What you'll learn

  • Demonstrate clear communication and adaptive leadership to build collaboration, trust, and alignment across clinical and organizational teams.

  • Lead and optimize teams, structures, and processes to enhance performance, quality, and patient or organizational outcomes.

  • Apply frameworks and innovative thinking to guide decision-making and problem-solving in complex health care environments.

  • Evaluate organizational priorities, systems, and risk tolerance to promote sustainable improvement and resilience in clinical practice.

  • Implement influence, negotiation, and interdisciplinary leadership strategies that accelerate results and advance key initiatives.

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Course description

Increasing system complexity, rapid technological change, and rising demands on care teams are reshaping what it means to lead in health care. Clinicians are often asked to step into leadership roles without formal training in organizational decision-making, cross-functional collaboration, or strategic leadership within health systems, gaps that can undermine confidence, influence, and impact at critical moments.

The Clinician Leadership Program from Harvard Medical School Executive Education is a 17-week program designed to equip practicing physicians, nurses, advanced practice providers, pharmacists, and other health care professionals with the skills to lead with purpose and clarity. Combining academic rigor with practical application and an optional on-campus immersion, the program builds adaptive, interpersonal, and systems-level leadership capabilities. Participants explore leadership in the age of artificial intelligence (AI), with a focus on the responsible integration of AI tools in health care, empowering you to navigate complexity, drive meaningful change, and take on expanded leadership roles with confidence.

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