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How you choose to grow is yours to define. By investing in yourself, you gain the confidence to move beyond old conventions and embrace new ways of thinking. Along the way, you’ll connect with ambitious peers, world-class faculty, and industry leaders who expand your perspective, share real-world insights, and open doors long after the program ends.
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Business Analysis, Operations
Organizations that can't adapt don't survive. This course equips you to help yours stay competitive by developing your skills in business analysis planning, risk identification, and performance improvement. You'll learn to assess the current state of an organization, identify gaps and risks, and develop plans to address them, responding to rapid change with structured analytical thinking and practical recommendations.
Business Analysis, Operations
Requirements are the foundation of every successful solution, and getting them right is harder than it looks. This course focuses on the knowledge and skills needed to gather, analyze, verify, and trace requirements effectively, whether your organization is improving a business process or implementing new technology. You'll learn how to apply best practices and tools to develop well-documented, actionable requirements, and how to recommend solutions that address specific business challenges.
Operations
This program develops the Lean concepts and techniques you need to drive measurable improvements and stronger performance in your organization. It includes expert coaching on applied project work that may lead to Lean Green Belt certification.
People, Culture and Change
A great plan is only as good as its execution. This course focuses on bringing your Change Management Strategy and Plan to life. This course emphasizes execution, measurement, sustainment, and closure of change initiatives, aligning with industry best practices. You will move from planning into action—learning how to implement your Change Management Plan, monitor adoption and performance, address resistance in real time, and sustain outcomes. The course also explores how to evaluate success, capture lessons learned, and effectively transition ownership to ensure long-term impact.
Leadership
This 5-day program for senior leaders will guide you through a powerful journey of self-discovery. Clarify your leadership identity and enhance your capacity to effect personal and organizational change. Depart with renewed energy to lead yourself and your team into the future.
Exam and Test Preparation, Project Management
Led by our expert instructor, our 35-hour Live Online course provides a structured review of the key project domains and required knowledge to pass the rigorous PMP certification exam.
Exam and Test Preparation
Master the skills to succeed on the LSAT and take the test with confidence knowing that you have been taught by expert instructors.
Business Analysis, Operations
Start here. This course provides an accessible and thorough introduction to the business analysis profession, what business analysts do, how the role fits within organizations, and the techniques and processes used to analyze needs and develop solutions. You'll apply core BA concepts, learn how to engage stakeholders, document requirements, and build your first business process models. This course also includes a PDF of both the BABOK® Guide and the Agile Extension to the BABOK® Guide, which will serve as key reference resources throughout the program.
Operations
While agility provides a powerful framework for delivery, governing agile teams presents unique challenges. This course equips managers to oversee and support agile delivery at scale. Topics include: Governance frameworks for agile programs and portfolios. Managing delivery risk through iterative and incremental approaches. Reporting and metrics in an agile context. Scaling agile across teams and organizational layers.
Accounting and Finance
Learn to “think finance” and understand what the numbers are telling you. Read basic financial reports and ask probing questions based on the data they provide. Increase your financial fluency to make your business decisions pay off—in your career, and on the bottom line.
People, Culture and Change
Explore organizational change from a human perspective. See how change impacts people and what leadership behaviours are needed to manage it. Sustain momentum for change, while applying a disciplined approach to communicate clearly and facilitate the transition process.
Project Management
Use project management techniques to plan and manage your project workloads with less stress and better results. Direct your time, energy and resources wisely. Communicate and work effectively with others. Set your projects and large tasks up for a win.
Leadership, Project Management
Great project managers don't just manage tasks — they lead people. Based on original research by instructor and project leadership expert Robert Goatham, this course examines how effective project leaders think, communicate, and build buy-in across teams and stakeholders. You'll learn how to navigate the nuanced realities of influencing without authority, driving alignment, and sustaining momentum through uncertainty — skills that are essential for anyone leading from the middle of an organization.
Project Management
The Project Management Institute’s latest thinking, as reflected in the PMBOK® Guide Version 8, emphasizes that Project Managers need to adopt a ‘value-centric mindset’. To do that, we need to understand what value means and how our thinking can help optimize the value-creation chain.
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