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Signature Select

The professional development program created to prepare mid-level executives to thrive at the next level

Through the success of Signature Premier, alumni asked us to impact women earlier in their careers.
Signature Select is a professional development program launched with several global companies passionate about increasing the number of women in their leadership pipelines.

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Prospective Candidates

Ideal candidates have reached the critical point where they must pivot from doing/achieving to leading/influencing an organization in order to reach next level leadership. They are typically one or two levels below a Signature Premier candidate, and titles include Director, Senior Manager, or Manager with fast-track potential to the next level.

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Peer-to-Peer Experience

Participants are invited to 3 days of an immersive professional development program taught by executive role models from Signature Select. They join a peer group of multi-discipline, cross-industry leaders from around the world in candid group discussions, one-on-ones, panel sessions, and networking dinners. An invitation from an executive sponsor and post-session calls with executive faculty are used to recognize these participants as key future leaders.

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Practical Content

Participants are facing a critical point in their careers where they are making the pivot from managing to leading. Signature Select gives them the capabilities and the confidence to successfully transition. Our curriculum provides the knowledge and support to navigate through uncertainty, create a basis for action, and have the courage to move decisions and teams forward. Participants hear from role models on how to manage career progression with external demands of family and personal life choices.

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Powerful Network

Alumni join the powerful Signature Network, including executive faculty members and advisors who support their careers and life journeys. Structured follow-up activities encourage ongoing learning, sharing, and the practical application of new skills and perspectives. The shared experience of Signature Select also creates deep intra-company connections among alumni who commit to sharing their progress with one another as accountability partners.

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I can honestly say this was the best program I have attended! The materials and activities were very relevant and extremely insightful. I enjoyed meeting the other participants and realizing that we all are faced with many of the same challenges in both our professional and personal lives. We all shared our experiences and what "tips" and "tricks" we have used to work through situations. I feel a renewed sense of direction and focus; I look forward to continued learning within this wonderful network of amazing professional women.
Elizabeth Ahl

Elizabeth Ahl

District Director, Ahold Delhaize

I needed the pointers and guidance to see that it is not always the BIG things that need to change but that a few small changes can have a big impact. Every single topic was so appropriate and applicable to my personal development. I met some amazing people and cannot remember when last I laughed as much. As predicted it has given me the fresh energy that was so needed and missing. Now I will make the necessary changes to be true to myself.

Celeste Hewitt

Celeste Hewitt

Supply Chain Development Associate Director - ANH Global Scope, Cargill

I love how Signature keeps everything positive and helps us focus on the choices each of us has. External factors will always push at us, but I have a new sense of calm and less stress when dealing with obstacles. There is power in owning your position. I’d rather fight for ideas to move the company forward than fight to get my voice heard.

Dawn Allen

Dawn Allen

Rural Outreach Diversity Coordinator, MH Enterprises, Employment Services

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Carol Seymour - Founder and CEOCarol Seymour

Founder and CEO

Carol Seymour is a sought-after business leader and catalyst for growth. As an executive advisor to businesses and executives around the globe, she has a passion for helping leaders perform at maximum potential in their professions and lives.

She founded Signature Leaders in 2013 at the request of a dozen global heads of HR and now runs multiple leadership-focused offerings. Programs FOR women, not about women. The Signature Premier program – for senior female executives, is a unique development initiative and peer network with only 120 candidates per year. Today, more than 1400 global executives in the Fortune 1000 are part of Signature. Signature Leaders partners with more than 130 market-leading companies for their selective investments.  Eastman, ADP, Ahold Delhaize, Ingersoll Rand, ServiceNow, Cardinal Health, Merck, UPS, Nestle, Southern Company, AT&T, and Maersk are a few of the representative partners.

Carol has a successful track record as a senior executive in large cap companies, startups, and private equity-backed organizations. She has led critical transformations, product/service innovations, and fast-track turn-arounds. Chief Marketing and Commercial roles at Accenture, Spherion, MeadWestvaco, and DBM led her to build World 50, the world’s premier senior executive networking organization. She launched six C-suite private memberships as she grew World 50. Prior to starting Signature Leaders, she was a managing director of G100, a private CEO network for 200 CEOs globally.

Over the past decade, Carol has interviewed more than 1000 C-suite executives for their leadership insights. She has orchestrated executive discussions among some of the world’s most acclaimed leaders and CEOs. Several of her highlighted interviews include: Sergio Marchionne, CEO of Fiat/Chrysler, just two days after Chrysler paid off its government debt; and Hugh Grant, CEO of Monsanto and CEO of the Year. She has also facilitated discussions with Condoleezza Rice, Greg Norman, Fred Smith, Paul Azinger, and Doris Kearns Goodwin, among others, extracting high impact ideas for executives to action in their own organizations.

Carol is the author of Wisdom Warriors: Women with the Courage to be True to Themselves, a collection of 200 stories and lessons of leadership AND life from amazing, accomplished executives. The book is being used by companies, coaches, and executives to catalyze organizations to share stories. Carol also authored a custom version of the book for Cargill and CEO Dave MacLennan, and for Ahold Delhaize and CEO Dick Boer. Carol is also a top-rated speaker, named one of the Top 40 Women Keynote Speakers for 2020 by RealLeaders Magazine, spending most of her speaking time with women’s forums, industry conferences, and client leadership forums.

Carol is a Founding Member of Paradigm for Parity and uses Signature Leaders to do her part to address the gender gap in executive levels. “Two through You”, an on-line resource, was launched to help companies build their formal sponsorship programs.

Carol resides in Cashiers, NC and spent 34 years in Atlanta. She has two married children, two granddaughters, and a grandson.

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“Wisdom Warriors illustrates in vividly drawn sketches why we are so much richer as a result of our differences. Sharing our personal stories not only helps others, but it transforms and strengthens all of us.”

– David W. MacLennan, Chairman & CEO | Cargill

“Wisdom Warriors demonstrates why leading life intentionally makes for better leaders. There isn’t a story inside that doesn’t relate to someone! Buy copies to share with colleagues, friends and daughters.”

– Gail Evans, Author | Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman

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