High Impact Leadership Certificate
October 2024 - March 2025
UW-Stevens Point Campus
Business and Leadership, See Stevens Point Offerings

High Impact Leadership Certificate​​

Monthly, October 2024 - March 2025 | 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. | UWSP Main Campus

​​Certificate Purpose

The UWSP Continuing Education Certificate for High Impact Leadership is designed to help individual contributors, supervisors, managers, and directors from every type of organization lead themselves, lead others and lead results. The certificate leverages enlightening presentations, thought-provoking discussions, and hands-on activities.​​​

The Leadership Certificate ​​​consists of six workshops. You are required to complete six (6) workshops within two (2) years to earn the Leadership Certificate.

​Registration Information: Full Certificate (All 6 sessions)​​

Registration Information: Individual Sessions​

Registration Fee: 

  • $1950 Professionals

  • $1500 UWSP Faculty/Staff

  • $450 UWSP Students​

    • ​​​$6 per day campus parking permit​

Registration Fee:

  • $350 Professionals

  • $295 UWSP Faculty/Staff

  • $75 ​UWSP ​Students

    • $6 per day campus parking permit​

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2024 - 2025 Leadership Workshops

This 6-month experience includes team-based, applied learning, regional network building, and the opportunity to learn with experienced instructors from for profit, nonprofit and government backgrounds.

October 25, 2024 | Unboxing your Leadership

What’s your career journey?

In this workshop we unbox your career, your impact, and the future you imagine. In this session you will identify the skills you want to strengthen so that you can maximize wellbeing and productivity. The workshop incorporates active learning and provides several action tools so that you can begin applying what you learn immediately.

Session Outcomes: During this session you will create a career map, assess your leadership skills, and craft a 12-month leadership development plan.​

Led by Lyna M​atesi​

November 15, 2024 | Unlocking the Mystery to Sustainable Resilience: Integrating Mind, Body, and Spirit for Lasting Strength

Can you imagine the excitement you would feel to find a reliable, sustainable daily source of personal energy? The answer is inside you. 

In a world where constant change and unexpected challenges are the norm, developing sustainable resilience is essential. This interactive program delves into the holistic integration of mind, body, and spirit to build a robust foundation of personal strength. Drawing on decades of experience in mental health, inpatient rehabilitation, and leadership development, this session offers practical tools and transformative insights. Attendees will learn to change mental habits, regulate emotions, harness daily energy, and deepen their connections with themselves and others. Through engaging stories and proven strategies, this program provides a comprehensive approach to balance intuition with daily demands and empowering others to do the same.  

Session Outcomes: Participants will leave with skills and tools in mindful self-assessment of well-being, emotion regulation, developing positivity, stress reduction, and developing a personalized resilience plan.  

Led by Brian Krolczyk

December 13, 2024 | Cultivating a Growth Mindset

What's your Mindset? 

In this workshop we explore the costs and benefits of mindset. We use several studies to improve your mindset moves so that you can accelerate your career, shift your mindset, and influence the mindsets of the people, projects, and organizations you lead. The workshop incorporates active learning and provides several action tools so that you can begin applying what you learn immediately.

Session Outcomes: During this session you will develop a plan for bringing a growth mindset to your organization with the goal of improving employee attraction and retention.

Led by Lyna Matesi​

January 24, 2025 | Transforming Your Team to Build Corporate Culture

How does one person, one team change an entire company culture? 

Corporate culture is how business gets done, company norms, and how strategy comes to life. When corporate culture is great, teams fire on all cylinders and satisfaction is through the roof. When culture is unhealthy, it's “get me out of here!" Join this leadership transformation session for tools to change your team and learn how one team can change a company. Leave ready to support a thriving organizational culture that improves retention, succession, recruitment, and production.

Session Outcomes:​ During this session you will gain practical tools and strategies to transform your teams, ultimately driving positive change in the entire company culture. You will be equipped to foster a thriving organizational environment that enhances employee retention, succession planning, recruitment, and overall productivity.

Led by Stephanie Perkins

February 14, 2025 | Empowering Change and Innovation

What’s your appetite for change? 

In this workshop you will explore the dynamic connections between employee satisfaction, organization change, field innovation, and measurable productivity. You will learn how to frame change, balance innovation and keep stakeholders engaged and flexible.​

Session Outcomes: During the session you will learn to use a change assessment map as well as a standard process for planning communication to multiple stakeholder groups.

Led by Lyna Matesi​

March 7, 2025 | Driving Customer Alignment and Impact

What do your customers care about?

In this workshop you will gain insights about how to clarify customer needs, align organizational goals with customer expectations, and drive results that foster customer loyalty and business growth.

