Reach your full potential

FOR WHO?

  • Women Leaders

Strengthen your leadership, bring out your strengths and uniqueness, while expanding your network.

  • Academic Co-Leads : Nadia Robertson and Tina Vassiliou
  • Duration: 5 consecutive days; approximately 35 hours of training
  • Bilingual (simultaneous translation)
  • Free program thanks to the generous support of our partners; you only need to cover transportation and accommodation costs.

NEXT COHORTS

Cohort 12 – (May 25 to 29, 2026)

  • May 25 to 29, 2026 in Odanak
  • November 19-20, 2026 at HEC Montréal for the graduation ceremony

Cohort 13 – (September 21 to 25, 2026)

  • September 21 to 25, 2026 at HEC Montréal
  • November 19-20, 2026 at HEC Montréal, for the graduation ceremony.

Cohort 14  – (March 15 to 19, 2027)

  • March 15 to 19, 2027 at HEC Montréal
  • November 18-19, 2027 at HEC Montréal for the graduation ceremony

PROGRAM CONTENT

THEMES DISCUSSED

  • Leadership: Its facets, its development
  • Emotional intelligence
  • Knowing one-self and knowing our environement
  • Deconstructing our limiting beliefs
  • Taking decisions
  • Interpersonal communication
  • Political skills

THEMES DISCUSSED

  • Identifying what characterizes us and understanding the positive and negative implications of these characteristics for our professional ambitions.
  • Identifying and articulating the foundations of your professional ambitions in line with your assumed personal identity.
  • Clearly stating the elements that characterize your personal brand.

THEMES DISCUSSED

  • Workshops on the theme of : Public speaking to sell an idea
  • Lunch-conference with guest speaker
  • Duality of professional and personal life in the public sphere

THEMES DISCUSSED

  • Developing your communication skills in front of a camera
  • Conducting a television interview

Partner – Women and leadership program

CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION – WOMEN AND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM

  1. Being an Indigenous woman and wanting to contribute to the development of First Nations communities and organizations in Quebec or Canada (Elected official, entrepreneur, manager, board membre, Next Generation leader).
  2. To have an open mind and want to actively contribute throughout the program.
  3. Being able to cover transportation and accommodation costs. Some expenses may be covered for Quebec Indigenous women in collaboration with our partner Quebec Native Women. 

A UNIQUE TRAINING EXPERIENCE BASED ON A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH

Our high-level programs aim to enhance the skills of current and future First Nations leaders. In so doing, this forward-looking approach will boost and enrich First Nations’ economic successes.

FNEE will offer participants an immersive experience that is true to First Nations’ traditional values of sustainability and the circular economy.

Women leadership

Partners of the Women Leadership program

OBJECTIVES

Our programs will give you the tools to:

  • Embrace and utilize a collaboration-based leadership mindset.
  • Focus on sustainable development within your communities.
  • Adopt an open, innovation-oriented and future-focused leadership practice, rooted in your values.

A UNIQUE EXPERIENCE

The immersive experience in our programs features a range of activities, including:

  • Receptions
  • Dinner conferences
  • Inspiring testimonials
  • Discussion panels
  • Visits to organizations
  • Traditional ceremonies
  • Sharing circles
  • Participant feedback
  • Leadership challenges
  • And more!

OUR PROGRAMS ARE DESIGNED TO:

FOSTER

Better management and business practices within communities.

CULTIVATE

Leadership based on a collaborative mindset.

EMPOWER

Participants with tools to stimulate and enhance business success and management of services.

SPECIAL FEATURES

SPECIAL FEATURES

  • Programs co-constructed and co-delivered according to our values
  • First Nations speakers and facilitators from academia and the business world
  • Courses given by HEC Montréal professors
  • Pedagogical approach focused on women’s leadership development, in a safe space
  • Programs jointly developed and taught in line with your values
  • Applied learning methods based on real-life cases that are directly transferable to the workplace

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