Portland State University’s Center for Executive and Professional Education

Build skills that move work forward.

Professional learning should change what you can do, not just what you know.
Work keeps changing. New responsibilities, unfamiliar challenges, and shifting expectations have a way of showing up whether you feel ready or not.

Designed for professionals balancing careers, responsibilities, and full calendars, CEPE makes it possible to keep growing without putting everything else on hold.

Through practical courses, certificate programs, and customized programs for groups, CEPE helps professionals and organizations strengthen existing capabilities, build skills they can use now, and prepare for what comes next.

While some industries are expanding exponentially, others are contracting, leaving workers to transform themselves for an entirely different job, industry, or sector…. a reskilling crisis [that will result in] 1.4 million jobs in the US alone [being] vulnerable to disruption from technology and other factors by 2026.

- World Economic Forum
 

CEPE's Core Values

CEPE’s core values create a unique learning environment for individual professionals and support growth in business excellence for organizations.