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Becoming a Leader: Developing Your Style and Making Sound Decisions

Develop your leadership style and decision-making agility to maximize your leadership potential and make confident choices under pressure.

All Start Dates

  • Time

    8:30 AM – 4:30 PM ET

  • Length

    2 consecutive days

  • Cost

    $3,100
    Programs fill quickly — free cancellation up to 14 days prior

  • Registration Deadline

    November 9, 2025

  • Time

    11:00 AM – 2:30 PM ET

  • Length

    4 consecutive Thursdays

  • Cost

    $2,950
    Programs fill quickly — free cancellation up to 14 days prior

  • Registration Deadline

    January 14, 2026

  • Time

    8:30 AM – 4:30 PM ET

  • Length

    2 consecutive days

  • Cost

    $3,200
    Programs fill quickly — free cancellation up to 14 days prior

  • Registration Deadline

    March 22, 2026

  • Time

    8:30 AM – 4:30 PM ET

  • Length

    2 consecutive days

  • Cost

    $3,200
    Programs fill quickly — free cancellation up to 14 days prior

  • Registration Deadline

    June 16, 2026

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What You'll Learn

Leadership is not about titles—it is about relationships that drive personal success, team performance, and organizational resilience. Strong leaders know how to connect with others, sharpen their decision-making, and inspire growth in rapidly changing environments.

As AI and technology reshape the way we work, leadership and people skills remain the most critical differentiator. This program helps you recognize your leadership strengths and blind spots, understand your default decision-making style, and learn how to adapt across different contexts.

Grounded in research on emotional intelligence, you will gain tools and practice techniques to recognize and manage emotional triggers—your own and others’—so you can lead with clarity under pressure, inspire high performance, and make confident decisions aligned with organizational goals.

By the end of the program, you will leave with actionable strategies to lead yourself, teams, and your organization more effectively and authentically  contributing to long-term business success.

Program Benefits

  • Develop a leadership approach that amplifies your strengths and evolves with you throughout your career
  • Gain awareness of preferences, leadership styles, and blind spots in both yourself as well as others
  • Understand how emotional intelligence strengthens leadership and decision-making, including common biases and the illusion of rationality
  • Learn how relationship management will contribute to your personal and professional success.
  • Recognize psychological pitfalls in decision-making and how you can set yourself up for success
  • Earn a Certificate of Completion from the Harvard Division of Continuing Education

Who Should Enroll

This program is designed for:

  • High-potential individual contributors and emerging leaders preparing to take on greater responsibility
  • Managers—whether or not they currently lead direct reports—who want to strengthen their leadership impact
  • Experienced leaders seeking to refresh their skills and decision-making approaches

It is especially recommended for those who want to deepen self-awareness and leadership agility to achieve greater impact throughout their careers.

Please note that because of content overlap, we recommend you do not take this program if you have previously taken Emotional Intelligence in Leadership.

Topics Covered

  • Awareness of individual preferences and leadership styles as a tool to becoming a more effective leader
  • Situational leadership over the course of your career
  • Traps in decision making and how to set yourself up for success
  • How to apply theories and concepts covered to you and now
  • Leadership and better decision-making through emotional intelligence
  • Strategies and tools to manage oneself and others during times of pressure and change