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.
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Certificate Completion Requirement

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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 Growth Through Emotional Intelligence
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.
Course Offerings:
AI and Machine Learning
Leading & Inspiring Change
Design Thinking for Business Innovation
Disrupting Your Business Strategy
Effective Growth Through Emotional Intelligence
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.
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
• Expand your communication skills
• Level up your business skill sets
• Help your organization and team to reach their maximum potential
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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15 results found
Cost and Performance Measurement in Healthcare
March 31 - April 1, 2023
This course will apply some of the basic concepts and techniques learned in an introductory management accounting course to the unique setting of healthcare. In this course, we will revisit topics related to resource planning, understanding cost behavior and cost drives, costing of services (including the application of time‐driven activity‐based‐costing), and the assessment of performance relative to a budget. The case‐based course will provide a deeper dive into these topics using examples from healthcare organizations (e.g., hospitals, clinics, and/or healthcare service providers). The aim of the course is to prepare students working in the healthcare industry to apply modern costing concepts and techniques in their workplace.
Payment Deadline: March 24, 2023
Topic: | Finance & Accounting, Healthcare, Analytics, Strategy |
Type: | Extended Learning Courses |
Format: | Hybrid |
Certificate: | Business of Healthcare Executive Certificate |
Healthcare Strategy: Strategically Leading Health Care Organizations
April 14-15, 2023
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.
Payment Deadline: March 13, 2023
Topic: | Leadership, Healthcare, Innovation, Strategy |
Type: | Extended Learning Courses |
Format: | Hybrid |
Certificate: | Business of Healthcare Executive Certificate |
Executive Coaching Diploma Program
April 14, 2023
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).
Payment Deadline: March 31, 2023
Topic: | Leadership |
Type: | Modular Programs |
Format: | Live Online |
Certificate: | Excellence in Business Certificate, Roberto C. Goizueta Leadership Certificate |
Design Thinking for Business Innovation
April 17-18, 2023
Shift the mindset of your organization to embrace creativity as a business competency. This course provides you with frameworks to build new customer-centric solutions to problems that meet real-world needs in ways you never imagined.
Payment Deadline: April 10, 2023
Topic: | Innovation, Strategy |
Type: | Short Course |
Format: | In-Person |
Certificate: | Strategy and Innovation Certificate, Excellence in Business Certificate |
Executive Communication & Leadership Presence
April 18-19, 2023
In this 2 day, in-person experience, develop insights into your abilities as a leader and tap into skills you need to communicate upward, downward, across, and outside your organization.
Payment Deadline: April 11, 2023
Topic: | Leadership, Strategy |
Type: | Short Course |
Format: | In-Person |
Certificate: | Excellence in Business Certificate, Roberto C. Goizueta Leadership Certificate |
AI & Machine Learning for Business
April 24-25, 2023
AI and machine learning are at the center of disruption and rapid change facing almost all sectors and industries. To compete in today’s digital economy, you must understand these transformational technologies to differentiate your business. The AI and Machine Learning for Business course will build your foundational understanding of these concepts in a non-technical, highly-interactive format, exploring existing and emerging developments of machine learning in data science, predictive modeling and artificial intelligence and how it is changing the way we work. Gain a more robust understanding of these technologies, the language and how to incorporate them into different business functions in your organization to accelerate productivity and gain a competitive edge.
Payment Deadline: April 17, 2023
Topic: | Analytics |
Type: | Short Course |
Format: | In-Person |
Certificate: | Excellence in Business Certificate, Strategy and Innovation Certificate |
Finance & Accounting for Non-Financial Managers
May 15-18, 2023
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: May 8, 2023
Topic: | Finance & Accounting |
Type: | Short Course |
Format: | Live Online |
Certificate: | Roberto C. Goizueta Leadership Certificate, Strategy and Innovation Certificate, Excellence in Business Certificate |
Goizueta Executive Women's Leadership Program
August 15 - September 21, 2023
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.
Payment Deadline: August 4, 2023
Topic: | Leadership, Innovation, Strategy |
Type: | Modular Programs |
Format: | Hybrid |
Certificate: | Excellence in Business Certificate, Roberto C. Goizueta Leadership Certificate |
Negotiations & Influence
October 2-4, 2023
In this 3 day, in-person course on October 2-4, 2023, 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 skillset.
Payment Deadline: September 25, 2023
Topic: | Innovation, Strategy |
Type: | Short Course |
Certificate: | Strategy and Innovation Certificate, Excellence in Business Certificate, Roberto C. Goizueta Leadership Certificate |
Executive Communication & Leadership Presence
October 11-12, 2023
In this 2 day, in-person experience, develop insights into your abilities as a leader and tap into skills you need to communicate upward, downward, across, and outside your organization.
Payment Deadline: October 4, 2023
Topic: | Leadership, Strategy |
Type: | Short Course |
Format: | In-Person |
Certificate: | Excellence in Business Certificate, Roberto C. Goizueta Leadership Certificate |
Disrupting Your Business Strategy
November 8-9, 2023
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: November 1, 2023
Topic: | Innovation, Strategy |
Type: | Short Course |
Format: | In-Person |
Certificate: | Roberto C. Goizueta Leadership Certificate, Excellence in Business Certificate, Strategy and Innovation Certificate |
Leading & Inspiring Change
November 14-15, 2023
This course provides leaders, managers, and change agents with models to better understand reactions to change while elevating skills necessary to gain buy-in and support when adapting to new workplace conditions.
Payment Deadline: November 7, 2023
Topic: | Leadership, Strategy |
Type: | Short Course |
Format: | In-Person |
Certificate: | Excellence in Business Certificate, Roberto C. Goizueta Leadership Certificate |
Executive Decision Making
December 11-12, 2023
Gain insights into the psychology, physiology, and sociology of decision making to drive the process within your organization to deliver better outcomes.
Payment Deadline: December 4, 2023
Topic: | Leadership, Strategy |
Type: | Short Course |
Format: | In-Person |
Certificate: | Strategy and Innovation Certificate, Excellence in Business Certificate, Roberto C. Goizueta Leadership Certificate |
Managerial Leadership Program
Unscheduled
The Managerial Leadership Program is highly personalized and interactive and expands your leadership potential for team success. Evaluate your leadership style, identify strengths and areas to improve, receive executive coaching, and test your skills through a day-long team leadership experience.
Topic: | Leadership, Strategy |
Type: | Modular Programs |
Certificate: | Excellence in Business Certificate, Roberto C. Goizueta Leadership Certificate |
The Unspoken Rules of Leadership: How to Get the Best from Yourself and Others
Unscheduled
In this 4-part webinar series, you’ll learn essential skills that will help you become a more effective leader, including how to match your communication style with those around you; how to use MindMapping to engage with people more efficiently; and how to be a more focused, centered, and calming force in your office or organization. This series is based on Jamie Turner’s Four Pillars of Leadership, with one full hour session devoted to each: Mindset, Mentoring, Management, and Marketing. Please note discounts do not apply to this webinar series.
Each webinar will be from 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. on the following Thursdays: February 2, 9, 16, & 23, 2023.
Webinar 1: Mindset (February 2, 2023)
Webinar 2: Mentoring (February 9, 2023)
Webinar 3: Management (February 16, 2023)
Webinar 4: Marketing (February 23, 2023)
Topic: | Leadership, Strategy |
Type: | Webinars |
Featured Faculty
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Scott Sanchez
ADJUNCT FACULTY & PRODUCT INNOVATION OFFICER, DELUXE CORPORATION -
Tom Smith
Associate Professor in the Practice of Finance