University of Utah Executive Education Class Catalog

CLASS CATALOG

EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

WHAT IS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION?

In order to address real-world problems and provide growth opportunities to professionals no matter where they are in their careers, the David Eccles School of Business offers Executive Education: graduate-level classes that can be taken individually or together within a certificate program. No matter the business problem, Executive Education courses provide the tools necessary for individuals to return to their organizations and make an immediate impact.

Access to top faculty

Executive Education courses are taught by the same top-ranked faculty as Utah’s MBA Programs. Our faculty hail from some of the world’s most elite institutions and organizations.

Need-based customization

Individuals can choose from a broad selection of classes that meet their needs or take a specified group of classes to earn a certificate. Organizations can request customized programs.

Diverse networking opportunities

Executive Education students come from companies of all scopes, from local startups to global Fortune 100 stalwarts. Students connect and build lasting networks with their peers.

FOR ORGANIZATIONS:

Investing in developing employees and leaders will make an immediate impact and provide long-term benefits for your company. This is why the University of Utah offers a voucher program for organizations sending their employees to Executive Education classes. In addition, the University of Utah partners with organizations to create completely custom programs tailored to specific business problems. Visit our website to learn more.

LONG-TERM PARTNERSHIP WITH YOUR ORGANIZATION

We value our partnerships and have designed additional voucher discounts for multi-year commitments.

Vouchers can be used by anyone within your organization for any applicable class. All vouchers must be assigned within one year of purchase. Multiyear commitments will be billed annually. For more information, please contact us at ExecEd@Utah.edu.

CERTIFICATES

AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP & BUSINESS

ETHICS CERTIFICATE

This online certificate highlights essential topics that help individuals understand how to grow as ethical leaders. This certificate will challenge you as a leader and help define your moral principles. The information you will learn can be brought back to your company and implemented as ethical practices in your organization or team. Become a more ethical leader with the insights and practical skills you will achieve by better understanding how to inspire integrity, develop your inspirational leadership narrative, create an ethical business culture, define laws and ethics, and market for successful sales.

Classes:

• Inspire Integrity: Chase An Authentic Life at Work and Home

• Developing the Inspirational Leader Within

• Leadership Through Effective Ethical Practices

• Using Governance to Create an Ethical Business Culture

• Professional Responsibility and Legal Ethics

• Ethical Marketing for Successful Sales

Is this program right for you?

The Authentic Leadership and Business Ethics Certificate covers the fundamentals of ethics and moral practices, developing the inspirational leader within, laws and ethics, ethical marketing practices, and more.

If you are in a mid- to senior-level position and want to grow in your organization and create a more ethical work environment, this program is right for you. If you are an individual who wants to understand ethical business practices from multiple angles and develop your leadership skills, this program is also right for you.

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION CERTIFICATE

$2,295 Online Certificate

This online certificate is designed for leaders looking to lead their organizations, departments, or teams into the digital transformation world (no experience necessary). Digital transformation is a wave sweeping across businesses in every industry, reshaping how technology, people, and processes are combined to create value for organizations. This certificate program introduces predictive analytics, big data, information systems, artificial intelligence, and digital marketing. In this program, you will discover the tools of the 21st century to unlock the growth potential in your organization.

Classes:

• The Business Impact of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency

• Digital Disruption: Rethinking Strategy in a Digital-First World

• Digital Marketing: Optimizing Website Performance

• Information Systems: Understanding Foundational Concepts in Technology

• Predictive Analytics

• Tools, Technologies, and Strategies for Big Data

This program will help you:

• Improve your productivity and increase profits in your organization

• Learn how data is used to drive decisions

• Strengthen confidence in yourself and your abilities

This program will help your organization:

• Learn the skills to be at the forefront of your industry

• Enhance data collection and identify opportunities for a bigger return on investment

