SHORT COURSES

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.

The Chief Nursing Executive Certificate program from Emory Executive Education is designed and led by Emory’s foremost thought leaders in business and nursing leadership. Dane Peterson, former president and chief operating officer; Bob Dent, vice president of patient services and chief nursing officer; Trina Geyer, director of nursing leadership and development; and other Emory Healthcare leaders bring their vast experience and expertise in nursing leadership, healthcare and business management, patient care, and finance to the program. The five-month immersive curriculum is focused on providing the frameworks, skills, and experience you need to develop innovative healthcare delivery models and create a strategic vision to lead your team of nurses and your organization through any healthcare challenge.

The six-week Communication Strategies for Healthcare Leaders course offers a valuable opportunity to build core leadership capabilities beyond business acumen. The immersive learning journey emphasizes rational and emotional competencies as well as collaboration and conflict resolution, enabling you to gain a competitive edge in leadership roles. Through innovative frameworks, real-world case studies, insights from industry experts, and peer discussions, you will hone your communication to drive a positive impact and establish an influential executive presence for improved patient outcomes.

Join us for a look back on 2023 and a real time update on what's happening in the economy. As we look toward 2024, engage in a conversation about what matters to us as individuals and our organizations.

As a healthcare executive, your role is pivotal yet fraught with demands that can strain even the most seasoned leader. The stakes are immense and the rewards profound, but the path is complex. Bridging the gap between medical and business acumen requires the integration of leadership skills, financial acumen, and strategic thinking. By enhancing these skills, you not only position yourself to address the challenges of today but also pave the way to advance your career as a healthcare executive. You will be prepared to innovate business models, improve your strategic decision making, boost team performance, and manage multiple stakeholders. In essence, you empower yourself to lead the healthcare evolution with vision, agility, and a focus on patient-centric excellence.

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 7, 2023

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 more highly placed in an individual's organization, the more critical Emotional Intelligence becomes. Studies show that 85 percent of star performers' effectiveness is linked to their high degree of Emotional Intelligence. Daunting challenges confront leaders today: a pandemic, social injustice, globalization of the economy, rapid changes in technology, shifting business models, and accelerating pace of business – all at an ever-increasing rate of change. Whether a company proves agile enough to survive and thrive depends on the degree to which its leaders can manage their emotions in the face of escalating change. Emotionally competent leaders think clearly under pressure, make strategic decisions, and adapt to shifting business climates with flexibility and focus. A leader exercising these capacities profoundly impacts others, mitigating reactivity, building trusting relationships, and focusing on what matters – delivering business results. 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 the EQi-2 instrument. Application Deadline: December 15, 2023 | Payment Deadline: December 22, 2023

The class starts with the opportunity to put into practice some of the key conceptual frameworks covered in the core Marketing Management class, like targeting, positioning and profitable execution. Then moving beyond using these frameworks the class adds new concepts useful in finding and building uncontested market space where truly differentiated offerings can be deployed. With the successful completion of this course, students will gain a better understanding of how to build and execute winning marketing strategies. Two simulations will be utilized as the backbone of the class, Markstrat and BOSS. Much of the class time will be spent making and reviewing decisions. The course is team based. Application Deadline: December 15, 2023 | Payment Deadline: December 22, 2023

Why do some people prosper while others struggle? The difference is more than what they know – their human capital. It's also who they know. Successful people know how to improve their wealth, health, and happiness by creating rich social capital, tapping the hidden resources in their business, professional, and personal networks. Research shows that rich social capital produces higher pay, faster promotions, better jobs, funding for new ventures, new business opportunities, and profitable companies. This course focuses on social capital: what it is, how to build it, and how to use it to achieve your goals. This course is also about using social capital to implement organizational change. The protagonist in this course takes and active role in managing networks to get things done. The key challenge is how to work with other people to make change happen. You create value through coordinating your personal contacts to diverse groups in an organization, coordinating employees within and between functional groups, and coordinating activities across organizations. This course is an introduction to using social network theory and analysis to effect this coordination and create value. Application Deadline: December 15, 2023 | Payment Deadline: December 22, 2023

