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Empowerment refers to increasing the spiritual, political, social, educational, gender, or economic strength of individuals and communities.
ROTTERDAM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT ERASMUS UNIVERSITY MBA
WOMEN EMPOWERING WOMEN
RSM MBA KILIMANJARO PROJECT TAKING IT UP A LEVEL!
The business school that thinks and lives in the future
RSM IS CHALLENGING A TEAM OF WOMEN
The ascent to corporate success is slowly starting to be conquered by women in most industries, but it still can be a very slippery slope. Women may already find themselves in middle management, but the climb from that position up to the summit is often difficult and painstakingly slow with a lot of women hitting a “glass ceiling” and finding they can scale no further heights. However, with broader global business instigating more diversity in the Board Room, women can be more successful than they think, and those tackling an MBA Programme clearly have the courage to believe that they can do whatever they want to do in their career – because they can! They just need to become skilled at accumulating the right people in their networks, trusting each other and gaining the confidence to reach the top. In the words of one RSM EMBA alumna, Ide Beijersbergen-Evren, “Perhaps as women we have to do a bit more to reach and achieve what we want, and so we have to be very competent and confident about ourselves. We’ve got to stop hesitating and start growing. If a woman really wants to achieve something, the glass ceiling doesn’t exist.” Women in management face many specific challenges but at RSM we believe that accomplished women from a wide range of disciplines and industries can build meaningful relationships with each other, exchange ideas, and openly share their collective wisdom.
TO STRETCH THEMSELVES BEYOND THEIR LEADERSHIP PERCEPTIONS
THE RSM MBA KILIMANJARO PROJECT
The RSM MBA Kilimanjaro Project is designed to be a transformative experience where participants master key leadership competencies, including understanding and using power, team building and communication. By bringing a group of intelligent and passionate women together for a week, under the sometimes grim circumstances of climbing one of the world’s most formidable mountains, the experience facilitates a behavioural transformation and teach the women that, in order to succeed, they need to work together and help one another – giving them an experience that is also likely to change their attitude to collaboration in the work place and to facilitate a tipping point, or paradigm shift, so that women have a true career path to the upper levels of organisations. Last year’s participants shared their experiences on a dedicated blog (www.rsm.nl/kili) and a few quotes taken from there show that the experience was all it was meant to be: “It was a truly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and I believe it will prove to be life-changing for each of us who climbed. As for themes, I know that perseverance, collaboration and education remain at the forefront of my reflections.” Another participant reflects, “For me, this Kilimanjaro project was a journey to revolution, an unforgettable experience which will influence me for the rest of my life. One day, I will be telling this story to younger generations about how I changed from a girl to grow-up within ten days!” With concentration focused on the climbing, they furthermore developed team working skills, compassion for team members that struggled from time to time, strategies for maximising the team’s potential, and faced logistical questions as well as confronting all other issues associated with the climb. We believe each participant learns to collaborate, challenge, encourage and empower others whilst developing their network, being proud of their achievements, gaining in self confidence and learning to lead as well as follow. The value of this transformation is that they will be equipped to revolutionise the face of business in the future, bringing their own special brand of leadership into the Board Rooms of the world, making diversity a reality.
AND REACH NEW HEIGHTS
REBECCA STEPHENS WILL CLIMB WITH THE RSM MBA KILIMANJARO PROJECT
Rebecca is the first British woman to have climbed Everest – an achievement recognised around the world. She then went on to become the first English-speaking woman in the world to climb the Seven Summits, the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. As a journalist, she accompanied an Anglo-American expedition on Everest’s North East Ridge and was bitten by the mountaineering bug. She decided she wanted to climb. Not only that, she wanted to climb the highest mountain in the world. Four years later she fulfilled this ambition and has subsequently continued to break records and barriers. But how did she do it? ‘Simple,’ she says, with the benefit of hindsight. ‘I wanted to climb these mountains more than anything else in the world, and that was half the battle won. A burning desire meant I just pushed that much harder to acquire the requisite skills and make sure it happened.’ Rebecca believes that everyone has their ‘Everest’; something they badly want to do. The secret is to have the self-awareness to listen to your inner voice and follow a path that is true for you. With a passionate belief that every individual can achieve goals far beyond their wildest dreams, Rebecca lectures to corporate audiences and schools around the world. We all talk the language of the mountains: of reaching for the summit, peak performance and climbing high: Rebecca doesn’t only talk it, she lives it, drawing from her experiences on the loftiest peaks in the world to deliver talks to audiences on how to achieve absolutely the best performance. She speaks on personal development – defining one’s passions and goals, self-belief, growth through management of fear, calculated risk, tenacity and commitment – and crucially for businesses today, the subject of leadership and effective teamwork and she is a strong catalyst for our climbers as they develop their leadership skills.
