This course focuses on identifying and overcoming the key barriers women face in academic leadership, while also developing personal resilience and emotional intelligence for effective leadership in crisis and post-crisis settings. The course helps participants recognize systemic, institutional, and personal obstacles to career advancement, acquire skills to address these obstacles, and build self-confidence. The course focuses on leadership experiences in crisis situations such as pandemics and armed conflict, and how women leaders can effectively overcome challenges using soft skills and support from subordinates. Statistics show that women make up more than half of university staff, but hold less than a third of leadership positions (in the UK, women make up 54% of staff, but only 28% of academic leaders) . In Ukraine, women in university leadership positions are the exception rather than the norm . This highlights the persistent barriers this course aims to help overcome. The program includes analysis of real-world case studies and strategies (both international and domestic) that have demonstrated effectiveness in broadening women’s participation in higher education administration. The course is interactive: mini-lectures are combined with discussions, group exercises, and reflective assignments. Supplementary activities include blogging/journaling, case study analysis, work on small projects, and peer-to-peer experience sharing within the participant community.