Accelerated Change Leadership Certificate
Accelerated Change Leadership Certificate
About the Certificate Programs
While both the regular and accelerated program offer the same general course material, there are a few key distinctions between the two programs.
Change Leadership Certificate
4-month certificate program, flexible dates
- ✓ 3 distinct cohort courses for across 20 weeks
- ✓ 20-week program
- ✓ Receive your IDEO U Change Leadership Certificate
Accelerated Change Leadership Certificate
Limited-time program, launches September 5, 2024
- ✓1 Cohort across 10 weeks
- ✓Condensed 10-week program
- ✓Receive your IDEO U Change Leadership Certificate
What You'll Learn
Introduction
This 10 week experience consists of content from three courses that are part of the Change Leadership certificate program:
1. Human-Centered Systems Thinking
2. Design for Change
3. Leading Complex Projects
Lesson 1: Understand Complexity
Lesson 2: Systems Thinking for Change
Lesson 3: Mobilizing People for Change
Lesson 4: Humanizing Change Initiatives
Lesson 5: Leveraging Intuition in Change Leadership
Lesson 6: Redesigning the System
Lesson 7: Prototyping and Testing
Lesson 8: Growing Change
Lesson 9: Measuring Impact of Change
Conclusion: Resilience and the Future
Receive and Share Your Certificate
After completing this accelerated program, you'll receive your Change Leadership Certificate of completion via email as a downloadable PDF within 1-2 weeks of completing the final required course. Certificates are configured for uploading and sharing on LinkedIn.
Product FAQs
With our limited-time Accelerated Change Leadership course, you have two options for how to earn the IDEO U Change Leadership Certificate.
Our limited-time Accelerated Change Leadership Certificate course is a 10-week experience that includes content from the three courses that make up the IDEO U Change Leadership Certificate program: Human-Centered Systems Thinking, Leading Complex Projects, and Designing for Change. If you complete all the assignments, you will receive the IDEO U Change Leadership Certificate at the end of the 10-week experience.
The non-accelerated version of the Change Leadership Certificate consists of three distinct cohort courses. In this version, you can complete the three courses in any order and receive the Change Leadership Certificate. If you’re entirely new to the program, we recommend you take Human-Centered Systems Thinking first to help you spot opportunities for change and discover impactful places to start. Designing for Change will take you one step further, where you’ll learn to co-create and experiment with small changes to demonstrate potential and gain support. Finally, we recommend Leading Complex Projects as the program's final course, where you’ll learn how to successfully navigate the friction and uncertainty that often come when trying to scale change.
The single cohort-paced program typically takes 4-5 months if courses are taken consecutively.
However, there is no deadline for certificate completion. The accelerated version of the certificate program will take 10 weeks to complete.
If you’ve completed Designing for Change, Human-Centered Systems Thinking, or Leading Complex Projects as a part of another certificate program or on its own and want to complete the Change Leadership Certificate, you should take the remaining cohort courses. Completing all three courses will allow you to earn the Change Leadership Certificate.
The accelerated version of the Change Leadership Certificate is a single experience that includes content from all three courses (Designing for Change, Human-Centered Systems Thinking, and Leading Complex Projects). Completing this ten-week experience will earn you the IDEO U Change Leadership Certificate.
Unfortunately, this is the only offering of the Accelerated Change Leadership Certificate course available at the moment. Due to its design, it is not possible to transfer into the individual courses that make up the non-accelerated version of the Change Leadership Certificate Program.
The accelerated version of the IDEO U Change Leadership Certificate integrates the content from all three courses into a single 10-week learning experience. Due to its design, it is not recommended to take the accelerated version if you’ve already completed one or more of the courses that make up the Change Leadership program. We recommend that you continue to take the remaining courses as single cohort courses to complete the certificate requirements.
The course starts on Thursday, September 5, at 12:00 AM Pacific Time (UTC -7), with the introduction and lesson one opening. It fully opens on Monday, September 9, at 12:00 AM Pacific Time.
The Accelerated Change Leadership Certificate's early bird pricing is a limited-time offer: $1899 vs. the full price of $2397. The early bird pricing is available until July 15, 2024.
Yes. Since you work in such complex systems, this certificate will be beneficial in helping you create change or navigate change within the system you’re working in. Though some of the frameworks and thinking in these courses are rooted in business, they’re still highly applicable to anyone who wants to create change or lead others through change. The case studies, terms, and examples were designed to help different individuals see themselves and their organizations in the work
Loved by Learners Across the Globe
Accelerated Change Leadership Certificate
Cohort Course“For me, the most exciting application of human-centered design is when it is aimed at reimagining the complex systems of our society—like education or healthcare—that are full of promise but also fraught with inequalities. This is also the space where systems design is needed the most.”
Accelerated Change Leadership Certificate
Cohort Course“I love the human-centered approach to problem solving that permeates throughout IDEO. The problem-solving techniques I've taken from this course fit perfectly with any technical or social problem I can imagine and any of my team or fellow problem solvers will benefit. Top quality course. Loved it!”
Accelerated Change Leadership Certificate
Cohort Course“I was blown away from the diversity of instructional methods used. I absolutely loved the workbook and accompanying content. The activities and assignments were so well designed for pushing me to learn new things in a way that felt approachable despite requiring deep thought and perspective shifts.”
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Reflect
Our learning experiences have a variety of reflective activities to help you make the connections to your specific work challenges. Reflection is one of the most effective ways to deepen your professional impact.
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In order to develop new skills, you need to try them out through repeated practice and exposure to new contexts. Our courses provide opportunities to try out new behaviors online and through real-world projects.
Share
Knowledge is constructed through interaction with others—which is the foundation of our cohort experience. It’s through sharing and discussing with qualified teaching leads and a global peer network that you build greater understanding.
See
Our courses engage you through stories, expertise, and humor. Each lesson has a series of 3-5 minute videos that explain the why, what, and how of a specific topic. Plus we bring everything to life through case studies from around the globe.
Try
In order to develop new skills, you need to try them out through repeated practice and exposure to new contexts. Our courses provide opportunities to try out new behaviors online and through real-world projects.
Reflect
Our learning experiences have a variety of reflective activities to help you make the connections to your specific work challenges. Reflection is one of the most effective ways to deepen your professional impact.
Share
Knowledge is constructed through interaction with others—which is the foundation of our cohort experience. It’s through sharing and discussing with qualified teaching leads and a global peer network that you build greater understanding.
