Courses to Ignite Leadership Skills

Ten free courses from renowned institutions offer a transformative journey toward exceptional leadership. Delve into rich insights, expert guidance, and timely relevance to spark profound growth in your leadership capabilities. Some of the courses offer a certification for a fee but the learning is free.

Harvard University: Foundational Leadership Principles

  • How to mobilize people to tackle tough problems.
  • Explore strategies for leading in a changing world.
  • Discover new ways to approach complex organizational systems.
  • Reflect on how to move forward on the leadership challenges.

University of Pennsylvania: Build High-Performing Teams

  • Team Building
  • Leadership
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Team Management

Yale University: Connected Leadership

  • Improve your ability to get the most out of life.
  • Strengthen your leadership toolkit.
  • Practice and apply systems thinking to plan for change.

UC Berkeley: Mindfulness, Resilience & Stress at Work

  • research-based strategies for building resilience to stress.
  • The practice of mindfulness
  • Covers the landscape of mindfulness science & relevance to leadership.

Dartmouth College: Leadership Lessons from Legends

  • Winston Churchill – Speaking secrets
  • Mother Teresa – Conviction and clarity
  • Abraham Lincoln – Wisdom
  • John Wooden – Mentoring
  • Amelia Earhart – Courage
  • Michael Jordan – Drive and motivation
  • Ray Kroc – Instinctive and work ethic
  • Marie Curie – Creativity

Northwestern University: Leadership Communication to Maximize Impact

  • Communicate to inspire talent to excel.
  • Partner with investors and communities.
  • Engage with customers and clients to grow their impact.
  • Find your own story through personal branding.
  • Develop storytelling success and initiate an effective voice for crisis.
  • Interact well through social and third-party media.
  • Communicate a vision for innovation.

University of Michigan: Leading Teams

  • How to build your team and improve teamwork and collaboration.
  • Establish roles, build structures, and manage decision-making.
  • Manage critical team processes such as conflict resolution.

Georgia Tech: Innovative Leadership

  • Why innovation leaders are so scarce and essential for growth
  • How you can become an innovation leader and create shared value
  • How to empower innovators

Copenhagen Business School: 21st-Century Organization Leadership

  • Meet Jim Barton, CEO of Santa Monica Aerospace to learn from his experience. 
  • Leadership challenges range from strategy execution to inspiring people, to maintaining an ethical approach.
  • Insights needed to rise with the occasion of a rapidly shifting business landscape.

Goldman Sachs: 10,000 Women Leadership Fundamentals

  • Examine your leadership style and analyze how your leadership style affects your business.
  • Examine and summarize your core values and assumptions.
  • Assess your company culture reflecting upon how it affects your business.
  • Create a Vision Statement for your business and plan its implementation.