Project Description
Inclusive leadership is critical to all organizations in today’s global economy.
Inclusive leadership is key to leveraging the power of diverse teams as businesses compete for increasingly diverse markets, customers, and talent. The Inclusive Leadership Certificate prepares individuals to lead high-performing groups and to champion diversity, equity, and inclusion in their organizations.
This certificate is designed to help current and future leaders gain a more comprehensive understanding of workplace diversity and how a leader’s conduct affects the self-confidence and job performance of fellow employees. Experienced faculty from the Kelley School will help you identify specific strategies to increase inclusive leadership competencies and organizational effectiveness.
Inclusive Leadership Online Certificate
Format: Online program comprising four courses. Each course begins the first full week of the month and runs for three consecutive weeks. Students will attend all four courses to earn the certificate. The program includes a weekly 90-minute live session with faculty and all students. These sessions are recorded and posted for those who may not be able to attend.
Estimated Time Commitment: Three to four hours per week including the weekly live session.
Flexible Pricing: All four courses taken together cost $3,200. Take advantage of special offers and pricing.
- 25% off for early registrants! Receive 25% off certificate and individual courses when you register and pay 30 days prior to class start. Use code EARLYBIRD at checkout.
- 35% off for IU faculty, staff, and alumni
- 50% off for Kelley School of Business alumni
- Discounts are also available for Kelley School of Business staff and faculty. Contact Trudi at tkessle@iu.edu or complete the form for promotional codes.
Upcoming Dates:
Summer: June 7 through September 17
New benefits for Kelley alumni!
People who earn this online leadership certificate will:
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of workforce diversity and how the quality of a leader’s inclusive/exclusive conduct affects employees’ self-confidence, quality of effort, achievement, motivation, and job performance
- Become more conscious of hidden biases, and learn how to diminish or eliminate them from their leadership behaviors
- Understand the knowledge, skills, and competencies needed to develop as an inclusive leader
- Identify specific strategies to increase inclusive leadership competencies and organizational effectiveness
- Apply inclusive leadership concepts to self, teams, and the organization
Integrated Curriculum for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
The Kelley School of Business is nationally recognized for its innovative online programs. This 12-week program is delivered by full-time faculty members from the #1–ranked Kelley Direct Online MBA Program (Poets&Quants, 2021).
This certificate will require three to four hours of work per week, half of which will consist of a live synchronous session. The program is designed to have maximum career impact and does not end with the last day of class.
The curriculum is divided into four three-week courses. Each course begins the first full week of the month and runs for three consecutive weeks.
In this course, you will learn about the business case for diversity and inclusion, the dimensions of diversity, and the traits of an inclusive leader. You will be asked to assess your own openness and unconscious biases and gain insights into your strengths and opportunities for targeted growth on selected inclusive leadership skill dimensions. You’ll learn to value differences, challenge false assumptions, and begin to exercise moral courage.
In this course, you will learn to develop skills for one-on-one inclusion strategies, including emotional intelligence, active listening, courage, humility, and curiosity. You’ll learn how to improve your cross-cultural competence and will learn the role that trust, fairness, and consistency play in an inclusive mindset.
In this course, you will learn to lead high-performing inclusive teams, relying on principles such as empowerment, accountability, and collaboration. You’ll learn why team members engage and how to recognize patterns of disengagement. We’ll also discuss the role that mentorships, sponsorship programs, and affinity groups play in developing inclusive teams.
This final capstone course will focus on the practical application of inclusive leadership skills. You will choose a relevant project that enables you to use the principles learned in these courses to improve diversity and inclusion practices in your own organization. Projects may address talent acquisition and retention strategy, succession planning, increasing diverse engagement on projects, increasing diversity and inclusion efforts in marketing strategy or supplier diversity efforts, creating sponsorships/mentorships/affinity groups, conducting an employee engagement survey and recommending resulting actions, etc. You’ll receive one-on-one faculty coaching as you design and execute this project.
Meet the Instructors
Carolyn Goerner is the ALDI, Inc. Distinguished I-Core Clinical Professor. She joined the Kelley School of Business in 2000 after receiving her PhD in management and human resources at The Ohio State University. She has undergraduate degrees in philosophy and religion from Kean University in New Jersey, and a master’s in speech communication from Indiana University. At IU, Carolyn earned numerous teaching awards including the IU Student Choice Award and the Trustees’ Teaching Award. Carolyn was a human resource management consultant for 10 years prior to graduate school. She teaches Strategic Human Resource Management in the Undergraduate Integrated Core, or I-Core, at the Kelley School. She also teaches negotiation to MBA students and a variety of Executive Education courses including negotiation, influence without authority, managing generational differences, and women in leadership. Her research on mentoring has been published in leading academic journals. Carolyn is passionate about live theater, IndyCar racing, and the Green Bay Packers. She lives in Greenwood, Indiana, with her husband, Peter, and their dogs, Lennox and Charlotte.
Charlotte Westerhaus-Renfrow is an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Management at the Kelley School of Business in Indianapolis. Charlotte holds a law degree from the Maurer School of Law at Indiana University Bloomington, and MEd and BS degrees from Ohio University. Her previous senior leadership experience includes facilitating solutions to human relations problems and creating professional development programs at the National Collegiate Athletic Association, University of Iowa, Purdue University, and Rockwell Collins. An important element of Charlotte’s own consulting is helping organizations, leaders, and teams develop and implement effective and strategic negotiation skills. In addition, she has years of experience designing and delivering training seminars in leadership, team dynamics, cultural competency, and diversity and inclusion strategies that create positive and productive organizational change. Charlotte’s high energy, wealth of expertise, and ability to connect with audiences of all ages and stages of their careers result in stellar audience evaluations and comments, such as "engaging," "thought-provoking," and "dynamic." Charlotte is a regular contributor to professional periodicals, such as the Indiana Business Journal, Hamilton County Business Magazine, Inside INdiana Business, and Indianapolis Recorder. She has blogged for Fast Company and Ladders. She also serves on the Indiana State Bar Association’s Board of Governors and the Indiana State Board of Law Examiners.Contact Us
Questions about this program? Please complete the form or call us at 812-389-0933.