Emory Executive Education

Excellence in Business Certificate

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Certificate

MOVE FORWARD PURPOSEFULLY

Excellence is the result of caring about what we do, and of putting our absolute best effort into what we care about. Business excellence is about achieving results and displaying outstanding practices in managing the organization. Strive for excellence; take your fundamental capabilities to the next level and enhance your expertise with the Excellence in Business Certificate.

How the Certificate Program Works

  • Select Your Courses

    Choose any four courses from a predetermined or select list of courses and complete them within three years.

  • Take Your Career to the Next Level

    With the Excellence in Business Certificate, you’ll be ready to take your career to the next level and guide your organization to success.

Certificate Completion Requirement

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Excellence in Business Certificate

A total of four courses over a three-year timespan is required to complete any given Emory Executive Education certificate. Candidates who require additional time to fulfill their Excellence in Business Certificate should discuss their specific needs with one of our learning advisors. A certificate is a great opportunity to meet your continuing education needs and professional development goals.

Course Offerings:
AI and Machine Learning
Leading & Inspiring Change
Design Thinking for Business Innovation
Disrupting Your Business Strategy
Effective Communication & Leadership Presence
Negotiation and Influence
Executive Decision Making
Finance & Accounting for the Non-Financial Manager
Executive Coaching Foundations Certificate
Goizueta Executive Women's Leadership Program
Applied Entrepreneurship Moving from Concept to Reality*
Digital and Social Media Strategy*
Supply Chain Management*

*Courses are MBA electives. MBA electives are available Fall and Spring only.
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Benefits

• Become a more effective leader
• Expand your communication skills
• Level up your business skill sets
• Help your organization and team to reach their maximum potential

Excellence in Business Certificate

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Payment Options

Pay up front for all four courses and receive 20% off, or pay as you go and pay the list course price.

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Excellence in Business Certificate

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Leading with Emotional Intelligence

January 2-13, 2025
Research suggests that a leader's capacity and productivity depend on three competencies: IQ, Business/Technical Expertise, and something known as "Emotional Intelligence," or EQ for short. The objective of the course is to assess your EQ and use that assessment along with multiple methods provided in class to help you improve your EQ and increase your growth as a leader. The course will integrate the data and insight from an EQi-2 instrument. Application Deadline: December 6, 2024 | Payment Deadline: December 13, 2024
Topic: Leadership
Type: MBA-Level Courses
Format: Live Online

Executive Coaching Diploma Program

January 10, 2025
Designed for those interested in further developing and formalizing their current coaching skills to adapt themselves, their teams, and their organizations to an ever-changing and complex environment. The Executive Coaching Diploma consists of two parts ─ the Executive Coaching Foundations Certificate and the Advanced Executive Coaching Certificate ─ and provides participants with the training and mentor coach hours needed for the Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential through the International Coach Federation (ICF). Application Deadline: December 6, 2024 | Payment Deadline: December 6, 2024
Topic: Leadership
Type: Modular Programs
Format: Live Online
Certificate: Executive Coaching Diploma Program

Entrepreneurship

January 14, 2025
This course is designed to endow you with an entrepreneurial perspective, enhance your ability to use functional knowledge in an applied setting, and familiarize you with the skills and resources necessary for starting a new venture. By the end of the class you will be able to: • Identify trends and opportunities in the marketplace • Formulate new venture ideas • Analyze your market and validate your customer base • Present a competitive analysis of a specific industry • Create a revenue model, forecast costs and demand, and assess potential profitability • Understand how financing, venture capital and valuation work • Utilize a business model canvas • Put together and present a business plan and pitch • Analyze ventures, both inside and outside of corporations Application Deadline: December 6, 2024 | Payment Deadline: December 20, 2024
Topic: Leadership
Type: MBA-Level Courses
Format: Hybrid

Compensation & Management Control

January 14, 2025
This course will help students translate organizational objectives into action through the design of effective performance measurement techniques, performance-based compensation schemes, and other management control mechanisms. There will be a focus on avoiding typical pitfalls that undermine the effectiveness of these design choices. In this course, students will learn: • The challenges of motivating employees. • Best practices in compensation design and performance measurement that help to align employees’ decisions with organizational goals. • Typical pitfalls of compensation schemes and ways to avoid them. • Societal aspects of organizational pay practices. Application Deadline: December 6, 2024 | Payment Deadline: December 20, 2024
Topic: Finance & Accounting
Type: MBA-Level Courses
Format: Hybrid

