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College of Management and Human Potential: Certificates:
Graduate Certificate in Leadership (Quarter)

Graduate Certificate in Leadership

For students beginning their program February 26, 2024 or later.

This online graduate certificate program helps students prepare to lead organizations and teams in an increasingly global environment. Students explore various concepts of leadership and assess their own leadership traits as they work toward becoming effective leaders and team members. Through these courses students examine approaches to interpreting and shaping organizational culture to maximize success and apply knowledge of group dynamics to create diverse, effective teams. Students also explore concepts of sustainable business strategies and crisis leadership as they relate to leading in a global environment. All credits in this program may be applied toward Walden’s MS in Leadership degree.

Certificate Requirements

  • 20 total quarter credits

Learning Outcomes

Graduates of this program will be prepared to:

  1.  Employ leadership principles that enable individual and organizational transformation
  2. Use effective communication strategies used by leaders
  3. Analyze strategies that leaders use to build relationships

Curriculum

  • Students may take this as a non-degree course.
  • Students may take this as a non-degree course.
  • Students may take this as a non-degree course.
  • Students may take this as a non-degree course.

Course Sequence

The recommended course sequence is as follows:

Quarter Course Credits
Quarter 1

MLDR 6000 - Dynamic Leadership*

 5 quarter credits

MLDR 6105 - Finding Your Inner Leader

 5 quarter credits
Quarter 2

MLDR 6110 - Building Organizational Culture: Leaders as Architects

 5 quarter credits

MLDR 6115 - Communication for Leaders and Managers

 5 quarter credits

* Students enrolling in a midterm start date will take MLDR 6000A, a 6-week version of this course by itself in their first term.