Partnerships
Joint Programs
We welcome collaborating with mission-driven groups who share our core values of excellence, advancing women’s leadership, and making the world a better place. We want the Women’s Leadership Center to be the place where women leaders defy limits, challenge the status quo, and emerge with solutions that solve the thorniest challenges. Creative teams with a passion for innovation and impact will find in the Center an extraordinary facility designed to inspire fresh thinking and new possibilities.
Confronting the Elephant in the (Board)Room Case study
Two influential organizations—Women Corporate Directors (WCD)-Chicago Chapter and the Women’s Leadership Center at Williams Bay (WLC)—collaborated to produce a groundbreaking new report: Confronting the Elephant in the (Board)Room. The report debuted at the WCD Global Institute & Visionary Awards, held in Chicago on October 5–7, 2025, and is available for download here.
Universally, Board leaders often face “elephants in the room”—unspoken dilemmas that an organization or team know exist but are reluctant to confront because they’re charged…
