LPI Schedule, Tuition, and Fees

Leading Public Innovation curriculum includes four courses totaling 15 credits.

Schedule and tuition are subject to change. Tuition and fees total $9,708. A $250 enrollment confirmation deposit is due upon admission acceptance, which will be applied to winter 2027 tuition.

In-person meeting on Seattle campus: Friday, December 11, 2026 from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm.

This course covers practices for redesigning public services. It explores how public, nonprofit, and philanthropic structures create unique operational realities and cultures that must be navigated to lead change across institutional boundaries. It also delves deeply into personal leadership awareness and investigates social contributors to disparities in public services delivery – particularly race and ethnicity. The course will equip students with analytical frameworks and methods, including implementation analysis and strategic management, human-centered design, and racial equity analysis to support redesign processes.

Students will select from an array of courses designed with the working professional student in mind. Courses cover a range of topics, including policy implementation, collaboration, operationalizing racial equity, and more.

This course features concepts, frameworks, and practical tools to help students build and practice concepts from the Redesigning Public Services course as well as plan and refine an applied Redesign Project. By combining these elements, the course helps students improve their ability to plan, execute, track, and communicate about innovation and redesign initiatives. Readings on adaptive leadership, project management, and race and equity provide core concepts to inform discussions, exercises, and assignments.

This workshop provides students with opportunities to develop strategic leadership and practice relevant skills. In Washington and other states, there are significant disparities in public service outcomes across racial and ethnic groups. This course will also focus on exploring the sources of these disparities, enabling leaders to experiment with how to introduce solutions to narrow the disparities in public service experiences.e capstone experience for the Building Resilient Local Government graduate certificate, students will be asked to connect the concepts learned in the other required courses – Collaborative and Management Across Sectors (Leading Complex Partnerships), Leading for Equity, and Methods for Engaging Communities. Participants will bridge conceptual frameworks and communication tools honed in other certificate classes to pragmatic problem solving. This will provide an opportunity to refine their skills and personal understanding of their strengths and limitations as local governmental leaders committed to improving institutional resiliency in these times. 

Capstone Day, is the culminating event in the Leading Public Innovation graduate certificate program. On Capstone Day, students present their Redesign Projects to agency leaders, colleagues, and the broader Evans School community. Held Tuesday, September 7, 2027. Date subject to be changed, will be confirmed in winter 2027.