RSM prides itself on admitting only the best MBA candidates from around the globe and the profile of our female participants just proves that our pride is not misplaced. A quick glimpse at the experience of the candidates in our Full-time MBA, Executive MBA and Global OneMBA programmes shows women from diverse backgrounds such as: a Brazilian Global Special Asset Manager with a renowned international bank; a Taiwanese Senior Consultant with a consulting company of some status; an Indian Module Leader with a major technology corporation; a Russian Brand Manager with a top brand cosmetics company; a Dutch Portfolio Manager with a global real estate organisation; to name just a few and all already leaders in their own right. The 2011 Kilimanjaro Project Team consisted of 15 women from 11 different nationalities participating in one of our MBA Programmes. Each of them had their own reasons to take part in this project, and all of them collaborated in each other’s success and empowerment!
RSM MBA KILIMANJARO PROJECT
HOW CAN YOU EMPOWER OTHERS AND YOURSELF?
through the close collaboration in pursuit of the summit and we therefore wish to share this opportunity with others. We will run two RSM MBA Kilimanjaro Projects in September and October this year, and we would like to challenge you – as an individual or an organisation – to become involved. This will result in not only empowering RSM MBA talent but also yourself or your female colleagues, and can be achieved through sponsorship by one of the following means. the Silver “Rongai” For individual women: the challenge is to join the project yourself! We are looking for at least 12 women who are willing to step out of their comfort zone. You will be both empowered and empower others, including one of the MBA candidates that you will join on the mountain. The amount of this sponsorship is ¤ 5,500 which will cover the cost of yourself and an MBA candidate for the climb (does not include other expenses such as flights, visa, etc). It is our expectation that, should you wish to sign up for this project, your company will support and ‘empower’ you and others through this sponsorship. For organisations: projects such as these rarely succeed without collaboration. We know from our research that there are many organisations that wish to contribute to the diversity theme in order to encourage not only We would very much like the opportunity to discuss this with you further, as an individual or organisation, particularly as there are many more details to share. If you are interested in more information please do not hesitate to contact us as we are more than happy to tell you more. The different levels of Corporate Sponsorship will, among other things, give your organisation access to exposure to the media as well as to leadership activities at RSM. the Platinum “Uhuru Peak” sponsorship of ¤ 7,500 the Gold “Kibo” sponsorship of ¤ 5,000 sponsorship of ¤ 3,000 the women in their organisation, but also talented young professionals to challenge themselves to reach their summit. Corporate sponsorship of this project is therefore also possible without sending an employee with the group. There are three levels of sponsorship available:
Brochure sponsored by: B&T Ontwerp en advies (www.b-en-t.nl)
We are confident that the RSM Kilimanjaro Project stimulates women to learn from each other
Hetty Brand-Boswijk Director Business Development MBA Programmes Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University E-mail Tel. [email protected] + 31 10 408 1925
doc_824047288.pdf
Empowerment refers to increasing the spiritual, political, social, educational, gender, or economic strength of individuals and communities.
ROTTERDAM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT ERASMUS UNIVERSITY MBA
WOMEN EMPOWERING WOMEN
RSM MBA KILIMANJARO PROJECT TAKING IT UP A LEVEL!
The business school that thinks and lives in the future
RSM IS CHALLENGING A TEAM OF WOMEN
The ascent to corporate success is slowly starting to be conquered by women in most industries, but it still can be a very slippery slope. Women may already find themselves in middle management, but the climb from that position up to the summit is often difficult and painstakingly slow with a lot of women hitting a “glass ceiling” and finding they can scale no further heights. However, with broader global business instigating more diversity in the Board Room, women can be more successful than they think, and those tackling an MBA Programme clearly have the courage to believe that they can do whatever they want to do in their career – because they can! They just need to become skilled at accumulating the right people in their networks, trusting each other and gaining the confidence to reach the top. In the words of one RSM EMBA alumna, Ide Beijersbergen-Evren, “Perhaps as women we have to do a bit more to reach and achieve what we want, and so we have to be very competent and confident about ourselves. We’ve got to stop hesitating and start growing. If a woman really wants to achieve something, the glass ceiling doesn’t exist.” Women in management face many specific challenges but at RSM we believe that accomplished women from a wide range of disciplines and industries can build meaningful relationships with each other, exchange ideas, and openly share their collective wisdom.
TO STRETCH THEMSELVES BEYOND THEIR LEADERSHIP PERCEPTIONS
THE RSM MBA KILIMANJARO PROJECT
The RSM MBA Kilimanjaro Project is designed to be a transformative experience where participants master key leadership competencies, including understanding and using power, team building and communication. By bringing a group of intelligent and passionate women together for a week, under the sometimes grim circumstances of climbing one of the world’s most formidable mountains, the experience facilitates a behavioural transformation and teach the women that, in order to succeed, they need to work together and help one another – giving them an experience that is also likely to change their attitude to collaboration in the work place and to facilitate a tipping point, or paradigm shift, so that women have a true career path to the upper levels of organisations. Last year’s participants shared their experiences on a dedicated blog (www.rsm.nl/kili) and a few quotes taken from there show that the experience was all it was meant to be: “It was a truly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and I believe it will prove to be life-changing for each of us who climbed. As for themes, I know that perseverance, collaboration and education remain at the forefront of my reflections.” Another participant reflects, “For me, this Kilimanjaro project was a journey to revolution, an unforgettable experience which will influence me for the rest of my life. One day, I will be telling this story to younger generations about how I changed from a girl to grow-up within ten days!” With concentration focused on the climbing, they furthermore developed team working skills, compassion for team members that struggled from time to time, strategies for maximising the team’s potential, and faced logistical questions as well as confronting all other issues associated with the climb. We believe each participant learns to collaborate, challenge, encourage and empower others whilst developing their network, being proud of their achievements, gaining in self confidence and learning to lead as well as follow. The value of this transformation is that they will be equipped to revolutionise the face of business in the future, bringing their own special brand of leadership into the Board Rooms of the world, making diversity a reality.
