Babson Executive Education
AMBSEL
Babson Academy
Entrepreneurial Leadership Essentials
Dates: October 21-22, 2025
Format: Live Online
At Babson, we believe entrepreneurial leadership is a skill set and a mindset. Entrepreneurial leadership is a style of leadership that empowers individuals to act and solve problems, navigate uncertainty, and embrace ambiguity. It’s a meta-competency: no matter your industry or job function, you—and your organization—benefit from an entrepreneurial leadership foundation. It’s what success is built on. In this certificate program, you will learn to solve complex challenges and navigate uncertainty with confidence while building your entrepreneurial leadership foundation.
Throughout this entrepreneurial leadership development training program, you will learn via both the academic research and field-tested case studies of entrepreneurial leaders in action. Gain techniques for encouraging collaboration, innovation, and creativity in diverse workplaces. You also will practice foundational entrepreneurial leadership skills you can apply immediately to benefit your company and your career.
- Develop a growth-oriented leadership style that empowers you to adapt and innovate with confidence
- Foster a collaborative, high-trust work environment where innovation thrives
- Strengthen your strategic leadership with hands-on exercises that help you collaboratively solve problems for increased impact
- Uncover your entrepreneurial leadership style and gain insight into your future potential through a personalized assessment
- Leverage your leadership strengths by identifying your core motivators and how they shape your leadership style
- Mid- to senior-level professionals, including new, experienced, and rising leaders
- Professionals who are motivated to advance through entrepreneurial leadership development training
Tuition and all program materials, including live sessions, videos, cases, and individual and group work of varying types.
- Recognition and Credentialing: A digital certificate that serves as verifiable proof of learning and achievement, which can be displayed on platforms such as LinkedIn and included on your resume and portfolio
- Course Content and Learning Outcomes: You gain industry-relevant knowledge, practical skills, and frameworks designed for professionals seeking career advancement or specialization
- Expert Instruction: Experienced faculty, industry leaders, and professionals with real-world expertise teach our courses
- Networking Opportunities: You gain access to a network of peers, alumni, and industry professionals.
Upon completion of this program, you will earn a digital certificate
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Course Structure
Costs & Program Discounts
Course Leaders
Andrew Corbett
Paul T. Babson Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies
Recognized as one of the most cited entrepreneurship researchers in the world, Professor Andrew Corbett focuses on corporate entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial learning and cognition, and entrepreneurship education. His research has been published in Harvard Business Review, The Journal of Management Studies, and many others.
Wendy Murphy
Professor of Management
Professor Wendy Murphy’s research, training, and teaching focus on the area of careers: mentoring and developmental networks, identity, and the work-life interface. Her work has been published in MIT Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, and more. Currently, she is the co-director of the Entrepreneurial Leadership & Influence Program for executives, director of Mass General Brigham (MGB) Innovation Academy, and faculty for the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program.
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