Designed for business leaders, BioVentures is a detailed guide to the complex life-science product development process, from conception to commercialization.

As a leader, having strategic vision is essential to succeeding in a competitive market. This program will show you how to deliver growth to your organization without diminishing value.

Diversity is key to fostering growth and creativity within your organization. In this course, you will examine the foundation of diversity management including a discussion of the legal aspects of diversity management, diversity management organizational paradigms, and specific diversity business case studies.

Join the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business top faculty and some of Utah’s most influential women for a day of research-driven content and engaging dialogue. Academic sessions will be combined with thoughtful panel discussions and a powerful keynote address. Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to energize your career and network with inspirational women who are making a difference and shaping Utah’s business landscape.

Harness the power of financial data to make better decisions for your organization. Designed for the non-financial leader, this program provides foundational principles in accounting and finance and teaches how to effectively use financial information to make a meaningful impact.

This project-based program is uniquely designed to help health care professionals drive growth and success in their organizations. Learn from both University of Utah Health leaders and David Eccles School of Business top-ranked faculty to gain a deeper understanding of health care solutions and essential business practices.

Business leaders are under pressure to drive innovation while meeting the everyday demands of business operations. This program provides a four-phase framework to help you manage this challenge and lead breakthrough innovation at your organization.

Millennials are today’s largest working generation, yet they are increasingly misunderstood. Companies who understand and successfully harness the competencies of their younger employees enjoy an engaged, empowered workforce that drives growth and innovation. Leave this program with a plan to foster a culture that attracts, motivates, and develops the next generation of business leaders.

Emotional Intelligence (EI) and a strong commitment to personal values are integral to effective leadership. Leaders with these skills are keenly aware of their emotions and the emotions of others, and they use those insights to lead, engage, and empower those around them. This program will help you hone your EI and ethical decision-making skills to make a bigger impact in your organization and become a stronger leader.

Research has revealed effective and ineffective communication practices for effective teamwork. Learn about them and reach personal and organizational goals while becoming the leader you want to be.

Designed for leaders who have completed Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, this program provides advanced training in technical process-improvement techniques. You’ll learn how to increase productivity, process flow, and customer satisfaction while also decreasing total defects, cycle time, and work-in-progress delays.

Gain a competitive advantage by applying the principles of Lean Six Sigma to your organization. Blending simulation exercises with lectures and group work sessions, this program goes in-depth for leaders in manufacturing industries. You will gain proven frameworks for allocating resources more strategically to grow the bottom line.

Increase productivity and boost the bottom line by applying principles of Lean Six Sigma to your organization. In this program for executives in non-manufacturing industries, you will learn the foundational principles of Six Sigma and earn a Green Belt Certification following completion of a process-improvement project.

Strategic leaders are able to identify available resources and drive growth, while also accepting adequate risk to ensure growth occurs at the right pace. Assess your strategic skills and embrace a problem-finding skillset to enable your company to outperform rivals and delight today’s and tomorrow’s customers

Gain tools and tactics to increase your influence as a negotiator. In this program, you will learn effective strategies for negotiating business deals and resolving disruptions while identifying your strengths and weaknesses as a negotiator. Faculty will provide guidance on how to manage negotiations to optimize outcomes while mitigating risks.

Most CEOs are in their position because they are good at two things: strategy and leadership. These are the people who lead organizations to outperform their competitors. Competitive Strategy equips you with the knowledge and skills to develop a dynamic business strategy, in order to gain this competitive edge—and propel you to the C-suite.

Get maximum return on investment from your organization’s digital marketing spend through this comprehensive review of digital marketing channels and how to create the appropriate blends to meet your marketing goals.

Effective leaders must learn to navigate uncertainty while being ethical. Join two David Eccles School of Business professors to learn to address rising challenges, sharpen your ethical decision-making skills, and learn to address varying levels of uncertainty.

Gain tools and tactics to increase your influence as a negotiator. In this program, you will learn effective strategies for negotiating business deals and resolving disruptions while identifying your strengths and weaknesses as a negotiator. Faculty will provide guidance on how to manage negotiations to optimize outcomes while mitigating risks.

Most organizations have some type of change initiative underway at any given point in time. However, unlocking the value of these change initiatives is often stymied by organizational resistance at many levels. Learn to apply proven change management models and techniques to help your company deliver on the promise of its change initiatives, reduce employee and managerial frustration, and decrease the chance of change initiative failure.

This session explores strategies to become a more effective leader.  Focusing on who you are and how you work with others, you will leave this course with the next steps in your path to become a strategic leader.

Research has revealed effective and ineffective communication practices for effective teamwork. Learn about them and reach personal and organizational goals while becoming the leader you want to be.

In a rapidly-changing world, the key quality needed in future leaders is agility. Gain insights and strategies to increase your capacity to anticipate and understand challenges, rally the right resources to resolve them, and become a highly valuable, adaptable leader.

Communication excellence is an essential leadership tool.  As a leader ascends in their organization, they are required to speak in public more often as they shape the organization’s mission, vision, and values. Become a more persuasive and confident speaker that creates a powerful, emotional audience connection.

Interpersonal communication skills and emotional intelligence as a woman in the workplace are critical components to gaining success as a leader. In this two-day workshop, leaders will improve their interpersonal communication skills by using mindfulness strategies to work through a variety of challenging workplace communication interactions.