Graduate Certificate in Indigenous Business Leadership

The Graduate Certificate in Indigenous Business Leadership is designed to enable Indigenous business sector practitioners to build on their own leadership and business practices. This course will teach you to adopt an interdisciplinary, international and evidence-based approach to respond to the complex and growing challenges faced by Indigenous business leaders working in a range of fields/industries.

Subjects are taught by leading academics in the fields of Indigenous business leadership, analytics, accounting, economics, research, finance and marketing. Students from across Australia will be provided with opportunities to work together to address the increasing challenges and opportunities in the Indigenous business sector with a key focus on the practice of Indigenous leadership.

The course requires completion of 50 credit points of study, including a compulsory and intensively taught subject over a week in the winter term, focusing on Indigenous business leadership. Otherwise, the course is offered on-line providing flexibility to design study times around other work and family commitments and study preferences.

The Graduate Certificate in Indigenous Business Leadership consists of four 12.5 point subjects.

• one compulsory subject delivered on-campus

• select three electives from a range of six online subjects

The subjects in the Graduate Certificate in Indigenous Business Leadership adopt an interdisciplinary, international and evidence-based approach to respond to the complex and growing challenges faced by Indigenous business leaders working in a range of fields/industries.

Subjects can be taken in any order, however the compulsory subject Indigenous Business Leadership is only offered as an intensively taught subject in the Winter Term.

Our aim for you as a student in the Graduate Certificate in Indigenous Business Leadership is for you to develop a business tool-kit and knowledge to help take your career in government, entrepreneurship, corporate, small business or not-for-profit to the next level.

As a graduate of the certificate you'll have developed skills in:

• Critical thinking, decision making and problem solving and being able to apply it to real world situations for Indigenous people in business, organisations and society
• The core areas of leadership and being able to speak and write, with authority and knowledge, on leadership issues, ideas and theories
• Being able to problem solve and critically evaluate evidence to support your arguments and position
• Communication of key ideas and theories in business today
• Successfully collaborating with your peers on group-based activities.