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Dennis J. Ceru, Cheryl Kiser, Ken Freitas, Nan Langowitz, and Jennifer Bailey

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Professional Certificate program will prepare you to create economic and social value in your organization. Whether you are a change maker in your organization or starting a company, these courses in leadership and growth will stimulate your thinking and acting potential.

This certificate program is built from four courses that will help you develop skill sets in recognizing opportunities, leveraging your resources and understanding the context of your work with innovative thinking. This series of courses will prepare you to innovate within your organization or start your own company!

This certificate is aimed toward the working professional who wants to apply entrepreneurial thinking and methodology within their current organization or toward a new venture.

What you'll learn

  • The Entrepreneurial Thought and Action® methodology and how to apply it to opportunities of all kinds - both new ventures and innovation in existing organizations.
  • Leadership and entrepreneurial skills needed to develop and implement social innovation initiatives, including strategic focus, engaging stakeholders, key measurements, and driving innovation to bring your organization to the next level.
  • A toolkit of key concepts, competencies, and practices that will enable you to lead with your entrepreneurial mindset.
  • Operational skills in risk management and common challenges related to starting a new business, and how to launch successfully.
  • Specific behaviors for developing - and using - an entrepreneurial leadership mindset to motivate, mobilize and influence others as a positive change maker in an organization.

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Four courses

The Entrepreneurial Mindset

(30 hours)
What does it really mean to think like an entrepreneur? The entrepreneurial process isn’t only for start-ups, it’s a comprehensive mindset that will teach you to identify, assess, shape, and act on opportunities in a variety of contexts, settings and organizations.

From Corporate Social Responsibility to Corporate Social Innovation

(20 hours)
The challenges facing our world are increasingly complex and affect corporations, communities, citizens, and the natural environment. For many companies, even those with strong traditions of philanthropy and corporate social responsibility, there is a growing consensus that current models of corporate engagement in society are no longer sufficient.

Entrepreneurial Leadership Toolbox

(20 hours)
Entrepreneurial leaders succeed by taking an opportunity-minded approach to their interactions with colleagues. This course provides a toolbox of key concepts and practices to help you adopt an entrepreneurial mindset as you lead.

Entrepreneurial Operations: Launching a Startup

(20 hours)
This startup operations course examines the real-world operational challenges and execution risks associated with launching a new venture. We will consider start-up ventures in a variety of industries. The course will provide you with a set of steps, frameworks, and tools that can be used to understand the important considerations for building a startup operation from scratch.

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