Curated Professional Learning that Invests in Your People
Professional Education at St. Edward’s University offers successful ways to provide relevant learning that enhances the success of your workforce and organization. Ultimately, our custom programming builds stronger teams, reinforces professional skills and helps your organization thrive by investing in people.
Whether you have a fully established organizational development plan or specific overarching learning outcomes you’d like your employees or members to master, our Professional Education supports your efforts. Our programs are an accessible, cost-effective resource for increasing new talent, retaining team members, and bolstering communities with transferable, critical skills.
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What goes into professional learning?
St. Edward’s combines the personalized attention typical of a private institution with the world-class academic reputation and expertise found in much larger universities. By working closely with our partners to understand their needs, we design tailored learning experiences that address these six critical components of professional education.
Collaborate with St. Edward’s
As you review our offerings below, consider how your employees might learn best — becoming better leaders, team members and professionals.
- Do you think an after-work or lunchtime in-person delivery is best, or are you looking for short-form online modules?
- Do you want a high level of interactive learning, or simply a delivery system for new and exciting relevant content?
- Do you want to look at outcome data and assess your employees’ newly acquired skills?
- Do you prefer programs that offer industry-backed credentials, such as badges, certificates, Continuing Education Units (CEUs) or transferable credit-bearing transcripts?
Executive Coaching Certificates
Managing time, people and creative energy is a challenging task for busy executives. Let us create a custom-designed program that helps professionals at every level of your organization balance their day-to-day responsibilities with your mission priorities. Our executive coaching program gives your leaders practical skills that turn ideas into action while supporting employee talent, success and retention.
Custom Faculty Sessions and Seminars
St. Edward’s is prepared to bring its faculty expertise to a custom event, session or seminar for your organization. We offer a range of delivery options, from short-form modular online learning to on-site intensive learning. We’ll collaborate with you on content and curriculum that focuses on your learning outcomes, be it for small groups or organization-wide training.
CEUs and Professional Development
Do you have staff, employees or members who want to take advantage of industry-backed continuing education? St. Edward’s can help by delivering one or more of the Continuing Education Unit (CEU) sessions you need. If you already have a session developed, we can review and award university-approved CEUs for the training you’re leading. As a university, our registration and processing systems will save you the time-consuming steps of gaining a CEU credential for your session.
Engaged Learner Series
A one-and-done employee training session is only as good as those who consistently apply what they learned. What makes an Engaged Learner Series unique is its ability to provide ongoing learning and development across a variety of topic areas. Here’s how our Engaged Learner Series works:
Once or twice a month (for as many months as you see fit), faculty experts from St. Edward’s will present on your most relevant topics over a lunch or a short afternoon. This approach keeps employees engaged and puts theory into practice. Employees and faculty members work together to inform each other about their learning and practical utilization process, making sure everything is tailored to the needs of learners and your organization.
Learn More About Our Professional Education Offerings
Consider credential types as a means to certify the learning experience. Most universities do this by offering credit-bearing courses as part of traditional degree programs. St. Edward’s expands upon this traditional model by providing multiple ways adults and all learners can take advantage of more accessible, career-building options.
- Certificates
University-approved, non-credit-bearing certificates of completion. Demonstrates mastery of learning experience outcomes. - Industry Aligned Badges
Digital and transferable credentials representing mastery of competencies. - Non-Degree Transcripts
Formal university transcripts with title, date, name and grade. Physical and digital copies are available. - CEU and PD
Continuing and professional education units are required to maintain licensure or keep relevant with best practices.
At St. Edward’s, our subject matter experts create curated learning experiences to meet any need, with delivery options that best serve our partner organizations.
- Delivery
St. Edward’s can tailor learning delivery for any style, timeframe and schedule. We offer options for on-site, on-campus, online and hybrid. We understand that education designed for busy learners is critical to success. - Instruction
The renowned expertise of our faculty at St. Edward’s provides in-depth knowledge and skills for our learners. Instruction can be tailored to fit faculty-led options, co-taught options with other subject-matter specialists and industry experts, or self-directed and self-paced formats. - Learner Experience
Depending on the ideal delivery and instruction preference, the learner experience can be delivered in synchronous sessions, semi-synchronous scheduled check-ins, or completely asynchronous.
