Woman and leadership
Which particular leadership strengths do women possess and how can these be developed?
Project managers: Dr. Helga Breuninger und Prof. Dr. Almuth Sellschopp
Newsletter
The Newsletter provides information on Foundation projects concerning Women and Leadership and on the results of related international research, promotes communication in women’s networks and encourages individual enterprises. The quarterly Newsletter is available in electronic and printed form.
contact: Helga Breuninger
Book project
Selected biographies of female successors in family businesses are employed to investigate the question of how specifically female leadership styles develop. In biographical interviews the careers of these women are traced up to their decision to take on the responsibility for the firm and in the process deal with failures and disappointments.
The most important themes concern the challenges presented by modern organizations to those in leading positions, the problems of reconciling family and career and the creation of a “female leadership profile” as opposed to masculine role models. Most women have no family or cultural tradition of female leadership to fall back on. The book project fills this gap.
contact: Helga Breuninger
Jour Fixe Regular informal meetings with Dr. Helga Breuninger for female successors in family businesses.
contact: Ingrid Rhone
Female Leadership
Since April 2009 the Breuninger Foundation has implemented a two-year project with the specific purpose of training women in small and medium-sized businesses in Baden-Württemberg for leadership. Project partners are the Stuttgart Office for Equality of Opportunity, the Verein zur beruflichen Förderung von Frauen e.V. (Association for the professional advancement of women) and ISPA consult. The training is given by female mentors who are supported by so-called Excellency Workshops set up by the Breuninger Foundation.
The project is funded through the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Economic Affairs by the European Social Fund.
contact: Irene Armbruster