Three strategic priorities of the Women's Leadership Board are:
- Connect: Strengthen, advance and promote established and emerging global women leaders.
- Research: To seed relevant research for advancing women and to facilitate its effective dissemination.
- Catalyze: Activities that expand partnerships to improve the status of women globally.
Activities and sponsored projects of the Women's Leadership Board are selected according to their alignment with these strategic priorities and for their consistency with the five L's:
- Learn about global challenges facing women and girls to optimize change.
- Leverage the Board's stature, expertise and platform for global initiatives that re-imagine women's and girl's roles in their local/national communities.
- Link networks with world power players in business, academia, non-profits, governments and religious groups through partnerships and alliances with Harvard University.
- Lead global change through women's/girl's public policy initiatives and projects.
- Build a legacy of what happens on our shift - declare the impact.
For detailed explainations of our strategic priorities and initiatives, please click on the links below.
Members of the Women Leadership Board are committed to working closely with women students of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University to encourage their leadership and to connect them to opportunities in their fields of interest. Click on the link to learn more.
The Leadership Initiative seeks to utilize fully and to enhance the opportunities provided by Harvard to strengthen current and future women leaders in collaboration with our strategic partner, the Women and Public Policy Program. Click on the link to learn more.
The Women's Leadership Board is continuing its support of critical applied research addressing global gender issues. Most prominent among these current projects is "Closing the Gender Gap - A Call to Action." Click the link to learn more.