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Program Experience
Key Highlights and Outcomes
- Enhance and strengthen your skills as a manager and decision maker within your organization
- Learn at your own pace with the convenience of leadership courses online and flexible start dates
- Interact with world-class faculty and fellow high-potential learners from around the world
- Efficiently scale leadership development across teams
- Leverage the flexibility for managers to adapt learnings to corporate challenges
- Ensure better communication through a common leadership vocabulary
Experience and Impact
Unlock your executive potential with Wharton’s online Leadership and Management Certificate program. As you progress through the four-course certificate program, you will gain insights from some of the world’s foremost business experts and learn critical skills needed to manage, lead, and succeed in today’s complex business environment.
How it works
To earn our Leadership and Management Certificate, learners must complete four digital leadership-education courses.
Leadership and Management in the 21st Century
Leadership and Management in the 21st Century will teach you how to create an environment where your employees can thrive and step up to meet stretch goals for the organization. This inspiring course culminates in an understanding of making change for the better and how such change can propel your organization into the future.
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Managing and Motivating Talent
Are your managers getting the training they need to make good management decisions? In Managing and Motivating Talent, award-winning authors and renowned management professors Michael Useem and Peter Cappelli have designed this course to introduce you to the key elements of managing talent and motivating people.
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Managing the Global Firm
In Managing the Global Firm, world-renowned professor of management Mauro Guillén will teach you how and when to pursue these opportunities so that you can maximize profits and growth. You’ll be introduced to new decision and business models, products, and services, and learn how to use them within your organization.
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Strategic Management: Competitive and Corporate Strategy
In a world where “strategy” seems ubiquitous, how do you find your niche to truly differentiate? Strategic Management is designed to teach you how to evaluate, develop, and execute a successful business strategy that you can implement inside and outside the organization.
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Who Should Attend
Participants in the Leadership and Management Certificate program include:
- Executives and leaders seeking to build positive, productive, and responsive organizational cultures
- Managers looking to enhance employee engagement and foster creativity within teams
- Professionals aiming to understand and adapt to diverse workplace attitudes, dynamics, and work styles
- Leaders interested in cultivating originality and identifying the roles of “givers,” “takers,” and “matchers” in their organizations
- Individuals aspiring to lead with purpose and align team efforts with organizational goals
- Changemakers focused on driving organizational culture transformation and achieving sustainable success
- Professionals eager to apply cutting-edge research to real-life workplace challenges and opportunities
- Visionary leaders who want to propel their organizations into the future through purpose-driven strategies
Group Enrollment
To further leverage the value and impact of this program, we encourage companies to send cross-functional teams of executives to Wharton. We offer group-enrollment benefits to companies sending four or more participants.
Faculty
Sigal Barsade, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Joseph Frank Bernstein Professor; Professor of Management, The Wharton School
Research Interests: Organizational culture, emotional intelligence, unconscious bias, organizational change, teamwork and leadership
Peter Cappelli, DPhilSee Faculty Bio
George W. Taylor Professor of Management; Director, Center for Human Resources, The Wharton School
Research Interests: Human-resource practices, public policy related to employment, talent and performance management
Adam Grant, PhDSee Faculty Bio
The Saul P. Steinberg Professor of Management, The Wharton School; Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Work motivation, helping and giving behaviors, job design and meaningful work, leadership
Katherine Klein, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Edward H. Bowman Professor; Professor of Management; Vice Dean and Director, Wharton Social Impact Initiative, The Wharton School
Research Interests: Innovation and technology implementation, leadership, diversity, teams, and social networks
Nancy Rothbard, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Deputy Dean; David Pottruck Professor; Professor of Management, The Wharton School
Research Interests: Emotion and identity, work motivation and engagement, work-life and career development
Nicolaj Siggelkow, PhDSee Faculty Bio
David M. Knott Professor; Professor of Management; Co-Director, Mack Institute for Innovation Management, The Wharton School
Research Interests: Competitive strategy, firms as systems of interconnected choices
Harbir Singh, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Mack Professor; Professor of Management; Co-Director, Mack Institute for Innovation Management; Wharton School Faculty Director for the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business, The Wharton School
Research Interests: Corporate governance, corporate restructuring, management buyouts, strategies for corporate acquisitions
Michael Useem, PhDSee Faculty Bio
William and Jacalyn Egan Professor Emeritus of Management; Faculty Director, Center for Leadership and McNulty Leadership Program, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Catastrophic and enterprise risk management, corporate change and restructuring, leadership, decision making, governance
Mauro Guillén, PhDSee Faculty Bio
William H. Wurster Professor of Multinational Management; Vice Dean, MBA Program for Executives, The Wharton School
Research Interests: Globalization, international political economy, multinational management