Digital & Social Media Strategy

January 15, 2025
In this course students will be able to design and deliver a social media campaign that will generate a positive ROI; analyze and evaluate what makes an effective digital and social media campaign; will demonstrate the ability to present a digital and social media plan in a persuasive and compelling manner; understand digital and social media strategy; and will also understand how to set up, launch and manage a high-performing campaign. Students will also learn how to calculate the ROI of an effective digital and social media campaign. Application Deadline: December 6, 2024 | Payment Deadline: December 20, 2024
Topic: Marketing
Type: MBA-Level Courses
Format: Live Online
Certificate: Roberto C. Goizueta Leadership, Excellence in Business Certificate

Economics of Digital Platforms

January 20, 2025
This course introduces students to the economics of online markets in general and digital products in particular. Topics covered include network economics, pricing strategies, segmentation and versioning for digital products, impact of bundling services. Students are introduced to both analytical models as well as empirical analysis using real world data from the entertainment industry. The course will include advanced topics include concepts of standards competition, lock-in strategies, etc. We will take a practice oriented approach where theory and case studies will be combined with a number of industry speakers. Application Deadline: December 6, 2024 | Payment Deadline: December 20, 2024
Topic: Innovation, Strategy
Type: MBA-Level Courses
Format: In-Person

Business of Healthcare: Moving from Volume to Value Based Healthcare Delivery

January 31 - February 1, 2025
Introduces the framework of a value‐based health care delivery system, organized around four key components: (1) what is a value base framework for a delivery system, (2) the need for integrated care delivery at the practice unit, (3) creating system for outcome measurement and monitoring, and (4) the role of payers in encouraging value‐based healthcare delivery. Application Deadline: December 16, 2024 | Payment Deadline: January 3, 2025
Topic: Leadership, Healthcare, Analytics, Strategy
Type: MBA-Level Courses
Format: Hybrid
Certificate: Business of Healthcare Executive Certificate

AI & Machine Learning for Business

February 3, 2025
This fundamental course offers a thorough examination of AI and Machine Learning (ML) principles, technologies, and their business applications. Gain insights into how to unravel the complexities of AI and ML, spot opportunities to utilize these technologies in your business, and grasp the strategic and leadership implications. By blending theoretical expertise with practical wisdom, the course equips you to spearhead AI projects and cultivate an atmosphere conducive to technological innovation.
Topic: Leadership, Analytics, Innovation, Strategy, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Type: Short Courses
Format: Asynchronous Online
Certificate: Leveraging AI for Business Success

Leveraging Analytics for Growth

February 3, 2025
This course equips you with the necessary skills to enhance business outcomes using data analytics. The foundation of this course revolves around grasping the essentials of data and analytical instruments for bolstering decision-making processes that lead to business enhancement. By prioritizing a strategy focused on the customer, it examines the ways in which analytics can facilitate measures to foster expansion through gaining new customers, nurturing existing relationships, and ensuring customer loyalty.
Topic: Leadership, Analytics, Innovation, Strategy, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Type: Short Courses
Format: Asynchronous Online
Certificate: Driving ROI with Analytics

Digital Disruption and Transformation

February 3, 2025
This course prepares you with the essential tools, frameworks, and understanding needed to lead organizations through the complex terrain of digital transition. Participants who complete the course can expect to: Understand the core concepts of digital disruption and how it impacts businesses Learn about the strategies to leverage digital transformation for competitive advantage Discover the role of innovation in overcoming disruption challenges Explore successful case studies of digital transformation across different sectors Equip yourself with the tools to become a change agent in your organization
Topic: Leadership, Analytics, Innovation, Strategy, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Type: Short Courses
Format: Asynchronous Online
Certificate: Leading Digital Transformation

Healthcare Operations: Continuous Operations Improvement in Healthcare Orgs

February 28 - March 1, 2025
Using the healthcare value chain as an organizing framework, the module is organized around four key modules: (1) designing healthcare delivery systems, (2) capacity planning and decision making under uncertainty, (3) process failure, learning and quality improvement, and (4) new business models and innovations in healthcare. Application Deadline: January 24, 2025 | Payment Deadline: January 31, 2025
Topic: Leadership, Healthcare, Strategy
Type: MBA-Level Courses
Format: Hybrid
Certificate: Business of Healthcare Executive Certificate

