Executive Leadership Certificate

Earners of the Wharton Online Executive Leadership Certificate badge have completed all requirements of the courses within the Leadership and Management Certificate Program and the Digital Leadership Certificate, both offered by Wharton Online.

Leadership in the 21st Century will teach you how to create an environment where your employees can thrive and step up to meet stretch goals for the organization. Led by some of the world’s most acclaimed professors, including Adam Grant, Sigal Barsade, Katherine Klein, and Nancy Rothbard, the program exposes executives to cutting-edge research on the qualities and behaviors of both successful and unsuccessful work environments and how this research can be applied to practical, real-life workplace situations.

In Managing and Motivating Talent, award-winning authors and renowned management professors Michael Useem and Peter Cappelli have designed this course to introduce you to the key elements of managing talent and motivating people. By the end of this course, you’ll have developed the skills you need to start motivating, organizing, and rewarding people in your organization so that you can thrive as a business and as a social organization. Scaling this important learning throughout the organization provides leadership with a consistent framework for cross-divisional talent management.

Strategic Management is designed to teach you how to evaluate, develop, and execute a successful business strategy that you can implement inside and outside the organization. World-renowned management professors Harbir Singh and Nicolaj Siggelkow introduce tools and frameworks that can be put to immediate use in planning and execution. By the end of this course, you will be able to articulate your strategy, why it works, and how it will help meet your organization’s financial and marketing goals.

In Managing the Global Firm, world-renowned professor of management Mauro Guillén will teach you how and when to pursue these opportunities so that you can maximize profits and growth. You’ll be introduced to new decision and business models, products, and services, and learn how to use them within your organization. You’ll explore new international markets and how they evolve, and learn how to create a global structure and strategy to take advantage of these new global markets and envision the multinational firms of the future.

The Leadership and Management Certificate online program offers leadership courses designed to help executives across the organization reach new levels of success. Learn cutting-edge management concepts from world-class Wharton faculty. For companies looking to achieve and increase competitive advantage through online leadership training, this flexibly-paced online executive leadership certificate program is an effective way to scale learning for maximum impact across the organization. The online Leadership and Management Certificate program is for high-potential mid to senior-level managers working in any function or industry (with a minimum five to seven years’ experience) who want to gain exclusive insights and learn cutting-edge concepts to advance in their careers.

Learn how to make lasting change within your workplace by studying topics such as digital retail strategies, applications of AI in business, and the implications of a growing digital economy.

Managing in the Global Digital Economy will help you understand digital platforms and their network effects at the local, national and global levels. Mauro Guillén, Dr. Felix Zandman Professor Emeritus of Management, uses real-world examples to illustrate how you can take advantage of new technology and adopt competitive omnichannel strategies for your business. You’ll also learn about international expansion considerations and the impact of regulations. By the end of the global digital marketing course, you’ll have a sharper sense of digital innovation and be able to approach global management from a more informed, digitally-savvy point of view.

The main objective of Leadership in the Age of Digital Disruption is to provide learners with a framework that they can use to create a competitive strategy to survive and thrive in today’s — and tomorrow’s — marketplace. The lessons taught in this 4-week certificate course can be applied to a myriad of industries and shifting markets. Taught by internationally-recognized retail expert and scholar, Barbara Kahn, this management certificate is designed to help you achieve your business goals. Discover the Kahn Retailing Success Matrix and the secrets behind the success of retailers like Amazon and Walmart. Learn how successful brands have differentiated themselves by creating an exceptional customer experience. Most importantly, learn how you can leverage your leadership advantage to gain a competitive edge in the business world in response to digital disruption in the retail industry.

During the course, you’ll cover how to overcome roadblocks to change with a method known as the REDUCE framework. It’s natural for people to push back against change, but by taking steps to address their concerns, you can convince them to embrace new ideas. Participants learn how to: Improve persuasion skills Ease change’s uncertainty by demonstrating its value Communicate the negative effects of inaction Access the amount of evidence, time, and resources a change will require Enact change management strategies within their organizations