W2W Leadership Initiative Updates

The latest on WILMA’s Women to Watch Leadership Initiative and its mission to help develop more women leaders in our area.

LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE:  The latest cohort of WILMA’s Leadership Institute graduated in December. The class of forty women went through leadership skills training, peer advisory discussions, and connections with area executives. A record number of applications – over a hundred – were submitted to participate in this year’s class, and those who are selected will begin meeting in April.

MENTORING: This year’s group of WILMA mentors and mentees have been meeting one-on-one each month to work on the women’s professional goals.

FUTURE LEADERS: Our latest W2W group, sixteen eleventh-grade teens, also began meeting monthly with their mentors, made up of Leadership Institute alum and Awards finalists. The group meets throughout 2023. Applications for the next Future Leaders group will open up in the fall.

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W2W Up Next: How to connect with WILMA’s leadership programs

WOMEN TO WATCH AWARDS: Applications for this year’s awards are open April 3-May 3 in the categories of Arts, Business, Education, Health, Nonprofit/Volunteer, Public Sector, and Rising Star. Info: W2WAward.com

GET ON BOARD: The next board training session, held in conjunction with UNCW’s Quality Enhancement for Nonprofit Organizations (QENO), takes place in April; date and location will be announced

LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: The 2023 WILMA’s Leadership Institute class kicks off with a day-long orientation at Double Run Farm in Brunswick County.

ALUM NETWORKING: The first of two events this year exclusively for Leadership Institute graduates and Awards finalists will be in the spring.

LEADERSHIP ACCELERATOR: WILMA’s annual leadership conference returns to the Wilmington Convention Center on July 13. Info: W2WLeadership.com

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