Women in Leadership - Driving Transformation through Innovation and Resilience Certificate

The online Women in Leadership: Driving Transformation Through Innovation and Resilience Certificate program from Emory Continuing helps managers across genders to maximize their unique strengths to become stronger leaders. The five-week program includes five learning modules, each led by subject matter experts with expertise in the areas of innovation, cultural awareness, engagement, resilience, or self-advocacy. This program is designed for current managers who are ready to build the skill set needed to reach higher levels of leadership, including C-suite positions.

Who Should Register

The certificate program is designed for managers of all genders who work in management and aspire to:

• Move into higher tiers of management and leadership
• Learn best practices for developing a collaborative culture of innovation
• Become more effective advocates for themselves and their teams

Why Choose Emory?

Academic Excellence:
Emory is nationally recognized for its rigorous academic standards and exceptional faculty.

Practical Training:
Courses are led by industry practitioners with real-world expertise.

Custom Learning Options:
Emory’s Corporate Learning unit offers customized curricula for organizations, including Fortune 100 companies, nonprofits, and school systems.

Live Virtual Instruction:
Weekly live, instructor-led sessions ensure an interactive learning experience.

Course Content Summary

Module 1: Growing a Culture of Innovation

• What works in innovation cultures?
• Developing a user-first focus
• Collaborating across silos
• Cultivating entrepreneurial mindsets
• Managing for risk and fast failure
  
  

Module 2: Innovating Across Cultures

• Importance of cultural intelligence
• Cultural self-awareness
• Innovation through diversity
  
  

Module 3: Driving Engagement 

• The power of engagement
• Communicating priorities, goals, and expectations
• Taking a strengths‐based approach
• Planning next steps to improve you and your team’s engagement
  
  

Module 4: Leading with Resiliency

• Defining resiliency
• What resiliency is not
• Resiliency and leadership
• Emotional intelligence and resiliency
• Derailers from resiliency
• Skills to increase resilience
  
  

Module 5: Advocating for Yourself

• Self-belief
• Self-awareness
• Self-ownership
• Self-articulation

Upon your successful completion of the Women in Leadership certificate program, you will be able to:

• Describe the importance of innovation and list instances of successful innovation inside and outside your organization.
• Identify collaboration strategies in your organization, design ways to engage across silos, and formulate useful ideation strategies.
• Define keys to the entrepreneurial mindset and apply methods for managing entrepreneurs.
• Develop an initial plan to encourage risk while mitigating challenges.
• Explore differences and similarities of cultures and how they impact communication, innovation, and team leadership, and develop a strategy of inclusiveness through an understanding of cultural impacts. 
• Explore how to manage multiculturalism effectively to improve innovation.
• Distinguish between resilient and non-resilient leaders, design a custom resiliency plan, and implement resiliency for innovation.