Executive Education Programs By Date

Executive Education at Harvard Kennedy School offers programs for leaders from around the world. We bring together experienced professionals, a world-class faculty, and a dynamic curriculum in a setting where the common denominator is a shared commitment to public value. The result is a lasting transformational leadership experience. We have developed the most comprehensive range of executive education programs in public leadership available anywhere in the world. Below is a listing of program offerings by date for the upcoming year– please click on the program name for a more detailed overview of each program.  

Driving Government Performance: Leadership Strategies that Produce Results

Provides a number of explicit strategies that public executives can use in a variety of complex circumstances to establish and implement performance improvements in their organizations and agencies.

Strategic Management for Leaders of Non-Governmental Organizations

Designed for senior executives in non-governmental organizations committed to improving the performance of their organizations.

Leadership in Crises: Preparation and Performance

Whether it's a natural disaster, an industrial accident, or a terrorist attack, or other catastrophe, a crisis usually hits with no warning.

Strategic Management of Regulatory and Enforcement Agencies

Designed to examine the distinctive strategic and managerial challenges that surround government agencies’ regulatory and enforcement functions.

Strategic Frameworks for Nonprofit Organizations

An online program designed to help nonprofit and non-governmental organization leaders in the developing world use strategic management frameworks to improve their organizations.

Mastering Negotiation: Building Agreements Across Boundaries

Addresses the challenges of negotiating across cultures, organizations, and sectors in a world of various economic, political, and social problems, where sustainable solutions require consensus among multiple stakeholders.

Senior Executive Fellows

Designed to help promising senior officials prepare for promotion to Senior Executive Service. Focuses on OPM’s Executive Core Qualifications.

General and Flag Officer Homeland Security Executive Seminar

The General and Flag Officer Homeland Security Executive Seminar is designed by Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Crisis Leadership specifically for the National Guard and the United States Coast Guard.

Women and Power: Leadership in a New World

Women and Power is designed for senior executive women from the public, nonprofit, and private sectors. It is an intense, interactive experience designed to help women advance to top positions of influence.

Art and Practice of Leadership Development: A Master Class for Professional Trainers, Educators, and Consultants

Designed to engage participants as learners, teachers, and as leaders. Experienced professionals analyze a variety of leadership teaching methods and techniques.

Global Change Agents: Leading with Commitment, Creativity and Courage

Designed to challenge fundamental assumptions about how we can courageously and effectively exercise leadership and authority for the purposes we care about most.

The Cutting Edge of Development Thinking

Develop the tools needed to formulate growth strategies and development policies.

Innovation for Economic Development (IFED)

Provides leaders with a unique opportunity to integrate science and technology into a national development policy. Focuses on meeting human needs, participating in the global economy, and making the sustainability transition.

Performance Measurement for Effective Management of Nonprofit Organizations

Designed to help senior leaders of nonprofit organizations think about new strategies for creating and sustaining high organizational performance. Offered jointly by Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School.

APL+

With the guidance of APL+ faculty, facilitators deeply immersed in the APL material, and your APL colleagues, you will begin by designing your own experiment for applying adaptive leadership practices into your work.

Public Leaders in Southeast Europe

Designed to provide critical skills, knowledge, and strategy to leaders operating in an era of global uncertainty and complexity.

Senior Executives in State and Local Government

provides a balance of traditional and hands-on learning experiences to help seasoned public officials meet the changing needs of their constituents and communities.

Leaders in Development: Managing Change in a Dynamic World

Designed for senior leaders in public affairs from developing, newly industrialized, and transitional economies who face complex economic, political, and social challenges.

Comparative Tax Policy and Administration

Examines the design and implementation of tax systems around the world. Provides practical tools to help formulate appropriate tax policies and tax administration.

Using Evidence to Improve Social Program Effectiveness

Addresses the challenge that managers face in identifying useful strategies for evaluating and improving program effectiveness.

Infrastructure in a Market Economy: Public - Private Partnerships in a Changing World

Designed to help officials from public and private sectors develop public-private partnerships in infrastructure that are technically defensible, economically feasible, and politically acceptable.

Senior Executives in State and Local Government

provides a balance of traditional and hands-on learning experiences to help seasoned public officials meet the changing needs of their constituents and communities.

Senior Managers in Government

Designed for senior government officials and their counterparts in international government, the military, and the private sector. Focuses on policy development and performance management.

Financial Institutions for Private Enterprise Development (FIPED)

Designed to aid in the sustainable provision of financial services for micro, small, and medium enterprises. Focuses on the management skills and operational tools needed in a market economy.

Shaping Healthcare Delivery Policy: Understanding the Challenges, Managing the Change

American healthcare is changing. Understanding, managing, and leveraging change in the healthcare sector are at the center of this one-week program.

Senior Executives in National and International Security

Provides a setting for senior executives to deepen their understanding of current security issues in an intellectually stimulating, non-attribution, academic environment.

Mastering Trade Policy: Understanding and Acting in Today's Economy

Designed to enable trade practitioners at all levels to analyze, formulate, negotiate, and implement effective policies and practices in the field of trade.

Leadership for the 21st Century: Chaos, Conflict and Courage

Designed to challenge fundamental assumptions about how to courageously and effectively exercise leadership and authority for the purposes you care about most.

Expanding Impact: Non-Governmental Organization Legitimacy, Advocacy and Partnerships

In a world of highly constrained resources, the ability of a nongovernmental organization (NGO) to optimize its impact on society requires both clarity of purpose and flexibility.

Senior Executive Fellows

Designed to help promising senior officials prepare for promotion to Senior Executive Service. Focuses on OPM’s Executive Core Qualifications.

Nonprofit Financial Stewardship: Concepts and Techniques for Strategic Management

An online program designed to help nonprofit and non-governmental organization managers improve their financial literacy.

Creating Collaborative Solutions: Innovations in Governance

Designed to help senior officials think about new ways of working together across traditional political and organizational boundaries in order to solve complex public problems.

Leadership Decision Making: Optimizing Organizational Performance

Leadership Decision Making: Optimizing Organizational Performance offers important new insights into leadership based on breakthrough scientific discoveries about decision making.

Investment Decisions and Behavioral Finance: Identifying and Capitalizing on Irrational Investment Practices

Designed to help participants understand the common biases and irrational investment behaviors that significantly influence the behavior of financial markets and produce suboptimal outcomes for investors.

Senior Executives in National and International Security

Provides a setting for senior executives to deepen their understanding of current security issues in an intellectually stimulating, non-attribution, academic environment.

Leadership for the 21st Century: Chaos, Conflict and Courage

Designed to challenge fundamental assumptions about how to courageously and effectively exercise leadership and authority for the purposes you care about most.

Leading Economic Growth

Enables participants to diagnose their current municipal, regional, or national economies and develop new investment promotion strategies for optimal growth.

Driving Government Performance: Leadership Strategies that Produce Results

Provides a number of explicit strategies that public executives can use in a variety of complex circumstances to establish and implement performance improvements in their organizations and agencies.