Masters Certificate in Leadership

This 8-day Masters Certificate program will show you your personal leadership style and how to use it to create a WIN-Thinking mindset for your team and organization. The eight modules, delivered in the virtual classroom, cover topics such as creating a culture of success, entrepreneurship and innovation as well as financial acumen and how to find the best talent for your enterprise.

This program includes the LeaderGENE™ assessment tool and a one-on-one review of your results with a leadership coach.

About This Program

The need for leadership development has never been more critical: Today’s leaders face demanding jobs and the added pressures of rapid change and a new work environment.

Leadership development is no longer just about coaching and managing performance. Today’s leaders face growing complexity in their roles. From engaging with and empowering staff to cultivate innovation and meeting the demand for integrating emerging technologies, there has been no time like the present for leaders to ramp up their proficiency in both hard and soft skills.

Gain leadership insights from top faculty. Develop your leadership mindset. Transform your career. Level up for the future.

Explore your leadership gene with the LeaderGene^TM Assessment

This pre-program exercise, included in your course fee, is designed to assess your dimensions of leadership and what comes naturally to you. It consists of a 45-minute online assessment taken prior to the start of the program. This exercise must be completed before the start of the second module.
- Explore your inherent strengths and potential using the LeaderGENE™ assessment tool.
- Identify your leadership profile and styles.
- Examine how you are hardwired as a leader
Completion Deadline: You must finish the LeaderGene assessment before the start of the second module in order to complete this program.

One-on-One Coaching and Debrief

Once you complete your assessment, you will have an opportunity to unpack your LeaderGene^TM results in a private one-on-one session. Work closely with an executive coach to debrief your leadership genetic make-up.
- Explore the dimensions of a leader in detail with examples
- Breakdown your strengths and seek clarity on opportunities
- Develop a Personal Development Action Plan (PDAP) to take forward throughout the program
What will you learn:
- A winning recipe for creating a WIN thinking mindset on your team and within your organization.
- How to create your leadership blueprint for building the right culture.
- The neuroscience of leadership and how mindset plays a role in your daily leadership behaviours.
- Researched and proven dynamics of individual and organizational transformative leadership in today’s ambiguous and volatile climate.
- How to break down barriers and learn to create new value.
- How external and internal digital forces might shape future operating and innovation environments.
- Learn how to attract top talent and bring a new attitude to talent management.
Participant Profile

This program has been designed for professionals from any sector or functional area with a minimum of three to four years of leadership experience who are:
- Eager to further their leadership career
- Looking for a program to distinguish themselves
- Recently given a new or expanded leadership mandate
- Seeking current, innovative and new perspectives, concepts and tools on leadership
- Looking to measure and develop their leadership capability

Course Content Details

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1 day

The Culture-Building Leader

This module focuses on building a team or organizational culture and provides you, as leader, with a blueprint for building the right culture.

The course includes a pre-course LeaderGene™ assessment and one-on-one assessment debrief.

Focus on culture dynamics from the lens of leadership.
Examine your leadership strategy and develop a model for understanding and responding to culture dynamics.
Learn about a Sustainable Growth Model™ and learn about the critical drivers of sustainable profit and growth, and learn about their role in driving customer/stakeholder loyalty.
Explore the power of attitude when it comes to change. Learn how life is like a game, and you have two choices on how to play: “Play to Win” or “Play Not to Lose”.

1 day

WIN Thinking

This module prepares you to think like a winner even in the face of adversity and defeat. In this module you will learn the winning recipe for creating a WIN-thinking mindset.

Learn how to generate genius and accelerate action.
Develop a winning mindset and be inspired to make a difference.
Learn the six leadership best practices that can change a leader’s work life.
Learn the riveting story of a 3,000-mile journey that tested one’s leadership, courage and commitment.
Unpack race-winning rules as a guide and model for your leadership success.

