Amplifying women’s leadership for a UN in transition

The United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC) is introducing UN Amplify - two offerings tailored to P4-P5 women leaders that build on our decade-long experience of working at the intersection of gender, leadership, and UN-specific realities.

Leading in the UN today no longer means having the right answers - or any answers at all. Instead, there is a greater need for leaders to hold space for questions, uncertainty, and doubts, or to make visible decisions under pressure, with high stakes. Most importantly, leaders need to sustain trust, even when resources, mandates, and morale are stretched.

UN Amplify offerings reflect the current environment and 'amplify' the role that women leaders are playing in these challenging settings.

• UN Amplify: Women and Leadership - whose first edition is approaching soon - is a six-week-long programme that deepens understanding of the gender and cultural lens of leadership. It places a strong emphasis on intentional communication, strategic negotiation, and leadership visibility - with a combination of webinars, executive coaching, and leadership assessments.

• UN Amplify: Leadership Accelerator - is a two-day in-person workshop focusing on enhancing women's leadership capacity around decision-making, complexity, communications and more. With its first edition scheduled for April 2026 in Geneva - which will be themed around approaches to building charisma and influence - the workshop will iterate in other major UN hubs throughout the year.

Together, these offerings form a coherent leadership development portfolio, providing a curated reflective learning space for women leaders amidst external uncertainty, and bringing together a growing community of more than 1,300 women leaders across the system.

Find out more about UN Amplify.