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Upcoming Sessions
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Session Date-Application DeadlineProgram Fee$6,900Faculty ChairProgram Director
Program Fee: The program fee includes tuition, housing, curricular materials and most meals.
Executive Certificate: This program is a core program in the Public Leadership concentrations. This program can also be used as a third program for any concentration in the Executive Certificate series.
Program Overview
Black leaders can experience commonly shared obstacles and challenges as they progress in their careers. The successful navigation of professional environments requires a commitment to personal well-being, the intentional creation of strong networks, and the development of a personalized vision of purpose and success. When positioned to thrive, Black leaders can have tremendous impact in their organizations and communities and pave the way for future generations to do the same.
This executive leadership program is designed to inspire, energize, and prepare Black leaders, and those working for their success, by providing tools to help them thrive professionally and personally, as well as improve their organizations’ culture, productivity, and collective well-being.
Curriculum
Using empirical data and pedagogical storytelling by prominent Black leaders, the program will explore a variety of topics that will help participants navigate professional environments to achieve success. It will examine the collective importance of increasing mentorship and sponsorship while providing strategies for understanding, confronting, and effectively navigating bias in the workplace. Participants will learn to identify opportunities and evaluate options that will allow them and the Black colleagues they are supporting to thrive. At the personal level, they will work to define their purpose and explore the intersection of self-determination, prosperity, and joy.
Session Topics Include:
- Cooperation, collaboration, and coalitions
- Strategic authenticity
- Community building and solidarity
- Navigating bias in the workplace
- Intersectionality in its various forms
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
- Moral grounding, purpose, and life satisfaction
Participants will also explore a novel approach to understanding Black empowerment developed by Professor Livingston.
"An incredible Professor who shared insight, sought insight, carefully navigating tough topics with care, sensitivity, and compassion. He didn’t shy away from the difficult moments nor let others. I’m so impressed with how he read people and situations."
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Applicant Information
Empowering Black Leaders is designed for purpose-driven mid-senior level leaders in North America, Europe, and similarly structured societies who work within: the private sector, nonprofit organizations and foundations, and all levels of government (national, state, and local).
A person’s race/ethnicity is not a criterion for admission.
View the draft program schedule. Note that module titles, speakers, and sequence may change.
Faculty & Research
Robert Livingston
Robert Livingston
Appointment
Lecturer in Public Policy
Mailing Address 1
Harvard Kennedy School
Mailing Address 2
79 John F. Kennedy Street
Mailbox
124
City
Cambridge
State
MA
Zip
02138
Rosalind Chow
Rosalind Chow
Appointment
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory, Carnegie Mellon University
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