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    Session Date
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    Application Deadline
    Program Fee
    $5,300
    Faculty Chair
    Robert Wilkinson
    Program Director
    Melissa Pagonis
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    Executive Certificate: This program is a core program in the Public  Leadership concentration. This program can also be used as a third program for any concentration in the Executive Certificate series.

Program Overview

You don’t have to hold an executive title to think and act strategically. Our strategic leadership program is a one-week, online offering that immerses you in the critical thinking, interpersonal engagement, and strategic leadership skills necessary to excel at any level. Guided by effective strategic leadership principles, you’ll gain a powerful framework—the “4P” model (perception, process, people, projection)—to tackle challenges head-on. Whether you’re leading a small team or influencing organizational decisions, this strategic leadership framework helps you develop a proactive mindset, empowering you to shape outcomes rather than merely react to them.

Strategic Leadership: Enhancing Your Personal Effectiveness, a one-week, online program from Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education, provides the cutting-edge tools you need to become a more effective leader. Developed by Faculty Chair Robert Wilkinson and featuring experts and scholars from across Harvard University, this program emphasizes four key leadership domains: perception (understanding relevant information), process (engaging with other stakeholders), people (recognizing the role that emotions play), and projection (understanding the stories we tell ourselves and others).

This interactive online program will translate those “4P” concepts into practical tools you can use to improve the way you lead, make decisions, and interact with others.

illustration of schedulePROGRAM CURRICULUM

Grounded in real-world situations leaders face today, the Strategic Leadership: Enhancing Your Personal Effectiveness online executive program relies heavily on active experiential learning. This includes lively, interactive sessions using the Harvard case-study method and featuring small-group discussions, lecture, video, and opportunities to practice and hone new skills. (Self-paced readings and multimedia assignments are required prior to live, online sessions.)

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

By completing this strategic leadership executive program, you will:

  • Develop personal effectiveness in leadership by uncovering your unique style and refining crucial disciplines
  • Gain frameworks for what is strategic leadership—addressing real-world problems with confidence
  • Enhance your ability to lead diverse groups, build consensus, and influence critical decisions
  • Strengthen your capacity to respond proactively in fast-changing environments, ensuring effective strategic leadership
  • Learn to recognize people’s emotional needs and the impact leaders may have on them
  • Hone a compelling vision and narrative that resonates with your team, community, or stakeholders

Application Information

Strategic Leadership: Enhancing Your Personal Effectiveness is intended for senior leaders in government, corporate, and nonprofit organizations who wish to better understand the personal aspects of leadership and improve their capacity to lead.

Those who will benefit from this program include:

  • Senior leaders in government at the national, regional, and local levels
  • Executive directors and senior leaders of nonprofits and NGOs
  • Mid- to senior-level professionals ready to engage in a strategic leadership program that goes beyond typical management training
  • Individuals keen on becoming a strategic leader by applying high-level insights to everyday challenges

This immersive, one-week, online program has an estimated time commitment of approximately 20 hours of live sessions and five to 10 hours of peer and self-paced work. Be prepared to help shape the discussion by identifying a specific leadership challenge and to question your own ideas about leadership. View a sample program schedule from a previous session. Note that module titles, speakers, and sequence may change.

WHAT PARTICIPANTS ARE SAYING

“This was one of the most impactful courses I have taken. Oftentimes leadership programs are based in a lot of theory and academic concepts, but this program dove deeper into the ‘softer’ skills of leadership than anything I’ve experienced.”
Richard Lorenzen, CEO, Fifth Avenue Brands
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Learn more about Strategic Leadership: Enhancing Your Personal Effectiveness from Faculty Chair Robert Wilkinson, Lecturer in Public Policy and Leadership.

Faculty & Research

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Robert Wilkinson

Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Leadership

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Arthur Brooks

Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership

Naseem Khuri

Naseem Khuri

Trainer, Consultant, Mediator and Facilitator
Adjunct Assistant Professor of International Relations, Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

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Kimberlyn Leary

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Allison Shapira

Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy

Dan Shapiro

Daniel Shapiro

Founder and Director, Harvard International Negotiation Program
Associate Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital
Affiliate faculty, Program on Negotiation

The 4P Model for Strategic Leadership is a purposeful, intentional reflection from vlog Faculty Rob Wilkinson on the four domains that are most important for great leadership: Perception, Process, People and Projection.

Alumni Perspective

"[Professor Wilkinson] can concisely and wholly articulate concepts into practical applicable actions that anyone can use in their journey towards becoming a better leader! I could not imagine a more effective or impactful instructor on this subject."
James Cox, CEO, Greensboro Housing Authority
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