The document describes a unique leadership program that develops culturally competent leaders through experiential learning. The program offers an Executive Masters degree, certification, and professional development courses. It aims to enhance organizations' ability to function across diverse cultures and create effective change. The program uses a cohort model meeting monthly over 21 months to provide real-world experience and skills in managing diversity, conflict, and organizational change. Graduates hold leadership roles in healthcare, universities, banking, corporations, and non-profits.

1. A Unique
Organizational Leadership
Program
Developing culturally competent
leaders to effect and sustain change
in a complex world
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2. Program Options
• Executive Masters Program
• Certification
• Professional Development Series
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3. Why “cultural competence”?
• Is change management consuming more of your
time and resources?
• In our global and rapidly changing world, are your
employees more diverse?
• Has recruitment changed, requiring more complex
skills?
• Can your managers deal effectively with culturally-
based conflict?
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4. Why “cultural competence”?
• Does your staff have the skills to work with a
more diverse set of clients?
• Do clients have expectations that your staff
doesn’t understand?
• Does your organizational culture align with
customer needs?
• Are there prospective customers you can’t reach
because of cultural issues?
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5. If you answered, “yes” to any of
those questions, you have an
opportunity.
• Leaders and managers who can successfully recruit and retain
a diverse workforce hold a clear competitive advantage.
• Cultural competence is a key factor to organizational success
– Complex problems require intellectually diverse collaborative teams to
tackle them.
– Global markets demand cross-cultural understanding.
– Four generations in the workplace succeed as they appreciate the
perspective and skill set each brings to the table
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6. The Successful Candidate:
• Minimum of 5 – 10 Years work experience
• Knowledge of organizational culture and politics
• Organizational leadership or potential
• Supervisory/management experience
• Ability to perform academic work at the Masters level
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7. Become a leader with the
ability to:
– Enhance your organization’s ability to
function successfully across diverse
cultures
– Create and sustain effective
organizational change
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8. Key Learning and Skills
• Managing group dynamics
• Understanding the social psychological foundation of
diversity
• Using organizational psychology to develop culturally
competent professionals
• Managing conflict across differences
• Diagnosing organizational issues
• Assessing, measuring and evaluating diversity interventions
• Effective facilitation of diversity issues
• Understanding the diversity issues in human resources
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9. How It Works
• Experiential learning
– Leadership coach to assist in developing your
leadership skills
– Real world experience through Field Practicum
– Multi-disciplinary faculty
• Academics
• Practitioners
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10. The Executive Masters Program
– Cohort learning community
– One 3-day weekend each month for 21
months
– 40 credit hours
– Graduation requirements (3 options):
• Comprehensive exams
• Action research in your organization
• Thesis
– Program Costs
• Under $ 24,000 (includes books, materials and
meals)
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11. Certification
– (how many weeks, is it also 3 day weekends?)
– 18 credit hours
– Program Costs
• Under $ 16,000 (includes books, materials and meals)
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12. Professional Development Series
– Courses offered (taken with Executive Masters
students)
• Organizational Change
• Diagnosing Diversity
• Assessing, Measuring & Evaluating Diversity
• Facilitating Diversity Issues
• Conflict Management Across Differences
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13. Where are our graduates?
• Healthcare • Universities
– Akron Children’s Hospital – Case Western Reserve University
– Cleveland Clinic – Cleveland State University
– Summa Health System – Cuyahoga Community College
– University Hospital – Defiance College
• Banking – Hiram
– Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland – Kent State
– Key – Ursuline
– PNC – Victory University (formerly
Crichton College)
• Corporations
– Alcoa • Non-Profits
– Eaton – Akron Urban League
– Parker-Hannifin – Cleveland Foundation
– Hospice of the Western Reserve
– NAACP
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14. Our graduates are:
• Director, Professional Development • VP of Supplier Diversity
• Business Process Leader • Manager of Recruitment and
• National Institute of Health Retention
Researcher • Psychologist
• Director of Community Services • Director of Financial Aid
• Senior Business Analyst Enterprise • Manager – Change Management
Risk • VP, Underwriting Manager Private
• Associate Director of Nursing Affairs Client Group
and Director of Quality Assurance • Chief of Police
• Attorney • Executive Director
• Vice President of Human Resources • Training and Enrollment Coordinator
• Vice President for External Affairs & • VP & Manager; Talent Strategy &
Chief Diversity Officer Leadership Development
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15. Compare to an Executive MBA
MBA Executive
– Focus on business Masters
basics – Focus on leadership
– Includes finance, – Includes organizational
marketing, and behavior, culturally
management science competent
leadership, effective
change management
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