Course Description
The Responsible Entrepreneurial Leadership Certificate seeks to respond to the world’s complex challenges ranging from climate change to food security, poverty, inequality, and unemployment. From a renewed thinking of the human person, this program equips entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, policy makers, and development practitioners to create sustainable, profitable solutions to developmental challenges while prioritizing the vision of the locals and maximizing on their gifts, skills, and available resources.
Course Outcome
Participants who complete this program are multi-lingual leaders with ability to communicate vision with relevance across sectors while facilitating multi-stakeholder business models that use purpose as strategy. They are able to determine root causes of developmental challenges and identify leverage points for systems transformation. These leverage points provide platform for profitable solutions that priorities purpose for people, place, planet, and prosperity.
The program includes the following components:
Module 1: Worldview, Progress, and Development; the influence of worldviews and beliefs on conceptions of progress and development.
Module 2: Christian anthropological approach to the human person; the nature of the human person in relation to ecology and economics.
Module 3: Economics and Sustainable Development.
Module 4: Introduction to Hybrid Value Chains: concepts of responsible business with emphasis on hybrid value chains as business strategy and development innovation.
Module 5: Responsible Leadership: cultivating inner transformation for outward change to support a movement towards sustainable development.
Module 6: Building hybrid value chains Part 1
Module 7: Building hybrid value chains Part 2
Module 8: Building hybrid value chains Part 3
Module 9: Managing for Mutual Value Creation: creating purpose aligned metrics.
Module 10: Capstone & Sustainable Business Canvas: integration paper on sustainable business plan – guided practicum.
Module 11: Capstone & Sustainable Business Canvas: integration paper on sustainable business plan – guided practicum.
Program Conclusion: Impact Business Plan Pitch.
Cost | TBD |
Prerequisite Requirements | Minimum high school qualification. An entrepreneurial and transformational leadership drive is imperative. Prior cross-sectoral experience and learning in the development space would be beneficial. |
Time | 5 months, 10 hours a week. |
Instruction Method | Hybrid. |
Level of Instructor Involvement | Instructor-led weekly assignments and discussions, self-guided and group assignments. |
Credit | Certified Responsible Entrepreneurial Leader. No academic credit. |
Facilitator
Kudzai Masimira is an MBA graduate from Bakke Graduate University. He has served on various levels of leadership in the citizen sector with Youth With a Mission for the past 17 years focusing on equipping emerging leaders through discipleship, transformational leadership coaching, and applied biblical thinking for systems change. His work has taken him across Africa, Asia, Latin America, North America, and Europe. Kudzai currently serves as Director at Nation Builders in Pretoria, South Africa, on the Deans team of the College of Humanities and International Studies, and Centre for Economic Development with the University of the Nations.
For more information and to learn about the next cohort dates, email kudzai.masimira@bgu.edu.