Impacting change starts with empowering executives to develop and broaden their leadership identity and capabilities. This immersive program will support you in strengthening your leadership qualities, enabling you to empower and lead individuals and teams to higher levels of performance.

Upon completing this program, you will return to your organization with the right tools to impact organizational growth and change.

Recent studies confirm the leader is the prime factor for creating a productive work environment and contributing to higher employee retention. The Executive Leadership Certificate program with UNBC Continuing Studies provides the concepts and the practices of Leadership in a high impact learning-environment.

We invite you to join your peers in this certificate program to craft your own leadership style, build an extraordinary team and master the competencies of effective executive leadership.

Who Should Attend?

• High-performing managers on a path to becoming executive leaders.
• Senior leaders looking to enhance their learning experience to support innovation and growth.
• Principals of small and medium firms and entrepreneurs or owners of small companies with growth potential.

There are six courses in this certificate.

1. Active Leadership
The Active Leadership course provides the concepts and the practices of leadership in a high impact learning environment to help leaders effectively coach, empower and lead individuals and teams to higher levels of performance.

2. Motivate for Full Engagement 
In this course, you will consider your motivation and the role of motivation in leading others. You will investigate intrinsic and extrinsic motivation sources, explore four key motivational drivers, and learn to bring out motivation in yourself and others in order to fully engage in the work of the team or organization.

3. Align for Results
This course enables leaders to learn a three-step process to connect their performance objectives to organizational goals, add value by embedding their personal passions and talents to enhance their commitment to achieving those objectives, and structure a clear and compelling story to mobilize employees to work in alignment with organizational goals.

4. Leading Continuous Change
In today’s digitally disrupted world, continuous change is the new normal. To be successful leaders need to be able to prioritize and manage multiple change initiatives, avoid change fatigue and ensure that individuals and teams remain committed and connected to the direction of the organization.

5. Leading Transformation
Leading Transformation is designed for those leading others through change. It combines the latest ideas, models, tools, and adult learning techniques into one powerful business education package that gives leaders the skills they really need to lead transformation-online and on the ground.

6. Leading High Performing Teams
Leaders have to play a far more hands-on role to make sure the group works well together and remains focused on the right priorities. That's why the Leading High Performance Teams Training is one of the most essential ways to gain the skills needed to boost productivity. In this dynamic one-day training course, learn how to build effective, high-performance teams from the ground up and then manage everyone's efforts to maximize results.

Offered in partnership with Global Knowledge.

About the Instructors

Adrienne Serrao, MA, ACC, CCPC

With over 20 years of coaching and facilitation experience, Adrienne brings a wealth of expertise around leadership, communications, and employee development and performance.

Holding the ACC designation from the International Coaching Federation as well as CCPC from the Coaches Training Institute, Adrienne has worked with hundreds of clients from industries as diverse as finance, telecom, healthcare, oil and gas and manufacturing.

Using an approach that is highly empathic and supportive, Adrienne has worked with professionals around a wide range of issues from leadership development to stress management, career enhancement and strategizing around challenging interpersonal situations.