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Certificate in Leadership

Navigating a pandemic, managing inflationary pressures, mitigating supply chain challenges, and recruiting/retaining talent — the expectations for leaders have never been greater. Effective leaders know their value lies not only in managing teams, but inspiring others, developing purposeful and achievable goals, and creating a culture of personal and performance excellence.

The Certificate in Leadership is comprised of several one-day workshops designed to provide tools founded in theory and proven in practice to lead from a place of authenticity and confidence. By completing four (4) of the available leadership open enrollment programs, participants will earn a Certificate in Leadership from Wake Forest Executive Education and the Allegacy Center for Leadership and Character at the School of Business. This is an opportunity for immersion in topics of key personal interest and professional development, ultimately serving as recognition for the commitment to advancing your career.

Join us as we introduce proven tools to enhance leader performance, refine fundamental skills, and address various leadership challenges being faced in your organization!

Course Details

Date(s): Monthly Cohorts

Format: In Person
Program Length: Multiple topics

Certificate Objectives and Expected Outcomes

Strengthen your skills as a people manager and effective decision maker

Identify, leverage, and adapt proven leadership principles to organizational challenges

Enhance personal and organizational communication and build a foundation for a common leadership language

Engage and learn with other program participants from a variety of industries, backgrounds, and roles

Develop a shared level of trust at all levels of an organization

Strategies to shape a learning culture to better engage and retain talent

Tools to help an organization embrace and lead change

Certificate Topics

Maximizing Your Influence as a Leader

In today’s matrixed organizations, true power doesn’t come from a title - it comes from the ability to move others toward a shared goal. This intensive full-day program bridges the gap between interpersonal influence and strategic negotiation.

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Developing Others as a Leader

This one-day leadership development experience is designed for mid-to-senior professionals who are ready to move beyond managing tasks and start developing the people around them. Built on the latest research in coaching psychology, adult development, and leadership effectiveness, this program challenges participants to rethink how they communicate, delegate, and grow their teams.

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Leading Across Cultures & Generations

This 1-day program equips people managers with the insight and practical tools needed to lead effectively across cultures and generations. Participants will explore how cultural and generational differences show up in the workplace and learn strategies to manage individuals in ways that honor those differences while aligning teams around shared goals, purpose, and values.

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Authentic & Effective Leadership

This one-day open enrollment course brings together leaders for an immersive learning experience grounded in practical application. You'll engage with real-world case studies, interactive exercises, and peer-led discussions designed to help you immediately apply new frameworks and tools to your leadership challenges.

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Enterprise Leadership

Enterprise Leadership entails specific skills and a mindset focused on leading the organization at scale, cross-functionally, and with a holistic firm-wide perspective that brings the firm in line with its external operating environment.

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Building and Leading Effective Teams

Effective teams spur innovation, facilitate adaptation, and ensure efficient functioning in almost all organizations. Teams that are led effectively have greater cohesion, employee engagement, and creativity which result in superior performance and satisfaction. Learning how to build, lead, and sustain effective teams provides leaders and organizations with a competitive advantage.

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Leveraging a Growth Mindset

This interactive program is designed to help you embrace challenges as opportunities, to be more resilient in the face of adversity, to pursue your goals with reckless abandon, and to help others do so as well.

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Leading in an AI-Enabled Organization

This program is a leadership-judgment session. It is not a technical AI course in which participants learn to use specific AI tools. Instead, participants will leave with a practical framework that is built on two questions (reversibility and stakes) for deciding when to encourage, to govern more carefully, or to challenge AI use on their own teams.

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Executive Decision Making

Making decisions in a dynamic fast-paced business environment is a challenge for most employees. Decision making and problem solving skills become critical when moving into leadership roles in order to drive business growth. Leaders with a developed system for effective decision making are best equipped to lead their teams through times of uncertainty.

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Bridging Organizational Boundaries and Building Effective Networks

In this interactive full-day workshop, participants will identify a current organizational boundary challenge and evaluate the structural strengths and gaps of their personal network.

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“Wake Forest University Executive Education’s Certificate in Leadership program gave me the background and practice to better lead situations I face in my current role. The program is well organized – research is presented, discussion is held, and finally, role plays are executed to gain experience. The content is well structured and designed to cover a variety of situations in which (your) leadership is essential. Dr. Sweeney is very thoughtful and engaging, which made the program both enjoyable and practical.”

— David Kaiser, Certificate in Leadership Recipient, 2021