Program Overview

Lean Leadership Graduate Certificate

The Lean Leadership Graduate Certificate is designed for practicing or emerging leaders from any sector or workplace who desire to extend, enrich, or establish leadership knowledge, skills, and abilities through mastery of Lean tenets, tools, and competencies.

Program Description

The Lean Leadership Graduate Certificate provides a workplace-related hybrid intensive learning experience. Program features include:

• Learning through professionally sequenced Lean Leadership knowledge useful in any workplace setting or sector
• Mastering core Lean Leadership competencies, such as change leadership, critical thinking, and communication
• Benefiting from world-class, experienced, interdisciplinary Lean faculty
• Accelerating with hands-on, experiential projects, simulations, case studies, site visits, and guest lecturers
• Participating in the flexibility of hybrid online learning with three on-ground intensive sessions per semester

It is also possible to complete a Lean Leadership Cognate for the Ed.D. in Leadership or the Ph.D. in Educational Leadership upon admission to either doctoral program.

Admission Terms and Application Deadlines

Before an applicants file can be reviewed for full program admission, all application documents must be received in Graduate Study and Lifelong Learning by the semester deadlines listed below.

• July 15 for fall semester
• International applicants: additional deadlines may apply

Application Requirements

To be considered for graduate admission, applicants must submit all Graduate Application Requirements and additional department requirements by the published application deadlines.

1. Additional department application requirements:

• Applicants must have earned a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited institution or proof of degree equivalent to a four-year U.S. baccalaureate degree from a college or university of government-recognized standing.
• Applicants should have a minimum overall undergraduate grade point average of 3.0.

Admission Review and Assessment

Admission to graduate school at Oakland University is selective. In making admission recommendations to the Oakland University Graduate School, each department assesses the potential of applicants for success in the program by examining their undergraduate records, goal statement, letters of recommendation, prerequisite courses, and any other admission requirements established by the academic department.

Certificate Requirements (16 credits)

The Graduate Certificate in Lean Leadership is awarded upon satisfactory completion of the 16-credits in the approved program of study.

Course Requirements (16 credits)

a. Core Requirements (16 credits)

• Fall Semester:
  • HRD 6801 - Introduction and Theories of Lean Leadership I (4 credits)
  • HRD 6950 - Lean Leadership Internship I (2 credits)
• Winter Semester:
  • HRD 6802 - Introduction and Theories of Lean Leadership II (4 credits)
  • HRD 6951 - Lean Leadership Internship II (2 credits)
• Summer I Semester:
  • HRD 6803 - Methods of Lean Leadership I (4 credits)
• Summer II Semester (Ed.D. in Leadership or Ph.D. in Educational Leadership Cognate Only):
  • HRD 6804 - Methods of Lean Leadership II (4 credits)

Satisfactory Academic Progress

Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) is the term used to denote a students successful completion of coursework toward a certificate or degree. Federal regulations require the Office of Financial Aid to monitor Satisfactory Academic Progress for all financial aid recipients each semester.

Good Academic Standing

All graduate students are expected to remain in good academic standing throughout the entire course of their graduate program. To be in good academic standing, a graduate student must make satisfactory progress toward fulfilling degree requirements, including the completion of critical degree milestones as set forth by the academic program. The student must also maintain a minimum semester and overall GPA of 3.0 (B) or better.

Related Program Information

Plan of Study

All accepted applicants, in consultation with their assigned faculty program adviser, must develop a plan of study that details specific courses the students will use to satisfy their degree requirements. The plan of study must be approved by the faculty program adviser and submitted by the student to Oakland University Graduate School. Masters and graduate certificate students must submit a department-approved plan of study by the end of their first semester of graduate coursework. Doctoral students must submit an approved plan of study prior to completion of the first year of coursework.