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Executive Leadership Program: Owning Your Leadership
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Format: Live Online
In today’s collaborative work environment, leadership isn’t about titles—it’s about trust, purpose, and the ability to inspire others. The most successful leaders understand themselves deeply and can authentically connect with their colleagues at any level, allowing them to drive diverse teams to produce brilliant work. It’s time to unlock your leadership style, lead with purpose, and transform your organization.
This certificate program is designed to help you sharpen your self-awareness, create strong connections, set a positive tone, and build high-impact relationships that fuel innovation and collaboration.
Throughout the program, you’ll gain practical tools and strategies to lead with confidence, receive personalized feedback, and apply new leadership techniques in real-world scenarios. You will leave with a clear, actionable plan to immediately elevate your team’s performance and make a lasting impact within your organization.
- Strengthen your self-awareness and accelerate your leadership impact by learning how to mentor emerging leaders
- Identify and overcome common stumbling blocks that inhibit self-awareness
- Create a developmental workplace culture with techniques for building high-trust relationships that foster effective leadership
- Master the art of influence without authority by using your network to generate trust, purpose, and energy
- Reclaim 18 to 24 percent of your time for higher-value work by uncovering hidden time drains through leadership assessments
- Managers looking to grow their leadership skills and make a bigger impact at work
- Executive leadership in diverse, dynamic, and complex organizations
- Leadership development professionals who are charged with talent management
- Leaders in charge of special initiatives or cross-functional projects requiring collaboration across silos
Tuition and all program materials, including videos, presentations, case studies, articles, workbooks, self-assessments, and action plan.
- Recognition and Credentialing: An advanced certificate that serves as verifiable proof of learning and achievement, which can be displayed on platforms such as LinkedIn and included on your resume and portfolio
- Course Content and Learning Outcomes: You gain industry-relevant knowledge, practical skills, and frameworks designed for professionals seeking career advancement or specialization
- Expert Instruction: Experienced faculty, industry leaders, and professionals with real-world expertise teach our courses
- Networking Opportunities: You gain access to a network of peers, alumni, and industry professionals.
- Alumni Affiliate Status: Click here for more information
Upon completion of this program, you will earn an advanced certificate.
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Course Leaders
Wendy Murphy
Professor of Management
Professor Wendy Murphy’s research, training, and teaching focus on the area of careers: mentoring and developmental networks, identity, and the work-life interface. Her work has been published in MIT Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, and more. Currently, she is the co-director of the Entrepreneurial Leadership & Influence Program for executives, director of Mass General Brigham (MGB) Innovation Academy, and faculty for the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program.
Scott Taylor
Professor of Organizational Behavior and Arthur M. Blank Endowed Chair for Values-Based Leadership
Award-winning researcher and professor Scott Taylor studies the various approaches organizations use to assess and develop their leaders. His research has focused on competency development (especially emotional and social competence), leader self-awareness, 360-degree feedback assessment, executive coaching, gender, and sustainable individual change. Taylor has taught and consulted for executives and working professionals from leading organizations around the world.
Alia Crocker
Assistant Professor of Strategy
Professor Alia Crocker studies strategic human capital and social networks. She is interested in understanding human capital development and deployment in context: how it is connected to organizations and how it is combined to shape competitive outcomes. Her work has been published in outlets such as Harvard Business Review, Journal of Management, and Strategic Organization.
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