AND REACH NEW HEIGHTS
REBECCA STEPHENS WILL CLIMB WITH THE RSM MBA KILIMANJARO PROJECT
Rebecca is the first British woman to have climbed Everest – an achievement recognised around the world. She then went on to become the first English-speaking woman in the world to climb the Seven Summits, the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. As a journalist, she accompanied an Anglo-American expedition on Everest’s North East Ridge and was bitten by the mountaineering bug. She decided she wanted to climb. Not only that, she wanted to climb the highest mountain in the world. Four years later she fulfilled this ambition and has subsequently continued to break records and barriers. But how did she do it? ‘Simple,’ she says, with the benefit of hindsight. ‘I wanted to climb these mountains more than anything else in the world, and that was half the battle won. A burning desire meant I just pushed that much harder to acquire the requisite skills and make sure it happened.’ Rebecca believes that everyone has their ‘Everest’; something they badly want to do. The secret is to have the self-awareness to listen to your inner voice and follow a path that is true for you. With a passionate belief that every individual can achieve goals far beyond their wildest dreams, Rebecca lectures to corporate audiences and schools around the world. We all talk the language of the mountains: of reaching for the summit, peak performance and climbing high: Rebecca doesn’t only talk it, she lives it, drawing from her experiences on the loftiest peaks in the world to deliver talks to audiences on how to achieve absolutely the best performance. She speaks on personal development – defining one’s passions and goals, self-belief, growth through management of fear, calculated risk, tenacity and commitment – and crucially for businesses today, the subject of leadership and effective teamwork and she is a strong catalyst for our climbers as they develop their leadership skills.
RSM prides itself on admitting only the best MBA candidates from around the globe and the profile of our female participants just proves that our pride is not misplaced. A quick glimpse at the experience of the candidates in our Full-time MBA, Executive MBA and Global OneMBA programmes shows women from diverse backgrounds such as: a Brazilian Global Special Asset Manager with a renowned international bank; a Taiwanese Senior Consultant with a consulting company of some status; an Indian Module Leader with a major technology corporation; a Russian Brand Manager with a top brand cosmetics company; a Dutch Portfolio Manager with a global real estate organisation; to name just a few and all already leaders in their own right. The 2011 Kilimanjaro Project Team consisted of 15 women from 11 different nationalities participating in one of our MBA Programmes. Each of them had their own reasons to take part in this project, and all of them collaborated in each other’s success and empowerment!
RSM MBA KILIMANJARO PROJECT
HOW CAN YOU EMPOWER OTHERS AND YOURSELF?
through the close collaboration in pursuit of the summit and we therefore wish to share this opportunity with others. We will run two RSM MBA Kilimanjaro Projects in September and October this year, and we would like to challenge you – as an individual or an organisation – to become involved. This will result in not only empowering RSM MBA talent but also yourself or your female colleagues, and can be achieved through sponsorship by one of the following means. the Silver “Rongai” For individual women: the challenge is to join the project yourself! We are looking for at least 12 women who are willing to step out of their comfort zone. You will be both empowered and empower others, including one of the MBA candidates that you will join on the mountain. The amount of this sponsorship is ¤ 5,500 which will cover the cost of yourself and an MBA candidate for the climb (does not include other expenses such as flights, visa, etc). It is our expectation that, should you wish to sign up for this project, your company will support and ‘empower’ you and others through this sponsorship. For organisations: projects such as these rarely succeed without collaboration. We know from our research that there are many organisations that wish to contribute to the diversity theme in order to encourage not only We would very much like the opportunity to discuss this with you further, as an individual or organisation, particularly as there are many more details to share. If you are interested in more information please do not hesitate to contact us as we are more than happy to tell you more. The different levels of Corporate Sponsorship will, among other things, give your organisation access to exposure to the media as well as to leadership activities at RSM. the Platinum “Uhuru Peak” sponsorship of ¤ 7,500 the Gold “Kibo” sponsorship of ¤ 5,000 sponsorship of ¤ 3,000 the women in their organisation, but also talented young professionals to challenge themselves to reach their summit. Corporate sponsorship of this project is therefore also possible without sending an employee with the group. There are three levels of sponsorship available:
Brochure sponsored by: B&T Ontwerp en advies (www.b-en-t.nl)
We are confident that the RSM Kilimanjaro Project stimulates women to learn from each other
Hetty Brand-Boswijk Director Business Development MBA Programmes Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University E-mail Tel. [email protected] + 31 10 408 1925
doc_824047288.pdf