Influence & Executive Presence for Women Leveraging AI at Work

Ioana Iordache

Leadership Mentor for Women

You're doing the work. In 4 weeks, get recognised and valued for it.

You're the expert or hired to be one, and have to prove yourself constantly, defend your opinions, while questioning yourself. There's a reason for it.

It's called impostor syndrome and the double bind, and it makes showing up as a senior and trustworthy leader harder for women.

Yet this is what gets you recognised and valued at work. Research confirms it: leadership and social influence skills are in high demand (WEF 2025), and companies adopting AI hire more senior workers (Chandar and Klein Teeselink 2026).

You've probably tried to fix this with no results. That's because most leadership training gives you theory and leaves you to figure out the rest. Most of it wasn't written with women in mind, and applying it may have worked against you.

This program is different. In 4 weeks you'll practice a 4-step process to increase your influence and senior presence as a woman using AI at work, with or without a title.

Practical, built by a woman who led for a decade.
Tools grounded in gender research to minimise pushback.
Role-plays and challenges from your own work, with 6 AI coaches to practice with and use after the course ends.
Peers to think out loud with, and a mentor who walked the path.

What you’ll learn

The skills, tools and scripts that get you recognised and valued at work.

Clarify your strengths, what you are known for and aligned future goals.
Articulate an elevator pitch you can adapt to any audience, from a hallway conversation to a C-level meeting.
Promote your achievements with ease, without backlash.

Identify the key stakeholders you need to influence and plot them into a tactical power map.
Communicate with charisma and structure, so you're trusted and taken seriously, from your team to the CEO.
Translate your work into the business metrics each stakeholder cares about with the tiered metrics map.

Respond to interruptions, over-scrutiny, vague feedback, idea theft or misattributed credit, including credit for AI-augmented work.
Recognise prove-it-again patterns and respond without overworking.
Handle negative feedback, pushback and the double bind, and learn how to negotiate without backlash.

Set boundaries that stick without guilt and practice resilience after dealing with adversity.
Build cognitive recovery practices to deal with AI and meeting fatigue using the RECOVER method.
Identify the tasks that you should delegate to AI and what to keep doing yourself with the AI Delegation Compass.

Learn directly from Ioana

Ioana Iordache

Contact

Leadership Mentor for Women · Agentic AI builder · Product Growth Leader

See all products from Ioana

Who this course is for

Individual contributors.
You need to build credibility and influence people without a title to get things done.
First-time managers.
You're shifting from IC to manager and you need to build credibility and support fast.
Consultants and freelancers.
You rebuild credibility with every new client. How you show up is what gets you paid.

What's included

Live sessions

Learn directly from Ioana Iordache in a real-time, interactive format.

Live mentoring

Pre-submitted real-life challenges, solved live with direct feedback from Ioana in the Q&A sessions.

Community of peers

Tackle your specific challenge and share your learnings with women walking the same path as you.

6 AI coaches

A system of agentic skills for you to practice the frameworks you learn in this program, adapted to your unique situation.

Challenges to apply at work

Adapt the skills learned to your own situation and integrate them into your own identity by applying them actively in your work.

1:1 session with Ioana

For those who showed up live 3 out of 4 sessions.

Certificate of completion

For all participants who complete this program.

Frameworks and guides

Written down for you to reference whenever you need.

Maven Guarantee

Your purchase is backed by the Maven Guarantee.

Course syllabus

4 live sessions • 11 lessons • 4 projects

Week 1

Oct 14—Oct 18

Position yourself in any room and amplify your visibility. [Click to expand]

Oct
14
Live Session 1: Position yourself in any room and amplify your visibility.
Wed 10/144:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)

2 more items

Week 2

Oct 19—Oct 25

Influence the people who matter: build charisma and get buy-in [Click to expand]

Oct
21
Live Session 2: Influence your audience and make your ideas heard.
Wed 10/214:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)

2 more items

Schedule

Live sessions

1-2 hrs / week

4 weeks, 1 live session per week, 90 minutes per session

Wed, Oct 14
4:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)
Wed, Oct 21
4:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)
Wed, Oct 28
5:00 PM—6:30 PM (UTC)
Wed, Nov 4
5:00 PM—6:30 PM (UTC)

Challenges

1 hr / week

Each week you will get a challenge to solve. This will help you practice the skills you learn.

Async content

1 hr / week

For exploring the AI skills or the extra materials provided as bonus.

Testimonials

I was ambitious about stepping into my first senior leadership role and wanted to make an impactful start. Ioana's advice helped me hit the ground running: She helped me navigate workplace dynamics, establish a sustainable strategic daily routine, and tackle new challenges with confidence.
Isabelle M.
Head of CRM
I've become more confident, especially in client meetings, status updates, and even written updates on Slack. I'm starting to be thinking much more in terms of the audience who am I talking to, and what do they actually need/want to hear. That mindset shift has really moved me toward my goal of showing up more senior and more trustworthy.
Charity W.
Freelancer