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Strategic Leadership

Enhance your ability to creatively problem-solve for the demands of working in ‘the new normal'.

All Start Dates

  • Time

    8:30 AM – 4:30 PM ET

  • Length

    3 consecutive days

  • Cost

    $4,100
    Programs fill quickly — free cancellation up to 14 days prior

  • Registration Deadline

    December 1, 2024

  • Time

    8:30 AM – 4:30 PM ET

  • Length

    3 consecutive days

  • Cost

    $4,100
    Programs fill quickly — free cancellation up to 14 days prior

  • Registration Deadline

    March 16, 2025

  • Time

    8:30 AM – 4:30 PM ET

  • Length

    3 consecutive days

  • Cost

    $4,100
    Programs fill quickly — free cancellation up to 14 days prior

  • Registration Deadline

    July 6, 2025

  • Time

    8:30 AM – 4:30 PM ET

  • Length

    3 consecutive days

  • Cost

    $4,100
    Programs fill quickly — free cancellation up to 14 days prior

  • Registration Deadline

    September 14, 2025

What You'll Learn

Senior leaders face an unprecedented number of challenges in today’s rapidly-changing business environment, from an evolving workforce to complex strategic issues. To succeed in this dynamic business environment, strategic leadership involves asking better questions, leveraging a diverse workforce, and addressing the complex problems our organizations face in new ways.

During this interactive 3-day program, you will build upon your proven leadership skills with new insights, frameworks and tools to inspire yourself and better lead your team and organization. Reflective exercises, a leadership assessment instrument (Hogan), application activities, and case studies will help you work through modern-day dilemmas and solve problems using both critical and creative thinking. Small and large group discussions will focus on addressing the paradoxes of effective leadership at the executive level.

Program Benefits

  • Examine what in organizational leadership is evolving — and what is remaining the same — and develop insight into how to address new and emerging senior leadership challenges
  • Understand the multipliers and diminishers of effective leadership and how to evolve as senior leaders
  • Build and sustain greater levels of motivation and trust through more strategic leadership
  • Earn a Certificate of Completion from the Harvard Division of Continuing Education

Topics Covered

  • Leadership in today’s business world: what’s similar, what’s different, and why the stakes are higher
  • Inspiring and motivating a diverse talent team
  • Solving complex problems using both critical and creative thinking
  • Managing modern-day dilemmas
  • Addressing the tradeoffs, tensions, and dilemmas we face as senior leaders
  • Future-proofing our organizations and ourselves

Who Should Enroll

This program is intended for senior managers with at least 10 years of management experience and proven leadership skills who want to enhance their capabilities to lead at higher levels in the organization.

December Schedule

Day 1

  • The New World of Work and Leading In the “New Normal”
  • Strategic Self-Leadership — Part I

Day 2

  • Strategic Self-Leadership — Part II
  • Strategic People and Organizational Leadership

 Day 3

  • Strategic Problem-Solving
  • Strategic Leadership for the Future — Ourselves, Others, Organizations

March Schedule

Day 1

  • The New World of Work and Leading In the “New Normal”
  • Strategic Self-Leadership — Part I

Day 2

  • Strategic Self-Leadership — Part II
  • Strategic People and Organizational Leadership

 Day 3

  • Strategic Problem-Solving
  • Strategic Leadership for the Future — Ourselves, Others, Organizations

July Schedule

Day 1

  • The New World of Work and Leading In the “New Normal”
  • Strategic Self-Leadership — Part I

Day 2

  • Strategic Self-Leadership — Part II
  • Strategic People and Organizational Leadership

 Day 3

  • Strategic Problem-Solving
  • Strategic Leadership for the Future — Ourselves, Others, Organizations

September Schedule

Day 1

  • The New World of Work and Leading In the “New Normal”
  • Strategic Self-Leadership — Part I

Day 2

  • Strategic Self-Leadership — Part II
  • Strategic People and Organizational Leadership

 Day 3

  • Strategic Problem-Solving
  • Strategic Leadership for the Future — Ourselves, Others, Organizations

Instructor

  • Margaret Andrews

    Margaret Andrews

    Margaret Andrews is a seasoned executive, academic leader, speaker, and instructor with over thirty years of professional experience. She has held a variety of senior management positions and has taught, spoken, and consulted across the globe. She creates and teaches a variety of courses and professional and executive programs at Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education.

Instructor

  • Margaret Andrews

    Margaret Andrews

    Margaret Andrews is a seasoned executive, academic leader, speaker, and instructor with over thirty years of professional experience. She has held a variety of senior management positions and has taught, spoken, and consulted across the globe. She creates and teaches a variety of courses and professional and executive programs at Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education.

Instructor

  • Margaret Andrews

    Margaret Andrews

    Margaret Andrews is a seasoned executive, academic leader, speaker, and instructor with over thirty years of professional experience. She has held a variety of senior management positions and has taught, spoken, and consulted across the globe. She creates and teaches a variety of courses and professional and executive programs at Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education.

Instructor

  • Christopher Flynn

    Christopher Flynn

    Chris Flynn is a global executive and change leadership expert with deep experience in technology and financial services. He is a Principal Change Advisor and Executive Instructor at Prosci and an adjunct professor at Boston University's Questrom School of Business. Previously, Chris held executive roles at IBM, leading a Client Success team of 850+ professionals in IBM Watson Talent and managing the integration of a $1.3 billion acquisition to drive cloud growth.

Certificates of Leadership Excellence

The Certificates of Leadership Excellence (CLE) are designed for leaders with the desire to enhance their business acumen, challenge current thinking, and expand their leadership skills.

This program is one of several CLE qualifying programs. Register today and get started earning your certificate.

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