Business management courses that help you lead with confidence
Successful management requires more than just overseeing tasks—it demands strategic leadership, team motivation, and organizational agility. Kelley’s business management classes are designed for professionals who want to refine their decision-making, improve collaboration, and advance their career in the digital workplace. Led by internationally recognized Kelley faculty through award-winning multimedia content, our short courses and certificates provide practical tools for navigating challenges in today’s complex business landscape. Whether you’re a new manger or an experienced leader, you’ll gain the confidence to drive results, reach agreements, and inspire teams.
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Business management training opportunities
AI-Enabled Strategy
Sharpen strategic thinking and set direction, then apply insights where AI truly supports the plan.
AI-Enhanced Negotiations
Build disciplined negotiators who use AI as a partner for strategy, scenario rehearsal, and preparation.
AI Strategy for Executives
In this online-only course, you'll examine artificial intelligence through three critical lenses: building leadership skills for the AI era, mastering cutting-edge AI technologies, and evaluating the strategic impact of AI on organizational performance.
Business of Compliance
Ethics and compliance has long been taught as a legal discipline. In Kelley’s Business of Compliance Certificate program, you’ll learn it as a business discipline, grounding compliance practice in normative reasoning, behavioral science, empirical methods, and strategic frameworks.
Communicating with Confidence
Build the skills you need to become a successful and effective communicator who can influence others directly.
Hybrid
Critical Thinking and Decision-Making with AI
In Kelley’s AI critical thinking course, you’ll learn to frame problems effectively, test assumptions, and use AI to stress-test your reasoning to make faster, smarter, and more defensible calls in complex situations.
Online, asynchronous
Digital Teamwork and Business Skills
Learn to collaborate, connect, and communicate in today’s virtual world of work.
Financial Decision-Making
Strengthen your financial judgement including budgeting, forecasting, and investment decisions with this AI for business finance course. Speed analysis, improve accuracy, and make the story behind the number crystal clear.
Finance for Non-Financial Managers
Gain financial analysis skills and learn methods to improve bottom line decision-making in this short course in finance.
Personal finance
Take control of your finances and make a plan for the future with this personal finance course.
Custom program option for organizations
Design Thinking for Business Innovation
Learn innovative strategies for tackling real-world challenges in a highly interactive format tailored to your industry.
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Leadership Development
Learn how to lead with impact and navigate business challenges with confidence. Kelley’s leadership development programs equip professionals with the mindset and tools to drive organizational success.
AI and Technology
Stay ahead in a rapidly evolving digital world. Learn how machine learning and data analytics are transforming industries and gain the skills to implement and technology-driven strategies in your business.
Operational Excellence
Learn proven frameworks and prepare for important exams. Kelley’s operations experts help you implement real-world strategies to drive business performance.
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Insights from faculty. Applied for today’s leaders.
Access recorded webinars led by Kelley School of Business faculty featuring key topics in leadership, management, technology, operations, and finance. Each webinar session offers a practical introduction to the concepts and strategies taught in our executive education programs, delivering expert perspectives and actionable insights you can immediately apply in your role.
Explore our Leading with AI executive education series
Strengthen your ability to spot where AI creates true business value through Kelley’s function-focused short courses in our Leading with AI executive education series. Build essential leadership skills in decision-making, communication, and accountability, and put them into action immediately through an Action Learning Project designed to deliver measurable impact for your organization.
Earn a digital badge for each Action Learning Project and course completion, take four courses and earn an AI certificate, or maximize your advantage by completing the full series. Upcoming courses are enrolling now, so reserve your spot today.
Discover custom training solutions for your organization
Partner with the Kelley School to design training programs tailored to your organization’s goals. We work with organizations of all sizes to develop custom programming for your team. Our professional development offerings can be customized to meet your unique needs, using our academic curriculum as a foundation.
To explore customized solutions, contact Kelley Executive Education Programs at kelleypd@iu.edu.
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