• Develop a better customer experience

EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP CERTIFICATE

Whether you are an executive in your organization or aspiring to become one, this certificate provides you with the expertise, credibility, and confidence needed to reach the next level in your career. You will learn skills that allow you to understand your employees better, increase productivity, and boost your organization’s bottom line. The knowledge from this certificate program will translate into your personal and professional life. You will have the unique opportunity to expand your network and make important connections with other people in the program. The certificate is composed of your choice of any six classes below:

Classes:

• Habits of Success for Leaders

• Finance for the Non-Financial Leader

• Leading in a Rapidly Changing Environment

• The Mindset of Innovation and Strategy

• Leading with Ethics and Emotional Intelligence

• Speaking for Influence: Presenting and Storytelling

• Empowering and Motivating High-Performance Teams

• Negotiations and Influence

• Mastering Strategic Leadership

Program Results:

• Broad knowledge of leadership and strategies to lead through change, hardship, and unexpected situations

• Innovative skills and strategies to implement into the organization

• An understanding of teams and how to leverage talents to create impact

• Increased productivity and efficiency in the workplace

$6,400 In-Person Certificate

HEALTH SCIENCE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE

To succeed in health care today, professionals must develop innovative strategies that communicate a compelling vision of high-quality, cost-effective care and lead teams effectively. This project-based, in-person program is uniquely designed to help health care professionals drive growth and success in their organizations. The program consists of six sessions taught by prestigious faculty from the David Eccles School of Business. These sessions will teach the essential skills for increasing your effectiveness and vision as a leader.

Classes:

• Leading High-Performance Teams + Conflict Management Resolution

• Finance & Accounting for Health Care Professionals

• Collaborative Negotiations: Influencing Positive Change in Health Care

• Leading Change in a Fast-Paced Environment

• Mastering Strategic Leadership

• Expressing Your Authentic Voice: Public Speaking

Program Format:

The Health Science Leadership Development certificate has a unique, sessionbased format with an intensive session in Park City to start the program. The rest of the sessions are located on campus. The Executive Education staff provides all lodging, food, and accomodations.

Program Results:

• Extensive leadership ability specific to health care’s rapidly evolving and teamdriven environment

• Understanding of business principles necessary for starting, leading, and managing a health care company.

• Increased communication, productivity, and impact in the workplace

LEADING WITH EQUITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION CERTIFICATE

$2,295 Online Certificate

The Leading with Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion certificate helps individuals grow as leaders while challenging them and the status quo of their organization. The information you learn can be brought to your company and implemented to create better processes for a more inclusive and psychologically safe environment. Become a transformational leader with the knowledge you’ll gain and the mindset you’ll achieve by better understanding your unconscious biases, diversity and inclusion fundamentals, leading across generational gaps, legal obligations as an employer, and evaluating high performance while considering diversity.

Classes:

• Diversity, Inclusion, and High Performance

• Diversity Legal Requirements: Know Your Legal Rights and Duties

• Healing Systemic Inequality Through Allyship in The Workplace

• Impact of Assumptions: Gender, Sexuality, and Work-Life Integration

• Leading Across Generations: Understanding Generational Values

• Leveraging Psychological Safety: Growth-Mindset Organization

• Managing Diversity and Inclusion: Systemic Organizational Model

• Rethink. Understanding Your Unconscious Bias

• The Racial Crisis in America

This program will help you:

• Understand your rights as an employee relating to diversity

• Become more mindful about your actions and how they affect others

• Understand the racial crisis in America and how it impacts the workplace

This program will help your organization:

• Foster a more inclusive and diverse environment for your employees

• Understand rights as an employer when implementing diversity initiatives

• Identify how diversity in a workforce can create higher performance

LEAN SIX SIGMA CERTIFICATIONS

Lean Six Sigma skills are becoming increasingly crucial in the business world; they help organizations improve processes, reduce costs, and promote efficiency without devaluing their product or pipeline. Executive Education’s Lean Six Sigma programs take training a step further by allowing you to complete a process improvement project for your organization or another before receiving your certificate. Most Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and Black Belt courses result in an annual savings of 50 to 1,000 times the course tuition.

