Education

Advanced Management Education Program: This custom executive education program was created by NMSDC in partnership with the J.L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University to provide certified, established, expansion-oriented MBEs with the tools and skills needed to achieve and sustain accelerated growth. NMSDC corporate members recommend high-potential MBEs for participation in the four-day program, which is held each year in June.

• 2010 Brochure
• 2010 Application form

Supplier Diversity Online Course: This NMSDC course provides corporations with a comprehensive overview of minority supplier development; Best Practices for planning, implementing and assessing a supplier diversity process; and tools to ensure maximum impact and relevance to a company’s business strategy. The online course is an 18-hour targeted offering available over a 12-week period that will enhance the corporate/MBE buyer/seller relationship. Guidance and direction are provided by online facilitators and experienced supplier diversity professionals chosen by NMSDC. The online course allows participants to interact with a vibrant community of their colleagues in chat rooms and threaded discussions.

          Supplier Diversity Online Course Flyer   Registration Form

Regional Corporate Seminars: NMSDC hosts one-and-a-half day seminars in  Georgia, and San Francisco, California, for corporate purchasing personnel. This year's theme, Leading from the Future: Planting the Seeds of Recovery acknowledges this reality.  These formal learning programs support specific learning objectives.

• 2010 Regional Training Seminar Registration Form

 Other examples of NMSDC corporate learning opportunities;

• Conference Workshops

Self-directed learning, which does not require specific instructional learning design and supports informal learning.

• Expert networks
  
    Industry Groups
    Advanced Practices Group
  
  
•  Communities of practice
  
  For NMSDC members, this means the process of social learning that occurs when people who have a common interest in a subject collaborate over an extended period to share ideas, find solutions and build innovations.  In addition to industry groups at the national level, there are many working groups in our 38 affiliated councils.