Organizational Leadership Certificate

Choose a concentration area and prepare to lead your organization. Using courses in communication and leadership as your foundation, earn a certificate in specialties from human resources to health care to make an impact in your industry or further build on your knowledge with the Stackable MBA.

Program Overview

The Organizational Leadership Certificate prepares students who want to grow in leadership roles within their industry and organization. The concentrations within this program allow students to gain knowledge in the areas that best match each student's career goals. This certificate program prepares students with the individual and organizational leadership, and communication skills needed to take the next step in your career. With classes offered in person and online, students get a flexible schedule that allows them to complete the required 10-12 credit hours in a timely manner.

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Learning outcomes

The Organizational Leadership Certificate with an Interdisciplinary Concentration allows you to develop the leadership skills and knowledge that you need to grow as a leader in your organization, and select additional courses that meet your individual career goals and interests.

Required Coursework

Each course is 2 credit hours:

MG 6375 - Leadership (2)
MG 6008 - Managerial Communications (2)
MC 6275 - Developing Leadership in Organizations (2)

Choose a Concentration:

Interdisciplinary: Select the specific courses that match your career goals and interests. Students may select any additional graduate-level courses offered at Rockhurst University to complete the required 10 credit hours.

Healthcare: Gain knowledge in the organizational and legal environment of the healthcare industry.

Human Resources: Gain the human resources management, and conflict negotiation knowledge needed to succeed in a human resources career.

Masters of Business Administration

Rockhurst University is Kansas City's Only Private AACSB-Accredited Institution and its Helzberg School of Management develops leaders of competence and conscience. In the Helzberg Stackable MBA program, you will become that kind of leader – someone with excellent business skills, abilities and leadership traits who positively affects the world.

The Organizational Leadership Graduate Certificate requires 10 credit hours. Students may complete this as a stand-alone certificate or as one of three ”stackable” graduate certificates required for completion of the Business Administration, M.B.A.