Women in Leadership

Dr. Victoria Medvec is a strong advocate for women in the boardroom and in senior leadership roles.

As a frequent speaker on matters related to women in business leadership positions, Dr. Medvec helps women achieve senior level positions and join boards of directors at Fortune 1000 companies. She is a frequent speaker on matters related to women in business leadership positions. Additionally, she is the co-founder and Executive Director of Kellogg Center for Executive Women at Northwestern University.

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My life’s work has been to empower women by helping them tell their stories and giving them a voice...The pattern I’ve seen is women not knowing their inherent worth and conducting negotiations–at home and at work–out of fear...Vicki will guide you step by step, with tangible tools that will help anyone break their old patterns and start negotiating from a place of confidence and strength.

Tara Montgomery
Executive Producer and Head Content Creator, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network

Vicki’s sessions at the Fortune summits have always been the most popular.

Lisa Clucas
Executive Director, Programming, Fortune's Most Powerful Women

Vicki’s clear process, powerful concepts and complete details provide the confidence and competence to overcome fear and succeed in negotiation. Experts get better and novices become experts.

Benson P. Shapiro
Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing, Emeritus, Harvard Business School

Corporate Training

Medvec & Associates designed customized courses in the following areas:

  • Women in leadership
  • Female expertise in the boardroom
  • Retaining, advancing and promoting women

Speaking Engagements

Dr. Victoria Medvec is also an award-winning, highly sought-after speaker and author of Negotiate Without Fear: Strategies and Tools to Maximize Your Outcomes. She frequently addresses the annual Fortune Most Powerful Women summit and has spoken to Chief Executive magazine’s CEO Leadership Conference, Paradigm for Parity, Signature Leaders and other professional development conferences. The Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) and YPO Gold have honored her with multiple “Best of the Best” education awards.

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Corporate Governance

Effective corporate governance is a requisite for an organization’s success. Companies with high-performing boards of directors achieve superior outcomes and greater returns on investment. Dr. Medvec helps boards realize high takeaway value, improved efficacy of their decision-making, and long-lasting effects.

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Effective Decision-Making

Not all decisions carry the same weight or risks. Dr. Medvec shows executives how to avoid the most common decision-making mistakes, from spending too much time on low-risk decisions to making the most strategic choices when millions of dollars are at stake.

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High-Stakes Negotiations

Dr. Medvec helps executives develop effective strategies for transactions of every size and scope, from partnership and licensing agreements to customer contracts and mergers and acquisitions. Thanks to her experience and acumen, she is able to recognize and analyze negotiation patterns, determine the most effective strategies for each situation, and guide senior leaders to achieve optimal results.

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