Each year, IWF invests in making women stronger, smarter and more influential through its Leadership Fellows Program, a year-long, intensive leadership development experience.
Launched in 1994 with funding from the US Department of Labor’s Glass Ceiling Commission, the IWF Leadership Fellows Program is a curated leadership development experience for senior women executives. It brings together a global cohort of diverse leaders from across sectors, organisations and countries, and is a transformative experience accelerating the careers of over 700 women around the world.
With academic partnerships with Harvard Business School and INSEAD, the IWF Leadership Fellows Program offers customised leadership training for high-achieving women leaders on their path to the C-suite. The approach is holistic and focused on the participant’s personal and professional development, career path, and trajectory, while embracing the value of an outside perspective. For more information, please visit IWF Global.
Our inaugural IWFA Leadership Fellows Scholar for the 2023-24 class is Dr Ngaree Blow. Ngaree is a proud Quandamooka and Yorta Yorta woman, medical doctor and the Managing Director of the Wurru Wurru Health unit in the Melbourne Medical School of the University of Melbourne. Ngaree specialises in First Nations health curriculum design, teaching and research. Her role as Director and Senior Lecturer encompasses providing strategic direction on design, development, implementation and evaluation of a comprehensive First Nations health and population health curriculum across all four years of the Doctor of Medicine predominantly, and across 10 schools within the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences.
Our Emerging Women Leaders Program (EWLP), launched in 2019, empowers participants to develop their leadership through personal storytelling from our IWFA members.
With a community of more than 8000+ globally, IWF regularly convenes its global membership for curated cross-cultural leadership dialogues through international and local conferences.
