Organizational Leadership
This certificate program is designed to help you level up your leadership skills. By covering a wide range of topics from team leadership to retaining key employees, those who earn this certificate will be prepared to manage their teams more effectively and create cultures of trust and responsibility within their organizations. Learners will also be ready to advance their career prospects, learn from experienced faculty and practitioners, and connect with other professionals who share their interests and values through the classes.
Participants must apply to be considered for this program:
The Classes
Presented By:
Jennifer Cummings, Ph.D.
Leading successful teams is one of the biggest challenges leaders face, and one many leaders take on with little training or guidance. Even highly-skilled leaders with the best intentions can struggle to cultivate teams that are productive, united, and engaged. One reason is that leading teams requires something far more complex than just leading a task or project–it requires leading people and processes.
In this session, we will identify research and expert-backed best practices you can implement immediately to boost your team’s productivity, communication, and morale. You will learn how to align your team around a core purpose and goal, clarify roles to empower individual contributors, establish ground rules for healthy communication and accountability, encourage collaboration, critical thinking, and productive dissent, and cultivate a culture of positivity, appreciation, and trust.
Presented By:
Brian Cadman, Ph.D.
In this session, students will consider how to involve others in achieving their goals. It is rare that a goal involves only a single individual. The support and effort of others is critical. In this session we will consider how to motivate others to help us with our goals. We will then consider the pitfalls of strong incentives and explore ways to avoid them. Specifically, we will learn from examples where strong incentives lead to bad outcomes and consider why. In doing so we will learn how culture and governance play an important role in achieving goals. Finally, we will learn about the role of incentives in innovation. Through a series of exercises and examples we will explore when incentives encourage innovation and when they stifle it. We will then explore examples where cultures within an organization encouraged innovation and when it prevented it. At the conclusion of the session you will be better equipped to motivate key employees and encourage innovation.
Presented By: Glen Kreiner, Ph.D.
The United States is facing a mental health crisis and it is affecting the workplace. Organizational leaders and managers find themselves trying to simultaneously take care of themselves and those who work for them. This class will highlight how mental health issues show up at work and how leaders, managers, and HR professionals can handle them. We will explore the roles of mental illness, neurodiversity, and identity in mental health. This sessions will address key concepts for navigating this challenging landscape and building resiliency.
We will also explore the increasingly blurry boundaries between work and home life. We will explore helpful research-backed tactics for diagnosing your preferences, evaluating your workplace, and negotiating complex work-nonwork boundaries. We will use a blend of discussion and small-group activities throughout the class to provide a lively environment with pertinent takeaways.
Presented By: Jen Brown, Ph.D.
The core question in strategy is: “How can my organization be competitive in a changing world?” It’s easy to ask but difficult to answer. Shallow, jargon-based answers are abundant and empty – leaving you with more questions than answers. Considering your organization’s unique blend of products, clients, location, tech, and regulations – what can it actually do to uniquely serve the market? And what can it do that will not be eroded by the actions of new or existing competitors? This class will provide you with a sharp, analytical strategy toolkit to find answers.
This course is designed to give you a big-picture foundation for thinking about how your organization can achieve its core objective. The primary emphasis is not conceptually difficult material, but applying simple, powerful, ideas to specific situations. By examining the successes and failures of modern organizations, you will gain practical insights into how to assess the strengths of your current strategy, build a cohesive strategy, and forecast future opportunities and threats to your organization.
Presented By: Michael Waterman, MA | CHG Healthcare VP
Understanding the drivers of healthy and positive workplace culture can empower and engage your employees and transform your business. That transformation starts with leaders who recognize how culture is co-created daily with employees through the values, behaviors, attitudes, and strategies that embrace the potential of people to collaborate and do good together.
This one-day workshop focuses on the daily elements and practices that distinguish the world’s best companies. We’ll explore the differences between workplace experiences that satisfy and those that engage and inspire. We’ll review examples from companies that achieve extraordinary results while maintaining cultures that retain and attract top talent. We’ll discuss ways leaders at all levels can communicate with authenticity, transparency, and visibility—even in fully remote work settings. Ultimately, we’ll define specific steps you can take to positively impact your culture while improving your leadership talents and impact.
Presented By:
Georgi Rausch, Ph.D.
On a day-to-day basis, leaders manage budgets, people, projects, crises, and risks. In this class, we will focus on how leaders can manage their minds to speak from the heart. During our time together, we’ll step back from the day-to-day and take an eagle view of how your time is spent and its purpose.
The first half of the class will focus on being aware of how our brains perceive others and the world. We will practice mindfulness to explore how our brains focus and derive meaning from our surroundings. This mindfulness will help us assess what is working and what may need to change.
In the second half of the class, we will practice mindful interactions – aligning our communication with our values and desires. This is key for improving communication and responding calmly to life’s challenges. By cultivating personal and interpersonal mindfulness we can beautifully align our words and our behavior.
The Experience
Pre-Work and Post-Work
Each class day has pre-work and post-work including: lectures, activities, readings, and reflection. This is designed to improve your understanding, engagement, and growth.
Networking
In addition to in-class networking opportunities with your colleagues, you can participate in social engagements to connect and grow your network.
Program Workbook
You will receive a workbook to guide you through class activities and provide you with a place to take note of ‘ah-ha’ moments you gain from class and your colleagues.
The Impact
This certificate is designed to help anyone develop or enhance key leadership skills, whether they are experienced leaders or aspiring managers. It can help individuals prepare for advancement by adopting a leadership mindset and skillset. This program teaches leadership concepts and research-proven approaches to successfully lead in organizations.
The Details
Format
In-Person
Class Time
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Price
$5,400
Class Dates
All Organizational Leadership classes will be taught within a cohort. When you apply, you commit to the dates within the cohort. All classes are in person, with additional pre-class and post-class learning activities online.
Spring 2025 Cohort
Fall 2025 Cohort
How a Cohort Can Enhance Your Experience
Cohorts aren’t just a convenient way to get everyone in the room for class. Cohorts create unique opportunities for participants to connect, share stories, and engage in deep discussions. These group conversations allow participants to explore complex topics from multiple angles and gain a richer understanding of the subject matter. Cohort-based learning can turn complete strangers into a thriving network of connected professionals.
Expanded Network
Diverse Perspectives
Captivating Conversation
Proof of Accomplishment
In addition to developing knowledge and skills, you will receive a certificate, SHRM credits, and a digital badge for your LinkedIn profile.
Certificate
LinkedIn Badge
SHRM Credits
