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Self-Paced Online
Session Date-Application DeadlineProgram Fee$1995Faculty ChairProgram Director
We are still accepting registrations for the current session. Please contact the program director for additional information.
View the schedule and group assignments for each module.
This is a registration-based program. There is no application or admissions process. Registration-based programs offer a certificate of completion but do not qualify toward Executive Certificates and do not offer alumni status.
You must complete all program components, including the live sessions and assignments, to receive a certificate of completion.
Faculty Live Sessions:
- Monday, January 26 at 10:00 am EST
- Tuesday, February 17 at 10:00 am EST
The HKS Access Advantage
Leading People, Building Teams is offered through HKS Access: Flexible Programs for Professional Results.
- Learn on your own schedule with self-paced modules
- Experience live sessions and rigorous curriculum designed and taught by Harvard faculty
- Certificate of completion after all program components are completed
- No application required; simply register and get ready to learn
Program Overview
High-performing individuals are often rewarded with promotions to leadership positions. However, excelling as a manager, or supporting a new manager, calls for a different skill set than excelling as an individual contributor. Making this shift requires a strong sense of your personal leadership capabilities, knowledge of people leadership, and expertise in building teams.
Leading People, Building Teams is an interactive, online program that helps build these skills so you can lead with confidence, support colleagues making the transition to management, and strengthen your organization's capacity to coach and retain talent. You'll leave with an implementation plan to bring back to your organization and hone as you advance in your career.
This intensive and engaging program is chaired by Dr. Nathalie Laidler-Kylander who brings decades of experience as a leader across multiple sectors. She has crafted the curriculum to examine leadership through three distinct lenses—personal leadership, leading others, and building teams.
Curriculum
Leading People, Building Teams is an interactive learning experience that combines group work with dynamic asynchronous sessions including a blend of video-based content, self-assessments, simulations, and case studies.
This flexible program consists of three modules:
Module 1: Personal Leadership
Discover and examine your strengths as a leader, empowering you to lead and support leadership from a place of authenticity and self-awareness.
Module 2: People Leadership
Study talent management frameworks and acquire tangible skills for hiring, developing, and coaching your direct reports, including how to tackle difficult conversations.
Module 3: Building Teams
Learn practical approaches to overcoming barriers that reduce team effectiveness, such as groupthink, to create and lead high-performing teams.
In addition to the self-paced content, you'll work alongside peers in three group sessions to complete case studies and simulations. These sessions will allow you to collaborate with professionals navigating similar milestones and challenges and build a network of peers.
The program chair will also lead live sessions at the opening and closing of the program.
What Participants are Saying
"A truly transformative experience. It not only strengthened my leadership skills and broadened my perspective on team dynamics, but also equipped me with practical strategies and frameworks to confidently lead and foster high-performing teams.”
Recommended participants:
Ideal participants for this program include professionals in any sector who are:
- Preparing for future leadership positions to advance their career
- Transitioning, or are about to transition, from being an individual contributor to managing people and leading teams
- Currently managing people for the first time and eager to strengthen their people leadership and team-building skills
- Managers reflecting on their initial transition to management
- Managers supporting emerging leaders making their transition to management
To register, you'll need to complete a brief questionnaire to ensure readiness and fit.
Other registration requirements include:
- An undergraduate degree
- At least three years of work experience
- Fluency in written and spoken English
- Access to a device with an internet connection
- Committing to five to seven hours per week of online learning for three weeks, including three self-organized group working sessions
- Committing to attend live faculty sessions
View the schedule and group assignments for each module.
Hear From the Program Chair
Program Chair Nathalie Laidler-Kylander discusses the new Leading People, Building Teams executive program.
Faculty & Research
Program Chair
Nathalie Laidler-Kylander
Harvard Faculty
Julie Battilana
Brittany Butler
Julia Minson
