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

Enroll Immediately

Leadership and Management Certificate Courses

Leadership in the 21st Century

$995
Duration: 4-6 weeks

Course Modules
  1. Engaging Hearts and Minds
  2. Understanding Work Styles and Cultivating Originality
  3. Purpose-Driven Leadership
  4. 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
  1. Motivation and Reward
  2. Tasks, Jobs, and Systems of Work
  3. Making Good and Timely Management Decisions
  4. 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
  1. Global Markets and the Firm
  2. International Strategies
  3. Organization and Management of the International Firm
  4. 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
  1. The Firm and the Industry
  2. Industry Analysis and Competitive Dynamics
  3. Corporate Strategy and Firm Scope
  4. 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

Layi Babalola

“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

Elizabeth Carlyle

“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

Michael Useem, William and Jacalyn Egan Professor of Management

“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

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