5 Courses | 24 Weeks | 100% Online
LEADERSHIP AWAITS YOU
Creative Business, Strategy and Leadership Certificate

What's the Next Step in Your Career Journey?
Whether you’re new to management, a first-line or middle manager, a team leader or a seasoned executive, the ability to successfully influence the teams you work with and guide the teams you lead through continuous change and transformation is important for your continued effectiveness as a leader and for the growth of your organization.
Through the development and execution of new strategies aligned with change management knowledge, you can build resiliency, agility and infuse transformative thinking within your teams and organization to capitalize on change, rather than being disrupted by it.
Learn to achieve more in your career when you upskill with a Creative Business, Strategy and Leadership Certificate from Michigan State University.
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Why a Certificate?
Whether you’re looking to move up within your existing organization or forge a new path on your leadership journey, MSU’s five-course Creative Business, Strategy and Leadership Certificate is designed with you, the emerging leader, in mind.
Five certificate courses provide a firm foundation on which you can prepare to grow your career.
Courses
Build Foundational Knowledge in Strategy Development and Innovation
External Market Drivers and Disruptors
4 Weeks | $1,150
This 4-week course in External Market Drivers & Disruptors takes a deep dive into various disruptors and drivers of change, provides the tools and tactics for you to identify and assess the impact of these factors on your organization and your customers, and create the best change strategy for a competitive advantage.
Developing Strategic Business Models
4 Weeks | $1,150
This 4-week course in Developing Strategic Business Models will help you evaluate your organization’s strategic models and provide the tools and techniques you need to create strategic alignment at every business level.
Transformational and Visionary Leadership
4 Weeks | $1,150
This 4-week course in Transformational & Visionary Leadership provides a roadmap for decision making and a plan to improve your leadership efficiency and effectiveness, adapt to your team and company needs and confidently drive your organization toward positive change.
Developing a Creative Mindset
4 Weeks | $1,150
This 4-week course on Developing a Creative Mindset will provide the tools, tactics and insights to help develop your strategic creativity as an individual, as the leader of a team and as a valued contributor to your organization.
Strategic Negotiation
8 Weeks | $2,040
This 8-week course on Strategic Negotiation can strengthen your skill sets in intra-organizational, team, multi-party, customer, supplier and cross-cultural negotiations. You’ll learn how to identify negotiation opportunities, address conflicts and gain an understanding of the unique challenges that exist when individuals, groups and organizations face potential or existing conflict.
Build for the Future with
a Certificate from MSU
Learn to grow as a strategic thinker and develop agility and resiliency to lead through constant change with the 5-course Creative Business, Strategy and Leadership Certificate
Courses:
- External Market Drivers and Disruptors
- Developing Strategic Business Models
- Transformational and Visionary Leadership
- Developing a Creative Mindset
- Strategic Negotiation
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Why Online?
Achieve Your Goals on Your Schedule
Learn to grow as a strategic thinker and develop agility and resiliency to lead through constant change with the 5-course Creative Business, Strategy and Leadership Certificate.
Program Details
- 5 courses
- 24-week completion time
- 100% online
- Flexible and convenient class schedules
- Interactive sessions with leading faculty
- Self-paced learning
Why MSU?
Learn from the Management Leaders
Led by the top-ranked faculty of MSU’s Broad College of Business, the Creative Business, Strategy and Leadership Certificate is designed to positively impact your personal and professional growth.
Faculty thought leaders will help you learn:
- The what and the why behind an organization and its strategy
- Methods to identify and assess key change indicators
- Tools and models to translate organizational purpose and goals into team goals
- The development of transformational leadership plans to drive individual, team and organizational performance.