We offer Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certificates both online and in person. If you are new to Lean Six Sigma, pursue your Lean Six Sigma Green Belt before continuing to the Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. Once you’ve completed your Lean Six Sigma certification, you’re qualified to complete our additional Lean Operations Management certificate.

What Is Lean Six Sigma?

Lean Six Sigma is a business strategy focused on process improvement and eliminating waste. This unique combination creates a competitive advantage that results in reduced costs, improved quality, and increased speed of delivery.

Countless organizations have successfully transformed their workflows with Lean Six Sigma methodologies. It is recognized worldwide in manufacturing, distribution, engineering, logistics, software development, retail, health care, and government industries. Lean Six Sigma is utilized by 82% of Fortune 100 companies, with an estimated global savings of $427 billion over the last 20 years.

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Course (Online or In Person):

You’ll start with your Green Belt certification. Increase productivity and boost the bottom line by applying principles of Lean Six Sigma to your organization. In this program you will learn the foundational principles of Six Sigma and earn a Green Belt Certification following completion of a process-improvement project. You will gain proven frameworks for allocating resources more strategically to grow the bottom line and be prepared to apply the fundamental strategies in your own company. The Green Belt certification can be completed in-person or online. When you attend in person, your lectures are blended with group work sessions to help you network and learn the principles more thoroughly.

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Course (Online or In Person):

Designed for leaders who have completed Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, this program provides advanced training in technical process-improvement techniques. You’ll learn how to increase productivity, process flow, and customer satisfaction while also decreasing total defects, cycle time, and work-in-progress delays.

Return on Investment

• Achieve real financial results by applying Lean Six Sigma tools on high-dollar projects

• Improve customer satisfaction rates and outcomes

• Learn how to deliver products and services on time without defects

• Earn a world-recognized certification as a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt

Accreditation:

Our program is taught by a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and our certificates are accredited by The Council for Six Sigma Certification. This accreditation is crucial: It is one of the most prominent and well-respected accreditations for Six Sigma programs. It is used and recognized in more than 165 countries worldwide.

In-Person Price: $3,800

Online Price: $4,685

In-Person Price: $7,200

Online Price: $4,685

LEAN OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT CERTIFICATE

Improve your Lean Six Sigma knowledge by obtaining a Lean Operations Management Certificate. Gain vital leadership skills that can make the difference when implementing lasting process improvement initiatives; successful managers easily recognize areas for improvement, improve efficiencies for increased profitability, and reduce waste.

Classes:

Lean Six Sigma Certification

• To qualify for the Lean Operations Management Certificate, students must first obtain either a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt cer tification (see previous page)

Executive Leadership Classes

• You can customize the certificate to fit your needs: Once you have obtained your Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification, you can choose from any three Executive Leadership courses to complete your certificate. You have two years to complete this certificate program.

Program Results:

• Achieve real financial results by applying Lean Six Sigma tools to high-dollar projects

• Improve customer satisfaction rates and outcomes

• Gain research-backed skills and strategies that can be implemented immediately at your organization

• Learn with like-minded professionals and gain insights into the unique challenges other organizations are facing

MBA FOUNDATIONS CERTIFICATE

$2,295 Online Certificate

This online certificate focuses on the fundamentals of business management and provides a glimpse of an MBA from the University of Utah. As the workplace continues to shift and change over time, this program will give you tools to prepare for the future. Grow your career by learning concepts in finance, accounting, statistics, and economics. These notions will build your confidence in discussing financial decisions, inspiring and leading a productive team, and developing a strategy that will change your business’s trajectory.

Classes:

• Speaking to Inspire

• Prescriptive Analytics: Optimization

• The Value of Economics: How (and How Well) Do Markets Work

• Know Your Impact: Leading Self, Others, and Organization

• Operations Management and Leading Change

• Finance & Accounting For Decision-Making

• Making Strategic Business Decisions

Program Value:

At a price of $2,295, this program presents phenomenal value for anyone who wants to advance their career without committing to an entire MBA. You will learn in-demand skills taught by other professional education programs at a fraction of the cost. You will learn these foundational skills from many of the same professors who teach our conventional MBA programs.

