Wharton Online’s Leadership and Management Certificate
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Unlock your executive potential with Wharton’s online Leadership and Management Certificate program. As you progress through the four-course certificate program, you will gain insights from some of the world’s foremost business experts and learn critical skills needed to manage, lead, and succeed in today’s complex business environment.
Participants will learn how to:
- Better engage and motivate employees
- Better manage employee performance and evaluation
- Create an optimal organizational architecture
- Optimize outsourcing, acquisitions, and alliances
- Create strategic leadership and vision
- Quantify market trends on a global scale
Program Format
- Four fully online courses
- Duration: 4-6 weeks per course
- Commitment: 2-4 hours per week
Program Tuition
- $3600 per certificate (4 course requirement)
- $995 per individual course
Program Start Date
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Leadership and Management Certificate Courses
Leadership in the 21st Century
$995
Duration: 4-6 weeks
Course Modules
- Engaging Hearts and Minds
- Understanding Work Styles and Cultivating Originality
- Purpose-Driven Leadership
- Organizational Culture and Culture Change
Participants will learn how to:
- Better engage your employees
- Foster creativity among individuals and teams
- Identify “givers,” “takers,” and “matchers”
- Lead with purpose
- Create a culture that encourages success
Managing and Motivating Talent
$995
Duration: 4-6 weeks
Course Modules
- Motivation and Reward
- Tasks, Jobs, and Systems of Work
- Making Good and Timely Management Decisions
- Designing and Changing the Organization’s Architecture
Participants will learn how to:
- Engage and motivate employees
- Better manage employee performance and evaluation
- Create incentive and reward systems
- Design jobs for greater performance and effectiveness
- Create an optimal organizational architecture for your company
Managing the Global Firm
$995
Duration: 4-6 weeks
Course Modules
- Global Markets and the Firm
- International Strategies
- Organization and Management of the International Firm
- The Multinational Firm in the 21st Century
Participants will learn how to:
- Define and evaluate international markets
- Understand the evolution of market trends
- Identify the benefits of global strategy for your company
- Quantify market trends on a global scale
Strategic Management: Competitive and Corporate Strategy
$995
Duration: 4-6 weeks
Course Modules
- The Firm and the Industry
- Industry Analysis and Competitive Dynamics
- Corporate Strategy and Firm Scope
- Firms in a Context
Participants will learn how to:
- Create a value chain
- Position yourself in the market
- Perform network and industry analyses
- Create strategic leadership and vision
- Optimize outsourcing, acquisitions, and alliances
Testimonials
“Doing the online course was an amazing experience.…Having a certificate from Wharton, which is one of the best business schools in the world, is a big plus and a memorable accomplishment for me.”
Layi Babalola
Finance Manager, Publicis Groupe, New York City
“Like most busy professionals, I often find myself bogged down in day-to-day tasks. The Leadership and Management Certificate program helped me make time to learn new business strategies and invest in myself.”
Elizabeth Carlyle
Vice President and General Counsel, Vision Source
“For anybody with responsibilities of almost any kind — whether it’s managing two people in a small office, or 20,000 people in a larger company or organization — this program has the content you need to get your job done.”
Michael Useem
William and Jacalyn Egan Professor of Management
World-Class Wharton Faculty
Wharton’s outstanding faculty have worked for and consulted to large multinationals, health care and biopharma organizations, public and not-for-profit corporation, and small entrepreneurial organizations.
Sigal Barsade, PhD
Joseph Frank Bernstein Professor; Professor of Management, The Wharton School
Research Interests:
Organizational culture, emotional intelligence, unconscious bias, organizational change, teamwork and leadership
Peter Cappelli, DPhil
George W. Taylor Professor of Management; Director, Center for Human Resources, The Wharton School
Research Interests:
Human-resource practices, public policy related to employment, talent and performance management
Adam Grant, PhD
The Saul P. Steinberg Professor of Management; Professor of Management, The Wharton School; Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests:
Work motivation, helping and giving behaviors, job design and meaningful work, leadership.
Mauro Guillén, PhD
Dr. Felix Zandman Professor Emeritus of Management
Research Interests:
Globalization, international political economy, multinational management
Katherine Klein, PhD
Edward H. Bowman Professor, Professor of Management; Vice Dean and Director, Wharton Social Impact Initiative, The Wharton School
Research Interests:
Innovation and technology implementation, leadership, diversity, teams, and social networks
Nancy Rothbard, PhD
David Pottruck Professor of Management; Deputy Dean, The Wharton School
Research Interests:
Emotion and identity, work motivation and engagement, work-life and career development
Nicolaj Siggelkow, PhD
David M. Knott Professor; Professor of Management; Co-Director, Mack Institute for Innovation Management, The Wharton School
Research Interests:
Competitive strategy, firms as systems of interconnected choices
Harbir Singh, PhD
Mack Professor; Professor of Management; Co-Director, Mack Institute for Innovation Management; Wharton School Faculty Director for the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business, The Wharton School
Research Interests:
Corporate governance, corporate restructuring, management buyouts, strategies for corporate acquisitions
Michael Useem, PhD
William and Jacalyn Egan Professor of Management; Professor of Management; Director, Center for Leadership and Change Management; Editor, Wharton Leadership Digest
Research Interests:
Catastrophic and enterprise risk management, corporate change and restructuring, leadership, decision making, governance