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Health Innovation Leadership Certificate

Location:
Online
Start dates:
Ondemand
Fees:
$3,564 (USD)
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Overview

Make a difference in modern health care by developing leadership skills that drive innovative results. Gain a solid understanding of complexity in health care systems while mastering methods for applying best practices and new ideas in organizations and teams.

Thunderbird’s online Health Innovation Leadership certificate program delivers expert instruction from Arizona State University’s nationally-ranked Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation, empowering health care leaders with advanced tools to advocate for the best care and the latest evidence-based practices.

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Learning Outcomes

  • Identify the skills and traits of successful leaders, executives, managers, and those who influence without authority
  • Examine basic and advanced systems theories and principles while learning how to incorporate them into national and international health and healing systems
  • Examine the essential elements of innovation, identify the obstacles, and initiate strategies to overcome those obstacles for long-term success

 

  • Develop both the problem-solving mindset and skills necessary for participants to accelerate innovation within their home organizations
  • Analyze the behaviors of leaders, including how they work within their teams, and how they develop the most compelling messages around their ideas
  • Analyze and leverage leading-edge health care innovation practices, applying systems concepts and principles, and develop a plan to achieve innovation leadership competency
  • Utilize the application of systems, complexity theory, and evidence-based processes directly related to the diffusion of innovation

Who Should Attend?

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Health management professionals who want to learn how to develop an innovation strategy that aligns with their organization’s goals.

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Health care professionals who want to shape their organizations into environments that foster innovation and deliver results from advances in the medical sector.

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Healthcare leaders seeking career advancement by demonstrating professional proficiency in creating and tailoring a successful health care innovation strategy.

Curriculum

 

Advanced Innovation Concepts and Principles

Examine the essential elements of innovation, identify the obstacles to innovation and initiate strategies to overcome obstacles and facilitate success. Utilize the application of systems, complexity theory and evidence-based processes directly related to the diffusion of innovation. Develop both the mindset and skills necessary for participants to accelerate innovation.

Modules Include:

  • Leading Innovation in an Age of Complexity
  • The Organizational Context for Innovation
  • Operationalizing Innovation
  • Innovation & Effective Diffusion

Duration: 7 weeks I $990 I 3 CEU

Transformational Leadership for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Understand how extraordinary leaders flex their executive presence and style to influence and drive team performance. Enhance your capacity to develop and craft the most compelling messages around your ideas and strategies for maximum influence. Examine change and how leaders can manage change through agility, collaboration, self-assessment, and reflection.

Modules Include:

  • Leading to Amplify Your Impact
  • Storytelling that Drives Authentic Action
  • Being the Winner Today & Tomorrow
  • Aligning the New Model
  • Driving Change & Progress
  • Fast, Agile, Collaborative
  • Powering Through the Dark Side

Duration: 8 weeks I $990 I 3 CEU

Future-Ready for Disruptive Innovation

Identify and analyze future trends to tap their potential impact on the market. Understand how Future-fit Narratives can help forecast possible futures and will help better determine strategies to adopt for your company. Take a practical look at innovation and learn how it is strategically imperative for everyone in an organization to have an innovative mindset.

Modules Include:

  • Understanding & Tapping Future Trends
  • Agility in Turbulent Economic & Social Times
  • Back-casting, Forecasting & the Power of Present-casting
  • Future Fit Narratives
  • Technology & Human Innovation
  • Concept & Business Innovation Through Effective Ideation
  • Accelerating Success Through Effective Validation
  • Winning Adoption for Your New Ideas

Duration: 8 weeks I $990 I 3 CEU

Systems Thinking in Complex Environments

Understand decision making in complex healthcare systems, and how to innovate in these environments. Learn to adapt to disruption and non-linear transitions. Examine basic and advanced systems theories and principles and apply them to national and international health and healing systems. Analyze and describe current health care using systems concepts and principles, and develop a plan to achieve innovation leadership competency.

Modules Include:

  • Introduction to Systems Thinking
  • Introduction to System Dynamics
  • Chaos and Complexity in Healthcare
  • Innovation in Chaotic & Complex Systems
  • System Disruption & Adaptive Organization
  • Innovation Leadership from a Complexity Perspective
  • U.S. Healthcare from a Systems Perspective

Duration: 7 weeks I $990 I 3 CEU

Program Faculty

Thunderbird Associate Professor Suzanne Peterson

Suzanne Peterson

Associate Professor of Management Leadership
Thunderbird Associate Dean and Professor Tom Hunsaker

Tom Hunsaker

Associate Dean of Global Challenge Lab

Christine Pearson

Professor of Global Leadership

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Registration Information

Program Type Cost Register
Advanced Innovation Concepts and Principles Course 1 $990 Register
Transformational Leadership for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Course 2 $990 Register
Future-Ready for Disruptive Innovation Course 3 $990 Register
Systems Thinking in Complex Environments Course 4 $990 Register

Earn a certificate by registering for all 4 courses at a 10% discount

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