Participants who complete the MBA Foundations certificate will receive a $1,500 scholarship applicable towards the tuition of any of the four MBA programs at the University of Utah if they apply and are admitted. The scholarship is eligible for up to 18 months after completing the MBA Foundations certificate.

ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP CERTIFICATE

In-Person Certificate

$5,700

Level up your leadership skills with this certificate, designed to make you a more effective leader and enable you to cultivate trust and accountability with your team. By covering a wide range of topics, from retaining key employees to team leadership, you’ll leave prepared to manage your teams effectively. You’ll learn from experienced leaders in a variety of industries and increase your confidence and job prospects.

Classes:

• Leading High-Performance Teams

• Motivating Key Employees While Encouraging Innovation

• Workplace Mental Health and Resilient Leadership

• Building a Dynamic Strategy for My Organization

• Creating and Maintaining a Positive Workplace Culture

• Mindful Leadership and Communication

Program Impact:

As an individual earning this certificate, you’ll learn tools to manage your stress, understand how to be both results-focused and people-focused, and gain the experience needed to pursue leadership positions. Organizations will find this course helps create an environment of trust within the company, increases team productivity, and allows for more effective employees.

TOP OPERATIONS & PERFORMANCE

$3,950 Online Certificate

In a class of its own, this online certificate is one of very few in the country customized for government and nonprofits. At the University of Utah, we understand that government and nonprofit organizations face growing demands, shrinking capacity, competing pressures, and monumental challenges on a daily basis. Our team of expert instructors will give you the increasingly critical, in-demand operational expertise you need to succeed. Using a proven innovative approach, they’ll guide you in applying it to your real-life work priorities as a course project.

Program Content:

Week 1: Introduction

Week 2: Clarifying Our Primary Purpose

Week 3: Precisely Defining Problems

Week 4: Setting the Direction of Solutions

Week 5: Designing Solutions

Week 6:: Applying the Rules and Tools of Flow

Week 7: Applying the Rules and Tools of Flow

Week 8: Measuring Results

Week 9: Operationalizing Solutions

Week 10: Managing for Results

Program Impact:

• Access to inside expertise

• Customized consulting and coaching

• Priority project plan ready to produce results

• Ongoing access to learning and networking

• Gain extensive leadership skill and knowledge

WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP I CERTIFICATE

$7,500

Women in Leadership is an in-person certificate designed for women seeking the skills to be effective leaders and any business leaders committed to helping women succeed in leadership roles. With an emphasis on communication and leadership development, you will walk away from this program with the expertise, credibility, and confidence needed to make the most out of your career and the careers of those you mentor and support. You will not just gain insights into better leading your organization; you will explore current research and discuss innovative, researchbacked solutions you can immediately implement.

Cohort-Based Format:

This certificate consists of seven cohort-based classes in which you will engage with your colleagues through a combination of lecture-based presentations and interactive discussions, all under the guidance of top faculty from the University of Utah David Eccles School of Business. You will expand your network with prominent business leaders and truly have an opportunity to engage, share ideas, and connect. An application is required for this certificate.

The ACT Learning Model:

Assess:

• Start with a 360° assessment to gain a better understanding of your personal strengths, identify key challenges you are facing, and how you can impact your organization.

Collaborate:

• Learn from Eccles School professors who are experts in their field and connect with your peers to grow your skills and network.

Transform:

• Drive change in your organization while inspiring others to do the same. Through action-based takeaways, you will immediately begin to make an impact.

Women in Leadership I Classes (Exclusive

Leveraging Your Conflict Style and Being Assertive

Taught by Jennifer Cummings, Ph.D.

Improve your leadership acumen and develop your skills for handling difficult conversations for maintaining positive professional relationships.

Mindfulness and Interpersonal Effectiveness

Taught by Georgi Rausch, Ph.D.

Improve your interpersonal communication skills by using mindfulness strategies to work through various challenging workplace interactions.

Charting Your Path to Strategic Leadership

Taught by Heidi Herrick, Ph.D.

