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Learn to make an immediate impact on organizations of all kinds. Drive growth and innovation within your team with online and in-person programs in Entrepreneurial Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation, delivered by the world’s #1 school for entrepreneurial leadership.
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Entrepreneurial Leadership Programs
Courses designed to help you navigate uncertainty, embrace ambiguity, and solve problems as an entrepreneurial leader. Take just one or two courses, or bundle several together to earn an Executive Entrepreneurial Leadership Certificate.
Complete two required courses and pick and choose to amass eight units worth of electives to earn our Executive Entrepreneurial Leadership Certificate. Designed for busy executives, the certificate can be completed in as few as just six months, or spread over three years.
Two formats to choose from:
Live Online
In-Person
Qualifying leadership certificate courses are denoted in the accordions below with this icon: 
To be successful in fast-changing, highly competitive industries requires understanding how to recognize, interpret, summarize, and apply key data. Develop the business analytics skills to plan, execute, and make strategic decisions that add value to the bottom line.
May 6–June 3, 2022
4 weeks
Live Online
Self-Paced
Certificate Course
Now, more than ever, companies need leaders who are authentic, inclusive, and team-oriented. Effective leaders must inspire positive transformation. Learn how to adapt your approach to leadership, bringing it into harmony with the evolving requirements for effective, purposeful leadership in today’s world.
TBD
4 weeks
Live Online
Certificate Course
Today, leadership is not just a top-down idea. Strengthen your leadership and influence skills and learn how to drive innovation, inspire performance, and collaborate with a diverse workforce at every level of every organization.
Next Live Online Date:
November 15–December 15, 2022
4 weeks
Live Online
Next In-Person Date:
TBD
5 days
In-Person
Both Live Online and In-Person Sessions Qualify for:
Entrepreneurial Leadership Certificate Course
Become an entrepreneurial leader who is a valuable and collaborative problem-solver, and make an impact in a fast-paced and constantly changing marketplace. Develop a growth-oriented leadership style and build foundational skills to benefit your career. Foster a culture of collaboration, enabling your team to manage innovation and organizational change initiatives.
September 27–28, 2022
2 days
Live Online
Certificate Course
As work becomes increasingly collaborative, the best leaders are those who can effectively inspire and lead a diverse workforce. Develop the skills you'll need to manage a team that produces brilliant work: creating connections with others, setting a positive tone, being self-aware, and knowing how to collaborate and build strategic relationships and networks.
May 2–4, 2022
3 days
In-Person
Certificate Course
Become a more effective and impactful leader by developing a personalized, strengths-based leadership action plan. Expand your sphere of influence and gain tools and skills to make a positive impact on your team, organization, and community.
Next In-Person Date:
October 17–21, 2022
4.5 days
In-Person
Next Live Online Date:
February 27–March 28, 2023
5 weeks
Live Online
Both Live Online and In-Person Sessions Qualify for:
Entrepreneurial Leadership Certificate Course
Current events—from a global health outbreak to stock market fluctuations—underscore just how rapidly the world can change. Learn how to become an entrepreneurial leader who can help teams navigate in ambiguity, and build a culture of innovation where people can be more creative and entrepreneurial.
TBD
3 weeks
Live Online
Certificate Course
Finding resilience as a leader has never been more critical. Learn how to find resilience, what recent research has taught us about developing greater resilience as an entrepreneurial leader, and how to build resilience within your team.
TBD
5 weeks
Live Online
Certificate Course
Entrepreneurship Programs
Courses designed to provide you with the tools to fine-tune business models, build sustainable financials, acquire customers, pitch to investors, recruit a team, and thrive in an increasingly competitive and complex market.
Successful entrepreneurs know it takes more than a good idea to launch a business. Learn the art of customer discovery, design thinking, business model development, hypothesis testing, raising money, and more.
Next In-Person Date:
June 6–10, 2022
5 days
In-Person
Next Live Online Date:
TBD
5 weeks
Live Online
Both Live Online and In-Person Sessions Qualify for:
Entrepreneurial Leadership Certificate Course
In this course, students have the opportunity to explore financial accounting basics, building pro forma financials, managing working capital, raising capital, and deploying capital in entrepreneurial ventures.
Self-Paced
Self-Paced Online
Innovation Programs
Courses designed to equip you with the necessary capabilities to foster a culture of innovation and improve strategic innovation programs and processes.
New competitors are threatening companies who have been around for decades, while stockholder demands continue to intensify. Learn the key patterns of developing and implementing an innovation function to generate organizational renewal and create long-term revenue.
TBD
1–3 days
In-Person
Strategic innovation is more relevant and vital than ever. Learn how a strategic innovation capability works within a large, established organization. Understand the talent management and skills needed to succeed at corporate innovation.
TBD
4 weeks
Live Online
Innovative firms and entrepreneurial leaders become resourceful and overcome challenges during downturns. They do more than just survive—they thrive in the inevitable turnaround. This program will help leaders enhance their innovation efforts to change their competitive game in the market by learning innovation principles, methods, and tools.
TBD
3 weeks
Live Online
Designed for individuals across organizations of all kinds—startups, corporations, family businesses, and more—our open enrollment programs equip participants to identify opportunities through immersive learning that encourages them to think and act entrepreneurially.
Practical, hands-on programs
