Interdisciplinary Professional Programs
College of Engineering

Technical Leadership

Develop Leadership Skills

Have you recently been promoted to a leadership position—or are you working toward it? If you’re committed to being a leader, then you know that you need to continually acquire new skills, tools and techniques and improve existing ones to move up in your organization. Take the lead and guide your efforts for success by earning UW–Madison’s Technical Leadership Certificate.

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Earn your certificate by completing five (5) of the participating courses. There is  no cost or commitment to enroll  in the certificate—by signing up you will  receive discounts on individual courses  and periodic program updates. Your participation in courses is tracked and you may verify your progress at any time by requesting a UW transcript.

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Certificate requires completion of 5 courses of your choice.

Available as a custom course

Applied Leadership for Performance Culture
Will be scheduled as a public course in Spring 2024

Scheduled courses

Certificate requires completion of 5 courses of your choice.

Applied Leadership for Performance Culture

Coaching and Mentoring for Technical Leaders

Critical Conversations: Results-Based Communication

Data Analytics for Technical Engineers

Effectively Managing Technical Teams

Leadership Beyond Your Team: Managing Up and Managing Across

Mastering the Transition from Technical Expert to Manager

Principles of Engineering Project Management

Root Cause Analysis Tools for Technical Applications

Courses from The Center for Professional And Executive Development through the UW-Madison School of Business are also available to fill requirements for the Technical Leadership Certificate. See available courses below and click for next scheduled date.

Business Acumen and Strategy

Business Process Improvement Using Lean Six Sigma and Performance Metrics

Finance and Accounting for the Non-Financial Professional

Technical Leadership Certificate course topics were developed with your success in mind, by consulting with hundreds of engineers from leading companies. Develop leadership skills in such areas as managing technical teams, coaching, and project management. In addition, you’ll learn technical management topics, including capital budgeting and business process improvement. The mix of courses and topics—taught by UW faculty and industry experts—are constantly updated and improved to meet the needs of our global partners.

The following are shares from specific course attendees:

Critical Conversations: Results-based Communication:

“Trevor’s knowledge about critical conversations was really eye opening to someone like me who is more outspoken and sometimes too brash. I will definitely use these ideals moving forward, as tough as it may be. I also loved all of the “extras” on Zoom. This was the first time I’ve been part of breakout groups, annotating the page, amongst some other items like that – that was fun.” – Callie Pankow

“Lots of examples and focus in the content for each step. I found that working through each step specifically with examples of how to do it right vs. wrong was important (practicing).” – Lucas Kreidl

“The mix of activities, breakout sessions, apps, and quizzes makes the course incredibly engaging. After having been through dozens of online and in person courses, Trevor and Berenice’s mechanics make the time fly. I really appreciate the personal nature and networking aspects of the breakout sessions. These are venues for bringing out real life examples and shared experiences.” – Adam Graham

Leadership Beyond Your Team:

“I really liked the framework on how to present an opportunity. It aligned with a recent “how to give effective presentations” course I recently took with Dale Carnegie.” – Stephen Klein

“It was real life situations, hands on working situations out, team building with others, down to earth and not over people’s heads (no need for Doctorate to understand) also Trevor, Berenice and Jon answered all concerns and were concerned and interested in all of us.” – Susan Betke

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