Emerging Leaders Program: Becoming a Transformational Leader
Develop your strengths to lead with greater influence and impact.
Emerging leaders smartly leverage their skills to overcome challenges, inspire others, and achieve results. Do you have the critical leadership strengths and management skills to achieve greater impact?
- Develop your leadership style: Learn how to motivate, inspire, and lead with confidence as an emerging leader.
- Strengthen influence: Improve your ability to persuade, build buy-in, and drive action at all levels.
- Coach and develop others: Enhance your feedback and mentoring skills to support employee growth and engagement.
- Navigate change with confidence: Leverage practical tools and frameworks to manage uncertainty while advancing organizational priorities.
- Improve productivity: Gain better results through enhanced decision-making, emotional intelligence, and relationship management.


- High-potential, mid-level managers.
- Experienced leaders seeking to improve their personal leadership skills.
The Management and Organizations faculty at Michigan Ross is recognized as one of the world’s best departments and develops cutting-edge knowledge and research. These core faculty lead this dynamic five-day program leveled up to meet you where you are in your career journey.
Emerging leaders are high-achievers in their current roles whose vision and decision-making help their organization to overcome challenges, inspire others, and achieve results. You’ll learn all of the foundational leadership skills that successful leaders must master to deliver results, including change management, team leadership, and personal development strategies – and you will receive coaching on how to leverage these next-level practices to achieve your career and organizational goals.
Every aspect of our in-person and online programs is designed to deliver you a truly world-class experience.
World-renowned Ross faculty experts will guide you through the latest tools and frameworks to enhance your individual and team leadership capabilities while you engage with global participants across diverse industries.
Program directors work closely with faculty before, during, and after the program to ensure you achieve your objectives. Through dynamic, immersive learning experiences–including assessments, simulations, expert panels, and action-based applications–you’ll leave with an actionable plan to implement meaningful change in your organization.
Program managers facilitate a seamless transition between classroom and off-site activities and assist with anything you might need–ensuring your focus is on learning, not logistics.
For more program details, including topics and structure, download the program brochure.
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Learn from the same faculty who teach in our highly-ranked degree programs
- Receive a digital badge to showcase on LinkedIn and other social media platforms.
- Earn credit(s) toward the Distinguished Leader Certificate (DLC) for qualifying in-person or online programs. (Only one eligible online program can be counted toward the DLC.)