What is the Graduate Certificate in Executive Leadership?
The Graduate Certificate in Executive Leadership (GCELead) allows you to combine any four courses (within the GCELead program list) to create a qualification that will meet your leadership development needs as well as addressing your organisation's strategic imperatives.
Features and benefits of studying at UQ Business School Downtown
This premier UQ Business School location is in the heart of the Brisbane CBD and is equipped with state-of-the-art teaching and learning facilities. The Graduate Certificate in Executive Leadership (GCELead) provides a space in today's fast-paced business environment in which to reflect on your own leadership style, engage with your peers, and critically review a range of management issues.
Guaranteed quality
UQ Business School's accreditation with the preeminent bodies in management education (EQUIS and AACSB) is your guarantee of quality. UQBS was the first school in Australia to earn both accreditations and must continue to meet high standards and a rigorous peer review regime to retain accreditation.
Accelerated delivery
Our Corporate Education programs are designed for intensive delivery over four and a half days in a single week. This format enhances learning and minimises the impact on your work. Our proven, effective learning model is highly participatory using a mix of guest speakers, case studies, team work, simulations, presentations, experiential learning, and site visits to give you a fresh perspective on contemporary leadership issues. Courses are structured to help you develop knowledge and skills that can be applied immediately in your own organisation.
Convenient location
Corporate Education programs are taught in a convenient citycentre location with wireless internet, laptop-friendly desks, and sophisticated audio-visual facilities.
Who should undertake the Graduate Certificate in Executive Leadership?
The Graduate Certificate in Executive Leadership is designed for managers looking for ways to enhance their content knowledge and skills in key areas of contemporary leadership. Whilst it is desirable to hold a tertiary/bachelor's degree, appropriate management experience may allow non-graduate entry.
Program structure
The range of Corporate Education courses available allows you to select the content areas that will most benefit your organisation strategically. Courses are taught by some of the best-qualified academics in the country alongside industry experts. UQ Business School's research and consulting record ensures the freshest insights on contemporary and emerging issues.
Organisations are invited to customise a program of professional development tailored towards their needs by selecting any four courses from the following indicative list:
Innovation Leadership
The purpose of this course is to equip managers with the skills necessary to lead innovation for sustainable competitive advantage. The course is based on international best practice in innovation leadership and presents an integrated framework from leading edge strategic management and innovation ideas.
Valuing Human Capital
This course will equip participants with the ability to generate high impact changes in attitudes, beliefs and behaviours among strategic leaders. It will allow participants to integrate their role with the strategic needs of the organisation, linking content with context and applying it to the workplace.
Strategy in Action
This course will equip participants with the ability to prepare their organisation for turbulence as well as strengthening the link between strategy and the business model. It will allow participants to develop and implement high impact changes in the workplace which connect futures thinking with strategy as a way of providing clear direction and purpose for their organisation.
The Leadership Challenge
This course is designed to enhance your personal leadership style and to support your leadership journey. Participants will re-examine how strong leaders build culture and align it with strategy to effectively transform organisations.
Financial Management at Work
This course covers core concepts essential for effective corporate financial decision-making. In doing so, the course examines the principal decisions confronting the financial manager of a firm, namely the acquisition and utilisation of funds for profit, and adding value to the firm.
Corporate Sustainability
This course will enable managers to understand the challenges and opportunities that exist for business by designing a strategic approach to sustainability. The course will explore key issues such as the impact of climate change and emissions trading on corporate strategy and the business case for corporate sustainability.
Strategic Marketing and Communication
This course will enable managers to adopt a strategic approach to marketing through the focus on applying marketing theory to practice and employing concepts and strategies relevant to today's business world.
Negotiating Skills for Today
This course will enable managers to understand the principled model of negotiation and to communicate more effectively in transactions. Designed to introduce models and theories of business communication and negotiation, this course focuses on the practice and application of specific negotiating skills in conflict resolution.
Special Topics in Contemporary Leadership
It is possible to create or modify a course to suit an organisation's own professional development needs, and to custom build a program to reflect the needs and interests of each individual business.
