What you will learn

Implement personal strategies for surviving – and thriving – amidst rapid change.
Cultivate a culture of empathy, openness, and compassion when interacting with team members and customers.
Build a toolkit of core skills to manage emotional stress and apply them to situations of organizational change or heightened workload.
Understand how success and achievement impact near- versus long-term happiness.
Identify your strengths and weaknesses as a leader, building more honest and empathetic relationships with team members and colleagues.

Program Overview

Expert instruction

3 skill-building courses

Self-paced

Progress at your own speed

4 months

2 - 3 hours per week

$582.30

~~$647~~USD

For the full program experience

Courses in this program

HarvardX's Happiness in Leadership: Driving Team Success Professional Certificate
Exercising Leadership: Foundational Principles
Building Personal Resilience: Managing Anxiety and Mental Health
Managing Happiness
Job Outlook

Meet your instructors
from Harvard University (HarvardX)

Ronald Heifetz

Founder, Center for Public Leadership; King Hussein Bin Talal Senior Lecturer in Public Leadership

Harvard Kennedy School

Luana Marques

Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Founder and Director of Community Psychiatry PRIDE at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and former President of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, Instructor

HarvardX

Arthur Brooks

William Henry Bloomberg Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School and Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School

Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School

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Convenient

Study and demonstrate knowledge on your schedule

Flexible

Try a course before you pay

Supportive

Learn with university partners and peers from around the world