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Emerging Executives
Emerging Executives prepares students, adult learners, career changers, and emerging professionals for success in an evolving workplace.
The program combines career training, competency-based education, mentorship, and employer-supported projects so participants can build knowledge, demonstrate what they can do, and strengthen their professional confidence.
One Connected Experience
From learning to demonstrated capability.
Competency-Based Education
Progress by demonstrating what you can do.
Competency-based education focuses on demonstrated knowledge and skills rather than time spent in a classroom. Participants apply learning through authentic business challenges, receive feedback, and produce tangible evidence of their capabilities.
This approach helps learners connect education to workplace expectations while building confidence, professional judgment, and portfolio-ready experience.
Employer Partnerships
Develop emerging talent while advancing meaningful business work.
Employers help shape authentic learning projects, provide subject-matter guidance and feedback, and gain early visibility into participants' demonstrated skills.
How It Works
Design the experience
Align a meaningful business project with the competencies participants need to demonstrate.
Prepare participants
Provide coaching, learning resources, expectations, and project guidance before the work begins.
Apply and demonstrate
Participants complete authentic project work with structured support and employer feedback.
Deliver and evaluate
Teams present agreed-upon outcomes while employers assess demonstrated competencies and emerging talent.
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Emerging Executives is currently being developed.
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Employer Partnership Waitlist
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