1 day

The Inclusive Leader

Inclusive leadership is a function of inclusive leaders. Inclusive leaders are self-aware, socially aware, demonstrate respect for others and possess the ability to think, communicate and behave in ways that incorporate diverse perspectives, people and processes in leading self and others.

Inclusive leadership is a prerequisite for success in the modern workplace.

You will:

Share perspectives on Inclusive Leadership
Explore the pillars of inclusion and the traits of inclusive leaders
Identify the keys to effectively navigate diversity and inclusion in the modern workplace

1 day

The Mindset Leader

This module focuses on the mindset of leaders and their teams. It explores the mental traps every leader can fall into and teaches leaders how to frame and reframe their thinking.

What is leadership? Explore the historical perspectives on leadership: Plato, Machiavelli, Lao Tzu, and identify leadership traits and behaviours.
Learn How Cognition Impacts Your Leadership
Explore Dyadic/Cognitive theories of leadership and implicit leadership theories.
Explore Transformational Leadership, Charisma, Rhetoric, Body Language, Persuasion.

1 day

The Transformational Leader

This module focuses on how to lead through chaos, change and transformation. It will explore the researched and proven dynamics of individual and organizational transformative leadership in today’s ambiguous and volatile climate.

Explore the underpinnings of a new leadership model for today’s swirling environment
Examine your personal leadership style in light of new research about transformative approaches
Explore transformational and innovative tenets of leadership

1 day

The Talent Champion

Take your team from good to great. Learn how to attract top talent. Bring a new attitude to talent management. Go beyond coaching and learn how to acquire the best talent on your team. Learn a model for fostering talent and succession planning.

Explore leadership through the lens of talent development.
Gain valuable insights and lessons learned from two CEO-led talent strategy case studies
Walk away with a next-generation toolkit and proven talent strategies to lead as a talent champion. Build your talent action plan to execute the strategy of your business unit or organization.

1 day

The Innovative Leader

This module shows you how to break down barriers and learn to create new value. Lead innovation on your team and in the organization. Develop your capability to successfully work with teams to identify opportunities and lead the process of innovating. Learn to design, ideate, iterate and act to transform organizations.

Analyze best practices in innovation and the implications for a leader of innovation.
Apply a four-step process to lead innovation and develop techniques in each critical step.
Drive innovative solutions through to organizational change.

1 day

The Future-Thinking Leader

Examine the future through a digital lens. Explore the impact of leadership through digital trends, market forces, advances in technology and changing expectations.

Step into foresight and future thinking. Explore machine learning, data analytics and RPA (robotics process automation). Frame and scan methods of developing strategic foresight.
Examine how foresight is applies to strategic planning for teams, products or road maps.
Lead organizational change and develop foresight capabilities.

Mastery in Leadership

Dialogue about the importance of holistically combining all of the elements discussed within the Masters Certificate in Leadership
Analyze the key frameworks from the various modules and engage in an integrative discussion
Engage in a reflective process to consider how to apply insights from the Masters Certificate in Leadership

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Spring 2023 Program	Module Dates	Time
The Culture-Building Leader	4/20/2023 - 4/20/2023	9:00 am - 4:00 pm
WIN Thinking	4/27/2023 - 4/27/2023	9:00 am - 4:00 pm
The Inclusive Leader	5/4/2023 - 5/4/2023	9:00 am - 4:00 pm
The Mindset Leader	5/5/2023 - 5/5/2023	9:00 am - 4:00 pm
The Transformational Leader	5/12/2023 - 5/12/2023	9:00 am - 4:00 pm
The Talent Champion	5/19/2023 - 5/19/2023	9:00 am - 4:00 pm
The Innovative Leader	5/26/2023 - 5/26/2023	9:00 am - 4:00 pm
The Future-Thinking Leader	6/1/2023 - 6/1/2023	9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Mastery in Leadership	6/2/2023 - 6/2/2023	9:00 am - 12:00 pm