Certificate in Executive Leadership Development Online

Strengthen your leadership competencies and qualify for high-level roles in a wide range of industries. This executive program gives you immediately applicable expertise and prepares you to pursue an MBA.

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Program Overview

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Advance your career with a leadership certificate

Learn how to lead, manage, and improve organizations, teams, and processes in the Certificate in Executive Leadership Development program online. This accelerated program gives you valuable leadership strategies while strengthening your critical-thinking, decision-making, and communication skills.

Courses are 100% online and cover broad topics such as leadership theories, organizational structure, conflict management, and creativity and innovation in the workplace. Learn how to facilitate achievement of corporate objectives through improved presentation skills and constructive performance appraisals. This is a great addition to the MBA concentration of your choice as leadership skills are always in demand. Or, if you choose to pursue an MBA at a later time, credit hours can transfer into an MBA online program.

In this certificate program, you will:

  • Understand how to incorporate proven leadership theories into your personal style of management
  • Gain skills needed for effective organizational development in conflict management, leadership, and presentation
  • Utilize innovation and creativity to improve organizational effectiveness and solve problems
  • Design effective conflict management systems based on employee participation
In this certificate program, you will:+
  • Understand how to incorporate proven leadership theories into your personal style of management
  • Gain skills needed for effective organizational development in conflict management, leadership, and presentation
  • Utilize innovation and creativity to improve organizational effectiveness and solve problems
  • Design effective conflict management systems based on employee participation

Career opportunities in executive leadership:

  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Chief Information Officer
  • Chief Marketing Officer
  • Chief Strategy Officer
  • Leadership Development Consultant
  • Nonprofit Executive Director
Career opportunities in executive leadership:+
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Chief Information Officer
  • Chief Marketing Officer
  • Chief Strategy Officer
  • Leadership Development Consultant
  • Nonprofit Executive Director

Also available:

Avila University offers a variety of certificate programs online. If you’re interested in pursuing a master’s degree, all credit hours from the Certificate – Executive Leadership Development transfer to our online MBA in Executive Leadership.

$6,500 Total Tuition
As few as 8 months Duration
13 Credit Hours

Personalized learning experience

You will receive a personalized learning experience online. Faculty regularly engages in value-added comments and feedback providing the same level of instruction as if you were in person.

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Tuition

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Benefit from the value of our high-quality programs

The Certificate – Executive Leadership Development online program tuition is the same affordable, pay-as-you-go rate for all U.S. residents. Fees are included in the total tuition, and financial aid may be available.

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Program Per Credit Hour Per Course Per Program
Executive Leadership Development Certificate $500 $1,500 $6,500

Tuition breakdown:

$6,500 Total Tuition
$500 Per Credit Hour

Calendar

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Mark your calendar for our next start date

Ideal for working professionals, the Executive Leadership Development Certificate online program features 8-week courses and multiple start dates each year so you can begin at the time that works best for you. View the full calendar for all upcoming starts and corresponding deadlines.

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TermStart DateApp DeadlineDocument DeadlineRegistration DeadlineTuition DeadlineClass End DateTerm Length
Spring 1 20251/6/251/2/251/2/251/3/251/6/253/2/258 weeks
Spring 2 20253/3/252/26/252/26/252/28/253/3/255/4/258 weeks

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1/6/25 Class Starts

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Admissions

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We’ve simplified the admission process for this leadership program

We’ve simplified the admission process to help you get started quickly and easily. You can find all requirements for admission to the Avila Certificate in Executive Leadership Development program below.

Admission Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Minimum 2.5 GPA
  • No GRE or GMAT required
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In order to be eligible to receive a Certificate – Executive Leadership Development from Avila University, you must have the following:

  • Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution
  • GPA requirements for unconditional admission: 2.75 cumulative grade point average at the completion of the undergraduate degree
  • GPA requirements for conditional admission: 2.5 cumulative grade point average at the completion of the undergraduate degree
    • Students admitted conditionally must achieve a 3.0 GPA on the first nine credits in their program of study
  • Official transcripts from all institutions previously attended

Submit all official transcripts to:

Email: [email protected]
Mail: Avila University
11901 Wornall Road
Kansas City, MO 64145

Courses

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Gain new insights with these leadership courses

In order to earn the executive leadership development graduate certificate online, you will complete five courses for a total of 13 credit hours. There are no leveling courses or prerequisites required.

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MG 685 is a 16-week course and must be taken during the last two courses of the program. MG 685 is offered during the first session of each term.

Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course focuses on the interpersonal communication and leadership skills needed for effective organizational development. The course emphasizes conflict management, presentation skills, and informal writing, as well as important leadership skills ranging from giving and receiving feedback to performance appraisals. The course is designed as a “train the trainers” course, enabling learners to later pass on skills to consulting clients, co-workers, and employees.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course will examine fundamental questions about the role of creativity and innovation in leadership and organization development. The course links creativity and innovation to the organization development practices and human resource programs including recruiting, staffing, benefits, compensation, and organization development interventions. Students discuss the importance of creativity and innovation for individuals, teams/groups, and organizations as a whole. The course will also examine the connection of creativity and innovation to problem solving, diversity, and organizational effectiveness.

Course objectives:

  • Students will be able to discuss the role of creativity and innovation at the individual, group and organizational level
  • Students will be able to identify ways that creativity and innovation can be used in problem solving, human resources, teams, diversity, and organizational effectiveness
  • Students will be able to identify and apply appropriate terminology, facts, concepts, principles, analytic techniques and theories from the innovation and creativity course
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course focuses on conflict management programs in the workplace. It emphasizes the design and development of conflict management systems for organizations. This course applies Organizational Development theory and action research to a systems approach for handling workplace conflict. Attentions is paid to how conflict is handled in the workplace, in order to design conflict management systems that employees participate in to manage conflict at work.

Course objectives:

  • Understand the principal theories of conflict and effects on organizations
  • Understand the organizational dynamics occurring on a systemic level and be able to develop concrete interventions that address these
  • Be able to integrate principals of conflict management systems and leadership into real organizations
  • Be able to gather and analyze evidence of conflict in organizations and identify dispute resolution options
  • Be able to evaluate organizational dynamics and develop concrete interventions
  • Be able to develop implementation plans for conflict management systems for organizations
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This is a course about leadership theory specifically in the context of management and organizations. In this course, you will survey the broad spectrum of leadership theories and the research that led toward the theoretical conclusions. You will learn to appreciate the strength of the theories but understand the limitations so that as practitioners you can apply your own set of principles based on what we do know about leadership.

Course objectives:

  • Develop knowledge of the models for analyzing leadership behavior and leadership effectiveness
  • Be able to integrate theoretical foundations of leadership to real leadership situations
  • Be able to synthesize various theories into guiding leadership principles that are applicable in modern organizations
Duration: 16 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 1
This course is designed to provide direction for students as they complete their electronic Professional Portfolio. Content from all courses in the program will be included. Students will have the opportunity to present their Professional Portfolio to industry experts. This course is a 16-week course that may be broken out into 2 8-week sessions indicated by Part A and B. If a student fails any one part of the course, both parts must be retaken.

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