Women’s leadership Archives - Center for Leadership

She Leads Breakfast: Women Leaders on Challenges, Motivation, and the Future

On Friday, March 28, 2025, the Ukrainian Catholic University hosted She Leads Breakfast – a ceremonial gathering that brought together women leaders from vastly different fields. Organized through the joint efforts of the Center for Leadership of UCU and the UCU Business School, the event carried special significance: as a platform for dialogue, an opportunity […]

Women’s Leadership in Ukraine During Wartime: New Challenges and Prospects

Can a Crisis Become a Turning Point for Change? Ukrainian society, which until recently held deeply traditional views on the role of women in business, politics, and the military, has been undergoing a profound transformation in recent years. The war has not only shifted our priorities but has also pushed women toward active Leadership. At […]

Why Are There Fewer Women Leaders in Technology Management?

Sofiya Opatska attended IT Arena 2024 and participated in the business breakfast “SheTech: Empowering Women and Driving Ukraine’s Victory,” organized by Diia.City United together with the Ukrainian-Moldovan American Entrepreneurship Fund (UMAEF) as part of IT Arena. Leadership has no gender – lack of competence and manners, arrogance, and disrespect can be found among both men […]

Three thoughts on leadership by Iryna Podolyak

Whereby is leadership important at macro levels, why propaganda helps to create leaders and what should not be done with own ideas? We have outlined three messages for leaders from Iryna Podolyak, People’s Deputy, First Deputy Chair of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Culture and Spirituality. The meeting with Ms. Iryna was arranged by UCU […]

Character, failures, and ability to let go: 6 leadership lessons by Sophia Opatska

At the meeting “Women’s Leadership: Global Challenges, Local Context”, Sophia Opatska, Founding Dean of Lviv Business School of UCU (LvBS), Vice Rector of Ukrainian Catholic University, shared the experience of working with large and small organizations, launching projects from scratch, joining teams with a long history and lessons learned from each leader. The event was […]

Commitment, “cracks” and happiness as a choice: 9 insights of a female leader

“So, what women’s leadership is?” – a friend asked me having seen my certificate from Lviv Business School of UCU. I was unable to answer this question earlier but after six full days of “Women’s Leadership. Change Management” program I started understanding the leadership model in general and the women’s one in particular, in a […]

Women’s leadership: how to start making your story

When it is not enough just to manage projects, you need to master leadership tools and skills to “manage changes, processes, thoughts.” UCU Center for Leadership together with Lviv Business School of UCU have already completed women’s leadership program. The training was held in Kyiv this time and it brought together participants from civic, public, […]