Leadership Development
As a part of its broad cultural imperative and continued commitment to building a diverse pipeline of talented leaders, Deloitte’s Diversity & Inclusion and Women’s Initiative (WIN) have created a number of leadership development programs. Each offers distinct benefits to the people who participate, which empowers them to bring more value to the organization as a whole.
Ellen P. Gabriel fellows program
Named after our first WIN leader, this program enables men and women high-performing senior managers to work on strategic projects to increase their understanding of our businesses, strengthen their leadership skills and build relationships with our leadership team. Fellows attend workshops taught in conjunction with Columbia Business School and the Institute for the Future.
Leadership development and succession
It has become well known that companies with diversity at the highest levels perform better, which is why we focus our leadership development and succession planning on preparing our future leaders, high-potential partners and principals with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences, for the next step in their careers. Leadership development at Deloitte offers more than standard formal training and courses: We work closely with these professionals to create individual development plans that will allow them to build networks and pursue the assignments where they will gain the experience and skills they need. These future leaders are also matched with a career sponsor, a senior Deloitte leader, to help them navigate to the next level.
Navigation to excellence
Currently in pilot phase, we designed this year-long program primarily for women of color. Each participant is paired with a senior leader, or sponsor, who provides one-on-one guidance and valuable feedback for growth and development. Throughout the year, program participants work closely with their sponsors to outline their career goals and development plans, build critical skill sets and expand their networks. This type of prolonged contact and feedback from experienced leaders gives participants insight into the specific characteristics they need to possess to be considered for top jobs and make them feel more at ease with the idea of inhabiting key roles.
Women as buyers
This program was originally developed to help our men sell more effectively to an increasingly important segment of the buying population: Women. Designed to deepen the understanding of, and relationships with women executives through learning about their decision making style, the workshops also delivered unexpected benefits such as a greater appreciation for women colleagues and the ability to identify more with WIN and more deeply appreciate its contributions to Deloitte and our clients.
Women’s Initiative Manager Action Committee (WIMAC)/Women’s Initiative Senior Manager Advisory Council (WISMAC)
Each year, our best and brightest men and women managers and senior managers have the opportunity to sharpen their leadership skills, build relationships across the organization, play a key role in shaping WIN strategy and continue to drive innovation through their participation in the Women’s Initiative Manager Action Committee (WIMAC) and the Women’s Initiative Senior Manager Advisory Council (WISMAC). While WIMAC investigated ways to connect Generation Y professionals to our Women’s Initiative, WISMAC looked into gender differences along the paths to partner/principal and director.
Leading to WIN
The goal of Leading to WIN, an 18-month program, is to prepare experienced women partners, principals, and directors for leadership positions. Participants create their own leadership action plan for the program, under which they meet once a month with an executive coach, receive feedback from senior leaders and peers, and shadow key leaders who act as their sponsors and provide them with development opportunities.
WINning New Business
Approximately 70 high-potential women senior managers are chosen to participate in WINning New Business each year. The participants receive coaching in the areas of leadership, business development, executive presence and image, professional networking, negotiating, conflict management, and personal brand development.
WINning Career Strategies
After much success with WINning New Business, the program WINning Career Strategies was created for our women managers. This program focuses on increasing the awareness of individual strengths, building skills for career management, strengthening the sense of community between women in the practice, and taking ownership of one’s career.