St. Edward’s offers subject matter expertise and skills development spanning almost every industry. We work with our partners to pinpoint the most relevant learning topics that help their employees foster progress and innovation.
Career and Workplace Readiness
- Career Resilience
- Leading through Coaching
- Emotional Intelligence
- Time Management
- Professional and Technical Writing
- Mentorship
- Interpersonal Communication
- Team Building
- Rational Analysis
- Consensus Building
Behavioral and Social Sciences
- Social Work
- Civic Engagement
- Food Insecurity
- Community and Stewardship
- Applied Behavior Analysis
- Criminal Justice
- Counseling
- Organizational Leadership
- Psychometrics
- Behavioral Data Coordination
- Community Planning
- Substance Abuse Intervention
- Neuroscience
Business
- Entrepreneurship
- Negotiation
- Video and Graphic Design
- Effective Leadership
- Executive Coaching
- Business Analytics
- Social Enterprise
- Global Collaboration
- Innovation Management
- Accounting
- Business Analytics
Critical Thinking and Foundational Skills
- Office Suite
- Operating Systems
- Critical Thinking
- Philosophical Reasoning
- Critical Inquiry
- Logical Problem Solving
Technology and Computer Science
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cryptography
- Software Engineering
- Product Development
- Algorithmic Thinking
Healthcare
- Healthcare Informatics
- Interdisciplinary Health Systems
- Evidence-Based Quality Improvement Projects
- Community Health
- Nursing
- Healthcare Ethics
Education
- Learning Processes and Evaluation
- Educational Technology Integration
- Curriculum and Evaluation
- Special Education
Holy Cross Mission
- History of the Congregation of Holy Cross
- Ethical Leadership
- Social Justice
Environmental Science
- Environmental Policy
- Environmental Ethics
Check out our ongoing workshops, seminars and presentations that offer professional learning opportunities for every industry. Find out what’s happening now, and register to attend. We look forward to meeting you!
2025 Upcoming Events
BUSINESS
On-site Conference:
Council of Texas Business Deans Annual Meeting (Austin, Texas)
Hosted by:
St. Edward's University Bill Munday School of Business
Lead by:
Texas Deans of Texas
Date:
September 28 and 29, 2025
2025 Past Events
SOCIAL WORK
Webinar:
Beyond Cultural Competence: Moving Towards Cultural Humility and Responsiveness in Supervision
Hosted by:
St. Edward's University Social Work Program
Lead by:
Shane Whalley, MSSW
CEUs:
Includes 3 hours of Supervision or Cultural Competence CEUs from St. Edward's University
SOCIAL WORK
Webinar:
Updates on U.S. and Texas Immigration Policy: Protecting Yourself, Your Clients and Your Communities
Hosted by:
St. Edward's University Social Work Program and Texas Immigration Law Council
Lead by:
Kristen Etter, Director of Policy and Legal Services, Texas Immigration Law Council
CEUs:
1.5 hours for Social Work, LPC, & LMFT
SOCIAL WORK
Webinar:
Breaking the School-to-Deportation Pipeline
Hosted by:
St. Edward's University Social Work Program
Lead by:
Natalie Beck Aquilera, DSW, LCSW-S; Dahlia Duron; Ashly Zapata Lopez
CEUs:
1.5 hours
FINANCE, AI, BUSINESS
On-site Conference:
AI in Finance: Navigating the Future (Austin Texas, Online Attendance Options)
Hosted by:
St. Edward's University Bill Munday School of Business, Texas State University Finance and Economics, The Python Quants
Lead by:
Selection of regional and international leaders in FinTech, AI and Business
Tell Us How You Would Like to Collaborate
Interested in creating innovative professional learning programs customized to your industry needs? St. Edward’s is ready to help. Contact our Professional Education team. We look forward to working with you!
Collin Gillenwater
Director for Partnerships and Professional Studies
Cell: 847-804-0214
cgillenw@stedwards.edu
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