Influence & Executive Presence for Women Adopting AI at Work
Ioana Iordache
Leadership Mentor for Women, AI Builder
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.
It's called impostor syndrome and the double bind, and they slow your career by making influence and executive presence harder to build.
Yet if you aspire to be recognised, valued and seen as a senior, trustworthy leader, these are the skills you need.
As AI takes over execution, they matter more than ever: leadership and social influence are in high demand (WEF 2025), and AI-adopting firms hire more senior workers (Chandar and Klein Teeselink 2026).
You've probably tried to fix this with no results, 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 may have worked against you.
This program is different. In 4 weeks you'll practice a 4-step process to build both, with or without a title.
Practical, built by a woman who led for a decade.
Tools grounded in gender and influence research to reduce pushback.
Role-plays and real challenges, with 6 AI coaches you keep using after the course.
Peers to think out loud with, and a mentor to guide you.
What you’ll learn
The skills, tools and scripts to build influence and executive presence that gets you recognised and valued in a workplace reshaped by AI.
Clarify your strengths, reputation 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
Leadership Mentor for Women · Agentic AI builder · Product Growth Leader
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.
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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 CRMI'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
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