Technology and Strategy

March 3, 2025
As innovations in technology progress, new capabilities and solutions unfold transforming the marketplace and society at large. This course focuses on the fundamental principles underlying various technological evolutions and how their interplay enhances the potential and opportunities for markets, businesses, and individuals.
Topic: Leadership, Analytics, Innovation, Strategy, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Type: Short Courses
Format: Asynchronous Online
Certificate: Leading Digital Transformation

Applications of AI in Business

March 3, 2025
This course introduces you to the vast potential that artificial intelligence brings to the table. By covering a wide spectrum of AI applications, you’ll explore how enterprises can harness AI for cost reduction and enhanced efficiency. Practical examples and case studies will focus on sectors like advertising and marketing.
Topic: Leadership, Analytics, Innovation, Strategy, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Type: Short Courses
Format: Asynchronous Online
Certificate: Leveraging AI for Business Success

Data Analytics for Leaders

March 3, 2025
Dive deep into insights from the frontline of business analytics through in-depth exploration of analytic methodologies and their application in real-world scenarios. This course spans from the strategic deployment of data within organizations to fostering an analytical mindset for decision-makers. You will emerge adept at integrating data analytics into your strategic vision, operations, and innovation framework.
Topic: Leadership, Analytics, Innovation, Strategy, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Type: Short Courses
Format: Asynchronous Online
Certificate: Driving ROI with Analytics

Chief Medical Officer Program

March 17, 2025
The Chief Medical Officer Program from Emory Executive Education will equip you to lead and inspire colleagues across the organization with a shared vision that reflects the unique needs of patient care delivery and strategic business goals. The 9- to 12-month immersive learning journey is focused on providing the mindset, skills, and frameworks required for you to succeed as a CMO, from business leadership to overseeing clinical operations, influencing stakeholders, and spearheading quality improvement.
Topic: Healthcare
Type: Modular Programs
Format: Asynchronous Online
Certificate: Chief Medical Officer Program

The Business of Coaching: Strategies to Boost Your Coaching Practice

March 21, 2025
Course dates: March 21, March 28, April 25, May 16: 1pm-3pm Gain exposure to different types of executive coaching business models. Learn the components of a sound executive coaching business plan. Understand the operational elements required to run an executive coaching business. Identify and unpack the mindsets that may be getting in the way of you growing your business. Explore target client possibilities and who you uniquely are as an executive coach. **This course is best suited for experienced, trained coaches and does not include education on how to coach***
Format: Live Online

Managerial Leadership Program

March 25, 2025
The Managerial Leadership Program (MLP) is a five-day course delivered across two modules that builds on your success and leadership potential as a top performer within your organization. Focused on raising your individual leadership capacity, MLP concentrates on honing your abilities to affect team success. You will put what you’ve learned into practice during MLP’s Team and Leadership Simulation to expand your skills in managing yourself and your team. During your experience you will also have a one-on-one session with an executive coach. Kickoff: March 25, 2025, Module 1: April 14-16, 2025, Leadership Webinar: April 29, 2025, Module 2: May 19-20, 2025 Payment Deadline: February 25, 2025
Topic: Leadership, Strategy
Type: Modular Programs
Format: In-Person
Certificate: Roberto C. Goizueta Leadership

Cost Concepts: Cost and Performance Measurement in Healthcare

March 28-29, 2025
This course focuses on how to measure and use cost performance information in planning and controlling a healthcare organization's operations. You will learn to identify costs and benefits relevant for making economic decisions; estimate the costs of providing services and products to patients; assign cost and price services to yield a desired level of profits; use cost-volume-profit relationships to evaluate profitability and risk; create budgets to acquire and effectively allocate an organization's economic resources; investigate the reasons why budgets and actual results differ; and design management control and performance evaluation systems to ensure strategic alignment throughout the organization. Application Deadline: February 21, 2025 | Payment Deadline: February 25, 2025
Topic: Finance & Accounting, Healthcare, Analytics, Strategy
Type: MBA-Level Courses
Format: Hybrid
Certificate: Business of Healthcare Executive Certificate

Data Visualization

April 1, 2025
This course guides you through the fundamentals of data visualization, emphasizing the art of presenting insights in a clear and impactful manner. You will engage in practical activities to master the use of premier visualization tools, craft strategies grounded in data, and leverage informed choices to propel business achievements.
Topic: Leadership, Analytics, Innovation, Strategy, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Type: Short Courses
Format: Asynchronous Online
Certificate: Driving ROI with Analytics

