Post Master’s Certificate: Executive Leadership in the Not-for-Profit Sector

Online Certificate Program

In order to adapt to the continued challenges posed by changing social policies and accountability to communities, leaders need to be adept at assuming a vast array of responsibilities. This program offers professionals in leadership positions the knowledge and skills to be effective leaders in directing staff and programs as well as competencies in overall organizational management. As part of a cohort of adults with leadership roles across the country, students will identify a challenge that they face in their organizations, develop skills for diagnosing it and create and implement an action plan designed to strengthen students’ capacities for reflective practice.

Program Highlights

• Adaptive Leadership, a practical leadership framework that helps individuals and organizations adapt and thrive in challenging environments

• Guest lecturers including current and former CEOs and government officials

• Hiring and talent development

• Development and fiscal management

• Stakeholder relations (board, community, government)

• Case studies

“My participation in the program changed the way I think about the challenges I must address in my program. The adaptive leadership model opens up a whole new angle at which to view problem-solving and I think that going forward this knowledge will enhance my ability to conceptualize problems and get creative about finding solutions. I also enjoyed reflecting on my cultural narrative and considering how it affects me as a leader.”

- 2020-21 Executive Leadership Certificate Program Participant

This course is targeted to social workers and other human services professionals with a minimum of 5 years of management/leadership experience. Applicants who are currently in senior leadership positions or middle managers on track to become senior leaders preferred.

The certificate program consists of 10 sessions over the Spring 2024 semester. Assignments include weekly readings and a final learning assessment in the form of a paper or project.

The program runs online on Wednesdays from 5:30–7:30pm ET over the course of the Spring 2025 semester.

Spring 2025

• February 5, 19, 26
• March 5, 12, 26
• April 2, 16, 23
  

Linda Lausell Bryant, PhD, MSW, BA 

Linda Lausell Bryant is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Clinical Professor, Master Teacher, and the Katherine and Howard Aibel Executive-in-Residence at NYU Silver. She is devoted to developing the leadership capacities of social workers for impact on the pressing social issues of our time, the intersection of race, ethnicity, and social justice; child welfare issues, and macro social work practice. 

Dr. Lausell Bryant’s career spans 35 years in youth services in both the private and public sectors. She has launched an Adaptive Leadership in Human Services Institute at NYU Silver, served as the Executive Director of Inwood House, a nonprofit youth agency from 2005-2014 and served as associate commissioner for the Office of Youth Development at the NYC Administration for Children’s Services. She is also the co-author of A Guide for Sustaining Conversations on Racism, Identity and Our Mutual Humanity and Social Work: A Call to Action.

Garrett Lucien, MBA

Garrett Lucien is the Executive Director at Coro New York Leadership Center and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Service at NYU Wagner. He is also an Instructor in the Doctorate of Clinical Social Work Program at the NYU Silver School of Social Work. Garrett joined the Coro team in 2013. Since then he has been the lead Leadership Facilitator for all adult programs. Garrett brings a wealth of experience in facilitating and has over sixteen years of experience in the fields of Leadership and Community/Economic Development. His experience includes the design and delivery of leadership programs and fellowships for youth, college students, middle-managers, and executives on topics including Adaptive Leadership, Personal Ecology, DEI, Effective Communication, and Conflict Resolution. Garrett is a Board Member of Times Square Alliance and a member of their DEI Committee.

Before coming to Coro, Garrett worked with South Bronx Overall Economic Development (SoBRO) for eight years, most recently as the Senior Director of Economic Development and Financial Services. While working at SoBRO, he specialized in assisting entrepreneurs to establish new businesses throughout the Bronx.

Garrett holds a BA from SUNY New Paltz and an MBA from Keller Graduate School of Business in New York. Garrett is a second-generation New Yorker who is passionate about helping people to develop skills to create positive change within themselves and their communities.

20 NYSED and ASWB/ACE Continuing Education Contact Hours will be awarded for this program.

55 jurisdictions accept ACE-approved provider CE contact hours. ACE is not an approved Continuing Education provider in the states of New York (though NYU Silver is NYSED CE approved in NYS) and West Virginia, unless the event is outside of West VA. ACE only approves individual courses in New Jersey, though NYU Silver is CSWE-accredited and therefore accepted for licensed NJ professionals. Here is a full list of statutes related to social work CE.

The application for Spring 2024 is now closed. Please check back for the 2025 application and schedule information.

Application Fee: $50

The cost of this certificate program is $1,200, which includes tuition and the cost of an online compendium of readings.

Available discounts include:

• 25% discount for NYU Silver School of Social Work MSW/DSW/PhD alumni
  
• 25% discount for practicum instructors currently working with NYU Silver School of Social Work graduate students.
• 15% discount for applicants who have already completed one NYU Silver certificate program.
• 50% discount for veterans.

Please note: discounts may not be combined.

Payment Policy: Upon acceptance into the program, a $250 non-refundable deposit is required to secure your place. This deposit is applied to the total cost of tuition. The total cost of the program is due before the start of classes.