Build Authority at Work for Women in Tech, With or Without a Title.
Ioana Iordache
Leadership Mentor for Women in Tech
You're already doing the work. In 4 weeks, be taken seriously for it.
You're the expert in the room, and still have to prove yourself, defend your opinions, while questioning yourself. You're not alone.
Research shows that women have 6x less influence than men in group discussions. Being the expert doesn't help.
While we cannot change the rules of the career game, we can learn how to play it.
Learning how to build authority at work is the most important skill of your career. It's what gets you taken seriously and paid well.
It matters now, more than ever. Early signs suggest AI is widening the authority gap. It's also redefining the traditional career path, demanding higher-impact, higher-influence, higher-paid ICs.
You've probably tried to fix this but nothing changed, because most leadership advice wasn't written with women in mind, and often works against us.
In 4 weeks you'll learn and practice the Authority Accelerator Framework, a 4-step process to build authority at work as a woman.
What makes this program unique?
Practical, built by a woman who led teams for a decade, not regurgitated theory.
Supportive, with a community of women like you.
Designed to integrate learnings: role-plays, AI skills to practice, challenges to apply at work, and sharing back.
What you’ll learn
The skills, tools and scripts that get you taken seriously at work and paid well in your career.
Clarify your current strengths, what you are known for and aligned future goals.
Articulate your elevator pitch in less than a minute.
Promote your achievements without backlash.
Map the stakeholders you want to influence.
Speak and pitch so people listen with communication frameworks, while balancing warmth and competence.
Build a power-network inside and outside the organisation you work for.
Respond to interruptions, over-scrutiny, idea theft or credit-misattribution with ready-to-use scripts and behaviours.
Recognise prove-it-again patterns and respond without overworking.
Handle pushback and double-bind backlash to get what you want.
Set boundaries that stick without guilt.
Detach from work outside working hours and build recovery practices during the day with proven strategies and tools.
Identify the tasks that you should delegate to AI or humans.
Learn directly from Ioana
Ioana Iordache
Mentor for Women New Leaders · Agentic AI builder · Product Growth Leader
Who this course is for
Women new managers.
Team leads shifting from individual contributor to manager. Your success depends on how you build positional authority.
Women building a freelance career.
Solopreneurs and independent consultants who need to build expertise authority fast with their clients.
Senior individual contributors.
Women leading projects or initiatives who need to establish expertise authority to get things done.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Ioana Iordache in a real-time, interactive format.
Community of peers
Tackle your specific challenge and share your learnings with women walking the same path as you.
Certificate of completion
For all participants who complete this program.
AI skills
A system of agentic skills for you to practice the frameworks you learn in this program, adapted to your unique situation.
Live mentoring
Pre-submitted real-life challenges, solved live with direct feedback from Ioana in the Q&A sessions.
Frameworks and guides
Written down for you to reference whenever you need.
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 and completed 3 out of 4 challenges.
Maven Guarantee
Your purchase is backed by the Maven Guarantee.
Course syllabus
Week 1
Oct
14
Live Session 1 + Q&A: Position yourself in any room in under 60 seconds.
Clarify your current strengths, what you are known for and aligned future goals.
Articulate your elevator pitch in less than a minute and customise it to context
Promote your achievements without backlash by leveraging your peers.
Use AI as a credibility booster and position yourself for the future.
Week 2
Oct
21
Live Session 2 + Q&A: Influence your audience and make your ideas heard.
Map the stakeholders you want to influence.
Speak so people listen with communication frameworks for any situation.
Balance warmth and competence to get buy-in from your stakeholders.
Build a power-network inside and outside the organisation you work for.
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 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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