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2026–2027 Course Catalog

Advance your career with world-class education. Explore the AI Leadership Series, Power Skills for Career Growth, learning outcomes, and upcoming course intakes.


AI Leadership Series

AI Leadership Series

Agentic AI Foundations: Business Applications and Risks

2026–2027 Cohort Dates
Dec 2 – 302026 CohortFeb 3 – Mar 32027 CohortApr 7 – May 52027 CohortJun 2 – 302027 CohortAug 4 – Sep 12027 CohortOct 16 – Nov 32027 CohortDec 1 – 292027 Cohort
  • Understand agentic AI and how AI agents work
  • Distinguish between generative AI and agentic AI.
  • Learn how large language models serve as the foundation for AI agents.
  • Identify core components of agentic systems, including reasoning, planning, task decomposition, and tool use.
  • Evaluate how agentic AI can be applied in businessIdentify tasks and workflows where AI agents create value.
  • Assess where automation can support productivity, decision-making, or coordination.
  • Gain insight into how agentic AI can enable augmentation for business growth and acceleration.
  • Determine where human judgment, creativity, ethical reasoning, and final validation should remain central.
  • Communicate the risks, limits, and governance needs of agentic AI
  • Recognize common risks such as hallucinations, bias, unreliable outputs, data exposure, and misuse
  • Describe strategies for mitigating risk through oversight, governance, testing, and human-in-the-loop design
  • Discuss how agentic AI may reshape professional work and human-AI collaboration in the future
AI Leadership Series2–3 Hours

Agentic Skills Builder

Flexible Monthly Intakes
Monthly / Flexible Starts2–3 hour duration
  • Design and configure effective AI agents
  • Define an agent’s purpose, scope, memory, and guardrails to guide its behavior.
  • Build and refine agentic workflows through iterative testing and evaluation.
  • Connect agents to tools, information, and workflows
  • Grant agents appropriate access to tools, files, and permissions while maintaining supervision.
  • Use agents to automate practical tasks such as briefings, meeting follow-up, and file organization.
  • Build and maintain trusted AI-powered knowledge systems
  • Evaluate sources, manage provenance, and synthesize information with rigorous citations.
  • Create reusable knowledge skills and perform routine health checks to maintain agent accuracy and reliability.
AI Leadership Series

Storytelling as Strategy: Narrative and AI

2026–2027 Cohort Dates
Nov 18 – Dec 162026 CohortJan 27 – Feb 242027 CohortMar 24 – Apr 212027 CohortMay 26 – Jun 232027 CohortJul 28 – Aug 252027 CohortSep 29 – Oct 272027 CohortDec 1 – 292027 Cohort
  • Use storytelling as a strategic communication tool
  • Identify when and how narrative can clarify business challenges, opportunities, and ideas.
  • Apply classic storytelling structures and archetypes to workplace communication scenarios.
  • Develop stronger narratives with support from AI
  • Use AI to generate, refine, and test storylines for different audiences and objectives.
  • Evaluate AI-generated content with human judgment to ensure clarity, credibility, and emotional resonance.
  • Communicate stories with influence and impact
  • Adapt tone, framing, and delivery to make messages more persuasive across organizational contexts.
  • Strengthen the human elements of communication—presence, empathy, and judgment—that help stories inspire action.
AI Leadership Series

Reinventing the Organization with AI

2026–2027 Cohort Dates
Nov 4 – Dec 22026 CohortJan 13 – Feb 102027 CohortMar 10 – Apr 72027 CohortMay 12 – Jun 92027 CohortJul 14 – Aug 112027 CohortSep 15 – Oct 132027 CohortNov 17 – Dec 152027 Cohort
  • Redesign your organization around AI
  • Reimagine people strategy and operating models to support enterprise-scale AI adoption.
  • Identify where AI can create strategic advantage across teams, workflows, and customer-facing offerings.
  • Build advocacy and overcome resistance
  • Develop practical methods for gaining stakeholder buy-in and moving AI initiatives beyond organizational hesitation.
  • Address the human and cultural barriers that can slow adoption, including uncertainty, misalignment, and change fatigue.
  • Develop a people-centered strategy
  • Identify human behaviors and practices that enable sustainable AI transformation.
  • Reimagine incentives to encourage AI adoption throughout an organization.
AI Leadership Series