This course is designed to introduce you to some theoretical frameworks that will help you understand how consumers act, think and feel. You should be able to apply these frameworks to everyday marketing problems ranging from determining consumer needs to ensuring consumer satisfaction. Consumer behavior is an interdisciplinary field and as such, the theories in this course are based on psychology, sociology, economics and marketing. Application Deadline: December 15, 2023 | Payment Deadline: December 22, 2023

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 one of our Business over Breakfast favorites, 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 Fridays: February 2, 9, 16, & 23, 2024. Payment Deadline: February 1, 2024

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, 2024, Module 1: April 15-17, 2024 & Module 2: May 22-23, 2024 Payment Deadline: February 5, 2024

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 16, 2024

Jesse Bockstedt, senior associate dean for Graduate Programs and professor of Information Systems & Operations Management, discusses how AI & Generative AI can enhance the operations of your business. He will help you gain a more robust understanding of these technologies and how to incorporate them into different business functions in your organization. You will learn how to leverage AI and Generative AI to accelerate productivity and create value for your customers as well as discuss the many ethical and societal issues AI presents. Payment Deadline: April 25, 2024

This course focuses on business-to-business sales organizations – their essential characteristics, what determines their effectiveness, and the forces disrupting and reshaping their operation. The course is chiefly concerned with sales management effectiveness, but also considers “personal selling” (a favored academic term), or person-to-person buyer-seller interactions. The first portion of the course examines personal selling from the standpoint of what makes a “good” salesperson – the skills, characteristics, and key behaviors important in professional selling, and in a more general sense the basis of persuasiveness and effective rhetoric in a commercial setting. The remainder of the course, and the majority of its focus, treats optimizing selling and the sales function from management’s perspective. This includes the use of sales process, technology, and decision science; but is also considers the importance of discretion, judgement, and autonomous decision making in a business-to-business sales force. Also considered is the role of “sales operations,” “sales enablement,” “revops,” and “commercial effectiveness” – increasingly prevalent corporate functions that provide direction and support to sales organizations (e.g., in the form of process optimization, analytics, evaluating and implementing the sales tech stack, designing and managing incentives, developing sales skills, and more). Application Deadline: March 29, 2024 | Payment Deadline: April 5, 2024

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). Foundations Payment Deadline: July 5, 2024

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. Application Deadline: August 23, 2024 | Payment Deadline: September 3, 2024

In this 3 day, in-person course on October 7-9, 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. Payment Deadline: September 30, 2024

Explore the importance of iteration in the innovation process, engage in an interactive team-based exercise in design thinking, solve an unfamiliar problem to better understand and apply design thinking concepts, and apply all that you’ve learned in a high-impact problem-solving activity. In this course, you’ll dig into the strategy and principles of design thinking. Finish feeling ready to solve any problem back at the office.

The intersection of innovation, business strategy, and organizational mission…where organizations thrive. How might an innovator’s toolkit be used to challenge and reinvent the business strategy of an organization? And, how might it also help unlock a business’ ability to “do good” while also “doing well”? This course provides you with the frameworks and tools to bring those disciplines together, to keep the strategy of an organization fresh and more agile at responding to changes in customers and increasingly disruptive times, and to uncover and act on a more human mission for the company. By exploring strategy, mission, and innovation at the same time, and how they interact, you will be able to help your own organization disrupt itself before anyone else does.

A strong financial understanding of your business is critical to your success, regardless of your industry. This course will strengthen your practical understanding of the financial statements, and you will gain intellectual insights into finance and accounting management.

With globalization and the rapid growth of technology, organizational change has become an everyday part of corporate life. New products and services, diversification of roles, or major strategic shifts of focus can often create challenging dynamics. This course provides leaders, managers, and change agents with models to better understand reactions to change, and the skills to navigate the conversations required to gain buy-in and support when adapting to new workplace conditions.