Empower your workforce to lead and connect

Develop employees who innovate and inspire with the Leadership Academy from Coursera.

    88%
    of HR professionals cited leadership development as a top priority for business success
    2nd
    Leadership development is the 2nd highest of 32 priorities indicated by HR professionals.

    Why Leadership Skills?

    Promote leadership skills throughout your organization

    Provide employees the skills to lead your business into the future. Drive growth and productivity across the organization with more effective managers at every level.

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      In-Demand Human Skills

      Deliver essential skills for leaders of all levels

      Build effective managers at every level with beginner and advanced level leadership content, including 40+ SkillSets to drive soft skill proficiency across the entire organization.

        The notion that great leaders are born, not made, is misleading. An important part of leadership development is the realization that there are component skills that can be learned and mastered. As the world keeps changing, we need to support leaders at every level of our organizations with the types of targeted, reliable skills that form the basis of the Leadership Academy.

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        Matt D.
        Director of Leadership and Professional Development
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        Expert Instruction

        Learn from top professors and business leaders

        Access world-class learning experiences delivered by top professors and industry experts.

        Michael Useem

        Professor Emeritus of Management

        Laurie Santos

        Professor of Psychology

        Michael Barger

        Co-founder JetBlue, and Professor of Management and Organization

        Amane Dannouni

        Managing Director and Partner

        Laurence Lehmann Ortega

        Professor of Strategic Management

        Hands-On Learning

        Engage learners with interactive leadership training

        Help employees learn new leadership skills faster with side-by-side, interactive tutorials covering highly relevant leadership skills and tools. Example tutorials include:

        • Remote Employee Onboarding with Eduflow
        • Set the Right Strategy with BCG Matrix
        • Change Leadership: Developing Strategic Gap Analysis in Miro
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        Measuring and Benchmarking

        Track the success of your learning investment

        Understand your organization’s development in communication, storytelling, and coaching, and build stronger competitive intelligence by understanding how your talent’s skill profiles compare against your industry.

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          Develop leaders from within your workforce

          Let’s work together to build lasting leadership skills for your organization

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          Check out Coursera for Teams