciel DISC©® method provides a structured four-step approach to developing self-awareness, adaptability and managerial effectiveness.

     

    Format and process:

    • Online DISC assessment (15 to 20 minutes)
    • 79 cross-referenced questions for an in-depth profile analysis
    • Strictly confidential results
    • Personalised report provided

  • During a one-to-one session with your certified coach-facilitator, you explore your DISC results, identify your strengths, your watch-out points and your key development levers. This reflective session provides a solid foundation for shaping your development journey and maximising your impact.

  • An immersive digital learning pathway designed to provide the fundamentals of leadership, influential communication and gender diversity challenges. 

    This module allows you to progress at your own pace and prepare for the collective sessions by consolidating core concepts.

  • Led by Michel Ferrary, Affiliate Professor and Director of the Observatory on Gender Balance in Companies at SKEMA Business School, this masterclass highlights the relationship between gender diversity and organisational performance. 

    It helps participants understand why diversity is a strategic lever and identify practical ways to move these issues forward within their organisations.

  • Two days of collective work designed to strengthen self-confidence, assert your positioning and consolidate an authentic and impactful leadership stance. 

    Through discussion and practical exercises, you refine the way you communicate and learn to express your views with clarity and confidence.

  • Two individual coaching sessions to explore your personal challenges in greater depth, translate your learning into concrete levers for action and embed new practices over time. 

    Guided by an experienced coach, you refine your leadership stance and define your personal action plan.

  • This concluding day enables you to review the actions you have initiated and identify the influence dynamics at work within your organisation. 

    You strengthen your political capital (networks, alliances and visibility) and develop a structured action plan for the next stage of your professional journey. 

    You also join a community of committed peers who can support your development over time.

Please note each session is confirmed subject to a minimum number of participants being reached.

Prerequisites

The certification is open to managers or future managers with around 10 years of professional experience.

Programme Directors

Stéphanie Chasserio

With 20 years of experience in major international companies, she has developed strong expertise in managerial and organisational dynamics. As a certified Executive Coach, she supports managers and teams on leadership, cohesion and change management, drawing on recognised methods such as transactional analysis and systemic approaches.

Jeanne Vallet

Certified Executive Coach and Lecturer at SKEMA Business School

Michel Ferrary

Michel Ferrary is Director of the Observatory of the feminisation of companies at SKEMA. His work contributed to the Coppé-Zimmerman law and he was a member of the High Council for Gender Equality and, as such, worked on the Rixain law.

Michel Ferrary

Professor at SKEMA Business School

Partnership with PWN Global

SKEMA Business School is proud to partner with PWN Global, an international network dedicated to accelerating women’s professional development and leadership across industries and geographies.

This partnership reflects a shared commitment to empowering women to access strategic roles, strengthen their leadership posture, and increase their influence in key decision-making environments.

As part of this collaboration, PWN members benefit from a 10% reduction on the Women Impact Certificate.

PWN member? Please mention your membership when contacting our team to access your preferential rate.