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    Session Date
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    Application Deadline
    Program Fee
    $6,900
    Faculty Chair
    Julie Battilana
    Brittany Butler
    Program Director
    Rosana Urbaez
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    Program Fee: The program fee includes tuition, housing, curricular materials and most meals. 
    Executive Certificate: This program is a core program in the Nonprofit Leadership and Public Policy concentrations. This program can also be used as a third program for any concentration in the Executive Certificate series. 
    Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs): This program aligns with one or more Executive Core Qualifications.
     

Program Overview

Leadership for Social Impact is a 3.5 day on-campus executive education program developed by faculty from the Social Innovation + Change Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School. This program is designed for purpose-driven leaders, from any sector, to help navigate the challenges of initiating and implementing changes on pressing social and environmental issues. Participants will interact with faculty from across multiple disciplines and Harvard schools, while learning alongside a thoughtfully curated, global network of social change practitioners.

Leadership for Social Impact was designed to help you frame and communicate a compelling call for change, map and leverage the sources of power at your disposal, and explore which strategic choices will best position your organization to realize your long-term vision of a better world. In this program, you and an exceptional group of peers will gain insights, skills, and relationships that will help you reimagine your leadership, your impact in the world, and the strategies that will enable your success.

PROGRAM CURRICULUM

Through faculty presentations, case studies, self-assessment exercises, simulations, workshops, videos, and small-group discussions, you will explore key leadership imperatives and the challenges leaders face in addressing them. 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  • Developing yourself as a purpose-driven leader
  • Leading others through change
  • Designing mission driven organizations
  • Mobilizing support for your cause
  • Implementing transformational change

Applicant Information

Who Should Attend

This program is designed for a wide variety of mission-oriented leaders across sectors including:

  • Nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations (NGO), and foundation leaders
  • Corporate Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) leaders
  • Corporate social responsibility (CSR) leaders
  • Sustainability officers and directors
  • Social entrepreneurs
  • Social impact investors
  • Government leaders and policymakers invested in social and environmental impacts
  • Multilateral development bank leaders committed to social and environmental impact
  • Program officers in philanthropy
  • Leaders of social and environmental movements

Applicant Criteria

  • 5+ years of leadership experience
  • Currently in a senior role with a mandate to deliver social or environmental impact
  • Personal commitment to social change
  • Track record of effective implementation

Sample Schedule coming soon.

“Leadership for Social Impact will equip you with the tools you need to have the kind of impact you aspire to have in your organization and in society.”
Julie Battilana, Faculty Co-Chair
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Faculty & Research

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Julie Battilana

Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation, HKS; Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, HBS
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Farayi Chipungu

Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy

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Matthew Lee

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Management

“LSI was designed to help you craft a strategy to meet today’s challenges, mobilize the resources your organization needs, and implement the changes that will deliver on the social impact that you care most about.“
Brittany Butler, Faculty Co-Chair
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