The Graduate Certificate in Social Innovation Leadership is a multi-disciplinary course focused on equipping you with a strong foundational knowledge about social innovation, entrepreneurship, and leadership skills. 

You will study four units aimed at preparing you to meet social challenges through the creative and sustainable development of new ideas, products, models or systems. You will be introduced to design thinking and collaborative ways of using an eco-system approach to resolve complex problems by offering ways of providing social benefit. Gain an understanding of leadership in the context of entrepreneurship, examining the drivers and behaviours of people, group dynamics, and organisational and leadership processes. You will draw on theoretical frameworks and insights from across management, human resources, sociology and psychology disciplines. Develop a practical understanding of how to facilitate disruptive innovations and entrepreneurship within an organisation, and create market value. Your studies culminate with an innovation project which can be tailored to your workplace or interest area. You will prepare, design and implement a professional innovation project proposal to build contextual skills for designing and leading innovative projects that have a social impact. 

Throughout your studies, you will benefit from practical learning experiences including case study analysis, real-world examples and your final project. 

Designed for maximum flexibility, this course is entirely self-paced and 100% online hosted on our Be Different platform. Access your course content on any device, anytime, and experience the ultimate in flexibility and convenience.

Career Opportunities

The Graduate Certificate in Social Innovation (GCSI) focuses on building the professional capacity of managers and social entrepreneurs of the future, across the corporate, government and third (not-for-profit) sectors. Student will learn to lead organisations creating social and environmental value, and their ability to operate in a changed cross-sector social landscape, where the dynamism of the market is also directed at social innovation. Specifically student may seek employment in consulting and advising on business performance and improvements including:

• social project design and management
• new social ventures developments, international venture assessment and capital raising in a social context
• corporate social innovation and social entrepreneurship
• social incubator and technological innovation, support services to new ventures, in Not For Profit and small to medium enterprise (SME) sector
• design and development of teams and team dynamics working in social innovation Launchpad environments

Course Structure

• Core Units

  3

• Electives

  None

• Major Units

  None

• Minor Units

  None

 

Wondering how a self-paced postgraduate course in social innovation leadership works? Find out more about the course structure, units, assessments and more, below.

Course structure

The Graduate Certificate in Social Innovation Leadership is comprised of four core units. These four units are generally broken down into ten to twelve smaller, bite-sized modules for you to complete. Each unit is six credit points and designed to require a time commitment of a total of 144 hours. 

If you choose to study all four units at once over a typical term duration of 12 weeks on a full-time basis this would equate to six months of full-time study for all four units. 

After enrolling, you'll have access to all four units, and you can work through these in any order. 

Assessments

Assessments are completed at your own pace - no deadlines or due dates. Your assessments will range from portfolio activities, online quizzes, case studies and videoed presentations.

Unit information

You must complete a total of four units as follows:

• BUSN20031 Social Innovation
• BUSN20023 People, Leadership and Culture
• BUSN20022 Disruption, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• BUSN28001 Innovation Project