This certificate is designed for experienced professionals who would like to enhance their general management competencies. Professionals who complete this certificate are equipped with the latest concepts and practical tools in the field of leadership and management.
Participants look at selected cases and discuss their practical experience with each other. They learn how to develop their own leadership approach, structure complex decision-making processes and make effective use of resources, enhance their organisation’s strategic capacity, improve performance, initiate social innovation, and lead organisational change.
Three of the following seminars or workshops*
- Organizational Strategy: Build it with a Policy Partner (9 - 11 October 2025)
- Social Innovation for Public Purpose (30 October - 01 November 2025)
- Strategic & Performance Management (3 - 5 November 2025
- Effective Decision-Making in Government & Business (01 - 03 December 2025)
- Power & Influence: Leadership in Action (08 - 10 December 2025)
- Designing, Leading & Growing Organisations (22 - 24 January 2026)
- Public Policy & Demographic Change (26 - 29 January 2026)
- Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century (02 - 06 February 2026, online)
- Budgeting & Priority-Setting in Government (16 - 18 February 2026)
- Leadership in Local Government (23 - 25 April 2026)
- Making Change Feasible: Institutional Change & Reform (04 - 06 May 2026)
- Workshop in Berlin: Policy-Making & Administration in Germany (14 - 17 October 2025)
- Workshop in Brussels (02 - 05 June 2026)
One of the following skills trainings*
- Looking at the Future: Foresight & Scenario-Building Methods (6 - 7 November 2025)
- Public Affairs (18 - 19 November 2025)
- Managing Non-Profit & Non-Governmental Organisations (24 - 25 November 2025)
- Scenario-Building & Foresight (04 - 05 December 2025)
- Writing for Impact & Structuring Policy Communications (02 - 03 March 2026)
- Negotiation & Mediation (21 - 22 April 2026)
- Political Communication (11 - 12 May 2026)
*Participants make their choice.
Most courses take place on an annual basis.
Target group
Professionals from all sectors (public, private, and from NGOs)
Requirements
- Higher education degree
- At least three years of relevant professional experience (average is ten years)
- Good knowledge of English
Workload
- Three seminars and one skills training, amounting to a total of 11-12 days.
- Additional time for the preparation of the seminars, as well as for the follow-up assignments.
- 11 ECTS credits are acquired.
Seminar fee
8,800 euros per certificate (9,890 euros if certificate includes a workshop).
Certificate fees are exempted from tax according to Value Added Tax Act (UStG) §4 Nr. 21a. In Germany and many other countries, tuition fees for continuing education programmes are also fully tax-deductible as professional training expenses.
Certificate fee includes (unless otherwise indicated):
Attendance, online access to course literature before the seminars, materials during the seminars, beverages in the Hertie School cafeteria (open on weekdays), correction and rating of assignments, and a final certificate after full and successful attendance (11 ECTS credits are acquired). Participants of the certificate programme must complete the certificate within two years. Most courses take place on an annual basis. All seminars take place at the Hertie School in Berlin, workshops take place in London or Brussels.
Registration
Registration is possible throughout the year, on a first-come, first-serve basis via our online application module. Admission is subject to availability.
