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Does your leadership approach inspire positive change?
Participating in Naropa University’s Authentic Leadership Certificate Program will provide you with a powerful experience of personal and professional transformation, combining ancient wisdom with modern, effective approaches to leadership.
The coursework utilizes practical theory, skill building and real-world application to foster in-depth practical, professional and personal development.
Whether you head-up your own small business, manage a department, or direct a local initiative, good leadership practices can mean the difference between mediocre results, or actions that produce astounding and positive outcomes. Yet, leaders today face a rapidly changing world with greater demands, rapidly challenging circumstances and broad cultural implications. These factors require a new way of viewing problems, creative approaches and integrated whole-world thinking.
Authentic leaders are comfortable with complexity and look for opportunities to partner with individuals and groups to address organizational, societal and environmental issues. They foster innovation and help their organizations discover unique and creative solutions to questions such as:
- How can we nurture ourselves and our teams in the midst of turbulent and divisive change?
- How can we create resilient organizations that innovate and renew, yet respect their environment?
- How can we achieve bottom-line results while fostering a culture of trust and collaboration?
The qualities of authentic leadership are not only developed and honed through experience, but from exposure to new ideas and approaches through continuing education.
Benefits of the Authentic Leadership Program
- Increase effectiveness with organizational issues
- Find well-being and meaning in your work
- Gain skills and confidence in leading change
- Energize and empower your organization
- Balance work and life commitments
- Participate in a vital learning community
- Integrate core values and performance
Whether you work in a business, government, NGO or nonprofit, or as an independent coach or consultant, the Authentic Leadership Program at Naropa will provoke a profound shift in your perception of the world and of your own capabilities as a leader. By cultivating awareness, insight and confidence, and practicing powerful methods that foster positive engagement with others, you can broaden your ability to respond creatively to change, and act effectively in a variety of leadership situations.
Program Format
The Authentic Leadership Certificate Program spans 16 weeks of combined classroom and online instruction. The coursework blends the best of Western leadership practices with the wisdom of Eastern contemplative traditions, providing a transforming experience encouraging deep, personal learning, fast assimilation of conceptual models and practical application to use in the workplace.
Online instruction allows participants to download readings, share ideas and participate at their own pace from anywhere in the world. Onsite sessions provide in-depth instruction and practice of authentic leadership skills through coaching, helping participants integrate and apply their learning. Leadership coaching helps participants integrate and apply their learning. The format consists of:
- Sixteen weeks of internet-based instruction
- Two five-day on-site seminars in Boulder, Colorado
- Five individual sessions with professional leadership coaches
- Online interaction with instructors and colleagues
- Action-learning projects in the workplace
- Teleconferences with coaches and colleagues
Topics
- Authenticity, self-reflection and personal mastery
- Skillful conversation and conflict resolution
- Collaboration, decision making and teamwork
- Power, influence and empowerment
- Leading organizational change
With more than 400 alumni, the program continues to grow and expand, incorporating concepts and practices from business, human development and leadership authors including: Juanita Brown, Pema Chödrön, Jim Collins, Glenda Eyong, Bill George, Mark Gerzon, Daniel Goleman, Joe Jaworski, Adam Kahane, Robert Kegan, Fred Kofman, John Kotter, Lisa Laskow Lahey, Sakyong Mipham, Julio Olalla, Otto Scharmer, Peter Senge, , Chögyam Trungpa, Ken Wilber, Meg Wheatley and Brenda Zimmerman.
2012 Dates and Location
Online Program: January 17– May 7, 2012
Onsite 1: January 30–February 3, 2012
Onsite 2: April 16–20, 2012
Sessions occur at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado
Professional Development Tuition
General Tuition: $4,800*
This certificate program can be taken for credit (see below) or for non-credit/certificate only. Multiple participants from the same organization receive a 10% discount on tuition. If a participant selects to take the program for non-credit they cannot switch to credit at a later date.
Please download and send in the program application.
* Travel, lodging and food are not included. Multiple discounts and/or scholarships do not apply.
Scholarships: Some partial scholarships are available each year for students taking the program for noncredit. Please download and send in the scholarship application.
Graduate Credit Tuition: $5,750 (includes tuition, materials fee and tech fee)*
This program may also be taken for 6 graduate credits (MAR500e, 6 credits). Documentation is available for corporate tuition reimbursement programs and for bank loan programs. Naropa University is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association. Please download the program application.
* Travel, lodging and food are not included. Discounts and scholarships do not apply if taking the program for credit.
Non-Credit vs. Graduate Credit
Taking a class non-credit means that you are not responsible for fulfilling the academic requirements for the class and you are not graded for your participation. As a result, you will not nor will you be able to in the future, receive academic credit for your participation should you choose to enroll non-credit now. It is not possible to "upgrade" a non-credit class in order to receive academic credit.
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