

Today’s principals are charged with a wide array of responsibilities – from generating better student outcomes, to recruiting, managing, and retaining high-quality faculty and staff, to cultivating collaboration and collective learning.
Offered as a course within the Certificate in School Management and Leadership (CSML), Leading People provides school leaders with the skills needed to manage and motivate staff, foster continuous improvement, and build leadership capabilities among individuals, groups, and teams throughout the school.
Leading People participants will:
Course Calendar
View modules and deadlines for upcoming editions of this course. These calendars are downloadable.
Faculty
Mary Grassa O'Neill, CSML Faculty Co-Chair, Senior Lecturer on Education; Faculty Director, School Leadership, HGSE
Monique Burns Thompson, CSML Faculty Co-Chair, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, HBS
Amy Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, HBS
David Fubini, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, HBS
Monica Higgins, Kathleen McCartney Professor of Education Leadership, HGSE
Deborah Jewell-Sherman, Gregory R Anrig Professor of Practice in Educational Leadership, HGSE
Susan Moore Johnson, Jerome T. Murphy Research Professor in Education, HGSE
The course also features engaging case studies of the following practitioners:
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World-class Harvard faculty research adapted to the PreK-12 school context |
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100% online and interactive |
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Features case studies of leaders from a diverse cross-section of schools and businesses from across the country |
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Global peer network of school leaders |
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Develop a toolkit and solutions that are tailored to improving your school |