Management Development Academy
Class 15: July 2025 | October 2025 | January 2026
MDA is a highly interactive, three-part series of customized workshops, designed to grow your business and your people’s leadership acumen to prepare them for success in their current and future roles. The program rotates through different walkable and exciting cities across the country.
Each session includes 2.5 days of expert-led workshop sessions, facilitated debriefs, activities and interaction, as well as plenty of time to connect with the presenters, facilitator and cohort peers. These sessions are loaded with valuable best practices, lessons and experiential activities that participants can bring back and make immediately applicable.
Class 15 Schedule
- Session 1: July 28-30, 2025 | Cleveland, OH
- Session 2: October 27-29, 2025 | Asheville, NC
- Session 3: January 26-28, 2026 | Tampa, FL
With each cohort limited to 30 participants, you can develop an intimate, long-lasting network of peers and colleagues that you can rely on as you grow your career and business.
Designed exclusively for department supervisors, team leaders and mid-level managers looking to advance their business and leadership acumen, MDA graduates are equipped to inspire and lead their teams and organizations.
Since its inception in 2012, more than 300 individuals have graduated from MDA, with many earning expanded roles and responsibilities at their organizations, a direct result of the skills and confidence gained from being a part of this highly regarded program.
Get ready to accelerate your career trajectory the MDA way!
The Precision Metalforming Association is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification activities. This program is worth 42 PDCs.
The use of this official seal confirms that this activity has met HR Certification Institute’s® (HRCI®) criteria for recertification credit pre-approval. This program, ID number 636615, has been approved for 40 conference recertification credit hours toward aPHR™, aPHRi™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™ and SPHRi™ recertification through HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®).
