Overview

Do you desire the key business insights offered in a graduate business administration program without the time commitment? Thunderbird School of Global Management’s Executive Certificate in Business Administration condenses essential topics into five, two-day courses, equipping participants with practical knowledge for immediate career impact. Upon completion, you'll receive an official Thunderbird Executive Certificate in Business Administration to showcase your achievement.

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Key Benefits

  • Lead innovation: Identify, evaluate, and advance promising opportunities that create organizational value.
  • Drive meaningful change: Motivate teams, overcome resistance, align stakeholders, and move change initiatives forward. 

 

  • Build financial confidence: Interpret financial information and use it to make stronger, value-driven business decisions.
  • Turn ideas into action: Develop practical strategies for gaining buy-in, securing resources, and translating opportunities into results.
  • Strengthen cross-functional leadership: Connect innovation, people, and financial thinking to lead more effectively across the organization.
  • Apply what you learn: Gain practical tools, frameworks, and action plans you can bring directly to current organizational challenges.

Who Should Attend?

  • Executives and business leaders: Strengthen your ability to evaluate opportunities, lead change, and make financially informed decisions.
  • Emerging and mid-level leaders: Build a broader management toolkit and prepare to take on greater strategic responsibility.
  • Innovation and change leaders: Develop the skills to move ideas forward, build stakeholder support, and navigate organizational transformation. 
  • Cross-functional professionals: Expand your capabilities beyond your functional expertise and contribute more confidently to organization-wide decisions.
  • Non-financial managers: Build the financial fluency to manage resources, evaluate investments, and communicate more effectively with finance teams.

Registration Information

CertificateLocationDateDelivery typeCostRegister
Thunderbird Executive Certificate in Business AdministrationPhoenix, AZ

October 8-9, 2026

October 12-13, 2026

November 9-10, 2026

In-person, Online$3500Register

Learning Methodology

Engage in interactive learning through:

  • Expert lectures: Learn from renowned faculty with real-world experience.
  • Compelling case studies: Analyze real-world business challenges and develop informed solutions.
  • Dynamic discussions: Share your unique perspectives and learn from diverse peers.

Program Structure

Innovation in Leadership

Innovation in Leadership explores the intricacies of how innovators identify and assess promising opportunities, evaluate and select the most viable opportunities, make informed decisions about pursuing these opportunities, and secure initial support from stakeholders for pursuing these opportunities. This two-day workshop equips participants with the knowledge to implement effective innovation strategies to develop sustainable competitive advantages for organization in the public or private sector.

Change Management

Change Management equips you with the core knowledge and tools you need to positively impact your organization as it navigates the relentless waves of change. The two-day program immerses participants in an engaging, multi-cultural environment where insights and applications converge, empowering them to become a changemaker in their organizations. Throughout the learning, participants will work closely with peers from a wide array of industries and multi-cultural settings.

Finance for Non-Financial Managers

Finance for Non-Financial Managers will equip participants with essential skills like analyzing financial statements, calculating cash flow for project valuation, and crafting compelling proposals for securing investments. Gain the financial confidence to champion cost-effective projects that drive growth and make impactful decisions for teams and companies as a whole.

Faculty

Thunderbird Associate Dean and Professor Tom Hunsaker

Tom Hunsaker

Executive Director, Global Challenge Lab and Clinical Professor

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