Diverse Leadership Certificate at eSpelman

Diverse Leadership

Program Overview

Are you interested in a leadership certificate program that expands your skills to effectively lead diverse workplace teams? Employers are placing greater emphasis on managers who are able to motivate, engage and energize teams to innovate and produce successful results. Learn these sought-after skills in eSpelman's Diverse Leadership Certificate.

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This online certificate captures the elements of Spelman College’s signature African Diaspora & The World Program in a completely online format specifically for the adult learner. Our ADW faculty created this program to expand leadership skills from the lens of African Diaspora concepts for immediate impact on workplace interactions. African Diaspora concepts are derived within a global context and from interdisciplinary and gender-informed perspectives.

What You'll Learn

• Examine personal awareness and perceptions of identity, implicit biases, microaggressions, systemic, structural and strategic racism, classism, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, age, intersectionality, ableism and their impact on workplace interactions
• Investigate structural and systemic oppression, especially as it relates to privilege and power and its impact on current workplace interactions
• Develop/discover strategies to improve workplace interactions
• Identify and explain how communities of the African diaspora have shaped the modern world
• Examine, interrogate and deconstruct dominant knowledge systems about Africa and its diasporas