This class is offered in partnership with the Goff Strategic Leadership Center. You will explore strategies to become a more effective leader by focusing on who you are and how you work with others.

Power of Communication: Let’s Talk Negotiating

Taught by Katie Liljenquist, Ph.D.

This course is an opportunity for you to question status quo gender stereotypes, examine what you truly want, identify obstacles that have been in your way, and learn how to create the conditions for your success.

Developing Your Coaching Leadership Style

Taught by Jennifer Cummings, Ph.D.

Through this course, you will learn how to mentor peers and employees as they grow into leaders who understand your company’s values and vision.

Finding Your Authentic Voice

Taught by Kathryn Cañas, Ph.D.

In this writing-based course, find your authentic voice as a leader and craft your leadership narrative, as well as your organization’s leadership narrative.

Develop Your Executive Presence: Express Your Authentic Voice

Taught by Kathryn Cañas, Ph.D.

In this course, you will become a more persuasive and confident public speaker who creates a powerful, emotional audience connection.

WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP II CERTIFICATE

The Women in Leadership II certificate builds upon the foundational leadership skills taught in the Women in Leadership I certificate. Women in Leadership I focused on you as an individual leader (or self-leading). Women in Leadership II focuses on outward facing leadership: leading others and your organization.

The program is taught by women. It is a cohort-style program focused on content, networking, and community aspect, which is essential to any leader’s success. The experience will challenge how you think and provide actionable takeaways to bring back to your organization. You will review your 360° assessment results from the Women in Leadership I certificate, retake the 360° assessment to see how you have grown as a leader, and re-establish areas you want to grow in.

Women in Leadership II Classes (Exclusive to this certificate):

Leveraging Your Leadership Style Taught by Jennifer Cummings, Ph.D. Use the Business Chemistry tool to identify your leadership styles and discuss the strengths and liabilities of each style.

The Finances of Leadership Taught by Rachel Hayes, Ph.D. Understand how finance works within your organization, and use this knowledge to more efficiently drive the success of your business.

Becoming a Resilient Leader Taught by Jennifer Cummings, Ph.D. Participants will gain tools on how to cultivate an emotionally hardy team through positivity, praise, and purpose.

Walking the Talk: Hands-on Negotiations Taught by Katie Liljenquist, Ph.D. This session is largely experiential, providing you with multiple hands-on opportunities to negotiate with different people in different contexts.

Getting Paid and Promoted Like You Deserve Taught by Katie Liljenquist, Ph.D.

Learn how to confidently advocate for yourself and secure the conditions for your success.

Executive Presence: Refining Your Executive Voice Taught by Kathryn Cañas, Ph.D.

Participants will design and deliver a persuasive business pitch/presentation. This advanced session teaches public speaking from a leadership perspective.

Emotional Intelligence: Creating Calm Confidence Taught by Georgi Rausch, Ph.D.

Voicing Your Values and Boundaries Taught by Georgi Rausch, Ph.D. Improve your interpersonal communication skills by using mindfulness strategies to work through various challenging workplace interactions.

This session will add to your mindfulness skills and help you create confidence.

Voicing Your Values and Boundaries Taught by Georgi Rausch, Ph.D.

In this session, we will identify opportunities to create more alignment with your values and advocate for yourself and those you lead.

Strategic Planning for Your Business Unit: Become a Strategic Leader for Your Team Taught by Heidi Herrick, Ph.D.

This session focuses on building the executive leadership capabilities needed to drive transformational change within your team and organizations.

Navigating Uncertainty as a Strategic Leader: How to Sharpen Your Core Business Acumen Taught by Heidi Herrick, Ph.D.

In this session, learn how to skillfully manage one’s organization and team members through uncertainty to prosperity.

Leading High-Performing Teams Taught by Jennifer Cummings, Ph.D. While no one formula can guarantee team success, research reveals the effective and ineffective practices for effective communication among teams.

Giving Constructive Feedback Taught by Jennifer Cummings, Ph.D.

In this session, we will discuss how to coach and mentor those in your organization and how to have accountability conversations.

