The Center for Leadership in Global Enterprise at McDaniel College announces a new graduate-level certificate program devoted to the preparation of top executives and government leaders to lead more effectively in a constantly changing global marketplace. Alan Greenspan's testimony before Congress on October 23, 2008, in which he said that he was in a "state of shocked disbelief" at the global collapse he was witnessing, underscores the absolute necessity for all business and government leaders as well as qualified and interested individuals to reexamine taken-for-granted assumptions about how the business world works. The new certificate program's paramount mission:  to help leaders reduce errors of judgment especially judgments based on mathematical modeling through an enhanced understanding of how to anticipate the unintended consequences of large and small decisions, says Dr. Mel Albin, executive director of the Center. 
 
The first 10-month graduate certificate program begins this spring. The program’s four sequential courses are taught by a multinational faculty using a cohort model with a diverse group of top leaders from the U.S. and abroad. Each course is complemented by a one week online residency where course content is applied to the workplace. The program is offered completely online using multiple learning platforms to provide the scheduling flexibility top leaders require. Core concepts include strategy and innovation, finance and operations, marketing and entrepreneurship, IT security and knowledge management.

Through the Center’s innovative Expert Global Community^SM “We will put world experts at your fingertips,” notes Dr. Albin, “student participants will meet in a virtual classroom with leaders from around the world ranging from the current director of security for Radio Free Europe and former national security director for Sri Lanka, to the vice president of global marketing for a German automaker, or a renowned author and syndicated columnist for a global newspaper.”

The residencies are a leadership laboratory. At the first residency participants will receive the results of several robust leadership assessments all normed in the business community, review findings of their initial 360-degree performance evaluation with their personal coach, work on their global leadership strategy journal, participate in a series of decision-making exercises, and receive a brief overview of the program and its curriculum. The second residency, for example, has a deep focus on environmental sustainability and its symbiotic link to moving financial strategy from the dominating pull of supply and demand to balanced growth and sustainability, always mindful of cross border cultural complexity.

To register or to receive more information call the Executive Director, Mel Albin, at (410) 857-2733 or e-mail malbin@mcdaniel.edu.

McDaniel College is less than an hour’s drive from Washington, D.C., McDaniel is one of the oldest private colleges in Maryland and its international study-abroad campus in Budapest, Hungary ensures a diversified, global student body. McDaniel is among the nation’s top 100 private, liberal arts and sciences colleges, with a combined undergraduate and graduate student body of nearly 4,000 students. With over 60 programs of undergraduate study and 17 graduate programs, the College has been preparing individuals for professional leadership since its inception. The McDaniel Center for Global Leadership continues this tradition by housing the graduate certificate program, the Expert Global Community^SM, the Journal for Leadership in Global Enterprise^SM, The Global Coaches Network^TM and a host of consulting services to the private and public sectors.

Find out more by visiting the Center for Leadership in Global Enterprise site.