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Whether you’re building new skills, stepping into leadership, or making a career pivot, UBC Sauder helps you gain tomorrow’s skills, today.
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
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
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.
Product Management
This intensive two-month bootcamp offers a deep dive into the complete product lifecycle. Through a complex, end-to-end case study, you'll develop the critical tools and frameworks used by effective product managers. It's ideal for those transitioning into the field, UX/product designers, project managers, business analysts, technical professionals, marketing/sales professionals, and startup founders looking to accelerate their impact.
General Management
Advance your career with a Mini MBA from UBC Sauder. Learn vital business strategies and skills in a flexible online format designed for busy professionals.
Leadership
Investigate practical ways to bring the full power of your authentic self to your leadership role. Stand out as “being real” by connecting with your true purpose and passion. Forge genuine relationships that inspire people to go above and beyond.
People, Culture and Change
Is your organization ready for change? This course moves you from foundational understanding into the practical analysis and planning phase of a change initiative. You will assess organizational readiness, conduct a structured Change Impact Assessment, and develop a comprehensive Change Management Strategy and Approach that addresses risks, stakeholders, and complexity. Through applied tools and real-world frameworks, you’ll learn how to plan for adoption, measure success, and sustain change with strong leadership alignment and stakeholder buy-in.
Project Management
Gain the edge to stand out through our award-winning project management certificate program that focuses on the competencies needed to become an effective leader, not just a Project Manager.
Communication
Make conflict resolution part of a healthy work environment. Practice skills for pre-empting potential conflicts and deescalating existing ones in a fair and considerate manner. Smooth the path to productivity, and keep teams on track working towards a common goal.
Project Management
This course looks at the total project management process: from initiating to closing, with a special emphasis on project planning. It also describes scope, time, cost, quality, risk, resources and stakeholders, plus the human factors that play an important role in every project.
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.
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, Operations
Traditional management practices are no longer effective in volatile, uncertain, and complex environments. This course introduces catalytic leadership, the approach required to enable high-performing, self-organizing agile teams. Topics include: Characteristics of high-performing agile teams. The shift from traditional management to servant and catalytic leadership. Creating the environment for team autonomy and continuous improvement. Supporting delivery on time and on budget without undermining self-organization. Leading with agility: tools, techniques, and approaches for strategic outcomes.
Leadership
Learn critical coaching and mentoring skills for driving improved performance. Develop competencies and confidence to support people in their professional journeys. Promote a positive attitude to lead a thriving results-driven team.
Communication
Learn flexible, on‑your‑feet techniques that you can integrate directly into your managerial toolkit.
Operations
Improve operational efficiencies, delivery speed, costs and quality by learning the fundamental principles of Lean Six Sigma. Apply time-tested techniques for enhancing products, services and process excellence. Prepare to step up to the Green Belt certification program.
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