For leaders navigating rapid technological change, intensifying competition and pressure to deliver results with fewer resources.
Complete the three modules and Harvard Online issues your Certificate of Specialization in Innovation Leadership.
Curriculum developed and delivered by faculty from Harvard Business School, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard SEAS.
SkillsPro360 posts the hard copy to you, alongside a Certified Electronic Credential for LinkedIn.
A professional credential from Harvard Online, listed on your resume and LinkedIn profile.
Harvard Online coursework is self-paced and pre-recorded. Between modules your cohort meets live — fortnightly, ninety minutes, facilitated by experienced practitioners — to practice what the coursework can only describe.
Structuring and delivering a proposal so it lands with executives, boards and the people whose support you need. Practiced live, with feedback.
Handling resistance, disagreement and conflict — the conversations that decide whether a change effort survives contact with the organization.
Each session works on the real change effort you brought with you, with peer consultation and expert critique rather than hypothetical cases.
Clarity on your personal strengths and derailers, and how to manage both under the pressure that sustained change creates.
Sessions are scheduled between Harvard modules, never on top of them. A certificate for the live executive component is awarded on completion.
Harvard cohorts run a few times a year, so there are natural gaps between modules. Two things keep you moving through them — so the momentum never drops.
Each module is taught through real organizational cases, with assignments that apply the thinking to your own workplace.
Innovation as a way of thinking and working that turns challenges into opportunities — foundational principles combined with insights from leading innovators across industries.
The strategy that says the best ideas, solutions and people for your hardest problems may come from outside your organization entirely — taught through case studies, guest speakers and tutorials.
One of Harvard's proven approaches to making a difference in any group or organization — following five practitioners, all former students of the course, whatever your level of rank or authority.
Syllabus topics are set by Harvard Online and may be revised between cohorts.
If you are expected to deliver new solutions and carry an organization through the disruption they cause, this program is designed for you.
No prior technical background required. This is the most demanding of our programs at five to seven hours a week. Taught in English; participants should be 18 or over.
Your coursework is designed and delivered by Harvard faculty, with industry practitioners bringing real cases into each module.
A leading scholar of open innovation and digital transformation, Professor Lakhani's research established much of the field's foundation.
The originator of adaptive leadership theory, Professor Heifetz has advised governments, businesses and non-profits on leading change for four decades.
An innovation practitioner and researcher, focused on how organizations translate ideas into commercial and social value.
Structured enough to keep you moving, flexible enough to fit around a full-time role in any time zone.
You study alongside a global cohort, with discussion boards where peers from other industries and markets debate the same cases.
Modules open on set dates with weekly deadlines, so the program carries momentum — but you choose which hours you study.
Each module is assessed through assignments applying the frameworks to real cases and to your own organization.
Live instructor-led sessions with expert coaches turn the concepts into how you brief, decide and persuade at work.
One fee covering the three Harvard Online modules, 36 hours of live executive sessions, twelve months of app access, three months of Voca and a dedicated advisor throughout.
Four steps, usually completed within a week.
A twenty-minute conversation with a program advisor to check the program fits your role and goals. No obligation.
We confirm the upcoming cohort dates that suit your schedule and map your route through the modules.
Confirm your place, then complete payment by international card or bank transfer. An invoice is issued for employer-funded participants.
We enroll you directly with Harvard Online. Your access details arrive by email before your start date.
Organizations fund innovation and change leadership programs when they need managers who can deliver differently, not just more. If your employer funds professional development, this program is straightforward to propose — we provide a scope document and invoice directly, and multi-seat rates apply from ten participants.
No. The program teaches frameworks for identifying problems, sourcing solutions and leading change — skills that apply in any function or industry.
Yes. We recommend Innovation Strategy first, then Open Innovation, then Adaptive Leadership. You are not required to follow that order to earn the Certificate of Specialization.
The program runs over ten months at roughly five to seven hours a week while a module is in progress. Harvard cohorts run a few times a year, so there are lighter gaps between modules where the live sessions and app keep you moving.
The program fee is USD 5,550 per participant, covering all three Harvard Online modules, the live sessions, twelve months of app access, Voca and advisor support. You may pay in full or in three interest-free installments of USD 1,850, one per module. We accept international cards and bank transfers, and organizations are invoiced directly. Discounts apply only when you pay in full; installment payments are not eligible for discounts.
Voca is SkillsPro360's AI-powered practice tool. You can rehearse a presentation, run a mock interview, or have your CV reviewed — privately, on demand, as many times as you like. Three months of access are included, timed to the point in the program where it is most useful.
Harvard Online. On completing the program you receive your certificate directly from Harvard Online. SkillsPro360 is a delivery partner — we are not Harvard University.
Cohorts run to fixed deadlines, but the program is built around the natural gaps between Harvard cohorts. If work demands it, you can take a break between modules and join a later cohort — your advisor will map a revised route with you.
You are assigned a program advisor throughout, and your enrollment includes live instructor-led sessions with expert coaches plus Voca, our AI-powered practice tool for interviews, presentations and CV review.
Harvard Online issues your certificate, and SkillsPro360 posts the hard copy to your home address, usually six to eight weeks after you are notified of your eligibility. You also receive a Certified Electronic Credential to share on LinkedIn.
Join the next global intake, or book a call to plan your route through the three modules.
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