Public Management Academy
The Public Management Academy is an in-depth program meticulously crafted to strengthen managers’ supervisory and management skills while broadening their toolkit for effective public sector leadership.
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About the Program
The Public Management Academy (PMA) provides an in-depth, yearlong program meticulously designed to strengthen managers’ supervisory and management skills. Through a rigorous curriculum, participants not only enhance their existing proficiencies but also expand their toolkit specifically tailored for the dynamic challenges of the public sector.
Program details
The cost of the Public Management Academy is $2,700.
Key Program Details:
This immersive program equips managers with the knowledge and practical tools necessary to excel in their roles within government agencies, nonprofit organizations and other public-sector entities.
- Duration: One year
- Customized workshops: 19 sessions
- Capstone project: Practical application of skills
- Total instructor-led contact hours: 123 hours
- Additional hours for project development and implementation: 40 hours
What it looks like:
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Quarter 1 No.
Date
Course
Hours
1
07/16/2024
Understanding Self & Others
3.5
2
07/30/2024
Strategic Management
3.5
3
08/13/2024
Design Thinking in the Public Sector
3.5
4
08/27/2024
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Public Sector
3.5
5
09/10/2024
Performance Management
3.5
Total Hours
17.5
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Quarter 2 No.
Date
Course
Hours
6
09/24/2024
Developing & Leading Teams
3.5
7
10/08/2024
Project Management – Day 1
3.5
8
10/22/2024
Process Improvement Tools
3.5
9
11/05/2024
Program Lab – Day 1
3.5
10
11/19/2024
Survey & Research Data Collection
3.5
Total Hours
17.5
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Quarter 3 -
Quarter 4 No.
Date
Course
Hours
16
02/18/2025
HR Management
3.5
17
03/04/2025
Effective Presentations
3.5
18
03/18/2025
Ethics & Integrity in the Public Sector
3.5
19
04/01/2025
Program Lab – Day 3
3.5
20
04/15/2025
Project Presentations – Day 1
3.5
21
04/22/2025
Project Presentations – Day 2
3.5
22
04/29/2025
Project Presentations – Day 3 (if needed)
3.5
Total Hours
21 to 24.5
Meet the Instructors
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Jennifer Madden, Ph.D. Dean Jennifer Madden is a strategist, researcher, teacher, facilitator and design thinker. She is also a Nonprofit Management Research Fellow, a Fowler Sustainability Fellow and a Management Design Fellow. Her book, "Inter-Organizational Collaboration by Design" in the Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management Series examines how collaborations can overcome barriers to innovate and rejuvenate communities by outlining the factors and antecedents that influence successful collaboration. The book proposes a theoretical perspective for collaborators to adopt the language of designers, evidence-based tools and strategies to enable success. It outlines her journey from research to action resulting in a “Collaboration Blueprint” that assisted community-based nonprofit organizations to secure over $13.5M in grant funding (with nearly $9M raised in a single year).
Education
- B.A., economics and American studies, Case Western Reserve University
- Master’s in nonprofit management, Case Western Reserve University
- Ph.D., Weatherhead School of Management
Publications
Washington, M. L., Madden, J. R., Clevenger, M. R., & Miao, C. (2022). The Power of Entrepreneurs and Social Systems: Driving Forces for Empowerment, Mitigating Disempowerment, and Advancing Equity. In Entrepreneurial Communities and Ecosystems (pp. 100-142). Routledge.
Chupp, M., Madden, J., & Yankey, J. (2022, May 18). Strategic planning. In Encyclopedia of Social Work.
Washington, M. L., & Madden, J. R. (2020). Collaboration & Design Thinking: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Redefining the Next Normal and Creating Resilient Ecosystems. Review of Business Research, 20(1), 61-74.
Washington, M. L., & Madden, J. R. (2020). Social Media Induced Technostressors and its Impact on Productivity and Work/Home Conflict Pre COVID-19. International Journal of Business Research, 20(2), 50-62.
Madden, J. (2018). Inter-Organizational Collaboration by Design (Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management Series). New York, NY: Routledge.
Peters, S. E., Nielsen, K. M., Nagler, E. M., Revette, A. C., Madden, J., & Sorensen, G. (2019). Ensuring Organization-Intervention Fit for a Participatory Organizational Intervention to Improve Food Service Workers’ Health and Wellbeing: Workplace Organizational Health Study. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Madden, J. (2018, March 1). Keys to a Successful Affordable Housing Cross-Sector Collaboration. How Housing Matters.
Madden, J. (2017). Reimagining Collaboration: Insight from Leaders of Affordable-Housing Cross-Sector Collaborations on Successful Collaboration Design, Performance, and Social Innovation. Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership, 7(3), 182–196.
Madden, J. (2017). It was the best of times, it was the worst of times: the doctoral journey of a female African American, Management Ph.D. In Artenie, C., & Davis, D. J., (Eds.), Specialists: Passions and Careers (pp. 81-84). Montreal: Universitas Press.
Madden, J. (2015). Leveraging Design: How the Design Process and a Design Framework Strengthens Nonprofit Management Pedagogy. Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership, 5(1), 6-11.
Madden, J. (2011). Overcoming Collaborations Barriers in Affordable Housing Public-Private Partnerships. Academy of Management Annual Proceedings, (Best Papers Meeting Supplement), 1-6.
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