EMBA LIFELONG LEARNING
Executive Education and Executive MBA are thrilled to announce a new opportunity for EMBA alumni to come back to campus and attend in person open enrollment courses at a small seat deposit*.
Habits of Success for Leaders
Georgi Rausch, Ph.D
Habits are the engines that run our lives. Building effective and healthy habits is the key to leveraging your leadership and creating ease in your days. Designed to elevate experienced leaders, this course is perfect for those who want to use habits as a tool to fine-tune their skills.
Dates: April 3-4, 2025 | September 4-5, 2025
Finance for the Non-Financial Leader
Atif Ellahie, Ph.D.
Understanding financial fundamentals is essential to direct your company in strategic decisions. This knowledge allows you to make better use of your information and become a strategic contributor to your organization. Understanding how finance works within your organization allows leaders to use this knowledge to more efficiently drive the success of their business.
Dates: October 10-11, 2024 | March 13-14, 2025
Leading in a Rapidly Changing Environment
Bonita Austin, MBA
This course examines ways to structure and implement change effectively within an organization to improve performance and respond to potential challenges. Students will learn change management theories and how to apply them, ways to mitigate resistance to change, how to combat change fatigue, tools of cooperation, and the key elements of successful change efforts.
Dates: February 20-21, 2025
The Mindset of Innovation and Strategy
Cord Bowen
Business leaders are under pressure to drive innovation while meeting the everyday demands of business operations. This program provides tools to help you manage this challenge and lead breakthrough innovation at your organization.
Dates: October 3-4, 2024 | March 20-21, 2025
Leading with Ethics and Emotional Intelligence
Abe Bakhsheshy, Ph.D
Leaders spend 30 to 50% of their time making decisions, but many turn out to be poor. Through this course, you will learn where to look for strategic problems and opportunities and decide which ones you should tackle. You will learn how to structure problems, understand the underlying cause, and choose alternatives.
Dates: November 5-6, 2024
Speaking for Influence: Presenting and Storytelling
Kate Cañas, Ph.D
Through this course, you will have the opportunity to become a more persuasive and confident speaker who creates a powerful, emotional audience connection. You will gain key rhetorical strategies that will help you to create a powerful, emotional audience connection through storytelling, metaphors, rhetorical questions, and repetition.
Dates: November 14-15, 2024 | May 15-16, 2025
Empowering & Motivating High-Performance Teams
Jennifer Cummings, Ph.D
Understand the value teamwork brings to a group and an organization, why we resist teams, and how skills such as feedback, trust, and effective listening can develop a team’s purpose and further the group’s mission and impact. In this program, learn about these practices and reach personal and organizational goals while becoming the leader you aspire to be.
Dates: April 17-18, 2025 | September 18-19, 2025
Conflict Management and Resolution
Jennifer Cummings, Ph.D
The ability to express disagreement respectfully and effectively is essential to a civilized society and a healthy workplace. It is possible to defend personal convictions while also understanding opposing viewpoints. In this course, you will learn critical skills for navigating difficult conversations. Compromise, negotiation, and persuasion and interact respectfully with others who think, work, and live differently than we do.
Dates: October 3-4, 2024 | May 29-30, 2025
Negotiations and Influence
Katie Liljenquist, Ph.D
This course utilizes psychological science to teach you how to negotiate in a way that simultaneously maximizes economic outcomes and strengthens relationships. With multiple opportunities for hands-on practice and abundant real-life illustrations, this course provides concrete techniques that you can apply immediately in your personal and professional life.
Dates: December 5-6, 2024 | June 12-13, 2025
Mastering Strategic Leadership
Heidi Herrick, Ph.D and Bill Hesterly, Ph.D
Strategists make risky decisions today that impact tomorrow’s success. Leaders motivate and inspire others to embrace and pursue common goals. Strategic leaders combine these two critical sets of skills and unite them in the relentless pursuit of value. In growth-focused organizations, strategic leaders are developed and nurtured at every level of the organization from team leader to CEO.
Dates: November 21-22, 2024 | May 29-30, 2025
Fostering a Mentally Helathy Workplace: Culture, Mindfulness, & P0licy Glen Kreiner, Ph.D
This course will explore how the mental health crisis affects workplaces and what can be done to address it. Participants will learn practical frameworks and receive actionable toolkits for assessing and addressing the mental health challenges they and others might experience at work.
Dates: October 22-23, 2024
* Disclaimer: $75 per seat to cover basic course costs
