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IMAGE: Graduate Certificate in Service Firm Leadership



This graduate certificate is designed to develop leadership skills and operational frameworks for understanding and responding to change in contemporary professional service firms.
  • Nine-day In-classroom Residency at GWs Graduate Education Center in Alexandria (6 credits)
  • Online distance learning between segments (3 credits)
  • Four-day Capstone Residency in Alexandria, VA (3 credits)
  • Combine this certificate with Law Firm Management and earn a GW Master's in Professional Service Firm Management


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Program Contacts

Program Representative
Helen Forner
(703) 299-9147
hforner@gwu.edu

Program Director
D. Jeffrey Lenn, Ph.D.
(202) 994-4988
djlenn@gwu.edu

A Professional Service Firm Manager can be a Strategic Leader in the field. Apply leadership frameworks to the management of your service firm. Learn the theories and principles of leadership within professional service firms and the new demands on the leaders of these firms.

The Graduate Certificate Program in Professional Service Firm Leadership is an intensive, highly interactive education for managers who want to broaden their skills and advance to executive opportunities.

Co-sponsored by The George Washington University's (GW) College of Professional Studies (CPS) and The Hildebrandt Institute, this exciting new program imparts business and legal knowledge to individuals who want to be leaders in the service firm industry. Students will receive the best of two worlds; an in-depth understanding of the service firm industry coupled with the strength of an internationally recognized university.

Through its partnership with The Hildebrandt Institute, a premier consultant to service firms around the world, CPS is uniquely positioned to provide service firm professionals with the skills they will need to lead their firms forward in this ever-changing business environment.