Transformative Approaches to Women's Leadership Training| Approcci trasformativi per la formazione alla leadership al femminile

Persistent exclusion of women from managerial/leadership roles is often embedded in organisations' unwritten rules, tools and 'cultural containers' rather than only formal policy.

To define a 'transformative' training model for women's leadership that removes structural and cultural obstacles to female leadership, rather than only addressing ethical/egalitarian goals.

Synthesis of ten years of training practice within manufacturing-sector companies; training embedded into daily work (as opposed to stand-alone courses, coaching or mentoring), targeting team-work practices and the written/unwritten rules of organisational learning.

The article documents the model's conceptual basis and its complementarity with non-embedded training forms (courses, coaching, mentoring); no quantitative outcome data on leadership advancement is reported.

A transformative training approach can increase transparency and awareness of gender culture embedded in organisational practices and policies, but because it challenges internal power balances it remains 'a constant challenge' to sustain.