Stevens Inclusive Leadership Certificate Program

Inclusive Leadership Certificate Program

Inclusive leaders set the course for business success  

Elevated performance, more innovation, and engaged employees are just a few benefits of inclusive leadership.

The Inclusive Leadership Certificate program at the School of Business at Stevens Institute of Technology is designed to educate students on inclusion and its importance for both personal and business success. Participants who complete the program will earn a certificate in inclusive leadership.

Stevens Inclusive Leadership Certificate Program

What? A certificate program that aims to foster students’ inclusive mindsets and practices so that they develop next-level leadership knowledge and skills to elevate individual, business, and community success. It targets to prepare students to become effective, admired, inclusive leaders capable of driving positive changes through cultivating inclusion in teams, organizations, and communities.

For whom? All undergraduate and graduate students at Stevens as well as interested staff and faculty. The program will confer a formal Stevens Inclusive Leadership Certificate to the participants upon successful completion.

Why? We regard inclusive leadership as a combination of capabilities that together help organizations adapt to and capitalize on customer and market diversity, cultivate new ideas and innovation, and enable full and equitable participation of all people. Inclusive leadership enables open, agile and exploratory cultures that foster trust, strengthen commitment and empower people of all backgrounds to engage authentically with one another and with external stakeholders. What content? 3 components: (1) training (about 25 hours over 3-5 semesters), (2) reflection (portfolio development), and (3) real-world applications (through relevant service-learning projects, course projects, or senior design projects, etc.)

Inclusive organizations are just better

Inclusive organizations outperform less-inclusive ones in terms of making better business decisions, having higher customer engagement, better capturing new markets, generating higher innovation, and enjoying higher profitability.

What does inclusive leadership look like? And why does it matter? Management Professor Wei Zheng from the Stevens School of Business discusses how team leaders can be more inclusive and help all employees to succeed.

What is one action you will take to practice inclusive leadership?

Notes from some first-year students at the School of Business

"Focus more on my body language and eye contact"

Read the story
focus on body language

"Be open-minded"

Read the story
Post-It note showing Be open-minded

"Listen to other's thoughts, ideas and perspectives"

Sign up for the Inclusive Leadership Certificate program
listen to other thoughts, ideas and perspectives

Research

Explore our latest research focused on inclusive leadership in the workplace.

Five everyday scenarios that call for inclusive leadership – and how to go about it

The workplace is crying out for more inclusive leadership. Discover the top five situations where it’s needed the most and the everyday actions that can help you elevate your leadership from good to great.

Learn more
Happy entrepreneur talking to her coworkers about inclusive business strategy while holding presentation in the office.

What Makes an Inclusive Leader?

Leaders are critical to fostering inclusive organizations. After interviews with 40 DEI award-winning or peer-nominated exemplary inclusive leaders from a variety of job functions, organizations and industries, here are five key behaviors that help leaders make their organizations more inclusive.

Learn More
Human hand holds cutout silhouettes of people

How Women Manage the Gendered Norms of Leadership

Based on interviews with 64 top-level women leaders from 51 different organizations in the United States, here are how women manage paradoxical demands on a day-to-day basis.

Learn more
Women leader presents information to executive board.

What’s Your Leadership Origin Story?

How you tell the story of your own path towards becoming a leader frames your leadership style, as well as the ways in which you cultivate and support other leaders within your organization. Here are four types of leadership narratives to assist with this task.

Learn more
Typewriter

Espoused Values of the “Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For”: Essential Themes and Implementation Practices

This study identifies and describes the values espoused by the 62 companies that have consistently (2014–2018) appeared on the “Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For” (FBCWF) list.

Learn more
Building blocks featured different values on them

Sign Up For the Inclusive Leadership Certificate Program

Inclusive Leadership Certificate Program Co-Directors

Headshot of Peter Dominick
Peter Dominick
Teaching Professor & Director, Technical Leadership Program
Headshot of Wei Zheng
Wei Zheng
Associate Professor & Endowed Richard R. Roscitt Chair in Leadership