If you are a parent of a high school girl interested in business or if you are a female at a local company, consider a long-running program from Augusta University’s Hull College of Business. Click below to read our 2 Questions (and answers) about the Women’s Leadership Academy.
ABD: You have a program in the College called the Women’s Leadership Academy. When did the Women’s Leadership Academy roughly start, and how is that gone?
HULL: The Women’s Leadership Academy is a program that has been funded and sponsored by the ADP foundation. The original class was 2019, so this 2025 class is the sixth cohort. We are actually going to host a reunion later this spring over alumni weekend, and so we’re going to bring in the previous five classes plus this sixth class to kind of network and reflect on what the Women’s Leadership Academy has done for them.
This is a great program for women in terms of learning about leadership development, coming up with and meeting professional mentors, and just understanding the things that they need to do to start thinking about leadership roles.
It’s one of the few that I know of in the country that talks about leadership development while they’re in college, as opposed to leadership programs that are post-graduate. So.
ABD: Have you noticed since the program started that maybe this has become more sort of a funnel system into the workforce in the CSRA, like, have you noticed some strides maybe being made?
HULL: I think it certainly has led to that. You know, the Women’s Leadership Academy is cohort-driven. They get to know each other very well. And so, when opportunities around the CSRA open up, they know one another. They know to point out each other’s successes, whether it’s, you know, just knowing who to network with and making those connections. And so, we’re certainly seeing the positive impact in terms of workforce in the CSRA.
