ACTIVE Leadership Certificate Program

People leaders are the strongest lever for creating a healthy, engaged, and high-performing workforce. The ACTIVE Leadership Certificate Program helps them build practical skills and confidence to support employee well-being, foster psychological safety, navigate difficult conversations, and help people and performance thrive. This program has been developed in collaboration with researchers at Queen’s University.

Blended Learning

People leaders

What Leaders Will Learn

The ACTIVE Leadership Certificate Program is built around three core leadership responsibilities aligned with the approach of the National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace: promoting psychological health and safety, preventing harm, and responding effectively when concerns arise.

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Course objectives

- Through ACTIVE leadership skills and practical communication models, leaders learn how to:

- Build trust and psychological safety

- Support employee well-being

- Navigate difficult conversations

- Foster inclusion and belonging

- Strengthen team resilience

- Lead with greater confidence and self-awareness

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How ACTIVE turns learning into results

Leadership development is most effective when learning can be applied in real workplace situations.ACTIVE combines instructor-led learning, digital learning, AI-supported role play, and post-program follow up to help leaders build confidence and put new skills into practice.

Why ACTIVE?

The ACTIVE Leadership Certificate Program was developed in collaboration with the Queen's University Institute for Educational Scholarship and Research (QIESR) to help leaders build practical, evidence-informed skills that support healthier, safer, and higher-performing workplaces.

By combining academic expertise, interactive learning, AI-supported role play, and real-world application, ACTIVE helps leaders turn learning into meaningful workplace impact.

What sets ACTIVE apart?

Evidence-informed curriculum
AI-supported role play
Blended learning experience
Practical workplace application
Certificate of completion

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The ACTIVE Learning Journey

Learn

Build foundational leadership skills through two interactive half-day workshops focused on psychological health and safety, employee well-being, and effective leadership practices.

Practice

Apply new skills through online learning and AI-supported immersive role play that simulates real workplace conversations in a safe environment with meaningful feedback.

Apply

Use practical tools and communication frameworks in everyday leadership situations, from coaching conversations to workload discussions and employee support interactions.

Certificate

Participants who successfully complete the program earn the ACTIVE Leadership Certificate of Completion that recognizes their commitment to creating healthier, safer and higher-performing workplaces.

How the program works

ACTIVE combines live instruction delivered by a specialized network of skilled facilitators, self-paced learning, practical application, and follow-up learning to help leaders build skills that stick.

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Part 1: Classroom Workshops

Two facilitator-led half-day workshops that build essential skills and frameworks while fostering peer sharing and strategizing:

Module 1: Fostering a Thriving Workplace
Module 2: Enabling Your People

Part 2: Online Learning and Certification

Participants continue their learning through:

Self-paced microlearning
AI-powered conversation simulations
Personalized AI coaching
Final assessment and certification

Part 3: Post-program follow up

Following certification, participants receive four months of continued learning support, including:

Monthly microlearning and reflection activities
Continued access to AI coaching and conversation practice

How ACTIVE can make the biggest impact

The ACTIVE Leadership Certificate Program is designed for organizations looking to strengthen leadership capability while supporting employee well-being, workplace culture and organizational performance.

Who is the program for?

Managers, supervisors and emerging leaders
Organizations looking to enhance psychological health and safety, employee engagement and leadership development

What impact can we expect?

Addresses timely priorities including burnout risk, workload pressure, psychological safety, inclusion, difficult employee conversations, leader self-awareness, and the ongoing need to support both employee well-being and performance.

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