New Jersey Resources has stepped up its commitment to developing the next generation of female leaders with a six-month intensive Leadership Development for Early Career Women program offered through the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations Center for Women and Work.
Twenty-one female employees identified as having high potential completed the on-site program, which provided information, insights and networks to help them achieve professional success.
“We felt it was something that we had never done here but was definitely needed for women who haven’t mapped out the course of their career,” Rhonda Figueroa, corporate diversity officer at New Jersey Resources, told American Gas.
A highlight of the program was its peer-coaching groups, whose members continue to meet and offer each other support. To keep the momentum going, NJR is creating its first Women’s Business Resource Group, Figueroa said.
The program ended with a Capstone session where female leaders from NJR’s board of directors and executive management team shared their stories, experience and advice. — Carolyn Kimmel