From Good to Great: The Center for Professional Learning Ignites Leadership, Fuels Innovation, Empowers Communities
Viterbo University’s Center for Professional Learning (CPL) creates customized educational programs to transform organizations and communities.
Whether on our campus or in your organization, our facilitators—experienced professionals emphasizing practical, experiential, and immediately applicable outcomes—create learning environments that energize and engage employees and build leaders. Employees leave with a higher sense of purpose and passion to champion your business’s success.
Our goal is to inspire individuals, organizations, and communities by providing resources and skills for leadership, innovation, and growth. We transform the way people and organizations work for the greater good.
Upcoming Professional Opportunities
Servant Leadership Roundtable Discussions
Jan. 7 - Hope | Feb. 4 - Love | Mar. 4 - Faith
7: 30 am - 8:30 am | Viterbo University Brophy Center Commons |
Free and open to the public
Online Certificate in Servant Leadership
January 28 - March 18, 2025
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In-Person Certificate in Servant Leadership
March 20 & 27, April 3, 10, 17, & 24, 2025
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Community Conversation on Servant Leadership
April 15, 2025
Registration coming soon!
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2025 Conference on Servant Leadership
June 26 - June 27, 2025
Registration coming soon!
Certificate in Nonprofit Leadership Development
September 2024 - May 2025
Scholarships Available!
Master of Arts in Servant Leadership
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Compression Planning® Training
Contact us for future training options
Did You Know?
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Center for Professional Learning Highlights
The professional courses we offer—in topics such as compression planning and servant leadership—can be taken off site at an organization or other preferred location, on our main campus or the Weber Center for the Performing Arts, online, or as a hybrid of online and in person.
These options make it easier for you or your employees to attend our high-quality professional courses.
Professional Learning for Organizations
We will partner with you to offer a wide range of professional courses for your employees. We offer:
- half- and full-day sessions.
- weekly, monthly, and extended programs.
Our experiential learning approach will create an environment within your organization that is equipped to develop leaders, build optimal teams, execute goals, and inspire continual growth.
Servant Leadership at Viterbo
We have been recognized as a pioneer in servant leadership for more than 20 years.
Servant leadership—which flips the traditional hierarchy by placing a leader in a position of service to their team members—is associated with:
- positive organizational outcomes.
- employee satisfaction.
- a collaborative work culture.
Through our professional courses, your leaders will learn how to focus on the needs of others and foster a sense of community and shared purpose within your organization. For further learning, explore our Master of Arts in Servant Leadership.
Professional Courses
Online Certificate in Servant Leadership
This seven-week, non-credit Online Certificate in Servant Leadership is taught by Viterbo Distinguished Professor of Servant Leadership Tom Thibodeau.
Compression Planning
Based on a process conceived by Disney, compression planning is an efficient, high output approach to planning projects, developing strategic priorities, assessing needs, solving problems, reorganizing businesses, planning events, developing grants, or making business decisions.
Community Conversation on Servant Leadership
Viterbo University will offer another installment in its Community Conversation on Servant Leadership series from 7–9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, November 13, 2024, in the Collins Auditorium (room 196), located in Viterbo's School of Nursing building.
