Professional Development for the Leaders of Today and Tomorrow
Wake Forest Executive Education combines academic rigor with real-world application to help professionals lead at a higher level. Our non-credit certificate programs, short courses, workshops, and custom programs deliver practical, relevant business insights for both individuals and companies.
Why Executive Education?
Leadership Training That Scales With You
Our goal is to equip participants with the tools and tactics to grow as a strategic leader. Online and in-person options fit your schedule while preparing you to lead through complexity and build strong teams.
A Proven Partner
For decades, organizations have trusted Wake Forest to strengthen their leadership pipelines and drive performance. Our programs are built in collaboration with employers to ensure they meet real-world needs and deliver lasting value.
Relevant Topics and Real-World Learning
Our programs are designed with direct input from industry leaders to ensure every lesson translates to real business impact. You’ll gain applicable skills that swiftly improve performance at both the individual and organizational level.
Find the Program That Fits Your Purpose
Availability:
Course Format:
- $950 course fee
- December 12, 2025
Executive Education
Making decisions in a dynamic fast-paced business environment is a challenge for most employees. Decision making and problem solving skills become critical when moving into leadership roles in order to drive business growth. Leaders with a developed system for effective decision making are best equipped to lead their teams through times of uncertainty.
- $995
- January 30, 2026
Executive Education
This interactive program is designed to help you embrace challenges as opportunities, to be more resilient in the face of adversity, to pursue your goals with reckless abandon, and to help others do so as well. We will focus on your own development of a growth mindset as well as ways to influence your workplace and team to adopt this way of thinking.
Executive Education
Implementing AI into an organization offers substantial opportunities, including streamlining operations, enhancing decision-making, and elevating customer interactions. Through interactive sessions and practical exercises, participants will dive into frameworks for developing effective AI governance strategies, including risk mitigation tactics that address data privacy, algorithmic bias, and transparency.
Executive Education
In collaboration with Dalton Education, Wake Forest Executive Education you’ll gain the advanced, integrated expertise to create meaningful impact from a business’s earliest stages through its long-term growth and eventual succession.
Executive Education
In collaboration with Dalton Education, Wake Forest Executive Education prepares you for the field of financial planning specific to the military community through a practical education led by experienced instructors who are committed to your success.
Executive Education
Wake Forest Executive Education prepares you for the field of financial planning through a practical education led by experienced instructors who are committed to your success. In collaboration with Dalton Education, our program offers courses that fulfill the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ certification education requirement necessary to attain CFP® certification.
- $1495 + $178
- Sept 2 – Oct 18, 2025
Executive Education
The course covers a comprehensive range of project management concepts, methodologies, and best practices, ensuring that students are well-prepared to excel in the PMP certification exam and in their professional roles.
- $9,900
- Monthly Cohorts
Executive Education, Springboard
In the Software Engineering Bootcamp, you’ll master the MERN stack—a leading technology stack in web development—gaining proficiency in JavaScript and building a strong foundation in full-stack development. The program culminates in a professional-grade capstone project, allowing you to showcase your skills and launch your career as a successful software engineer.
Executive Education
Fundamentals of Effective Negotiation is a one-day session designed to introduce you to the ABCs of negotiation and how to build a strong foundation of how to think about, prepare for, and execute negotiations in a variety of contexts
Executive Education
In this program (delivered virtually over four half-day sessions), we will provide participants with the knowledge to create a self-sustaining data-driven culture. Effective data-driven organizations demonstrate data literacy at all levels, use data to drive decisions, and most importantly have data-driven leadership.
Executive Education
This program is designed for experienced leaders wishing to enhance their ability to build an ethical culture and bolster their organization’s character through the use of concepts, frameworks, and tools.
Executive Education
Enterprise risk management programs are effective when all members of organizations are included in the process. For this purpose, we designed the program for risk and non-risk management professionals with risk management responsibilities. We also designed the program for professionals who do not have risk management responsibilities but would like to learn more about financial, non-financial and enterprise risk management and their relevance for organizations.
Executive Education Articles
Upcoming Executive Education Workshops and Short Courses: Spring Preview
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Fall Preview: What Executive Education Workshops Are Coming Up?
Read more about what's coming up this fall in Wake SPS's Executive Education department.
An Executive Education Workshop: Who, What, When, Where, How
At Wake Forest University, the Executive Education team offers professionals a highly personal educational experience that addresses real-world issues....
Workplace Talent Development & Leadership in 2024: Challenges and Trends
The new year is an opportunity for companies to refresh their approach to engaging the workforce and how they prioritize talent and leadership development....
Lifelong Learner JoElla VanderDoes Finds Growth Opportunity with a Certificate in Leadership at Wake Forest’s Executive Education
Read about JoElla and her experience in the open enrollment program in Leadership from Wake Forest Executive Education.
Tackling Finance as a Non-Financial Manager: Q&A with Executive Education Faculty Stephan Shipe
Wake Forest University’s Executive Education department supports leaders as they enhance and develop their skills with a variety of non-degree and non-credit...