Micro-credentials

Professor: Dan Keating
Date:  Wednesdays, March 18 & 25, April 1
Time:  5:30 – 7:00 p.m. EDT 
Registration Deadline: March 4 

Learn to harness the practical power of generative AI and apply it directly to your role, no matter what field you’re in. Through hands-on practice, you’ll learn to use, design, and build generative AI tools to create immediate value, gaining practical strategies to integrate AI into your workflows to make smarter, faster decisions. You’ll explore the big questions surrounding AI—the moral, philosophical, and ethical challenges inherent in this new frontier. Whether you are new to Generative AI or looking to build a stronger foundation, this course will strengthen your GenAI skills and empower you to use AI tools confidently in your tasks.

Professor: Marc K. Peter
Date:  Thursdays, March 19 & 26, April 2
Time: Noon – 1:30 p.m. EDT 
Registration Deadline: March 4 

This course will provide a strategy framework centered around the seven action fields of digital transformation. It will enable participants to identify digital opportunities in their company through strategy workshops in a lean methodology and to build a digital roadmap. All participants will have access to a toolkit with templates, checklists and examples to fast-track their digital roadmap development.

With many practice examples provided throughout the course, participants will quickly gain an understanding of all relevant topics and components of a digital roadmap. Numerous established management frameworks will be adapted to the challenges and opportunities of the digital age. As part of the course, participants will be able to complete a draft digital transformation roadmap – and have a methodology and tools to immediately kick-start their own digital strategy workshop.

Professor: Liza Mohr
Date: Wednesdays, April 15, 22 & 29 
Time: 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. EDT
Registration Deadline: April 1

Learn how language-based intelligence can be integrated into business processes, products, and decision systems. Explore representative use cases and real-world case studies for generative AI in the enterprise. Design a prototype concept for a business unit or enterprise-wide Gen AI-powered solution.

Key Takeaways:

• The understanding, vocabulary, and intuition to translate business needs into Gen AI application components
• A structured framework for evaluating where and how Gen AI can be implemented in an organization
• A prototype concept tailored to your organization’s needs and context

Suggested audience:   
Designed for professionals who would like to understand and shape Gen AI initiatives without programming or data-science expertise.

Workload and deliverables:
Creation of design for prototype Gen-AI solution and supplemental readings.

Required materials? 
No

Professor: Jon Shipley
Date: Saturdays, April 11, 18 & 25 
Time:  10:00 – 11:30 a.m. EDT 
Registration Deadline: April 1

This course focuses on how leaders can guide teams from initial formation to peak performance in complex and evolving organizational contexts. The course explores key stages of team development and the leadership practices required to support teams as they grow and adapt. Drawing on Patrick Lencioni’s The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, participants will examine common challenges that undermine team effectiveness and learn practical strategies to address them. Emphasis is placed on building trust, fostering open communication, and encouraging productive conflict to support sustained collaboration. Through applied examples and real-world scenarios, learners will develop tools to lead teams through growth, change, and uncertainty. By the end of the course, participants will be equipped to strengthen alignment, accountability, and performance across their teams.

Key Takeaways:

• Identify how different stages of team development overlap and how to navigate toward performance
• Recognize how different perspectives both enrich and challenge a team
• Develop higher levels of trust and psychological safety within a team
• Facilitate conversations to develop a shared team vision

Suggested Audience: Anyone interested in being a positive influence on the various teams in their life – within work, community, school, and home. Developing leaders and strong individual contributors, especially.

Workload and deliverables:

• Students will need to read one leadership book outside of class (Patrick Lencioni’s The Five Dysfunctions of a Team) – not a hard read, and write a couple small reflections outside the class.
• We’ll have (2) quizzes on the content covered in the previous modules, with application questions included. The final class will cover the various principles contained in the book, with opportunities for people to share about their own experiences.

Required materials? 
Patrick Lencioni’s book – available on Amazon, Audible, etc.