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Creative Business, Strategy and Leadership Certificate

Program Type

Certificate

Program Format

Online

Instruction Format

Instructor Led

Courses

5 courses

CEUs

14.3

Next Start

01/01/2025

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The Creative Business, Strategy and Leadership Certificate from Michigan State University will equip you to recognize the most potentially disruptive drivers of change—from both within the organization and from external market forces—assess the impact of disruptors on your organization, create an effective change strategy and lead the future of the organization with strategically aligned values, purpose, goals and vision.

What You'll Learn

Four 4-week courses and one 8-week course provide you with foundational knowledge in strategy development and innovation, including:

  • The what and the why behind your organization and its strategy
  • Methods to identify and assess key change indicators, and how to utilize in developing strategies to help avoid disruption, embrace change and leverage drivers of change as an advantage
  • Tools and models such as customer journey mapping to translate organizational purpose and goals into team goals to align your organization in a strategic direction
  • Development and application of your transformational leadership plan to set an aligned vision that drives individual, team and organizational performance toward that new strategic direction

Who Should Register

The five-course Creative Business, Strategy and Leadership Certificate is designed for the manager, senior manager, or executive tasked with leading strategy development at multiple levels and wanting to build resiliency, agility and infuse new thinking across the organization and align overall strategy, vision and goals.

Curriculum & Tuition

Required Courses

Tuition

Average Cost Per Course: $1,328

About MSU’s Broad College of Business

Founded in 1855 on the ideals of democratization of knowledge, Michigan State University (MSU) is an inclusive, internationally recognized university with a mission of advancing knowledge and transforming lives. Michigan State University Online is the home to online programs from MSU's Eli Broad College of Business. These flexible programs are offered in a variety of structures and formats and designed for working professionals. Through the convenience of online, video-based e-learning with the added value of face-to-face networking in select programs, you can gain applicable industry knowledge and learn from the faculty thought leaders at one of the top research universities in the world.

Average Cost Per Course: $1,328

Additional tuition reductions and flexible payment options may be available!
Courses may be purchased individually

Career Pathways

Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers
Administrative Services Managers
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks
Business Continuity Planners
Business Intelligence Analysts
Chief Executives
Computer Occupations, All Other
Computer and Information Research Scientists
Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers
Correspondence Clerks
Counter and Rental Clerks
Court, Municipal, and License Clerks
Customer Service Representatives
Data Scientists
Dentists, General
Detectives and Criminal Investigators
Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary
Education Administrators, Postsecondary
Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants
File Clerks
Financial Managers
First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers
First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers
Fraud Examiners, Investigators and Analysts
Funeral Attendants
General and Operations Managers
Human Resources Managers
Human Resources Specialists
Information Security Analysts
Intelligence Analysts
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service
Marketing Managers
Medical Records Specialists
Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants
Medical and Health Services Managers
Military Officer Special and Tactical Operations Leaders, All Other
Natural Sciences Managers
Network and Computer Systems Administrators
Office Machine Operators, Except Computer
Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other
Order Clerks
Postal Service Clerks
Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators
Precision Agriculture Technicians
Private Detectives and Investigators
Receptionists and Information Clerks
Remote Sensing Scientists and Technologists
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents
Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other
Social and Community Service Managers
Software Developers
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers
Special Forces
Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers