A values-based leadership certificate program for women
Eight weeks, live, with the researcher who built the framework. Learn to lead from purpose rather than approval, make decisions your values can defend, and keep going through the parts that usually break people.
Free information session
Tuesday, September 29, hosted with Pepperdine GSEP. Come hear about the program before you apply.
Cohort limited to 15. In partnership with Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology.
Most leadership programs give you insight. This one gives you a portfolio you keep using after the last session ends.
You have leadership experience, potential, or a sense of calling, and it is clouded by self-doubt, competing expectations, unclear priorities, or uncertainty about the next step.
A defined leadership identity, a practical framework for values-aligned decisions under pressure, a personal plan for moving through self-doubt, a community initiative you have designed, and ninety days of concrete next steps.
A leadership identity built on your own values, convictions, and lived experience rather than a borrowed model.
Six core virtues applied as a working tool for complex leadership decisions, not as language on a wall.
A personal strategy for what to do when self-doubt appears, grounded in purpose rather than willpower.
A values-aligned project designed to serve your community, profession, or practice, with a defined first step.
Concrete next steps that carry the work past the final session.
The Compass came out of original doctoral research on faith-motivated women leaders. It is not a secular framework with faith language added on top. You learn it in week one and navigate by it for the rest of the program.
God-centered accountability. You lead from calling rather than from validation, which gives you an ethical floor that outside pressure cannot erode.
Excellence as a practice and patience as a form of trust. Growth oriented toward the right timing rather than toward deadline panic.
Community engagement as a calling, not a strategy. Leadership understood as an obligation to the people you were placed among.
The full resilience cycle. Leading through adversity without burning out and without compromising your values to survive it.
Two hours each, live and virtual, 5:00 to 7:00pm Pacific and 8:00 to 10:00pm Eastern. Sixteen contact hours across eight days, October 14 through December 9.
Not a recorded course. Eight two-hour sessions with the person who created the framework, in a cohort small enough that you get coached rather than watching someone else get coached.
A Certificate of Completion carrying both Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology and The Nura Collective.
A Credly badge you can add to LinkedIn, share, and have verified by an employer.
Many participants self-report the sixteen contact hours toward SHRM, HRCI, or PMI recertification. A detailed completion letter is provided.
Five artifacts you build during the program and keep using afterward, not a folder of notes.
Ten to fifteen women in comparable positions who become a professional network past December.
Pepperdine grants up to $1,500 toward a GSEP graduate program for participants who complete this certificate and go on to enroll. One-time, for new students. If a master's or doctorate is anywhere in your plans, most of this program's cost comes back.
Women of faith from any tradition. You will never be asked to set aside your own beliefs.
Dr. Aasiyah N. Ghazi holds a Ph.D. in Global Leadership and Change and an Ed.D. in Organizational Leadership, both from Pepperdine University. The Nura Leadership Compass came directly out of her doctoral research: a phenomenological study of how faith-motivated women leaders sustain their values, resilience, and community commitment under sustained pressure.
She is a certified Impostor Syndrome Informed Coach, an authorized RBLP trainer, a former APA reviewer at Pepperdine, and host of the Amplify Your Potential podcast. She has published on servant leadership among women entrepreneurs and presented at the American Educational Research Association and the International Leadership Association.
This is not a curriculum she licensed. It is the work she spent years on, taught by the person who did it.
Fully, and openly. The framework is God-centered because that is what the research found: the women in the study did not treat faith as a private matter running alongside their leadership, they led from it. So the language of the program reflects that.
What it does not do is assume one tradition. Women of any faith are welcome, you will never be asked to set aside or explain your own beliefs, and there is no theology you have to agree with to participate. What you need is a sense that your leadership answers to something larger than approval, a title, or the next result.
Sessions are live and participation is a real part of how the program works, so plan to attend. If something unavoidable comes up, reach out and we will make sure you can catch up before the next module.
Often, yes, and most women never think to ask. Professional development budgets, tuition assistance, and continuing education funds all commonly cover programs like this. Say so on your application and you will receive an invoice and a one-page justification letter you can forward to your manager without writing anything yourself.
A certificate program. You complete a defined curriculum and receive a Certificate of Completion co-branded with Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology, plus a verified Credly digital credential.
Many participants self-report the sixteen contact hours toward SHRM, HRCI, or PMI recertification, and a detailed completion letter with hours, objectives, and instructor credentials is provided for that purpose. Requirements differ by credential, so confirm with your certifying body.
The cohort is capped at fifteen so there is room for everyone to be coached. The application takes about five minutes, Dr. Ghazi reads every one, and you will hear back within two business days.
Fifteen seats. Applications reviewed as they arrive, and you will hear back within two business days. There is a free information session on Tuesday, September 29 if you would like to hear more first.
Apply for the fall cohort