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          • Certificate in Corporate Entrepreneurship
          • AI Ready
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          At the Furman Innovation Lab, learning isn’t passive. It’s something you live. Our courses, professional certificates, and learning pathways are designed to be bold, relevant, and connected to the world around you. Here, you’ll blend Furman’s reputation for academic excellence with hands-on application to spark new ideas and develop the skills and confidence to lead change wherever you go.

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Spark

Leadership readiness, built early.

Your organization already has people showing potential–taking initiative, earning trust and stepping into greater responsibility.

Spark gives emerging leaders and high-potential talent the space to build the behaviors that will help them step into those opportunities with greater awareness, confidence and intention.

Across three months, participants build six leadership behaviors through applied learning, reflection and practice in the work they are already doing.

Start Building What’s Next

Potential is only the beginning.

Strong performance can show you who is capable. It does not always tell you who is ready to lead. The space between being identified as high potential and being asked to take on greater responsibility is where leadership habits begin to form: through observation, experience and trial and error.

Spark makes that development intentional.

Six behaviors. One leadership foundation.

Spark is a three-month applied leadership journey for emerging leaders and early high-potential talent. The experience is grounded in six interconnected behaviors that shape how participants understand themselves, influence others and contribute to the work around them.

Model

Self-Awareness & Impact

Vision

Values & Storytelling

Regulate

Resilience and Wellbeing

Innovate

Creativity & Problem Solving

Empower

Collaboration & Performance

Celebrate

Engagement & Culture

Together, the six behaviors help participants examine the gap between the leader they intend to be and the leader others actually experience.

Spark is intentionally spaced across three in-person learning days, giving participants time to put each part of the experience into practice.

Between learning days, participants apply what they have learned in real conversations, relationships and challenges–then return ready to reflect and build.

Learning that travels back to work.

Learn → Apply → Reflect → Build

What does Spark help your organization build?

Spark develops leadership readiness while participants are still growing into greater influence and responsibility.

Leadership readiness before the next role

Give emerging talent the opportunity to develop leadership behaviors before they are expected to use them at full scale.

Greater self-awareness and impact

Participants learn to recognize blind spots, understand how they affect others and make more intentional choices about how they show up.

A shared leadership foundation

The six behaviors create common language participants can carry into future teams, projects and leadership roles.

Development connected to real work

Participants practice in actual relationships and situations, so leadership development becomes something they use—not simply something they attended.

Build readiness before responsibility arrives.

Spark gives organizations a way to develop promising talent while participants are still growing into greater influence, visibility and responsibility.

Who should you be thinking about?

Spark is designed for the people your organization is already watching:

  • Emerging leaders beginning to influence beyond their current role
  • High-potential individual contributors
  • Employees taking on project or team responsibility
  • Talent being considered for future leadership opportunities
  • People you want to prepare before the next step arrives

If you are already thinking of names, Spark may be the right place to begin.

Spark the Conversation
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