Campus Events & Opportunities

Check out these opportunities to engage in conversations and learnings that build skills and knowledge. Below, there are listed ongoing series and educational opportunities around diversity and inclusion, business and innovation, and professional development.

For opportunities that connect students and recent alumni with businesses, check out this semester’s list of career fair and recruitment events.

Recurring opportunities

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

• Custom training from the Center for Professional Development: The leader sets the tone of the organizational culture. UW-Madison’s Center for Professional and Executive Development (CPED) can equip you, and your teams, with the tools needed to mitigate bias in hiring and performance review processes, run inclusive meetings, build diverse relationships with external stakeholders, and design an equity-centered change management strategy. Find out more.

BUSINESS AND INNOVATION

• Entrepreneurons: This ongoing series from WARF brings together thought leaders from across the country and our own backyard to exchange perspectives on core topics ranging from identifying an opportunity to building a startup team to financing and beyond.
• Crossroads of Ideas: This monthly public lecture series from the Discovery Building addresses challenging and engaging social science topics such as politics, policy issues, ethics, public perceptions, law and science and society.
• UW Now Livestream: The Wisconsin Alumni Association presents moderated faculty lightning talks about the work happening on campus now, followed by live Q & A sessions.
• Badger Talks LIVE: This virtual series from UW Connects features UW–Madison faculty and staff experts on a wide variety of interesting and engaging topics.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Business Spanish Certificate Program: In four months, this course from UW–Madison Continuing Studies can greatly improve your professional proficiency in Spanish and gain the cultural knowledge you need to conduct business in Spain and Latin America. Find out more.
• Through the Business Sustainability Leadership Forum, OBE and UW–Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies are teaming up with prominent businesses to ignite important conversations in the environmental sustainability space. Find out more and get involved.
• The Wisconsin School of Business (WSB) Center for Professional and Executive Development can give you and your organization tools to face future challenges with confidence through their courses and certificates in Management and Leadership and Project Management.
• The Division of Continuing Studies offers a wide variety of flexible courses and professional degrees and certificates online, hybrid, and in-person.
• Interdisciplinary Professional Programs (InterPro) provides a portfolio of future-focused professional education programs and services for engineers, managers, technical professionals and partner organizations.
• The redesigned executive MBA program at the Wisconsin School of Business is strategically focused on taking leaders to the next level. Learn more about all of WSB’s MBA offerings.