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Session Date-Application DeadlineProgram Fee$5900Faculty ChairProgram Director
Group Enrollment: Tuition discounts are available for groups of five or more. Learn more here.
Session Date-Application DeadlineProgram Fee$5900Faculty ChairProgram DirectorGroup Enrollment: Tuition discounts are available for groups of five or more. Learn more here.
Executive Certificate: This program is a core program in the Public Leadership and the Technology and Public Leadership concentrations. This program can also be used as a third program for several concentrations in the Executive Certificate series.
Program Overview
Whether you’re leading a small team or influencing organizational decisions, you hold the power to shape significant measurable outcomes in your role – you just need the strategic leadership frameworks to help get you there.
Our one-week, online program Strategic Leadership: Enhancing Your Personal Effectiveness, provides the cutting-edge tools you need to become an effective leader for this exact moment. Developed by Faculty Chair Robert Wilkinson and featuring experts and scholars from across Harvard University, this program equips you with a practical framework to align purpose, people, and performance—so you can lead more effectively and drive meaningful results in your organization.
PROGRAM CURRICULUM
Guided by effective strategic leadership principles, you’ll gain a powerful framework—the “4P” model: perception (understanding relevant information), process (engaging with other stakeholders), people (recognizing the role that emotions play), and projection (understanding the stories we tell ourselves and others). This interactive online program will translate those “4P” concepts into practical tools you can use to improve the way you lead, make decisions, and interact with others.
Grounded in real-world situations leaders face today, the Strategic Leadership: Enhancing Your Personal Effectiveness online executive program relies heavily on active experiential learning. This includes lively, interactive sessions using the Harvard case-study method and featuring small-group discussions, lecture, video, and opportunities to practice and hone new skills. (Self-paced readings and multimedia assignments are required prior to live, online sessions.)
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By completing this strategic leadership executive program, you will:
- Develop personal effectiveness in leadership by uncovering your unique style and refining crucial disciplines
- Gain frameworks for what is strategic leadership—addressing real-world problems with confidence
- Enhance your ability to lead diverse groups, build consensus, and influence critical decisions
- Strengthen your capacity to respond proactively in fast-changing environments, ensuring effective strategic leadership
- Learn to recognize people’s emotional needs and the impact leaders may have on them
- Hone a compelling vision and narrative that resonates with your team, community, or stakeholders
PARTICIPANT EXPERIENCE
“A remarkable experience. From the first session to the last, there was a consistency of excellence in the content, the facilitation, and the environment. The takeaways are equally empowering and recalibrating.”
Application Information
Strategic Leadership: Enhancing Your Personal Effectiveness is intended for senior leaders in government, corporate, and nonprofit organizations who wish to better understand the personal aspects of leadership and improve their capacity to lead.
Those who will benefit from this program include:
- Senior leaders in government at the national, regional, and local levels
- Executive directors and senior leaders of nonprofits and NGOs
- Mid- to senior-level professionals ready to engage in a strategic leadership program that goes beyond typical management training
- Individuals keen on becoming a strategic leader by applying high-level insights to everyday challenges
This immersive, one-week, online program has an estimated time commitment of approximately 20 hours of live sessions and five to 10 hours of peer and self-paced work. Be prepared to help shape the discussion by identifying a specific leadership challenge and to question your own ideas about leadership. View a sample program schedule from a previous session. Note that module titles, speakers, and sequence may change.
- What is “Strategic Leadership: Enhancing Your Personal Effectiveness”?
A one‑week, online Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education program that develops strategic leadership, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills using the “4P” framework (perception, process, people, projection). - What is the ‘4P’ model in this strategic leadership program?
A leadership framework focused on perception (understanding relevant information), process (how you engage stakeholders), people (recognizing and managing emotions), and projection (the stories and narratives you and others tell). - How is the program delivered (format and learning methods)?
Through interactive online sessions using the Harvard case‑study method, small‑group discussions, lectures, videos, and active experiential exercises, supported by self‑paced readings and multimedia assignments completed before live sessions. - Who leads and teaches the program?
The program is developed and chaired by Robert Wilkinson and features experts and scholars from across Harvard University specializing in strategic leadership and negotiation, decision‑making, and organizational behavior. - What will I learn and be able to do after this program?
You will strengthen your personal leadership effectiveness, gain frameworks to address real‑world problems strategically, improve your ability to lead diverse groups, build consensus, influence decisions, respond proactively in fast‑changing environments, and craft a compelling vision and narrative. - Who should attend this strategic leadership program?
Senior leaders in government at all levels, executive directors and senior leaders of nonprofits and NGOs, mid‑ to senior‑level corporate and public‑sector professionals seeking leadership training beyond basic management, and individuals aiming to become more strategic leaders in their day‑to‑day roles.
WHAT PARTICIPANTS ARE SAYING
“This was one of the most impactful courses I have taken. Oftentimes leadership programs are based in a lot of theory and academic concepts, but this program dove deeper into the ‘softer’ skills of leadership than anything I’ve experienced.”
Hear From the Faculty Chair
Learn more about Strategic Leadership: Enhancing Your Personal Effectiveness from Faculty Chair Robert Wilkinson, Lecturer in Public Policy and Leadership.
Faculty & Research
Robert Wilkinson
Arthur Brooks
Naseem Khuri
Kimberlyn Leary
Allison Shapira
Daniel Shapiro
Listen to Podcasts on the 4P Model for Strategic Leadership
The 4P Model for Strategic Leadership is a purposeful, intentional reflection from HKS Faculty Rob Wilkinson on the four domains that are most important for great leadership: Perception, Process, People and Projection.
Alumni Perspective
“[Professor Wilkinson] can concisely and wholly articulate concepts into practical applicable actions that anyone can use in their journey towards becoming a better leader! I could not imagine a more effective or impactful instructor on this subject.”
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