The Resource Guide is created by Grace Liu and Gabriella Velazquez
Updated on Janurary 8, 2022
The courses selected can be audited for free and you can find the audit instructions for Coursera and Edx courses.
Rise to Leadership: Become a CEO (Babson College)
Do you have what it takes to be a CEO? This course explores the key competencies that make the best CEOs effective leaders. This course will give you insight into how CEOs view strategic challenges, formulate solutions, and take action - and expose the path from individual contributor to the top job. Through case studies, group challenges, and feedback from current CEOs, you’ll explore six key skills that make an effective CEO, and form the foundation of their strategic work.
Dealing with Power and Dynamics: Discover Your Leadership Style and Influence Stakeholders | edX (UTDelft)
In this course you will learn how to develop and apply an influencing mindset, which will allow you to lead your team effectively and to successfully manage stakeholders. The course gives you the tools to operate within a network of stakeholders.
Leadership and Motivation (Kauffman Foundation)
In this series, Daniel Pink discusses the art and science of motivation, and how entrepreneurs can leverage these insights to be compelling leaders.
Inclusive Leadership: The Power of Workplace Diversity (The University of Colorado)
Course highlights include studying signature traits of inclusive leadership (based on global research), strengthening self-awareness, developing your communication skills, and improving your ability to help others feel a strong sense of belonging. Course content covers traditional and timely topics -- from listening, feedback, and collaboration, to privilege, implicit bias, micro-aggressions, and micro-affirmations.
Become a More Resilient Leader in Turbulent Times (Harvard Business School)
In this free, 35-minute lesson, Harvard Business School Professor Nancy Koehn delves into the career of legendary explorer Ernest Shackleton. She unpacks the courageous actions he took in the midst of crisis and highlights the skills all leaders need to guide themselves and others through challenging times.
Strategic Leadership and Management Specialization (University of Illinois)
Through this 6-course Specialization in Strategic Leadership and Management, you will learn the fundamentals of effectively leading people, teams, and organizations and develop tools to
analyze business situations. Including:
In this foundational course, you will learn about the “head and heart” of everyday leadership by exploring dynamics of individual and group decision making and the challenges of managing motivation.
This course builds upon a conceptual knowledge of leadership by considering applications for more effective negotiation, feedback and coaching, conflict management, and change leadership.
High Stakes Leadership: Leading in Times of Crisis | Coursera (University of Michigan)
This course builds upon a conceptual knowledge of leadership by considering applications for more effective negotiation, feedback and coaching, conflict management, and change leadership. By applying a leadership framework to these realistic situations faced by businesses, you will be prepared to lead teams towards solutions in your own business challenges.
Leading People and Teams Specialization (University of Michigan)
In this specialization, you will learn essential leadership skills, including the following courses:
Inspiring and Motivating Individuals
In this course, you will learn how to create a shared vision for your team and effectively communicate it to your teammates.
Managing Talent
In this course, you will learn best practices for selecting, recruiting, and onboarding talent. You will also learn about the key approaches to measuring performance and evaluating your employees.
Influencing People
This course will improve your ability to influence people in situations where you cannot use formal authority. You will learn about effective ways to build, develop, and sustain a power base in your organization.
Leading Teams | Coursera
In this course, you will learn how to build your team, improve teamwork and collaboration, and sustain team performance through continuous learning and improvement. Specifically, you will learn best practices for composing a team and aligning individual and team goals.
Organizational Leadership Specialization (Northwestern University)
This specialization equips aspiring managers to lead change and leverage different roles and functions within for-profit institutions to create lasting value in the marketplace. Throughout the five courses, we will explore how great leaders assess themselves and lead collaborative teams that effectively manage negotiations and conflict. The courses include:
Students will engage in self-assessments to analyze their leadership style, develop team charters to optimize their groups, and develop a game plan for effective negotiation.
This course helps leaders find their own story through personal branding; develop storytelling success with all constituencies; initiate an effective voice for crisis; interact well through social and third party media; and communicate a vision for innovation.
This course will provide learners with a systematic general framework for analyzing persuasive influence situations. Learners will be able to identify different challenges faced by persuaders and to fashion appropriate strategies for addressing those challenges.
In this course, students will learn how to identify new opportunities to create value for empowered consumers, develop strategies that yield an advantage over rivals, and develop the data science skills to lead more effectively.
Leading in the Digital Age (Boston University)
Leading in the Digital Age uses interactive tools to help you apply in real time what you learn from the content, other participants, and your own experience, to dynamically lead continuous innovation and change.
Agile Leadership: Introduction to Change | Coursera (The University of Colorado)
This is a foundational course in the Agile Leadership Specialization. By the end of this course, you will build an understanding of key agile leadership concepts. You will begin building a toolbox that will give you an ability to evaluate and create a baseline for yourself as an agile leader. You will access your team’s readiness for change. You will also analyze to what degree an organization is agile, and evaluate its ability to respond to change triggers.