Leadership Case Study Taught by Jennifer Cummings, Ph.D.

Discuss managing difficult personalities and tough conversations and how to lead a dysfunctional team through tumultuous change.

CLASSES

Building A Lean Enterprise

Taught by Robert Valentino, Master Black Belt

Lean seeks to maximize customer value while minimizing waste. However, more than implementing best practices, creating a Lean Enterprise requires a paradigm shift in the way we think about and manage operations, which you will learn about in this course.

This course is a pre-requisite for Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. $990

Conflict Management and Resolution

Taught by Jennifer Cummings, Ph.D.

The ability to express disagreement respectfully and effectively is essential to a civilized society and a healthy workplace. In this course, you will learn critical negotiation, compromise, and persuasion skills for navigating difficult conversations and understanding others who think differently.

Creating an Ethical Business Culture

Taught by Ira Selkowitz, J.D.

Examine corporate governance techniques and policies to mitigate the risk of an ethical breach in your organization. This course will emphasize creating an effective ethics program and a speak-up-listen-up culture. This course counts toward the Authentic Leadership

Developing the Inspirational Leader Within

Taught by Kent Noble

Learn how to identify ethical dilemmas, solve them more effectively, identify your baseline stress level, orient your life back towards it, and understand where leaders often fail ethically.

This course counts toward the Authentic Leadership & Business Ethics Certificate.

Digital Disruption: Rethinking Strategy in a Digital-First World

Taught by Tim Kapp, MBA

We are in a period of disruptive innovation that will deliver outsized growth to companies that adapt. This class will teach you to rethink your competitive strategy using the latest digital technologies in any industry. This course counts toward the Digital Transformation Certificate.

Digital Marketing: Optimizing Website Performance

Taught by Bruce Row

This course will teach you how to set up Google’s free data tracking tools, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and Pay-Per-Click (PPC) strategies. Your business will improve its rankings on Google, generating more website traffic, leads, and sales. This course counts toward the Digital Transformation Certificate.

Diversity Legal Requirements: Know Your Legal Rights and Duties

Taught by Colee Pyne, J.D.

Without knowledge of relevant diversity laws and regulations, employees unintentionally put their companies at legal risk. This course provides an overview of anti-discrimination laws, history, policy recommendations, and more. This course counts toward the Leading with Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Certificate.

Diversity, Inclusion, and High Performance

Taught by Bill Guillory, Ph.D.

Diversity and inclusion are essential for achieving high performance. This class will introduce a performance model involving cognitive and functional skills as essential for effectively managing a diverse workforce. This course counts toward the Leading with Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Certificate.

Empowering and Motivating High-Performance Teams

Taught by Jennifer Cummings, Ph.D.

Learn about research-based effective and ineffective communication practices for teamwork, reach personal and organizational goals, and become the leader you want to be.

Environmental, Sustainability, and Governance (ESG): A Business Case

Taught by Chaitali Patel, MBA

ESG considerations have gained significant importance in recent years due to their potential impact on business performance, reputation, and long-term sustainability. The aim of this course is to educate business leaders on the risks and opportunities associated with sustainability related factors. capital management, and community engagement. This course counts toward the Executive Leadership Certificate.

Ethical Marketing for Successful Sales

Taught by Erin Baca Blaugrund, Ph.D.

Making good and ethical marketing decisions for a company can include behaviors that do not always serve its economic interests. Improve your organization’s moral leadership by implementing this course’s robust and ethical marketing traditions. This course counts toward the Authentic Leadership & Business Ethics Certificate.

Finance and Accounting for Decision-Making

Taught by Brian Cadman, Ph.D.

Through this course, you will learn accounting and financial principles and utilize these skills to be a better leader. Strengthen your decision-making process and gain a better understanding of finances and budgeting to make confident decisions for your organization. This course counts toward the MBA Foundations Certificate.

Finance for the Non-Financial Leader

Taught by JB Henriksen, MBA

Harness the power of financial data to make better decisions for your organization. Designed for the non-financial leader, this program provides foundational principles in accounting and finance and teaches how to effectively use financial information to make a meaningful impact. This course counts toward the Executive Leadership Certificate.

