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  • Health Care Leadership Intensive for Managers

    May 5 – 9, 2025

    This management and leadership development program is designed to improve your skills and increase your knowledge, preparing you to tackle complex challenges, comprehend cost analysis, drive change, and effectively manage health care departments and divisions.

    On-Site
    Leadership and Management
    Executive Leadership in Health Care Certificate of Specialization

    Program Fees

    • Standard Price $4,850.00

Program Overview

Improve Your Management and Leadership Skills in Health Care

This management and leadership development program is designed to improve your skills and increase your knowledge, preparing you to tackle complex challenges, comprehend cost analysis, drive change, and effectively manage health care departments and divisions. With a strong focus on interactive learning, case studies and small group discussions, the format of this program ensures you will leave ready to maximize your strengths, build and engage strong teams, and position yourself for both short- and long-term success.

During the program, you will explore topics such as financial management, negotiation, patient experience, and innovative problem solving in health care. Whether you are leading a company or running a department, this program will help you maximize opportunities, build effective teams, and prepare you to make an impact.

Career Benefits—Why You Should Participate 

Gain insight into and develop the skills required to manage and effectively lead in the dynamic field of health care. Learn from distinguished Harvard faculty how to:  

  • Understand and develop your personal leadership style 
  • Improve your strategy, finance, and policy skills 
  • Build and sustain high functioning teams 
  • Sharpen your problem solving and change management skills 
  • Engage in negotiation, conflict management and leading outside of your area of responsibility 
  • Build a network of health care professionals from prominent organizations from across the globe 

Objectives & Highlights

  • Identify leadership styles, strategies and approaches to improve personal navigation of challenges and opportunities
  • Understand design thinking and how it can be used as a process for stimulating innovation in your organization
  • Use interest-based negotiation, multidimensional problem solving, meta-leadership, and other effective techniques to build collaboration and manage conflicts across complex health care systems
  • Gain a firm grasp of appropriate financial management for your department or organization
  • Understand and leverage your skills to transform and lead groups into productive, high-performing teams
  • Develop the crucial qualities, actions, and approaches necessary to be a successful leader
  • Improve capacity to manage change in your organization
  • Develop a leadership toolkit that can be implemented immediately on return to your organization
  • Leadership sessions on negotiation, conflict resolution, financial management, team dynamics, and more
  • Active discussion groups that facilitate the sharing of experiences, address specific challenges, and create workplace solutions
  • Distinguished Harvard faculty members, complemented by health care industry experts
  • Networking with fellow health care leaders from around the world who you can rely on for guidance as you return to your organization

The primary teaching method for this program consists of interactive learning with small group discussions, case studies, and in-class exercises. Morning discussion groups are scheduled to review readings, respond to content questions, and share reactions. This process provides an opportunity to work closely with your colleagues to solve real-world issues.

Certificate of Specialization

Advance your Career with a Certificate of Specialization

This program contributes to the 3-program Executive Leadership in Health Care Certificate of Specialization.  Click here for more information. 

Advance Your Career at Harvard with Health Care Leadership Intensive for Managers