Women’s Leadership Training in Russia

In Russia, a cohort of 26 Leadership Training participants are completing the course with impressive community programs in the works. In the past year, participants attended 10 online training seminars aimed at improving critical competencies and expanding the participants' personal and professional capabilities. Through this program, participants learn to identify opportunities for positive change in professional, personal, and community life, even in times of instability. Webinars featured:

  • "Technologies and Strategies of Management, Influence and Impact" by Evgenia Bardina, a coach, writer, journalist, author of over 40 publications and facilitator of over 1000 training sessions, webinars, and master classes.

  • "Ideas of Feminism in the Torah" by Dana Pulver, Israeli storyteller and expert in informal Jewish education

  • "Design Thinking: Making Projects Simple and Fast" by Maria Stashenko – the founder of the Wonderfull Laboratory and director of The Design Thinking Center, Moscow

  • "From Idea to Result: Rules for the Development and Implementation of Successful Projects" by Irina Efremova-Garth, head of Corporate Citizenship, IBM Russia/CIS, board member of the Donors Forum, evaluation expert.

  • "Building a Personal Brand" by Natalia Loygkaya, expert in the field of personal marketing, founder of the school of personal and practical marketing, marketer with an international education, journalist, PR specialist and event manager, graduate of Moscow Business School; British Chartered Institute of Marketing.

  • "The Goal as an Effective Tool for the Development of Universal Life Skills" and "How to Convince Others Effectively" Two workshops by Irina Kabenina, educator, psychologist, and coach with degrees and certification from The Life Coach School, the Institute of Integrative Child Psychotherapy and Practical Psychology, the SAFE ® and B. A. S. E. ® Programs, Moscow State Psychological and Pedagogical University.

PKR’s leadership training webinars gave participants the necessary tools to start developing local projects in small groups. PKR team members were assigned to facilitate and supervise groups. Working in small groups made it possible to address all the important details, with all members providing input. In addition, working in teams became a kind of training of its own, the ability to organize a team is an important competence of a modern leader. The opportunity to get to know each other better was also valuable – friendship, shared challenges and values, and exchange of experience is critical to the success of the Project Kesher model. Program participants developed 14 projects for implementation, in 11 cities in Russia, with the goal of strengthening the Jewish community through active volunteer initiative of women community leaders.