Habits of Success for Leaders

Taught by 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. This course counts toward the Executive Leadership Certificate.

Healing Systemic Inequality Through Allyship in The

Taught by Nakeia Homer

Workplace

Students dive into key definitions and concepts related to systemic inequality, examine the part they may play in its perpetuation, develop healthy work practices that will end it, and walk away from the course more informed and aware. This course counts toward the Leading with Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Certificate.

Impact of Assumptions: Gender, Sexuality, and Work-Life Integration

Taught by Claudia Geist, Ph.D.

This course will address why equity, diversity, and inclusion are closely linked to the challenge of work-life integration. Subjects include work-family dynamics and assumptions about gender and sexuality. This course counts toward the Leading with Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Certificate.

Information Systems: Understanding Foundational Concepts in Technology

Taught by Kim Tanner, MSIS

This course gives students an overview of foundational information systems concepts and how to leverage information systems as strategic resources to gain a competitive advantage and support technology decision-making efforts. This course counts toward the Digital Transformation Certificate.

Inspire Integrity: Chase An Authentic Life at Work and Home

Taught by Corey Ciocchetti, J.D.

Through this course, you will learn what it means to live an authentic life at home and work, gain a deeper understanding of yourself, and utilize it to become a better leader.

This course is counts toward the Authentic Leadership

Inspiring Leaders Through Emotional Intelligence

Taught by Abe Bakhsheshy, Ph.D.

This class will cover multiple topics on the nature of social systems that can be used to understand and predict the efficacy of actions taken by managers and other leaders in organizations.

Know Your Impact: Leading Self, Others, and Organization

Taught by Glen Kreiner, Ph.D.

This course will approach leadership by identifying practices that researchers and practitioners have shown to be the most effective in managing a diverse workforce, improving performance, structuring teams, and resolving conflict. This course counts toward the MBA Foundations Certificate.

Leadership Through Effective Ethical Practices

Taught by Abe Bakhsheshy, Ph.D.

Students will reason about the role of ethics in business administration in a complex, dynamic, global environment. Ethics is an ongoing conversation about human interrelationships; they are as much a part of management as finance, accounting, and organizational behavior. This course counts toward the Authentic Leadership & Business Ethics Certificate.

Leading Across Generations: Understanding Diverse Generational Values

Taught by Abe Bakhsheshy, Ph.D.

Understanding differences in values between generational groups can help visionary leaders and managers to build on the strengths of diversity and create an organizational culture that embraces coexistence, cooperation, and teamwork. This course counts toward the Leading with Equity, Diversity,

Leading in a Rapidly Changing Environment

Taught by Bonita Austin, MBA

Learn to apply proven change management models and techniques to help your company deliver on the promise of its change initiatives, reduce employee and managerial frustration, and decrease the chance of change initiative failure. This course counts toward the Executive Leadership Certificate.

Leading with Ethics and Emotional Intelligence

Taught by Abe Bakhsheshy, Ph.D.

This course will help you hone your emotional intelligence and ethical decisionmaking skills to make a bigger impact in your organization and become a more decisive leader. This course counts toward the Executive Leadership Certificate.

Leveraging Psychological Safety to Create a Growth-Mindset Organization

Taught by Jennifer Cummings, Ph.D.

Learn how to cultivate a growth mindset organization that encourages candor, frequent feedback, appropriate risk-taking, and intelligent failure. This course counts toward the Leading with Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Certificate

Making Strategic Business Decisions

Taught by Bonita Austin, MBA

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. This course counts toward the MBA Foundations Certificate

Managing Diversity and Inclusion: Developing a Systemic Organizational Model

Taught by Kathryn Cañas, Ph.D.

Participants will experience an innovative process of creating a systemic diversity management model as they move beyond legal compliance to the empowerment of organizational members and the creation of competitive advantage. This course counts toward the Leading with Equity, Diversity,

Mastering Strategic Leadership

Taught by Heidi Herrick, Ph.D. and Bill Hesterly, Ph.D.

