Business Ventures Leadership Certificate

This 12-credit hour certificate offers students a graduate-level program of study in business leadership. Students will learn to navigate a rapidly changing business environment with the essential tools, frameworks, and technology necessary for leading business ventures and supporting organizational success. The coursework features interdisciplinary perspectives and addresses a variety of organizational contexts.

The Business Ventures Leadership Certificate can be a standalone program, or the course work can be applied to the Master in Integrative Leadership degree. Courses are offered as a blended, cohort where students will engage and collaborate with not only each other, but also Drury’s outstanding faculty.

Next Start Date: Fall 2024

Certificate Highlights:

• Total Courses: 4
• Courses length: 8 weeks
• Total credit hours: 12
• Course structure: Blended and online
• Courses
  • BVLC 600 Professional Excel
  • COMM 639 Strategic Issues Management
    OR PSSL 670 Leading Teams & Organizations*
  • PSSL 650 Ethics, Conflict, & Decision Making*
    OR MNCL 602 Governance and Executive Leadership*
  • BVLC 660 Organizational Conflict Negotiations

Contact:

Arlisa Campbell, DBA
Assistant Professor of Management
Office: O’Reilly Enterprise Center 108
Phone: (417) 873-7385
Email: acampbell012@drury.edu

Due to curricular overlap, students who are pursuing both the Business Ventures Leadership Certificate and the Master in Public Service and Safety Leadership may not apply PSSL 650 and/or PSSL 670 to both programs. Students currently pursuing or who have already completed the Master in Public Service and Safety Leadership will need to choose COMM 639 and MNCL 602 to fulfil their Business Ventures Leadership Certificate requirements. 

Due to curricular overlap, students who are pursuing both the Business Ventures Leadership Certificate and the Communication & Organizational Leadership Certificate or the Master of Arts in Communication may not apply COMM 639 to both programs. Students currently pursuing or who have already completed the Communication & Organizational Leadership Certificate or Master of Arts in Communication will need to choose PSSL 670 to fulfill their Business Ventures Leadership Certificate.

Due to curricular overlap, students who are pursuing both the Business Ventures Leadership Certificate and the Nonprofit Leadership Certificate or the Master of Nonprofit & Civic Leadership may not apply MNCL 602 to both programs. Students currently pursuing or who have already completed the Nonprofit Leadership Certificate or the Master of Nonprofit & Civic Leadership will need to choose PSSL 650 to fulfill their Business Ventures Leadership Certificate.