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User Experience (UX) Professional Certificate

$4,750

with UX Design Institute

Calendar Aug 1, 2024

Online, new cohorts start every month.

Build your UX career with a globally recognized, industry-approved qualification. Get the mindset, the confidence, and the skills that make UX designers so valuable.

In this online program you will be able to:

  • Build a rewarding career in UX
  • Learn to think like a UX designer
  • Build confidence in essential UX concepts
  • Get job-ready skills and a professional portfolio

Modules:

  1. Introduction to UX
  2. User research
  3. Analysis techniques
  4. Structure and navigation 
  5. Interactions
  6. Design principles
  7. Design patterns
  8. Mobile UX
  9. Workflows
  10. Prototyping and handover

UX Design Institute is responsible for the online delivery and support of the program

User Interface (UI) Professional Certificate

$2,250

with UX Design Institute

Calendar Aug 1, 2024

Online, New cohorts start every month.

Become a certified UI designer, and learn the principles, techniques, and craft of designing high-quality user interfaces. Create beautiful, pixel-perfect user interfaces and build an in-demand skill set for one of the fastest-growing professions.

This course is suited to anybody interested in designing beautiful interfaces for digital products. Our students are:

  • Graphic designers and digital designers who want to upskill to UI design
  • UI designers who want to strengthen their knowledge and craft
  • UX professionals who want to become more rounded product designers
  • Anybody with a design background looking for a creative job in tech

Course Overview

Throughout the program, you will build your professional UI portfolio using industry tools such Figma, Adobe XD, and Sketch.

Modules:

  1. Introduction to UI design
  2. Brand and personality
  3. Layout
  4. Design principles
  5. Interactivity
  6. Typography
  7. Color, shapes, and effects
  8. Iconography and imagery
  9. Design process
  10. Presenting designs
Data Analytics for Institutional Research Professionals
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Data Analytics for Institutional Research Professionals

$995

with Scott Moore and Dave Eubanks

Calendar Feb 3, 2025 at 3 pm

This certificate program unlocks the power of automation by showing how to convert work done in spreadsheets to using scripts that can be easily read, executed, and shared. This change unlocks a “do it once” workflow that frees analysts to focus on improvements, automation, and more in-depth analysis instead of rote tasks. The written instructions of the script are created in an intuitive language to precisely describe operations like selecting, filtering, renaming, grouping, and summarizing rows and columns of data—all using free statistical software.

We will be using the R software package because, compared to using Excel, you will be more efficient, you will be better equipped to work with large data sets, you will be able to create better & more complete reports, your graphics will be more explanatory, and your reports will be better structured, more repeatable, and more informative.

This course is the beginning of your path to get from spreadsheets to scripting—we will use the language of spreadsheets (rows, columns, filtering, data lookup, etc.) to introduce and explain. The workshop is interactive and applied, focusing on IR problems common to universities, such as admissions, retention, learning effectiveness, and diversity. Each week unlocks new abilities and ideas you can use right away. 

Intrapreneurial Professional Certificate

$4,995
Calendar Mar 28, 2025 at 8:30 am, runs for 8 weeks

Unlock your potential as an innovative leader within your organization by earning the Intrapreneurial Professional Certificate. This 8-week program is designed for professionals eager to cultivate the entrepreneurial mindset within their existing corporate environment. Through a blend of theory, hands-on exercises, and collaborative workshops, participants will learn the essential skills needed to drive innovation, lead impactful projects, and foster a culture of creativity and growth.

Key topics include:

  • Identifying and nurturing new business opportunities
  • Leading innovative projects from concept to execution
  • Design thinking, lean startup and Agile management techniques
  • Building stakeholder support and navigating corporate structures
  • Measuring and scaling innovative initiatives

By the end of the course, participants will have developed an intrapreneurial project with focused strategies for growth, positioning themselves as drivers of change in their organizations.

This course is ideal for mid- to senior-level professionals who are ready to advance their skills in innovation, leadership, and strategic thinking. 

Learn more from our website here.

Better Conversations Every Day™

$1,350
Calendar Apr 17, 2025 at 8:30 am

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Better Culture Starts with Better Conversations

The culture of your organization is more powerful than your strategy and more persistent than your vision. It’s the environment that enables performance or undermines it.

