13%
Projected rate of growth until 2022 for organization development jobs
Source: Monster.com
Source: Monster.com
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Graduate Certificate in Transformational Change & Organization Development
Learn to Lead Transformational, Strategic Change
In the Transformational Change and Organization Development Graduate Certificate program, you’ll learn a variety of change methodologies and solutions, and hone your ability to design and implement complex and systems-wide projects. Prepare to partner with executive management to identify issues and drive improvement to support organizational goals. After this program, you’ll be able to create a clear case for change and clarify desired outcomes, accurate scope, strategies, activities and decision-making roles.
To ensure you learn the most relevant, applicable strategies, we created our curriculum in partnership with employers, alumni and professionals with expertise and experience in strategically developing organizations and leading structural change projects.
Earn the Graduate Certificate in Transformational Change and Organization Development on its own or as part of your St. Thomas MBA. Designed for busy working professionals, this program allows you take weekly in-person courses in the evening, or hybrid classes with both in-class and online learning.
12%
Predicted rate of growth from 2016 to 2026 for Management Analysts
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
10th
The Twin Cities, Minnesota currently employs the 10th most management analysts in the U.S.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Program Overview
Format & Schedule
The Graduate Certificate in Transformational Change and Organization Development has both required and elective courses that you can complete at your own pace. Take one or more evening courses per term to earn your certificate while you work. You can also earn the certificate as you pursue an MBA from St. Thomas.
Students are required to earn 15 – 16.5 credits:
- 1 prerequisite course
- 3 required courses
- 1 elective course
- 1 professional effectiveness course
Admission Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in any subject
- Application form and essay
- 2 years’ work experience recommended. Related professional experience is valuable, but not required
Degree Programs
Consider applying your graduate certificate courses and credits to a St. Thomas MBA program. Earning both a graduate degree and a graduate certificate is a great way to get ahead in your career. Not sure if you want a graduate degree? You have time to mull it over. Start the graduate certificate program now and roll your credits into a degree program later if you want to.
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Career Impact
Earn this graduate certificate and meet the growing demand for professionals with organization development expertise. Show current and future employers that you can help their companies grow.
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Format & Schedule
The Graduate Certificate in Transformational Change and Organization Development has both required and elective courses that you can complete at your own pace. Take one or more evening courses per term to earn your certificate while you work. You can also earn the certificate as you pursue an MBA from St. Thomas.
Students are required to earn 15 – 16.5 credits:
- 1 prerequisite course
- 3 required courses
- 1 elective course
- 1 professional effectiveness course
Admission Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in any subject
- Application form and essay
- 2 years’ work experience recommended. Related professional experience is valuable, but not required
Degree Programs
Consider applying your graduate certificate courses and credits to a St. Thomas MBA program. Earning both a graduate degree and a graduate certificate is a great way to get ahead in your career. Not sure if you want a graduate degree? You have time to mull it over. Start the graduate certificate program now and roll your credits into a degree program later if you want to.
See Degrees and Programs
Career Impact
Earn this graduate certificate and meet the growing demand for professionals with organization development expertise. Show current and future employers that you can help their companies grow.
See Career Impact
Featured Courses
Leading Organizational Change
In this course we’ll look at major world and societal changes that contribute to change in organizations, review the major theories that try to explain change, and explore diagnostic tools and actions needed to facilitate and implement change. You will learn to be a more successful manager by recognizing your personal capacities to direct and experience organizational change.
Organizational Development
In this required course, gain experience in applying a variety of OD approaches to real-world business problems and to your own organizational experiences. Equipped with knowledge of current and evolving practices in organization development, learn first-hand how to effectively build diagnostic models based on data gathering and analysis. Design a variety of intervention strategies and activities that result in successful and sustainable outcomes at the individual, group and organizational levels.
Consulting and Partnering
Learn to help organizations address the problems and opportunities they face in meeting their mission, strategies, and goals. Explore how to integrate your own perspectives with the experience of the client system, while effectively managing the consulting process during the important phases of a project. Explore ethical practice, building strong helping relationships, holding difficult conversations, mitigating risk, and understanding the notion of using the “self as an instrument of change.”
Featured Faculty: Rama Hart
Dr. Rama Hart has spent the past 20 years as an educator and consultant in the areas of leadership and organization development, virtual team collaboration and communication and management consulting. She has consulted with many nonprofit and Fortune 100 organizations, helping them apply innovative approaches to leadership and team development, strategic visioning and planning, and organizational change.
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