Assess your strategic skills and embrace a problem-finding skillset to enable your company to outperform rivals and delight current and future customers. Partnered with the GOFF Leadership Center. This course counts toward the Executive Leadership Certificate.

Negotiations and Influence

Taught by Katie Liljenquist, Ph.D.

This course utilizes psychological science to teach negotiation for maximizing economic outcomes and strengthening relationships. You will learn concrete techniques to apply immediately in your personal and professional life. This course counts toward the Executive Leadership Certificate.

Operations Management and Leading Change

Taught by Manu Goyal, Ph.D.

Matching supply with demand is an enormous challenge for firms. In this course, we will explore how firms can better organize their operations to deliver the right products to the right customers at the right time. This course counts toward the MBA Foundations Certificate.

Predictive Analytics

Taught by Jeff Webb, MS Ph.D.

Predictive analytics is the art and science of using historical data to forecast the future. This course will demystify the topic for executives—or future executives— who work directly with data themselves or manage those who do This course counts toward the Digital Transformation Certificate.

Prescriptive Analytics: Optimization

Taught by Don Wardell, Ph.D.

In this foundational, hands-on course, you will use Microsoft Excel to build spreadsheet models for any organization and apply the techniques to applications in various functions of a business. This course counts toward the MBA Foundations Certificate.

Professional Responsibility and Legal Ethics

Taught by Melanie Kay, J.D.

Learn the concepts of law and ethics and better understand and evaluate situations where the two may conflict. These concepts will be evaluated through legal case studies.

This course is count towards the Authentic Leadership

Rethink. Understanding Your Unconscious Bias

Taught by Sui Lang L. Panoke, MPA

Engage in a series of learning activities and mind-strengthening exercises intended to ignite self-awareness, inspire self-reflection, and foster deep self-examination.

This course counts toward the Authentic Leadership & Business Ethics Certificate.

Speaking for Influence: Presenting and Storytelling

Taught by Kathryn Cañas, Ph.D.

Communication excellence is an essential leadership tool. Become a more persuasive and confident speaker who creates a powerful, emotional audience connection.

Speaking to Inspire

Taught by Georgi Rausch, Ph.D.

Students will learn how to develop, write, and present an inspirational speech. Learn how to examine your audience, implement rhetorical strategies, and deliver your message effectively and confidently

This course counts toward the MBA Foundations Certificate.

The Business Impact of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency

Taught by Spencer Montgomery, MBA

Blockchain technology is fundamentally changing the way people interact and exchange objects of value. Understanding the potential for blockchain requires a blend of understanding of finance, economics, culture, and history taught in this course.

The Mindset of Innovation and Strategy

Taught by 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 for your organization.

The Racial Crisis in America

Taught by William A. Smith, Ph.D.

Hear from community leaders as they discuss the racial crisis in America, its history, the current climate, and how it will progress in the future. You will learn about strategies for creating an anti-racist environment critically. This course counts toward the Leading with Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Certificate

The Value of Economics: How (and How Well) Do Markets Work

Taught by Scott Schaffer, Ph.D.

In this class, you will tackle big economics questions. The answers will give you insights into the role of business in a free enterprise economy and the conditions under which markets serve people’s interests.

Tools, Technologies, and Strategies for Big Data

Taught by Stanford Pugsley, MBA

Big Data is or will soon be affecting every organization in our economy. This course will demonstrate that Big Data is about much more than just large volumes of data; it is about the increasing speed and diversity of data and the challenges of integrating the systems that produce it. This course counts toward the Digital Transformation Certificate.

Don’t see a course that provides a solution for your specific business needs?

$375

The University of Utah’s Executive Education Department works alongside organizations to develop custom programs based on specific business problems. Custom programs begin with thoughtful, engaged listening and a desire to understand the challenges you’re facing. Together, we develop an experience that uses the tools and frameworks necessary to tackle immediate issues as well as identify opportunities for growth. To learn more about custom programs, visit our website.