Focus areas let you build a curriculum that aligns with your career interests. Each area can also be applied to its associated graduate certificate. Certificate earners are awarded a digital badge for each certificate they complete.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
You’ll learn to implement workforce development strategies that enhance employee engagement, motivation and belonging by creating an inclusive and diverse environment for all employees.
Entrepreneurship
Learn to forge your own business ventures, products, or services, including through ideation, feasibility, and business plan development.
Human Resources Management
This focus area immerses you in how to implement human resource strategies, policies and projects including compensation and benefits, employee relations, performance and talent management, and more.
Leadership
Do you see yourself as a transformational, authentic, ethical, and creative leader? This focus area helps you learn how to become one and to encourage leadership growth in others.
Management Accounting
You’ll delve into providing directions for capital projects to executives based on strong financial analysis and demonstrating your knowledge of business processes and related risks.
Managerial Analytics
Learn to lead, develop, and implement an analytics-driven approach to new strategic initiatives to achieve buy-in from executives.
Sustainability
This focus area helps you develop effective policies for designing, implementing, and evaluating new or existing sustainable practices within an organization and building sustainable business growth.