Understand Power to Advance Your Career

8 Days

Cohort-based Course

Learn how to navigate, build, and responsibly use power in this live and interactive course, designed specifically for women.

Understand Power to Advance Your Career

8 Days

Cohort-based Course

Learn how to navigate, build, and responsibly use power in this live and interactive course, designed specifically for women.

Hosted by

Caroline Fay and Kristine Kern

We're executive coaches and former tech operators. Harvard & Columbia trained.

Caroline Fay and Kristine Kern

We're executive coaches and former tech operators. Harvard & Columbia trained.

Previously at

Course overview

Learn how to navigate power dynamics at work.

Power is rarely discussed explicitly at work, but it’s present everywhere – from casual Slack chats to major promotion decisions. This deeply-researched course will help you understand how power works at work, so you can navigate crucial interactions with more intention, gain buy-in, be more visible and influential, and ultimately accelerate your career.

After years of navigating work politics as operators and providing executive coaching to high-achieving women, we built this course because we noticed women engaging with power in ways that are different from men -- or avoiding the topic all together. By addressing how power works head-on, we believe women will be better equipped to find satisfaction and success at work, even in male-dominated or hyper-political environments.

Our course is rooted in research, brought to life by group discussion and personal anecdotes, and is designed for female professionals.

Who is this course for?

Women who want to step out of their routine to think about new habits that can accelerate their career and improve their job satisfaction.

Rising female leaders who want to feel more in control during negotiation and collaboration, and want their opinions to be more valued.

Women who work cross-functionally regularly and need to influence without authority at multiple levels.

Women who want to step out of their routine to think about new habits that can accelerate their career and improve their job satisfaction.

Rising female leaders who want to feel more in control during negotiation and collaboration, and want their opinions to be more valued.

Women who work cross-functionally regularly and need to influence without authority at multiple levels.

Professionals who value diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice.

What you’ll get out of this course

Understand the foundations of power

We begin by building your understanding of today’s current power structure and its role (and roots) in systemic bias. You’ll unpack common misconceptions about power, and learn how men and women define and experience power differently.

Reframe your relationship to power

We give you the tools to unpack, reframe, and redefine your relationship to power, so you can engage with power more strategically and authentically.

Control your professional narrative

Learn how to build and control your professional narrative, so you can be fairly rewards for your skills, accomplishments, and all that you contribute at work.

Create new power-building habits

You’ll identify and address behaviors that can unintentionally undermine your power and influence.

This course includes

Interactive live sessions

Lifetime access to course materials

23 in-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

Projects to apply learnings

Guided feedback & reflection

Private community of peers

Course certificate upon completion

Maven Satisfaction Guarantee

This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Apr 9—Apr 14

Module 1: The Foundations of Power

5 items

Module 2: How to Reframe and Redefine Your Relationship to Power

6 items

Week 2

Apr 15—Apr 16

Module 3: How to Build and Control Your Narrative

6 items

Module 4: How to Identify and Shift Behaviors that Undermine Power

6 items

Post-course

Week 3: Optional Check-In with Accountability Partners

0 items

Testimonials from our mid-career and executive coaching clients

“Caroline has transformed my career. She has helped me navigate complex organization politics and has been strategic layer of support and strategy. She elevates my perspective, clarifies my ambitions and challenges my assumptions.

Becca

Senior Enablement Manager

I feel more clear and confident than I've ever felt as a leader, and it's all thanks to Caroline. She helps me break down my toughest problems and devise a plan without judgment. She has helped me get out of my own way and unlock the best decisions for my company.

Jaime-Jin Lewis

Founder and CEO, Wiggle Room

Kristine's coaching was just what I needed to navigate complicated challenges: candid, trustworthy, and provocative — always challenging me to think of things in fresh ways.

Betsy Reed

US Editor, The Guardian

Caroline has an awareness of the role that cultural backgrounds and lived experiences play in one’s coaching needs, making her an extremely respectful coach. Plus, from running her own startup to working in male-dominated and fast-paced environments, Caroline has rich experience that clearly comes through in her coaching.

Connie

Senior Product Manager

To say that Kristine changed my professional life and career trajectory would be an understatement. She completely reoriented my leadership style, helped me evolve my communication style to both my peers and superiors and ultimately helped me understand myself better. I am forever grateful!

Ashley McCollum

SVP of Revenue, Westbrook Media

Meet your instructors

Caroline Fay

Founder, The Extra Group

Caroline Fay, Founder and Principal of the Extra Group, is an executive coach and exited tech founder. She has built and sold a venture-backed inclusive hiring startup, designed go-to-market strategies and product launches at HR tech unicorn Lattice, and studied career development for the working adult at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Kristine Kern

Co-Founder, Realize

Kristine Kern, cofounder of Realize, is an executive coach and expert on teams. She started her career in publishing and spent more than 10 years as a consultant with Patrick Lencioni's Table Group working with leaders to build high-performing teams. She works out of offices in New York City and Oakland.