Developing a Culture of Experimentation

April 1, 2025
This course is designed with the specific goal of nurturing an innovative business culture. It emphasizes the importance of prioritizing experimentation and actively encourages risk-taking as an essential strategy to fuel growth and spark creativity. You will learn how to create an environment that not only supports but rewards innovative thinking and bold decision-making, laying the foundation for a dynamic and forward-thinking business landscape.
Topic: Leadership, Analytics, Innovation, Strategy, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Type: Short Courses
Format: Asynchronous Online
Certificate: Leading Digital Transformation

Healthcare Strategy: Strategically Leading Healthcare Organizations

April 11-12, 2025
Gain an understanding of tomorrow’s competitive landscape in health care characterized by regulatory uncertainty, confounded consumers, and the ever-shifting balance of power amongst payers, providers and pharma/devices. All these demand that our health care leaders be clear in their organization’s strategy and simultaneously excel at leading organizational change. Application Deadline: March 7, 2025 | Payment Deadline: March 14, 2025
Topic: Leadership, Healthcare, Innovation, Strategy
Type: MBA-Level Courses
Format: Hybrid
Certificate: Business of Healthcare Executive Certificate

Leveraging AI for Business

April 30 - May 1, 2025
Leveraging AI for Business provides you with a deep understanding of these transformative technologies, in a non-technical, highly-interactive format, exploring existing and emerging developments of machine learning in data science, predictive modeling, and generative AI. Discover how to enhance your business strategy by understanding which AI technologies are most relevant to your business needs. Payment Deadline: April 25, 2025
Topic: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Type: Short Courses
Format: In-Person
Certificate: Strategy & Innovation Certificate, Excellence in Business Certificate

Disrupting Your Business Strategy

May 13-14, 2025
Learn how to help your organization disrupt itself before anyone else does by exploring strategy, mission, and innovation and how they interact. Develop the knowledge and skills necessary to lead a more agile organization and respond successfully to change in customers during increasingly disruptive times. Payment Deadline: May 6, 2025
Topic: Innovation, Strategy
Type: Short Courses
Format: In-Person
Certificate: Roberto C. Goizueta Leadership, Strategy & Innovation Certificate, Excellence in Business Certificate

Leveraging Analytics for Growth

June 2, 2025
This course equips you with the necessary skills to enhance business outcomes using data analytics. The foundation of this course revolves around grasping the essentials of data and analytical instruments for bolstering decision-making processes that lead to business enhancement. By prioritizing a strategy focused on the customer, it examines the ways in which analytics can facilitate measures to foster expansion through gaining new customers, nurturing existing relationships, and ensuring customer loyalty.
Topic: Leadership, Analytics, Innovation, Strategy, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Type: Short Courses
Format: Asynchronous Online
Certificate: Driving ROI with Analytics

AI & Machine Learning for Business

June 2, 2025
This fundamental course offers a thorough examination of AI and Machine Learning (ML) principles, technologies, and their business applications. Gain insights into how to unravel the complexities of AI and ML, spot opportunities to utilize these technologies in your business, and grasp the strategic and leadership implications. By blending theoretical expertise with practical wisdom, the course equips you to spearhead AI projects and cultivate an atmosphere conducive to technological innovation.
Topic: Leadership, Analytics, Innovation, Strategy, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Type: Short Courses
Format: Asynchronous Online
Certificate: Leveraging AI for Business Success

Digital Disruption and Transformation

June 2, 2025
This course prepares you with the essential tools, frameworks, and understanding needed to lead organizations through the complex terrain of digital transition. Participants who complete the course can expect to: Understand the core concepts of digital disruption and how it impacts businesses Learn about the strategies to leverage digital transformation for competitive advantage Discover the role of innovation in overcoming disruption challenges Explore successful case studies of digital transformation across different sectors Equip yourself with the tools to become a change agent in your organization
Topic: Leadership, Analytics, Innovation, Strategy, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Type: Short Courses
Format: Asynchronous Online
Certificate: Leading Digital Transformation

Technology and Strategy

July 1, 2025
As innovations in technology progress, new capabilities and solutions unfold transforming the marketplace and society at large. This course focuses on the fundamental principles underlying various technological evolutions and how their interplay enhances the potential and opportunities for markets, businesses, and individuals.
Topic: Leadership, Analytics, Innovation, Strategy, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Type: Short Courses
Format: Asynchronous Online
Certificate: Leading Digital Transformation