Session Outcomes: During this session you will create a customer empathy map and define the factors driving customer loyalty in your sector. You will leave with a plan to sustain relationships and growth profitability.

Led by Lyna Matesi​ and Lada Xiong-Vang​​

Session Facilitators​

 



​Lyna Matesi​​

​Lyna Matesi​​

Lyna Matesi is a change leader, facilitator and educator. Her passion is helping organizations, teams, and individuals maximize success.

She has worked as an internal and external consultant coordinating large-scale change initiatives, implementing leadership development systems, and di​recting a wide range of domestic and international projects. 

She teaches MBA courses, drives new program development, and is a co-founder of a leadership focused women’s center for the College of Professional Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Additionally, as an On-Call Facilitator for the Center for Creative Leadership, Lyna helps leaders and organizations create the three outcomes of effective leadership: direction, alignment, and commitment (DAC). 

In 2024 Lyna was selected as one of 20 global fellows for the Women Who Lead the World fellowship program where she is championing women’s leadership in all sectors around the world. ​




​Brian Krolczyk

​Brian Krolczyk

Brian is a National Board-Certified Executive Health Coach with over 35 years of experience in mental health, inpatient physical rehabilitation, and executive assessment/development. For over a decade, he was Sr. Assessor in the Global Executive Solutions Group at Development Dimensions International (DDI), Inc., a global leader in executive coaching and development. Brian has assessed hundreds of C-Suite executives from the Fortune 500 spanning every major industry and continent.

At UWSP, Brian teaches Neuro-leadership (MBA Program), Health Psychology, Wellness Expertise, Advanced Techniques in Health Coaching, and Health Coaching Ethics.

His specialty is developing business leadership acumen and executive well-being (personal resilience). Brian is invested in helping leaders develop best practices, accelerate business str​​ategy, navigate change, improve agility and create a high-engagement culture.

Brian is married and a parent to four adult children. He is a UWSP graduate! He is a survivor of divorce, chronic pain, open-heart surgery, and diabetes diagnosis. These personal experiences have strengthened his commitment to self-awareness, health promotion, and leadership development.​​​





 Stephanie Perkins​​





  

​Stephanie Perkins​​

Stephanie Perkins stands at the forefront of innovative leadership development. As a certified brain-based coach from the prestigious NeuroLeadership Institute, she has carved a niche in transforming the dynamics of leadership and corporate culture. With her roots in human resources and career coaching, Stephani​e has been instrumental in demystifying the complexities of career progression for a diverse clientele in Washington, D.C.

Returning to her hometown of Wausau, WI, Stephanie's impact deepened as the Vice President of People Development at IncredibleBank. There, she spearheaded transformative training, leadership programs, and cultural shifts that resonated throughout the organization.

Today, Stephanie's expertise benefits companies across Northcentral Wisconsin. She is dedicated to crafting and implementing bespoke leadership programs that drive organizational success. Her one-on-one coaching sessions are tailored to empower individuals to reach their leadership potential.

​A seasoned speaker, Stephanie has facilitated workshops from the sunny coasts of San Diego to the power corridors of Washington, D.C. Her sessions ar​e a blend of insightful brain-based science and practical strategies, delivered with a touch of humor that ensures engagement and lasting impact.​​​​​

 

Lada Xiong-Vang​

Lada Xiong-Vang is the General Manager for the Furniture Solutions Division at Samuels Group where she oversees operations, drives business development initiatives, and cultivates relationships with clients and partners.  Over her career Lada has showcased exceptional leadership, strategic thinking, and a deep understanding of the design industry.

Confidence, curiosity and openness are just a few of Lada’s leadership traits. Her group minded lens in decision making is a natural outworking of her Hmong heritage. She doesn’t focus on problems but rather solutions. She refers to herself as a community weaver, reflecting the strong connection to her family’s community-focused culture.

Lada is one of the founders of Central Wisconsin Hmong Professionals. This organization draws attention to the tensions of working in the corporate world while embracing Hmong identity and family values. 


​Certificate Focus

The program equips emerging and established leaders to be both adaptive and collaborative.

  • Adaptive, agile leaders know themselves, their team members, and their organization. They are aware, resilient, and focused on growth.

