NYU School of Professional Studies

The Certificate in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion delivers the skills leaders need to build sustainable diverse teams, leverage analytics to inform an organization’s practices and performance indicators, and drive innovation and business success. Each course focuses on a key enabler to support diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) across an organization.

You’ll gain a deeper understanding of how inclusion drives business performance, the skills to build and coach toward team effectiveness and spanning leadership skills, the knowledge to identify and track data that enable agile shifts and high-impact investments, and the ability to ignite talent prospects with technology that engages external talent and communities.

The Certificate in Executive Coaching is designed for professionals who want to develop foundational and practical knowledge of coaching within a business context. You’ll become versed in the process of developing leaders’ abilities to achieve professional and organizational goals and individuals’ abilities to achieve personal goals.

You’ll gain a base of theoretical knowledge to provide a profound context for why and how coaching works, the skills to interpret evidence-based models to facilitate learning and change, a foundation for effective coaching to occur within a business context, a knowledge of methods to establish trust- and safety-based relationships with clients, and effective personal and professional coaching skills.

The Certificate in Human Capital Management will equip you with the necessary knowledge, behaviors, and skills to be a strategic human resources partner. Gain the ability to drive an effective people agenda for any organization by developing both your behaviors and technical skills.

This rigorous certificate program is aligned with the Society of Human Resource Management® (SHRM®)  Body of Applied Skills and Knowledge® (BASK®) and is designed primarily for individuals seeking core knowledge in human capital management. Early-career professionals in the field of human resources will find this certificate program a valuable credential to possess.

The Certificate in Learning Design is targeted toward professionals who are responsible for creating training and development experiences in organizations. The learning includes the application of adult learning theory and practical approaches to designing, developing, delivering, and evaluating experiences.

Upon completion of this certificate, you’ll be able to apply the core principles of learning and training development in a variety of industries.

The Certificate in People Analytics will provide participants with knowledge in workforce analytics, data science, I/O psychology, and workplace automation.

There is a growing demand for HR professionals to analyze employee data, find patterns, and forecast trends to drive talent decision-making. People analytics is being applied extensively to enable more accurate HR decision-making in hiring the right talent, drawing insights into what drives employee motivation and performance at work, increasing retention, improving team formation, identifying potential leaders, and enhancing other processes.

The Certificate in Professional Coaching is geared toward motivated professionals who want to learn or improve their coaching skills in everyday personal and professional situations. It will educate both new and already practicing coaches in a structured way based on the International Coaching Federation (ICF) core competency model.

You’ll gain a base of theoretical knowledge to provide a profound context for why and how coaching works, the skills to interpret evidence-based models to facilitate learning and change, a foundation for effective coaching to occur within a business context, a knowledge of methods to establish trust- and safety-based relationships with clients, and effective personal and professional coaching skills.