Women in Leadership - Driving Transformation through Innovation and Resilience Certificate
- Overview
- Academics
- What You'll Learn
- Benefits
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
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.