Meet Your Instructor
Dr. Jen Marrone is a professor and scholar with over 20 years professional experience leading teams. She studies the factors that differentiate effective and ineffective work teams and managers, including the unique challenges faced by women leaders.
She is a CPA, a former public accountant, and is also the author of Leading with Humility, a research-based and practical guide for managers seeking out new, inclusive, and effective ways to lead. Her research on leadership, teamwork, and management is published in top-tier management journals and has been cited over 4000 times.
Her passion is to share research findings that are counter-intuitive and over-looked but can transform how we work, lead, and live for the better.
Dr. Marrone is a seasoned instructor and regularly teaches courses on management, work teams, and women in leadership to college students and executives.
Why this course?
The Women in Leadership course will introduce you to the research and evidence that provides clear and compelling answers to these and other important questions:
- Do women lead differently than men?
- How do societal and individual expectations of women leaders impact their experiences and their effectiveness while leading?
- How do these expectations differ for women leaders of different races?
- Is there such a thing as a "female leadership advantage"?
- Why are women leaders still underrepresented in the top echelons of organizations?
- What organizational systems and processes facilitate women's leadership development and success?
Together, we will examine the dynamics of women's leadership generally and in times of organizational downturns and societal crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic. We will also debunk problematic myths about women's leadership in the popular press, identify the skills and strategies that women often need to lead effectively, and explore the organizational systems and processes that facilitate women's leadership development and success.
You will leave the course with:
- A solid understanding of the challenges that women leaders uniquely face.
- Specific strategies for managing those challenges.
- Tangible ideas to leverage the unique strengths present for women leaders.
- A much greater awareness of your own leadership journey.
Follow a Self-Paced Curriculum
Watch or listen to video lectures on your own time. Enjoy 12 months access to the course content, as well as updates that may be provided in that time.
Can Proven Knowledge Top Scholars Know
Learn scientifically-proven findings that are counter-intuitive and often overlooked, even by the most experienced managers, yet produce results.
Reflect and Apply
Experience a variety of reflective exercises to deepen your self-awareness, develop individualized strategies, and facilitate your implementation of course ideas.
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My Mission
Not everyone can or chooses to access higher education and all its benefits. While Manage the Madness courses cannot and do not substitute for university undergraduate or graduate level courses, they can and do provide foundational knowledge and understanding needed for being more effective and satisfied when working with, supervising, or leading others.
The goal of Manage the Madness is to help more people name, understand, and influence what contributes to effectiveness and thriving at work. I wish for students to leave their course feeling more empowered and better equipped to make a positive impact, with a deeper and fuller understanding of why they and others are having the work experiences that they are (from joys to stressors).
The content in Manage the Madness courses is evidence-based, meaning it emerges from my own academic research or my interpretation of other's academic research that has been rigorously conducted and peer-reviewed. These laboratory experiments and on-site field studies seek to uncover findings that apply across diverse persons and organizational work settings. This has resulted in a large body of management knowledge that - when shared and understood - can be reliably leveraged by many (not just a select few) to be more successful at work.