Work through the Harvard Online course on your own schedule within weekly deadlines, alongside professionals from around the world, with three months of Voca practice to apply what you learn.
Complete the course and Harvard Online issues your Certificate of Completion.
Curriculum developed and delivered by Harvard Kennedy School faculty, led by former Pentagon Chief of Staff Eric Rosenbach.
Issued in your legal name as a Certified Electronic Credential you can add to your resume and LinkedIn profile.
Stack this course with others to earn a Certificate of Specialization in Innovation Leadership from Harvard Online.
Eight topics led through real public sector challenges, showing how purposefully developed strategies lead to long-term adoption and success.
Syllabus topics are set by Harvard Online and may be revised between cohorts.
If you must deliver a strategic initiative under public scrutiny, with constrained resources and many stakeholders, this course is designed for you.
No prerequisites required, though some familiarity with the public, non-profit or education sectors is helpful. Taught in English; participants should be 18 or over.
Good strategies often fail in the delivery. This course follows the full cycle, from formulation to evaluation, through real public-sector challenges.
Your coursework is designed and delivered by Harvard faculty, with industry experts bringing real cases into each topic.
As Pentagon Chief of Staff from 2015 to 2017, Rosenbach led the execution of dozens of high-profile strategic initiatives for the largest public sector organization in the world. As Assistant Secretary of Defense he was responsible for the Department's cyber strategy, and in the private sector he led the cybersecurity practice of a global management consulting firm.
Three Harvard Online modules on innovation strategy, open innovation and adaptive leadership — with live sessions, app access and Voca practice.
One fee covering the full Harvard Online course, your Certificate of Completion, and three months of Voca practice access.
Four steps, usually completed within a week.
A twenty-minute conversation with an advisor to check the course fits your role and goals. No obligation.
We confirm the upcoming start dates that suit your schedule.
Confirm your place, then complete payment by international card or bank transfer.
We enroll you directly with Harvard Online. Your access details arrive by email before your start date.
It is built around real public sector challenges, and suits government and public sector leaders, non-profit and NGO leaders, education sector leaders, and consultants and advisors to the public sector.
Eight topics: an introduction to strategy execution; effective strategy formulation; project planning and operationalization; financial management and technology; leadership and team building; strategic communications; risk management; and project completion and evaluation.
Eric Rosenbach of Harvard Kennedy School, a former Pentagon Chief of Staff.
The course runs four weeks at roughly four to five hours a week, completed on your own schedule within weekly deadlines.
USD 1,600 for the complete course, covering the full Harvard Online course, your Certificate of Completion and three months of Voca practice access.
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 with this course, and your advisor will help you time it for when it is most useful.
Harvard Online. On successful completion you receive a Certificate of Completion issued directly by Harvard Online. SkillsPro360 is an authorized delivery partner — we are not Harvard University.
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