SHORT COURSES

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

Learn all about the work conducted by investment banks. This course will analyze debt financing, equity underwriting, merger & acquisition advisory assignments, and trading activity. Special emphasis will be placed on the methods commonly applied when conducting valuation, debt capacity, and transaction analysis. In addition, there will be summary of investment banking history and of the peripheral players (private equity and hedge funds) that interact with banks.

Understand how to effectively set prices. This course will equip you with an integrated framework to make pricing decisions and will provide you with the latest thinking on pricing issues. You will learn how to integrate pricing decisions vis-à-vis synthesizing big data, accounting, financial information and consider market conditions, legal and corporate agreements.

Broaden your awareness of the impact of global economic, financial, geopolitical, and demographic trends on business. The course provides conceptual frameworks and tools for analysis critical to conducting business in the international environment. It will also explore the evolution of macroeconomic policy and events, including COVID-19 and its substantial global macroeconomic impacts.

Explore the importance and impact of customer lifetime value. Using real-world applications from various industries, this course will familiarize participants with tools and methods used for measuring and managing the value of current and future customers effectively.

Gain an understanding of the drivers of value creation and destruction in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and develop skills in the design and evaluation of these transactions. The focus of the course will be primarily to analyze M&A from the perspective of a financial advisor, integrating issues from economics, accounting, law, strategy and organizational behavior where appropriate.

Gain a greater understanding of product development. This course exposes participants to the contemporary challenges faced by a broad variety of firms in developing and launching new products, creating and maintaining brand equity, and managing products and product lines.

Learn about alternative investments and why they represent the largest and fastest growing asset class in the world. This course will discuss (i) organization and strategy of the alternative investments industry, (ii) valuation, capital structure and term sheets, (iii) new venture financing, and (iv) deal structuring. It will also provide an actionable framework to improve your investment acumen and become a business owner, including raising capital if you have little or none, identifying a business to buy, and structuring a transaction.

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

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

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: October 16, 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

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 1, 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

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: November 20, 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

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).

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.