Leadership focused on Human Flourishing (Tecnológico de Monterrey)
The world needs self-aware leaders who are also aware of their environment, immersed in a permanent learning process, who are committed, resilient, with a positive vision of the present and the future, who find meaning in their life mission, and who flourish by contributing to the flourishing of others.This course will bring the necessary tools to develop a human-flourishing-oriented-leadership.
Leadership vs. Management - What it means to make a difference
The world-renowned marketing and leadership author Seth Godin talks about the difference between leadership and management, the confusion surrounding them, and why the world needs more leaders.
The Pathway to Transformational Leadership
Leaders are finding themselves leading in a very different world, one for which they were not typically prepared. In this webinar, discover the moves to make now to lead and deliver lasting transformational change.
Build Your Personal Charisma | Stanford eCorner
Debunking charisma as being purely innate or magical, Olivia Fox Cabane reveals how specific behaviors of presence, power and warmth can help individuals to develop their personal charisma. The author of The Charisma Myth also shares anecdotes and research that illustrate how elements of charisma are learned, interpreted and impact relationships.
Leadership and Choice | Podcast | Stanford eCorner
Carly Fiorina, CEO of Hewlett Packard (1999-2005), discusses her leadership experience in her journey from the job of a secretary to the leader of one of the biggest technology companies in the world. Fiorina describes ways in which leadership in business and entrepreneurship entails developing an appetite for risk and overcoming the fear of change. Fiorina concludes with a message that leadership is about building capability, collaboration and character.
Skills for Entrepreneurial Leaders | Stanford eCorner
Skill building should be a lifelong pursuit, as there is something revitalizing about the process of learning and striving to master an endeavor or practice. Within business organizations, professional development opportunities are clearly valued by rank-and-file employees, who often pursue skill building or training as a stepping-stone toward career advancement.
Leadership in Times of Uncertainty | Stanford eCorner
Entrepreneurial leaders face uncertainty every day, but many learn how to work this to their advantage, even when the going gets tough. In this collection, you’ll hear advice from leaders talking about how they face and embrace uncertainty, reduce their risks, and manage unknowns. It includes lessons learned from Steve Jobs, Facebook, Microsoft and more. You may find these clips inspiring as you face your own difficulties during uncertain times.
Lessons in Situational Leadership Stanford eCorner
Meg Whitman, president and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, describes how she learned to lead companies big and small to success by adjusting to different environments, building on what a business does best, and approaching work with urgency and initiative. In conversation with Stanford Professor of the Practice Tina Seelig, Whitman recounts the explosive growth during her time as president and CEO of eBay, the challenging turnaround of storied tech giant HP, and her 2010 run for California governor that revealed deep political insights that still resonate.
Leadership Through Storytelling: How To Leverage Authenticity and Amplify Your Impact (eCornell)
As a leader, you are expected to inspire your team, earn the trust of customers, and paint a vision for the future. All of these responsibilities require amplifying your leadership skills through powerful storytelling. In this session, you will receive tips from accomplished storytellers on how to craft and deliver powerful stories that will motivate your team members, endear you to customers, and strengthen your personal brand.
James R. Swartz Entrepreneurial Leadership Series (Carnegie Mellon University)
The series brings to campus entrepreneurial thought leaders from centers around the country to exchange views on leadership, entrepreneurship and innovation in today’s competitive, global economy. Speakers include successful entrepreneurs, investors and innovators who are focused on emerging and growing market sectors that are important for competitiveness in the global economy.
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (Stanford eCorner)
Each week, experienced entrepreneurs and innovators come to Stanford University to candidly share lessons they’ve learned while developing, launching and scaling disruptive ideas.
Podcast | The Learning Leader Show
The Learning Leader Show’s mission is to have deep conversations with the world’s most thoughtful leaders and share their useful life stories and leadership wisdom. I speak with CEOs, Special Forces Operators, Entrepreneurs, Best-Selling Authors, Professional Athletes, and more.
The EntreLeadership Podcast features lively discussions and tips on leadership and business by some of the top minds in the business, like Mark Cuban, Seth Godin, Jim Collins and Simon Sinek.
Leaders aren't born, they're made. This Monday show helps you discover leadership wisdom through insightful conversations. Independently produced weekly since 2011, Dr. Dave Stachowiak brings perspective from a thriving, global leadership academy, plus more than 15 years of leadership at Dale Carnegie.
You can search Harvard Business Review to learn more articles on this topic. You can also check if your university library has a subscription to the Business Source Complete database, which provides full-text access to Harvard Business Review articles, or use the library’s interlibrary loan service to access the article.
