Negotiating as a woman: your superpower and your biggest trap

Empathy and self-awareness are the most important and underrated skills in negotiation; women usually have both. Learn how these two skills can be your greatest ally and worst enemy.

Most people walk in hoping for the best. Strong negotiators walk in having already mapped the terrain.

Knowing your red line, understanding the other side’s position, objectives, and stakes are not optional. They are the difference between reacting and leading. Leave with a concrete preparation framework you can use before your next negotiation.

Before you say a word, the room has already formed an opinion. How you walk in, how you sit down, what you do with your voice and your hands, all of it communicates something.

In this session, we work on the physical dimension of negotiation: what presence actually looks like, and how to own a room before the conversation starts.

We pitch our solution. We talk about upside, opportunity, and potential. And the other side sits there thinking about everything that could go wrong.

Learn how to shift your approach from selling the win to addressing what the other side is most afraid to lose. Practice on real scenarios with the group.

Empowerment. Safe spaces. Healing. These words are everywhere, and every one of them assumes you are lacking something.

In this session, we look at the language that has been built around women, why it positions us as fragile rather than powerful, and how to replace it with language that starts from strength. Because the words you use to describe yourself shape how you negotiate.

People-pleasing costs you credibility. Aggression costs you the relationship. There is a third way, and it is harder than both.

Empathetic assertiveness means holding your position without closing the door. In this session, we practice exactly that: how to say the difficult thing clearly, without losing the person across from you.