Business Leadership
Graduate Badge
Grand Rapids • Face to face • 8 Credits
A graduate badge in business leadership can help you turn ambition into real-world impact. It's designed to equip you with the strategic thinking, communication skills, and leadership mindset needed to guide teams and drive results. Through hands-on learning and real-world applications, you’ll develop tools to prepare you for long-term growth as a future leader.
Overview
The Business Leadership badge will equip students to better understand themselves both as individual contributors and as managers of others within a business organization. Students will complete a self-assessment tool that provides individualized information about their motivation, operating style, and their preferred modes of learning. This information will offer actionable information for better self-management and team interactions.
Building on a more informed understanding of self, students will learn about key concepts such as strategic thinking, planning and implementation, leadership and influence, motivation, managing change, negotiations, business communications, and negotiations. Course work will include opportunities to practice these skills through case studies and applied project work.
The Seidman College of Business is accredited by AACSB International, reflecting the highest standards of excellence in teaching, research, curriculum, and learner success. Regularly recognized as a top business school, Seidman offers classes in the thriving business community of downtown Grand Rapids, MI.
Seidman College of Business
gvsu.edu/seidmangrad
50
Front Ave SW, suite 1031
(616) 331-7400
Graduate Program Director
Erika Morrison, SHRM-SCP
(616) 331-7026
Application Deadline:
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis; deadline for fall
semester start is June 15 and November 15 for winter. There is a $30
GVSU application fee, waived if you have previously applied to GVSU.
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"Best College for Accounting and Finance"
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Not Just for Business Students!
This badge will allow students from colleges outside of Seidman to take these courses as part of their respective programs, as well as providing upskilling/reskilling opportunities to non-degree seeking students interested in deepening their knowledge and business acumen. The badge may also appeal to current GVSU undergraduate athletes who have remaining eligibility and seek to continue to advance their education.
The L. William Seidman Center
The center of all things business at Grand Valley, the L. William Seidman Center houses the Seidman College of Business and features multipurpose room for lectures and events, a state-of-the-art trading room, and student collaboration and study spaces.
Graduate Assistantships
Seidman College offers several assistantships for full-time graduate students (enrolled in at least 9 credit hours/semester) in good academic standing. Full-time graduate assistantships require a 20-hour per week work assignment for 16 weeks per semester. GA's receive tuition credit for up to 9 credits and receive a $4,000 stipend each semester (fall and winter).
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