  • Collaborative leaders bring people together. They shape culture, influence change, and focus on customer satisfaction.​

Certificate Outcomes

“Just 1 in 3 Americans is engaged at work, according to Gallup's latest report on employee engagement. Workers are feeling more detached from their employers, dissatisfied with their organization, and they're less likely to feel like someone at work cares about them as a person, researchers say." CNBC Article

Each certificate session delivers several applied action tools so that you can begin applying what you learn immediately. The UWSP High Impact Leadership Certificate prepares you to—

  • Improve employee job satisfaction and retention

  • Drive customer satisfaction, alignment and profitability

  • Cultivate a team environment that invites employee engagement

  • Take an active interest in other people's perspectives and points of view

  • Create opportunities for employee collaboration, shared problem-solving and efficiency

  • Adapt to changing situations and uncertainty with fresh ideas and renewed energy

  • Prioritize employee well-being and resilience

  • Think in ways that are purposeful, reasoned, and goal-directed​​

​Certificate Core Skills

The five future skills that matter most:​

Five of the most in demand skills are emphasized and threaded throughout the workshop sessions.  You will graduate from the UWSP High Impact Leadership Certificate as a more adaptable, collaborative, empathetic leader equipped to facilitate communication, critical thinking, well-being and resilience.

Adaptability

​Adaptability. “The Adaptability Competency means having flexibility in handling change, being able to juggle multiple demands, and adapting to new situations with fresh ideas or innovative approaches. It means you not only can stay focused on your goals, but also can easily adjust how you achieve them. An adaptable leader can meet new challenges as they arise and not be halted by sudden change, remaining comfortable with the uncertainty that leadership can bring. The Adaptability Competency means having flexibility in handling change, being able to juggle multiple demands, and adapting to new situations with fresh ideas or innovative approaches. It means you not only can stay focused on your goals, but also can easily adjust how you achieve them. An adaptable leader can meet new challenges as they arise and not be halted by sudden change, remaining comfortable with the uncertainty that leadership can bring." Korn Ferry

Collaboration

Collaboration. “Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. Collaboration is the art of bringing people together to leverage their skills, talents, and knowledge to achieve a common purpose. Collaborating creates synergy, resulting in a combined effort with greater results than those achieved by individuals. Collaboration leads to the more efficient use of time and resources and the easy exchange of ideas and talent. People are more likely to be committed due to their involvement." Indiana University

Communication

Communication. “Leaders communicate effectively in both formal and informal settings. Good listeners, they reinforce the message they convey with supportive mannerisms. Leaders express facts and ideas succinctly and logically, facilitate an open exchange of ideas, ask for feedback routinely, and communicate face-to-face whenever possible. They write clear, concise, and organized correspondence and reports. Successful leaders prepare and deliver effective presentations. In situations requiring public speaking they deliver organized statements, field audience questions, confidently communicate with the media and other external entities." US Coast Guard

Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking. “Critical thinking appears to be exactly what is needed from leaders who are navigating the volatility of the "new normal". Diane Halpern, an award-winning professor of psychology at Claremont McKenna College and a widely read author on the subject, offers this definition in her seminal book, Thought and Knowledge: "Critical thinking is the use of those cognitive skills or strategies that increase the probability of a desirable outcome. It is used to describe thinking that is purposeful, reasoned, and goal-directed - the kind of thinking involved in solving problems, formulating inferences, calculating likelihoods, and making decisions ... it's the kind of thinking that makes desirable outcomes more likely." International Institute of Directors​

Empathy

Empathy. “Empathy means having the ability to sense others' feelings and how they see things. You take an active interest in their concerns. You pick up cues to what's being felt and thought. With empathy, you sense unspoken emotions. You listen attentively to understand the other person's point of view, the terms in which they think about what's going on. Empathic leaders get along well with people from very different backgrounds and cultures, and can express their ideas in ways the other person will understand." Korn Ferry​

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Leadership ​Certificate Testimonials​

 “I highly recommend the leadership workshop series. Through six workshop sessions, we covered topics such as growth mindset, communication, and leadership dynamics, I feel like I experienced significant personal and professional growth and learned tools to make me more effective in my roles. The workshop provided insights and practical strategies that have empowered me to lead more effectively and confidently in various aspects of my life.” - Leadership Certificate Alumni 2023-2024. 

“The Leadership Certificate and Workshop Program, hosted by UWSP, is a must for anyone looking to enhance their leadership skills. The program offers a dynamic and diverse group of presenters that challenged me, in the best way, on both a professional and personal level. I can't say enough good things about this program." - Leadership Certificate Participant  

 
Full refunds granted upon receipt of written request to uwspceweb@uwsp.edu when received 14 days before the start date of each individual workshop. No refunds will be given if cancellation is received less than 14 days before the workshop. Substitutions can be made at any time, but no shows will be responsible for the full conference fee. 

Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities will be made if requested at least two weeks in advance. 
Please contact Continuing Education at 715-346-3838 or uwspceweb@uwsp.edu.