Women in Leadership - Driving Transformation through Innovation and Resilience Certificate
Program Details
Emory Continuing Education's Women in Leadership: Driving Transformation Through Innovation and Resilience Certificate helps managers of all genders build the skills needed to reach senior leadership. The five-week online program delivers five modules led by subject matter experts in innovation, cultural awareness, engagement, resilience, and self-advocacy, with weekly live instruction and a practical focus on leading change.
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🌟Save 20% on Emory Continuing Education’s Women in Leadership online program. Enroll August 17-September 30.
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.
What does it take to move into leadership?
Emory Continuing Education’s new whitepaper, Overcoming Barriers Into Leadership, explores the latest data on women’s representation and earnings, the challenges that can affect advancement, and the skills professionals may need to navigate today’s evolving workplace.
Discover how innovation, resilience, engagement and self-advocacy can support leadership development, and learn how Emory’s Women in Leadership certificate addresses these areas.
Who Should Register
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.
Curriculum
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.