Program Overview

Graduate Certificate in Organizational Leadership

The Graduate Certificate in Organizational Leadership provides students with the knowledge and capabilities to lead and influence individuals, teams, and organizations. Leadership capabilities are needed to both create and execute effective organizational responses to a changing environment, and this certificate builds students' capability to conceptualize organizational challenges, craft strategic directions that are informed by a knowledge of people and social systems, and practice leading through applied experiences and projects.

Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion, students will demonstrate the knowledge and capability to:

1. Define leadership and recognize its role in creating personal, team, and organizational change.
2. Identify broad leadership behaviors, skills, and styles and assess their likely effectiveness across situations, stakeholders, and interests.
3. Recognize the role of organizational systems and culture, and how their design supports effective change.
4. Integrate leadership best practices into their sense of self, and enact self-compatible behaviors that are effective, ethical, and capability-developing.

Program Requirements

• Effective Fall 2025, additional coursework may be required due to prerequisites.
• Course List:
  • Choose 9 credits from the following:
    • BUS 515: Career Management
    • BUS 519: Ethical Leadership Symposium
    • BUS 522: Self-Leadership in Organizations
    • BUS 618: Crisis Leadership
    • BUS 620: Leadership and Teams
    • BUS 623: Building and Leading Exceptional Teams
    • BUS 626: Managing Human Capital
    • BUS 627: Essentials of Negotiations
    • BUS 662: Managing Diversity - Global Business Context
    • LEAP 500: Intro to Arts Leadership and Management
    • SPMT 572: Sport Organizational Communication
• Program Total Credits: 9
• Note: This certificate may have courses in common with other graduate certificates. A student may earn more than one certificate, but a given course may be counted only in one certificate.