Problem Solving and AI

2026–2027 Cohort Dates
Dec 2 – 162026 CohortJan 27 – Feb 102027 CohortMar 31 – Apr 142027 CohortMay 26 – Jun 92027 CohortJul 28 – Aug 112027 CohortSep 29 – Oct 132027 CohortDec 1 – 152027 Cohort
  • Apply AI to structured problem solving
  • Use LLMs to augment a 5-phase design-thinking process for complex enterprise and entrepreneurial challenges.
  • Move from ambiguous business problems to clearer opportunities, hypotheses, and solution paths.
  • Analyze stakeholders and uncover root causes
  • Use AI to support discovery, stakeholder analysis, and deeper understanding of user and organizational needs.
  • Identify patterns, barriers, and underlying causes that may not be visible through surface-level problem analysis.
  • Prototype, stress-test, and pitch stronger solutions
  • Use AI to generate, refine, and stress-test solution concepts through iterative problem solving.
  • Build high-impact project pitches that clearly communicate the problem, proposed solution, and organizational value.
AI Leadership Series

Adaptability, Resilience, and AI

2026–2027 Cohort Dates
Dec 2 – 162026 CohortFeb 10 – 242027 CohortApr 14 – 282027 CohortJun 16 – 302027 CohortAug 18 – Sep 12027 CohortOct 13 – 272027 CohortDec 8 – 222027 Cohort
  • Recognize emotional and behavioral responses to AI-driven change.
  • Identify common stress responses and avoidance patterns that can emerge during periods of uncertainty.
  • Understand how psychological avoidance can affect individual, team, and organizational readiness for AI adoption.
  • Build adaptability and psychological resilience in times of technological uncertainty.
  • Apply science-backed strategies to increase psychological flexibility, and respond more effectively to change.
  • Use the “Bold Move” framework to propel workers toward purposeful action.
  • Lead AI adoption in ways that align with organizational and personal values.
  • Support teams in engaging with AI through empathy and psychological readiness.
  • Connect AI-related change efforts to core values, shared goals, and resilient leadership practices.
AI Leadership Series2–3 Hours

Principles of AI

Flexible Monthly Intakes
Monthly / Flexible Starts2–3 hour duration
  • Understand AI foundations
  • Explain core AI technologies beyond generative AI and how AI systems are trained and evaluated for reliability.
  • Assess data readiness for AI success
  • Identify what “high-quality” data looks like
  • Lead responsible AI adoption at work
  • Apply governance and frameworks to bring employees on board

Power Skills for Career Growth

7 Short Modular CoursesIndividual or Bundled

Power Skills for Career Growth

Developed by leading Harvard faculty and brought to life with insights from award-winning celebrities including Cynthia Erivo, Amy Poehler, Michael B. Jordan and more, these courses emphasize skills development and practical strategies to tackle the real challenges you face.

Designed for today’s busy professionals, these focused, fast-paced courses deliver real-world value in just a few hours and will help you build the power skills, confidence, and high performance mindset you need to thrive at work and in your career.

Featured Course Collection

Choose one course or bundle all seven for a richer learning experience.

These focused, fast-paced short courses are designed for busy professionals and can be taken individually or bundled for a certificate.

Flexible Monthly Intakes
Flexible Monthly IntakesShort, modular courses
Included Short Courses
Course 01Short Course

How to Bring the Real You to Work: Authenticity, Connection, and Identity

Explore authenticity at work, self-expression, identity, belonging, and relationship-building, with practical strategies for navigating professional environments with confidence.

Course 02Short Course

Cultivating Power for Positive Impact

Learn how power works beyond formal titles, interpret workplace power dynamics, identify your own sources of influence, and use them to build trust and create positive change.

Course 03Short Course

Purpose, Perspective, and Persuasion

Build skills to define professional goals, refine perspective, take ownership at work, and communicate persuasively in ways that align with long-term career growth.

Course 04Short Course

Disagreeing Productively and Collaborating Well

Develop techniques for turning difficult conversations into productive collaboration by inviting disagreement, de-escalating conflict, communicating receptively, and aligning around shared goals.

Course 05Short Course

Building a Winning Mindset: Flexibility and Resiliency at Work

Use science-driven strategies to manage stress, uncertainty, emotional reactivity, and self-doubt while building psychological flexibility, resilience, and an action plan for thriving.

Course 06Short Course

Effective Writing for Greater Impact

Improve workplace communication by clarifying goals, removing unnecessary information, tailoring messages to busy readers, and writing more relevant, action-oriented content.

Course 07Short Course

Tech Ethics: Critical Thinking in the Age of Apps, Algorithms, and AI

Strengthen ethical reasoning and critical thinking around emerging technologies, including AI, by examining values, motives, consequences, and diverse moral perspectives.

  • Format: Seven short, modular courses.
  • Enrollment: Take courses individually or bundle them for a certificate.
  • Intakes: Flexible, monthly intakes.
  • Designed for: Busy professionals developing practical workplace skills, confidence, and a high-performance mindset.

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