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Leadership Essentials for CPAs

Everything you need to know about Essential Leadership and Leadership Core Competencies

Created byBraco Pobric
IntermediateUpdated May 29, 2020

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleDistinguish between management and leadership and understand when to apply each.
  • check_circleIdentify and develop core leadership competencies applicable across industries.
  • check_circleCreate a compelling business vision and align your team or organization with it.
  • check_circleApply leadership principles to foster a strong, positive organizational culture.

About This Course

This short, focused course delivers everything you need to know about essential leadership principles and core competencies. It’s packed with practical content, including a full transcript, workbook, assignments, audio version for mobile listening, complete slide deck, and related research articles. You’ll reflect, apply, and grow through guided exercises designed for real-world impact.

Whether you're an aspiring leader, manager aiming to move up, small business owner, HR professional, or someone planning to start a business, this course is for you. You’ll learn how to differentiate leadership from management, create a vision, apply leadership in daily decisions, and build the right culture in your organization.

Course Content

4 activities • 21 videos • duration: 1h 39m

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Program Introduction-Part15 videos • 14 min
  • videocamAbout Braco Pobric and his Teaching Style
    Duration 5:13
  • videocamAre you a Leader?
    Duration 0:31
  • videocamWhat is Leadership
    Duration 4:37
  • videocamHow Do I Get Additional Help While Going Through This Course?
    Duration 2:38
  • videocamProgram Resources
    Duration 1:25
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Management and Leadership Basics-Part15 videos • 27 min
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Leadership Core Competencies-Part110 videos • 55 min
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Congratulations-Part11 videos • 1 min

Your Instructor

Braco Pobric

Renowned Positive Psychology Expert, Speaker and Presenter

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Braco Pobric is the bestselling author of Habits and Happiness: How to Become Happier and Improve Your Wellbeing by Changing Your Habits and a founding member and Chief Happiness Officer of the Institute for Advanced Human Performance. He is a Certified Positive Psychology Coach, Certified NLP Practitioner, and former globally Certified Trainer and Business Coach for Dale Carnegie Training. Mr. Pobric delivered workshops and speaking engagements for some of the world's largest conferences  in  Positive  Psychology : Fourth World  Congress  of  Positive  Psychology ,International  Conference  on  Positive  Psychology  and  Cognitive  Behavioral  Therapy,  International  Festival  of  Positive  Education, etc. He worked as  a  teaching assistant  for  the University  of  California,  Berkeley,  course  "Science  of  Happiness," in which  we helped  participants  across the  world  understand  and apply   Positive  Psychology  tools. He is a creator of many Accredited Educational Programs including but not limited to Flourishing, Human Change, Science of Happiness and Management Consulting, taught Science of Happiness across the US and UK and has over 40,000 registered online students in 165 countries. Mr. Pobric was a Vice President for the large Wall Street firm, Management Consultant for one of the “Big Five" Companies, Consulting Practice Manager for national large management consulting firms and owner and president for technology consulting, wholesale-retail and internet businesses. He currently holds a leadership role with a large global financial company where he served multiple responsibility including Head of North America Operation, Head of Global Technology Command Centre and is now responsible for North America, Europe and Asia Pacific Regions Data Centers supporting $1.4 trillion of average daily volume. He lives in New Jersey with his wife Nevenka and their cat Ringo.

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

What Students Are Saying

4.4 out of 5
Student's Choice
84 reviews
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    Michelle B.
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    very useful

  • CM
    Cori M.
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    Good speaker, obviously very passionate about his work. Could have used some real life examples - it felt like he was "preaching" too much.

  • AD
    Andrew D.
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    Pretty standard stuff!

  • JB
    Jacqueline B.
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    Good overview and well presented. Succinct and to the point of what to cover with the ability to take future courses if one wants to dive deeper into certain aspects.

Frequently Asked Questions

We are a registered provider with 300+ associations and regulatory bodies worldwide. We operate across 27 global markets including Canada, the US, Australia, and the UK. Every course page clearly displays its specific accreditations. Upon completion, you receive a professional certificate that can be validated online. Our certificates include all necessary accreditation details, credit hours, and completion dates, and are formatted specifically to meet the submission requirements of most global regulatory bodies.

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