A half-day Collaborative Leadership workshop for women · Brussels
Strengthen your Influence
Beyond Formal Power
You move projects and people forward across organisations, functions and cultures. You work at the nexus of higher education, European policy and cooperation — often without formal authority, in complex contexts with unclear roles, hierarchies and power dynamics. Sounds familiar?
Whether you have been in your role for a while, you are aspiring to step up, or you just started a position with new cross-cutting responsibilities — this workshop is for you.
The workshop will provide you with tools to approach your role with more intention, authenticity and impact. Spend one morning learning how to do it.
Friday, 20 November 2026 · 9.00–13.00 · The Nine, Brussels
A deliberately small room of women who face the same kind of challenges as you.
Topics and tools
What we will explore together
Navigate power dynamics in complex international settings
Learn about different types of power and how to enhance your own.
Influence across functions, cultures and silos
Reflect and exchange on what you can do and what you can't do to get a room moving in the same direction.
Strengthen relations and build effective networks
Reflect on your professional relationships and how to nourish them.
Lead yourself in a demanding role and stay true to yourself
Learn how to protect your energy and your integrity in a challenging context.
How the morning works
Multiple perspectives, one room
A trusted space for honest conversations, peer learning and mutual support with women who share the passion for working across borders and want to step into their power through collaboration.
Candid discussion
A mix of experience-based input and honest sharing among peers who face similar challenges.
Practical exercise
Interactive work on your real situations, so you leave with new tools and concrete next steps.
Guided reflection
A space made for you to facilitate your own process with professional guidance.
After the workshop
What you will leave with
Practical tools to apply in your daily work
Tried and tested by the hosts in similar contexts
New insights and inspiration from peers
New contacts to strengthen your network
Increased confidence in how to pursue your goals
Feeling empowered by a renewed sense of purpose and possibility
A concrete next step to start putting things into practice
Know what to change when you go back to work on Monday
Meet your Hosts
Practitioners, not presenters
Two women who know what it means to work across functions, organisations and silos in European higher education policy and cooperation.
Anna-Lena Claeys-Kulik
Certified Leadership and team Coach & Independent EU Higher Education and Foresight Expert
With 15 years of experience in different roles in EU higher education policy & foresight, now supporting especially women to strengthen their confidence and inner leadership, as well as diverse teams to foster collaboration.
Emily Palmer
Independent strategic counsel for stakeholders across education, research and innovation
With 12 years of senior leadership experience in international academic collaboration, now provides advice to higher education institutions, governing boards and research stakeholders internationally.
Fifteen seats · one morning
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By signing up to the workshop you are also automatically signed up to Anna-Lena's and Emily's contact lists. Should you not wish to automatically be signed up to these lists, please send and email to anna@co-insight-coaching or emily.palmer.brussels@outlook.com.