Women in Leadership: Driving Transformation through Innovation and Resilience Certificate

The online Women in Leadership: Driving Transformation Through Innovation and Resilience Certificate program from Emory Continuing teaches women managers how to maximize their unique strengths to become stronger leaders. The five-week program includes five learning modules, each led by a female subject matter expert with expertise in the areas of innovation, cultural awareness, engagement, resilience, or self-advocacy. This program is designed for current women managers who are ready to build the skill set needed to reach higher levels of leadership, including C-suite positions.

Who Should Register

The certificate program is designed for women who work in management and aspire to:

• Move into higher tiers of management and leadership
• Learn best practices for developing a collaborative culture of innovation
• Become more effective advocates for themselves and their teams

This program also is open to males who want to better understand the challenges women leaders face and provide support for their female colleagues.

Why Choose Emory?

Academic Excellence:
Emory is nationally recognized for its rigorous academic standards and exceptional faculty.

Practical Training:
Courses are led by industry practitioners with real-world expertise.

Custom Learning Options:
Emory’s Corporate Learning unit offers customized curricula for organizations, including Fortune 100 companies, nonprofits, and school systems.

Live Virtual Instruction:
Weekly live, instructor-led sessions ensure an interactive learning experience.

Course Content Summary

Module 1: Growing a Culture of Innovation

• What works in innovation cultures?
• Developing a user-first focus
• Collaborating across silos
• Cultivating entrepreneurial mindsets
• Managing for risk and fast failure
  
  

Module 2: Innovating Across Cultures

• Importance of cultural intelligence
• Cultural self-awareness
• Innovation through diversity
• Leading while female across cultures
• Examples of women leaders driving innovations in different cultures
  
  

Module 3: Driving Engagement 

• The power of engagement
• Communicating priorities, goals, and expectations
• Taking a strengths‐based approach
• Planning next steps to improve you and your team’s engagement
  
  

Module 4: Leading with Resiliency

• Defining resiliency
• What resiliency is not
• Resiliency and leadership
• Emotional intelligence and resiliency
• Derailers from resiliency
• Skills to increase resilience
  
  

Module 5: Advocating for Yourself

• Self-belief
• Self-awareness
• Self-ownership
• Self-articulation

What You'll Learn

Upon your successful completion of the Women in Leadership certificate program, you will be able to:

• Describe the importance of innovation and list instances of successful innovation inside and outside your organization.
• Identify collaboration strategies in your organization, design ways to engage across silos, and formulate useful ideation strategies.
• Define keys to the entrepreneurial mindset and apply methods for managing entrepreneurs.
• Develop an initial plan to encourage risk while mitigating challenges.
• Explore differences and similarities of cultures and how they impact communication, innovation, and team leadership, and develop a strategy of inclusiveness through an understanding of cultural impacts. 
• Explore how to manage multiculturalism effectively to improve innovation.
• Distinguish between resilient and non-resilient leaders, design a custom resiliency plan, and implement resiliency for innovation.

Program Badge
Feature your skills in Lean Six Sigma through an official digital badge from Emory. These are issued at program completion and can be displayed in your online channels like Linkedin.