Leading Change Graduate Certificate
The leading change graduate certificate is designed to equip professionals with the tools to navigate complex challenges and lead with impact. Embrace continuous learning, master systems thinking and tackle leadership challenges head-on to gain the edge you need to drive meaningful change in your industry and community.
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The leading change graduate certificate is designed to equip industry professionals with the tools to navigate complex challenges and lead with impact. Embrace continuous learning, master systems thinking and tackle leadership challenges head-on to gain the competitive edge you need to drive meaningful change in your industry.
With this program, you can:
- Implement transformative change by gaining the confidence to lead large-scale initiatives.
- Mobilize diverse teams by bringing people together with different perspectives and guiding them to collaborate efficiently.
- Create a prosperous future by leading your organization to a future of sustainable success with solutions that will benefit all stakeholders.
The curriculum focuses on:
- Mastering leadership practice through immersive class discussions with other professionals working within a wide range of industries.
- Identifying and applying adaptive and technical leadership approaches.
- Collaboration with an academically diverse learner population.
The curriculum
- Foundations of Leadership. Explore contemporary leadership frameworks applied to self, groups or organizations/society.
- Leading Change. Apply adaptive leadership and design thinking to develop your individual capacity for leading change.
- Systems Leadership. Enable, accelerate and support processes of systems-level change within your organization or society.
- Customize with an elective in:
- community development, change or engagement
- adult learning
- program design or administration
- organizational behavior
- personnel administration
Offered through the Staley School of Leadership, whose mission is to develop bold, curious and connected learners to address our world's most complex challenges.
Nonprofit Leadership Graduate Certificate
Also available through the Staley School of Leadership, graduates of the program will understand the theoretical foundation and general principles of nonprofit leadership. They will also be trained in practical skills related to strategically managing an organization and the unique financial management of nonprofit organizations.
This program will prepare students to earn the Certified Nonprofit Professional (C.N.P.) credential through the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance. This nationally recognized credential will distinguish you in the nonprofit sector.