Data Analytics for Leaders

July 1, 2025
Dive deep into insights from the frontline of business analytics through in-depth exploration of analytic methodologies and their application in real-world scenarios. This course spans from the strategic deployment of data within organizations to fostering an analytical mindset for decision-makers. You will emerge adept at integrating data analytics into your strategic vision, operations, and innovation framework.
Topic: Leadership, Analytics, Innovation, Strategy, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Type: Short Courses
Format: Asynchronous Online
Certificate: Driving ROI with Analytics

Applications of AI in Business

July 1, 2025
This course introduces you to the vast potential that artificial intelligence brings to the table. By covering a wide spectrum of AI applications, you’ll explore how enterprises can harness AI for cost reduction and enhanced efficiency. Practical examples and case studies will focus on sectors like advertising and marketing.
Topic: Leadership, Analytics, Innovation, Strategy, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Type: Short Courses
Format: Asynchronous Online
Certificate: Leveraging AI for Business Success

Data Visualization

August 1, 2025
This course guides you through the fundamentals of data visualization, emphasizing the art of presenting insights in a clear and impactful manner. You will engage in practical activities to master the use of premier visualization tools, craft strategies grounded in data, and leverage informed choices to propel business achievements.
Topic: Leadership, Analytics, Innovation, Strategy, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Type: Short Courses
Format: Asynchronous Online
Certificate: Driving ROI with Analytics

Developing a Culture of Experimentation

August 4, 2025
This course is designed with the specific goal of nurturing an innovative business culture. It emphasizes the importance of prioritizing experimentation and actively encourages risk-taking as an essential strategy to fuel growth and spark creativity. You will learn how to create an environment that not only supports but rewards innovative thinking and bold decision-making, laying the foundation for a dynamic and forward-thinking business landscape.
Topic: Leadership, Analytics, Innovation, Strategy, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Type: Short Courses
Format: Asynchronous Online
Certificate: Leading Digital Transformation

Finance & Accounting for Non-Financial Managers

November 12-13, 2025
This course will strengthen your practical understanding of the financial statements, and you will gain intellectual insights into finance and accounting management. You will learn how to address business challenges through applied financial principles. Payment Deadline: November 6, 2024
Topic: Finance & Accounting
Type: Short Courses
Format: In-Person
Certificate: Roberto C. Goizueta Leadership, Strategy & Innovation Certificate, Excellence in Business Certificate

Goizueta Executive Women's Leadership Program

Coming Soon
The Executive Women’s Leadership Program focuses on critical skills and competencies proven to elevate individual capability and confidence, to help women leaders contribute to organizational value creation. The program provides an opportunity for women leaders to enhance their strategic thinking, develop an enterprise mindset, hone self-awareness and leadership behaviors, and emerge ready to contribute more strategically and exert greater influence within their organizations. This hybrid, immersive development experience allows women leaders to clearly understand how they create value, craft a corresponding, compelling narrative, and increase leadership impact.
Topic: Leadership, Innovation, Strategy
Type: Modular Programs
Certificate: Roberto C. Goizueta Leadership, Excellence in Business Certificate

Negotiation Strategy for Success

Coming Soon
In this 3 day, in-person course on December 4-6, 2024, you will master effective negotiation strategies that can be applied in an array of business environments. You will feel more confident making tough decisions within the realm of negotiating and bargaining; you will have the ability to close deals more effectively; and, you will have enhanced your overall negotiation skill set.
Topic: Innovation, Strategy
Type: Short Courses
Certificate: Strategy & Innovation Certificate, Roberto C. Goizueta Leadership, Excellence in Business Certificate

Featured Faculty

  • Scott Sanchez

    ADJUNCT FACULTY & PRODUCT INNOVATION OFFICER, DELUXE CORPORATION

    Scott Sanchez is an innovation leader, with extensive experience in innovation, product management and design, and a history of making simple, yet impactful products and experiences that delight customers. He also serves as an adjunct faculty member for Emory Executive Education at Goizueta Business School. He has brought a customer-driven approach to innovation to organizations of all sizes across many industries to help invent and reinvent products and experiences to create sustainable growth, while unleashing innovators along the way.

  • Tom Smith

    Associate Professor in the Practice of Finance

    Tom Smith is an expert in the areas of labor economics, pricing, film finance, sports economics and finance, and the economics of the entertainment and health care industries. He’s regularly featured on television and radio – CNN, NPR, and The Huffington Post to name a few. An energetic and enthusiastic instructor, Smith helps participants expand their thinking and develop a more holistic view of finance.

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