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Forge your path as a manager and leader with FIU Executive Education’s Certificate of Mastery in Business Management. With robust general management training and executive leadership development, our mastery program equips you with the essential analytical and leadership skills you need to thrive in today’s competitive business environment and take your management career to the next level.

With a high-impact and targeted learning experience, the mastery program transforms organizational leaders. Make decisions and take strategic action based on both traditional and innovative business practices. Stand out and build skills and awareness to realize your potential with the following program of study:

Who will Benefit

High potential, low-to-mid level managers poised to step into top management roles and beyond.

Learning Objectives

  • Sharpen your diagnostic skills for management problem-solving and thinking like a manager.
  • Master the basics of formulating and implementing strategy.
  • Understand overall planning and goal-setting processes.
  • Ace managerial and strategic decision making.
  • Manage quality and performance.
  • Build successful teams in a people-driven workplace.
  • Understand the technologies shaping management to lead in the age of AI.
  • Shape a high-performance culture as an innovative response to an ever-changing environment.
  • Understand the external realities and the internal drivers that generate change.
  • Discover how trust, credibility, and respect work together and how they contribute to your ability to lead.
  • Apply Project Management best practices to enable adaptability and efficiency.
  • Master the art of persuasion by developing exceptional communication skills.

General Information/Custom Programs: FIU Business Executive Education can create custom training programs specific to the needs of your organization. Please connect with us by submitting the inquiry form below or contact us 305.348.4217 or fiuExecEd@fiu.edu.

Forge your path as a manager and leader with FIU Executive Education’s Certificate of Mastery in Business Management.

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Your program fee includes:

  • Digital access to educational materials
  • Digital access to FIU-proprietary instructional resources
  • Florida International University College of Business Certificate of Mastery

Schedule

Start anytime and earn your Certificate of Mastery in 9 months or less:

  • Mastering Management and Change Management are delivered fully online, self-paced and available year-round. Complete each course individually or at the same time in 4 months or less.
  • Management Leadership is delivered via Zoom livestream, instructor led. We encourage taking this course while enrolled in any of the above courses: Management Leadership is offered three times a year. Next cohort: September 17 to October 17, 2024.

Topics

  • Planning and goal-setting processes
  • Diagnostic skills for management problem-solving
  • Designing organization structure
  • Managing quality and performance
  • Managing human talent and diversity
  • Understanding individual behavior
  • Understand essential elements concerning operations and information technology and AI
  • Building high-performance teams and motivating employees
  • Understanding and diagnosing organizational change
  • Implementing sustainable practices for dealing with change
  • Becoming an effective change manager
  • Developing personal leadership
  • Becoming a strategic decision maker
  • Trust, credibility, and respect
  • The Art of Persuasion: Communication to Lead

Financial Assistance & Discounts

FIU Executive Education programs are designed to enhance your management skills and boost your career success. Because our certificate programs are non-credit and do not lead to a degree, they do not qualify for traditional student financial aid. However, financial assistance is available in a variety of methods:

  • Private student loans are available for our programs through SallieMae. We strongly recommend participants submit their loan application at least eight (8) weeks prior to the start of the program to ensure completion of the loan. 

    To apply for a SallieMae loan, please follow the steps below:

    • Notify us via email at fiuexeced@fiu.edu – Please provide your full name, telephone number and the course you wish to take.
    • Visit SallieMae SMART Option Loan to finalize your loan application process:
      • From the home page, choose “Career training student loan”
      • Under “Degree/certificate of study” choose “Certificate”
      • Under “Major/specialty” choose “Continuing Education”
    • Apply for the loan to match the exact program fee.
    • Once your loan is approved and certified, we will notify you with next steps.
    • We periodically offer special discounts via the FIU Executive Education newsletter. To sign up please register here
    • FIU Alumni, Students and Staff: 10% discount available:
      • Please email us at fiuexeced@fiu.edu prior to registering for your program, to obtain your discount code.
      • Please be sure to use your  @fiu.edu email address when registering. 
    • Group Discount for Organizations: 15% discount is available to companies and organizations registering a minimum of three (3) employees. Please contact us via email at fiuexeced@fiu.edu so we may guide you through the registration process.

  • Employer Education Benefits: Ask your employer if it provides education benefits to employees. In many cases and under certain conditions, employers may offer up to $5,250 in tuition/fee assistance to employees tax-free. For more information and latest updates, visit or ask your employer to visit this IRS web site.

    Training Grants for Employers: Employers may qualify for employee training grants from the state of Florida. These grants are used to help employers pay the cost of training and re-skilling employees. For more information, visit CareerSource Florida.

  • Check this section regularly for updates on scholarships and grants available to FIU Executive Education learners.

    PEO Program for Continuing Education: Grant of up to $3,000 to women whose education was interrupted and who now seek a degree or certificate that leads to employment.

  • For general information regarding Financial Aid (FAFSA) or the Veterans GI Bill, please contact FIU Financial Aid at onestop.fiu.edu or Veterans Affairs at veterans@fiu.edu.

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All Programs for Individuals

FIU Executive Education programs for individuals are delivered virtually by an instructor on evenings and weekends. The short programs, in such areas as human resources, project management, Lean Six Sigma, finance and more, can also be taken fully online at your own pace.

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