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Overview

Leadership starts with mastering the essentials: knowing yourself, developing a growth mindset, having productive conversations, managing conflict, and inspiring through stories. These core skills help leaders earn trust, build collaboration, and motivate teams to do their best work. Whether you’re stepping into leadership for the first time or expanding your impact, this program equips you with the confidence and tools to lead effectively.

Part of our Leading Beyond Any Title™ suite, this newest industry-endorsed leadership program blends engaging instruction with practical application. Each two-day course combines interactive classroom learning, hands-on activities, and online resources. Guided by experienced industry professionals, you’ll collaborate with a small group of peers to strengthen key leadership capabilities, including self-awareness, mindset, communication, conflict resolution, and storytelling.

You’ll apply these skills to real workplace challenges such as:

  • transitioning into leadership and building your personal leadership brand
  • managing conflict and stress with confidence
  • using storytelling to inspire and motivate your team.

Upon completion, you’ll have a toolkit of actionable strategies to lead confidently and thrive in any workplace setting.

This program is ideal if you:

  • are transitioning into or preparing for a leadership role
  • want to enhance your communication, conflict resolution and leadership skills
  • are seeking practical, hands-on training you can apply immediately
  • want to earn a SAIT Certificate of Completion credential to showcase your leadership qualifications.

Program outline

To successfully complete this certificate, you are required to complete five mandatory courses. If you're pursuing the certificate, complete LDSH-041 Leading Self first. Take the remaining courses in the recommended order below.

Required courses & electives

How to apply for this certificate

Once you have registered for any course offered in this certificate, you will be automatically eligible to complete the certificate. You will have up to three years to complete this program. You may track your progression by signing in to your Continuing Education student account.

Certifications and professional designations

Upon successful completion of all the required courses in this certificate program, you’ll receive an electronically issued SAIT Certificate of Completion and transcript.

You’ll be able to self-print a proof of completion document from your Continuing Education student account. Please note parchments are not issued for individual courses.

Courses in this certificate may qualify for continuing professional development (CPD) hours. Please check with your association to confirm eligibility.

Costs

This program consists of five mandatory courses with varying fees. Fees include access to all course-related materials and resources found in Brightspace (D2L).

Please review the individual course pages for this certificate to determine costs and to learn more about additional learning materials including textbooks.

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Financial support

Financial opportunities are available to help pay for your course fees. Learn more about how to reduce your education or training costs with available awards, bursaries, loans and grants including the Canada Alberta Productivity Grant. 

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Careers and opportunities

Skills learned in this program can be applied to a variety of supervisory and management careers. Expect to start at the entry-level and as you gain experience and with additional education, your career opportunities will expand.

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