Individual Course
Adaptive Leadership
Course Length
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4–5 hours per week
Featuring faculty from:
Harvard Kennedy School
This course empowers you with a practical leadership framework to help you tackle your most complex challenges.
You’ll learn to diagnose problems effectively, generate options for action, manage pressure, and engage key stakeholders to make meaningful progress within teams and organizations—all designed to help you break free from feeling stuck and lead with curiosity and agility. Developed by leadership scholar and Harvard Kennedy School professor Ronald Heifetz, this new offering expands upon the popular edX short course Exercising Leadership: Foundational Principles.
You'll learn from global leaders across industries who are applying this framework to solve real-world problems. From closing skill gaps in education and building cross-industry connections to coordinating global relief efforts and leading teams through unprecedented change, their experiences demonstrate adaptive leadership in action and will inspire you to apply these principles in your own situations.
Instructor-Paced
Harvard Online
Industries:
- Consulting
- Health Care
- Government
- Technology
- Upgrade Your Skills
Navigate Complexity and Change
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Foster Collaboration and Empower Others
- Upgrade Your Skills
Drive Progress on Stubborn Challenges
- Learn from real case studies
- Do it on your own time
- Get a certificate, add it to your resume
- Be part of the Harvard Community
Faculty
Your Instructor
Ronald Heifetz
King Hussein Bin Talal Senior Lecturer in Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School
Ronald Heifetz is among the world’s foremost authorities on the practice and teaching of leadership. He speaks extensively and advises heads of governments, businesses, and nonprofit organizations across the globe. In 2016, President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia highlighted Heifetz’s advice in his Nobel Peace Prize Lecture.
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Past Participant Discounts
Learners who have enrolled in at least one qualifying Harvard Online program can receive a 30% discount, automatically applied to the Program Fee upon time of payment.
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