About Us

The Professional Education Center (PEC) in the College of Business at Eastern Michigan University provides customized technical and leadership training programs to help businesses and individuals meet challenges and build technical and leadership skills. Students benefit from training and professional coaching from EMU's world-class College of Business and external instructors and consultants.

We customize our programs to meet our client's specific needs and support system-wide changes. We also work to create behavioral changes in the individual to achieve goals and sustainable results. We design top-quality programs based on leading edge theory, research and practice, as well as base them on proven methods. We can bring programs to your organization to enhance management and business skills and support leadership development. These programs include, but aren't limited to:

• LEAD Leadership development program
• Emotional and Social Intelligence and Leadership
• Business Skills – Finance, Marketing, Statistics, Business Communication, Strategic Thinking
• Project Management
• Social Media 101 and Advanced

Our business skills programs are immediately applicable on the job. Recently, the PEC provided training to the purchasing staff of a global manufacturing company to more effectively manage the significant dollars spent on parts and materials. “…we had a very successful vendor negotiation as a direct result of the high quality, very relevant cost accounting training provided by the PEC.” Dave Reeves, Vice President.

The PEC also provides leading edge training and coaching in building leader competencies that support changing leader roles and succession planning.

Why Choose the Professional Education Center?
Our PEC programs are developed from the latest research and experience from the fields of organizational development, leadership development, business management skill areas, team building and the use of teams, project management and more. They are developed and supported by the many ties our outstanding and experienced consultants and instructors cultivate with the organizations and industries they work with around the globe.

We develop our training solutions to your exact issues, requirements and expectations. We use information gathered from your organization to create customized training programs. We deliver programs to every level of your organization as appropriate at the level of growth or experience the group may be at. And we are flexible and responsive to your needs through consistent, two-way communication.

We can deliver our programs on-site at your location or in one of our training facilities. We can also do a combination of online and in-class training.

We promise to deliver the best in training and development, coaching and consulting to improve the performance of your organization. We will do this by working with you to deliver customized, relevant, applicable and top quality training and development programs. That is our PEC promise.

For more information, call Barbara Hopkins at 734.487.2259 or email non.credit@emich.edu.