How to Become a More Effective Leader (Free ebook from Harvard Business School Online)
In this guide, you’ll learn about the difference between leadership and management, uncover the qualities and skills that characterize an effective leader, gain an understanding of common leadership styles, and explore how you can unleash the potential in yourself and others
Level 5 leadership is a concept developed in the book Good to Great. Level 5 leaders display a powerful mixture of personal humility and indomitable will. They're incredibly ambitious, but their ambition is first and foremost for the cause, for the organization and its purpose, not themselves. While Level 5 leaders can come in many personality packages, they are often self-effacing, quiet, reserved, and even shy. Every good-to-great transition in our research began with a Level 5 leader who motivated the enterprise more with inspired standards than inspiring personality.
Level 5 Leadership: The Triumph of Humility and Fierce Resolve
Boards of directors typically believe that transforming a company from good to great requires an extreme personality, an egocentric chief to lead the corporate charge. Think “Chainsaw” AI Dunlap or Lee Iacocca. But that’s not the case, says author and...
Authentic Leadership: What It Is & Why It's Important
Leaders who relate to their teams and inspire effective action are critically important to business success. According to a study in the Leadership & Organization Development Journal, employees' perception of authentic leadership serves as the strongest predictor of job satisfaction and can have a positive impact on work-related attitudes and happiness.
6 Leadership Paradoxes for the Post-Pandemic Era
To succeed in the post-pandemic era, leaders need new skills and capabilities, leaders must be proficient across a wide set of paradoxical characteristics. Leaders must be strategic executors, balancing vision with execution. Second, they must be humble heroes, willing to make bold decisions while being great listeners and champions of inclusivity. Third, they must be tech-savvy humanists, adopting new technologies while understanding and caring for their people.
You Don't Have to Be CEO to Be a Visionary Leader
Creating a unifying vision for an organization is a fundamental skill for leaders. A simple, bold, inspirational vision can feel almost magical: it brings people throughout the company together around a common goal and provides a focal point for developing strategies to achieve a better future.
Are You Adapting Your Leadership Strategy as Your Startup Grows?
As a leader in any kind of organization you must candidly look in the mirror, get feedback about what you do well and where you are lacking, and then work to close the gap. In startups, however, the rapid evolution of the business requires those on the leadership team to engage in these activities in short, intense cycles.
Good Leadership Hinges on “Organizational Intelligence”
The qualities that help managers rise in the organization — emotional intelligence, high IQ, technical competence, and so forth — don’t necessarily make them effective once they’re in a leadership position. For that, they need organizational intelligence (OQ), or the ability to get the organization to do what they want it to do.
How to exercise influence without losing your moral compass by Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro
Managing Through Crunch Time — Without Burning Out Your Team
Crunch times — the long, stressful hours of work that are often required in the final weeks before a new product launch — can have an inordinate impact on the success of businesses and they’re powerful shapers of organizational culture.
Find more Harvard Business Review articles on Leadership, Leadership Vision, Leadership Styles, Leadership Qualities, etc.
Resilience is Everything Stanford eCorner
Not long after landing at PagerDuty in 2016, Jennifer Tejada embarked on that harrowing rite of passage for CEOs of fortunate young startups: the pursuit of an IPO. Tejada raised a $90 million Series D round in late 2018, and saw PagerDuty go public on April 11, 2019. Her path to that point, she observes, was anything but linear. She tells the story of how a very “average” University of Michigan grad ended up becoming the CEO of a public SaaS company, and describes how gritty perseverance, some fortunate early leadership opportunities, and a passion for understanding and embracing different perspectives drove her career forward. She offers strategies that aspiring leaders can employ to challenge themselves and build tenacity while creating diverse, high-performing teams.
Authenticity Is a Leadership Superpower | Stanford eCorner
Stitch Fix founder and CEO Katrina Lake explains that she started her company with almost zero management experience. As a result, she couldn’t lean on tested leadership expertise to gain respect. Instead, she built trust through authenticity and vulnerability. She urges other founders to do the same, suggesting that openness is a valuable tactic for creating connections and trust.
Click the link to find a Worldcat book record; enter a zipcode to check which library nearby has the book you can borrow. When the record is not available, a link to Amazon is provided.
Buckingham, Marcus, and Ashley Goodall. Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World. 2019. Print.
Frei, Frances, and Anne Morriss. Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader's Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You. 2020. Print.
Hewlett, Sylvia A. Sponsor Effect: How to Be a Better Leader by Investing in Others. Harvard Business Review Press, 2019. Print.
Joly, Hubert, and Caroline Lambert. The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism. 2021. Print.
Wiseman, Liz, and Stephen R. Covey. Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter. New York, NY: Harper Business, 2017. Print.
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