UQBS Staff
Professor Tim Brailsford
Tim is Frank Finn Professor of Finance and Head of UQ Business School. His interests include corporate and investment valuation and investments and funds management.
Professor Victor Callan
Victor is Professor of Management at UQ Business School and Leader of the Organisation and Communication Cluster. His interests include organisational change and leadership.
Professor Andrew Griffiths
Andrew is Professor in Business Sustainability at UQ Business School. His interests include the impact of climate change on business strategy and managing corporate sustainability change.
Dr Tim Kastelle
Tim is a Lecturer in Innovation Management at UQ Business School. His interests include applying evolutionary economics to the management of firms.
Dr Scott McCarthy
Scott is a Lecturer in Finance at UQ Business School. He has over 12 years experience in various Australian universities and has worked with numerous government and private sector companies in the area of financial management.
Dr Lance Newey
Lance is a Lecturer in Enterprise and International Business at UQ Business School. His interests include innovation strategy and leadership, and knowledge in organisations.
Mr Jim Nyland
Jim is the Director of Executive Education at the UQ Business School. His interests include organisational learning and managing change in higher education.
Dr David Parker
David is a Senior Lecturer in Business Operations Management at UQ Business School. His main interest is firm internationalisation.
Dr Polly Parker
Polly is Director of MBA and Postgraduate Programs at UQ Business School and a Senior Lecturer. Her interests include HRM/Leadership, organisational dynamics and managing change.
Dr Neil Paulsen
Neil is a Senior Lecturer in Organisation and Communication at UQ Business School. His research interests are inter-group perspectives on organisational dynamics and change, leadership and innovation.
Dr John Steen
John is a Senior Lecturer in Strategy at UQ Business School. His interests include innovation strategy, and leadership and firm internationalisation.
Professor Ken Wiltshire
Ken is the JD Story Professor of Public Administration at UQ Business School. His interests include the not-for-profit sector and firm internationalisation.
Adjunct Professor
Dr John Cole
John is Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency, Queensland, and is responsible for its non-regulatory arm, the Sustainable Innovation Unit.
Industry Fellows
Mr David Burrell
David is the founder of LDKS Consulting having previously held positions as senior HR Director, Strategy setting and Leadership roles in Australasia, Latin America, Asia and Europe.
Mr Kevin Hendry
Kevin is the Director of StratBoard and has extensive experience as a strategy and governance consultant, and senior manager in several countries in the Asia Pacific.
Mr Phillip Keslake
Phillip has been a Partner in Raeburn Keslake International since 1983. His practitioner experience includes 20 years of international consulting at the highest level.
Mr Greg Latemore
Greg is the founder of Latemore & Associates Pty Ltd. He is an organisational and management consultant with over 25 years of consulting experience.
Ms Tessa Raeburn
Tessa was recently the Director of a blue chip, multinational company with specific responsibility as HR Director for setting global HR strategy.
Visiting Academic
Professor Marie Wilson
Marie is Professor of Management and Head of Management and International Business at The University of Auckland Business School.
Enrolment
Duration: 0.5 years full-time
Up to 3 years part-time
Note: Successful completion of the Graduate Certificate in Executive Leadership may allow you to articulate to other UQ Business School programs including the Master of Business or MBA program.
Entry requirements
Bachelor's degree in any field (with an overall GPA equal / above 4.0 on a 7 point scale) or at least seven years of relevant work experience.
How to apply
Download the application form "Application for Postgraduate Coursework" and forward to the Manager, Student Administration, UQ Business School, The University of Queensland, St Lucia Qld 4072.
Supporting documentation is required for all applications. Please ensure that you have included this information when you submit your application.
Due dates
Semester One applications close 31 January
Semester Two applications close 30 June
Fees
For information on fees go to the fees calculator at http://www.uq.edu.au/study/.
Note: All tuition fees are reviewed on an annual basis and may be subject to change.
Credit and exemption
Applicants may request credit or exemption for prior studies. Rules on credits and exemptions are set out in the UQ Business School Postgraduate Handbook.
Course Brochure
For more information please download the course brochure (PDF).
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