Better Conversations Every Day™ (BCE) starts with a simple — yet transformative — premise: that better culture starts with better conversations.

No matter the size of your organization, BCE helps drive business outcomes and create lasting change. Uniquely created for everyone and every single conversation — from the front desk to the corner office — BCE’s impact transcends that of a typical coaching skills program. This scalable, one-day experience creates a common mindset, skillset, and language and equips leaders with the tools to break down communication barriers and bring your business strategy to life.

Everyone wants better outcomes. Build them on a foundation of better conversations.

Here’s what Better Conversations Every Day can do:

  • Drive culture change at scale
  • Break down silos and communication barriers
  • Unlock employee engagement
  • Accelerate emotional intelligence at every level
  • Address issues with openness and respect
  • Transform performance management with everyday conversations that matter
  • Ignite a feedback-rich coaching culture

Imagine a workforce with the courage and skill to unearth truth, grapple with difficult issues, unlock collaboration, and create a liberating space for discovery and action — in real-time, while doing real work.

Payment plan available: $395 deposit plus 5 payments of $191.00, paid weekly.

AI Jumpstart: From Curiosity to Clarity

$495

with Center for Innovative Leadership

Calendar Apr 28, 2025 at 8:30 am

This interactive half-day workshop is designed for professionals eager to understand and leverage AI in their work. You'll move from curiosity to clarity as we demystify AI concepts, explore practical applications, and empower you with tools to start integrating AI into your daily tasks and decision-making. Whether you're an AI novice or just starting to explore its potential, this session provides a foundational understanding and actionable steps to confidently embrace the possibilities of AI.

Refreshments will be provided.

Payment plan available: $195 deposit plus 3 payments of $100.00, paid every two weeks.

Lead 4 Success®

$1,995

with Clemson Turregano

Calendar May 12, 2025 at 8:30 am

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Equip people at all levels of the organization to master the fundamentals of leadership.

Lead 4 Success® moves leaders from average to high-performing by developing the 4 fundamental leadership skills — self-awareness, learning agility, influence, and communication — that leaders at any level need to master for success.

The importance of developing fundamental leadership skills cannot be understated. No matter their intelligence, experience, or drive, leaders at every level need the same 4 core skills to be effective and grow within an organization. 

  • Self-awareness: Understand your behavior’s impact on organizational outcomes
  • Communication: Effectively communicate goals and inspire trust
  • Influence: Be comfortable persuading, promoting, and delegating
  • Learning agility: Know when to change course, and help others to do so

The Fundamental 4 have endured the test of time, and are the basis for our Lead 4 Success® program, where participants immerse themselves in development, adapt these skills to their own leadership contexts, participate with peers in learning, and share ideas to apply to their leadership lessons to their real world. 

Payment plan available: $495 deposit plus 8 payments of $166.66, paid weekly. Final payment of $166.72.

Data Analytics for Institutional Research Professionals 101

$995

with Scott Moore and Dave Eubanks

Calendar Jun 2, 2025 at 3 pm

This certificate program unlocks the power of automation by showing how to convert work done in spreadsheets to using scripts that can be easily read, executed, and shared. This change unlocks a “do it once” workflow that frees analysts to focus on improvements, automation, and more in-depth analysis instead of rote tasks. The written instructions of the script are created in an intuitive language to precisely describe operations like selecting, filtering, renaming, grouping, and summarizing rows and columns of data—all using free statistical software.

We will be using the R software package because, compared to using Excel, you will be more efficient, you will be better equipped to work with large data sets, you will be able to create better & more complete reports, your graphics will be more explanatory, and your reports will be better structured, more repeatable, and more informative.

This course is the beginning of your path to get from spreadsheets to scripting—we will use the language of spreadsheets (rows, columns, filtering, data lookup, etc.) to introduce and explain. The workshop is interactive and applied, focusing on IR problems common to universities, such as admissions, retention, learning effectiveness, and diversity. Each week unlocks new abilities and ideas you can use right away. 

Live sessions will be held every week.

Payment plan available: $225 deposit plus 11 payments of $64.16, paid weekly. Final payment of $64.24.




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