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YOU are made to be a leader

Emerging Leaders Bootcamp

Jumpstart your leadership journey with the clarity, confidence, and hands-on leadership skills that help you influence others, navigate your organization, and emerge as a great leader.

Take action on your leadership potential

If you are an emerging or early career professional ready to take on more responsibility, the Emerging Leaders Program will help you build the confidence and skills to lead effectively. Many new leaders want to contribute at a higher level but struggle to navigate tough conversations, support others, or influence work without a formal title. This program gives you practical tools and real-world examples that strengthen your impact, expand your influence, and help you show up as a stronger leader on your team.

  • Program Details
  • What You'll Learn
  • Program Details

    Program Format: In Person

    Cost: $4550

    CEUs (Continuing Education Units): 3.5

    Length of Program: 35 Contact Hours

    Program Structure: Meets 5 times from 8am - 4pm

    Upcoming Sessions:

    What You'll Learn

    • Strengthen your self-awareness so you can lead with clarity and confidence
    • Practice the skills needed to guide and support others in real work scenarios
    • Learn how to navigate your organization, build relationships, and influence across teams
    • Gain tools to run meetings, manage conversations, and move projects forward
    • Build the confidence to make decisions, communicate effectively, and lead with integrity
    • Apply your learning directly to challenges and opportunities in your current role

    Case studies, simulations, group discussions, and real-world exercises give you opportunities to practice your new leadership skills, so you’re well prepared to use them at work. There are no prerequisites for this program.

    Program Details

    Program Format: In Person

    Cost: $4550

    CEUs (Continuing Education Units): 3.5

    Length of Program: 35 Contact Hours

    Program Structure: Meets 5 times from 8am - 4pm

    Upcoming Sessions:

    What You'll Learn

    • Strengthen your self-awareness so you can lead with clarity and confidence
    • Practice the skills needed to guide and support others in real work scenarios
    • Learn how to navigate your organization, build relationships, and influence across teams
    • Gain tools to run meetings, manage conversations, and move projects forward
    • Build the confidence to make decisions, communicate effectively, and lead with integrity
    • Apply your learning directly to challenges and opportunities in your current role

    Case studies, simulations, group discussions, and real-world exercises give you opportunities to practice your new leadership skills, so you’re well prepared to use them at work. There are no prerequisites for this program.

    Program Benefits

    Leave the program with the skills to be a successful leader, including:

    Build Relationships and Influence

    Gain respect from all areas of your company. Increase your personal awareness. Understand how you lead and how others perceive your actions.

    Lead with Confidence

    Managing will always have its challenges, but our program strengthens your ability to make difficult decisions.

    Delegate and Differentiate

    It’s essential to be able to delegate tasks, so you can focus your key leadership responsibilities. Establish yourself as a unique leader who can overcome challenges, empower their team, and drive successful outcomes.

    The Learning Experience

    Learn how the program builds your skills across self-awareness, leading others, understanding organizations, and guiding real work.

    You will deepen your self-awareness, clarify your values, and build the personal integrity and grounding needed to lead with confidence and purpose.


    You will learn how to work effectively with diverse teams, coach and develop others, navigate challenging conversations, and build strong professional relationships.


    You will explore how organizations function, identify cultural and structural barriers, and learn to build relationships across teams to move work forward.


    You will practice essential skills for leading projects and initiatives, from running effective meetings to communicating clearly, managing change, and leveraging technology.


    You will bring together insights about yourself, others, your organization, and your work to apply your learning to real-world leadership challenges and opportunities.


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    Is This Program Right For You?

    This program is ideal for new leaders, or those who went from a strong individual contributor to a leader of a group without much formal leadership training.

    • First-time Manager
    • New Middle Manager
    • Front line Manager
    • Branch Manager
    • Supervisor
    • Team Leader
    • Project Manager
    • Management Analyst
    • New Senior Manager or Director
    • Functional Managers, i.e. Operations, Marketing, Sales, R&D, Finance, IT, HR

    Take the Next Step

    St. Thomas Executive Education programs give you cutting-edge, practical knowledge and real-world skills you can apply at work the very next day. Gain the tools and techniques to be a more effective, strategic leader.
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