Enhance your professional credentials, hone your leadership skills and gain a career edge. Are you a driven business professional who aspires to become a more effective and influential leader? Move your career forward with our Leaders Excellence Certified Leader℠ program online from Harvard Square.

The Leaders Excellence Certified Leader℠ program consists of self-paced online courses in key aspects of leadership and management. Each online course includes interactive course modules and program materials, allowing you to take it when you’re ready and at your own pace. In short, this is a convenient and self-paced learning environment. Online learners are more and more interested in taking control of their own learning rather than the traditional classroom approaches. In short, this is a convenient and self-paced learning environment.

In order to complete the program, you have to be a member of Leaders Excellence at Harvard Square for more than 2 years. There is no cost for the program as it is included in your membership. Upon your online registration, we will set you up for the program on the next business day. It is delivered via 10 online courses. You are welcome to finish the program before the designated time.

Why Leaders Excellence?

Based on best practices and standards in online education, all our programs meet the high standards of U.S. education. As a leader of online MBA-level certificate programs, we deliver our courses to accredited universities as well as top institutions and organizations worldwide. Being a member of the Harvard Square Business Association, we are included in the Harvard community at Harvard Square and a member of the Harvard Faculty Club. We are also a member of AACSB International, which places us in the same elite group with the best educational institutions and business schools in the world.

What Are the Courses in the Program?

Click on each topic below to read more about the content and learning goals for each Leaders Excellence Certified Leader℠ online course.

How Does the Online Certificate Program Work?

Who Can Complete the Program?

In order to complete the program, you have to be a member of Leaders Excellence at Harvard Square for more than 2 years.

What Are the Requirements for Completion?

You must complete the program within 2 months, with an average of 30 hours of individual work. Each course takes about 3 hours to complete.

You are not required to write any papers. Instead, after each course module, you should complete knowledge checks and finally a post assessment with a minimum passing score of 70%. The post assessment is all based on questions from the knowledge checks. If you don’t pass it with the minimum score, you can repeat it multiple times. When you have completed the program, you can download all the ebooks and quick reference sheets for future reference on each topic.

Do I Need to Speak English Fluently in Order to Apply?

English doesn’t have to be your first language in order to participate in the Leaders Excellence Certified Leader℠ program. However, you must understand English in order to complete the coursework. If English is not your first language, you should expect to take more than the designated time to complete your program.

CREDENTIALS

Why is Membership to AACSB Important?

As a member of AACSB International, we are in the same elite group with the best educational institutions and business schools in the world.

Leaders Excellence is an educational member of AACSB’s Business Education Alliance, the world’s largest and most prestigious network of business schools. Synonymous with the highest standards of excellence since 1916, AACSB International provides quality assurance and business education intelligence. Membership to the AACSB Business Education Alliance is a movement united to improve the quality of business education around the world. AACSB connects, shares, and inspires innovation and quality throughout the member network. The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) is the hallmark of excellence in management education.

Why is Membership to Harvard Square Business Association Important?

As a member of the Harvard Square Business Association, we are included in the Harvard community at Harvard Square and a member of Harvard Faculty Club.

The Harvard Square Business Association was founded in 1910 and incorporated in 1936 with the mission to promote commerce in Harvard Square. Located adjacent to Harvard Yard, the historic heart of Harvard University, Harvard Square is the home and gathering place for authors, publishers, booksellers, students, professors, and innovators. Headquartered in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA, Leaders Excellence benefits from its unique location and powerful academic network.

What About Meetings in Harvard Square?

Leaders Excellence members and alumni are exclusively invited to our “Leadership Luncheons” at the Harvard Faculty Club for an extra cost. With its unique ambiance, reflective of the university’s proud traditions and rich heritage, the Faculty Club is located at Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is open only to members of the Harvard community.

Aside from our membership to the Harvard Faculty Club, we have reciprocal privileges with clubs belonging to the Association of College and University Clubs and may also visit non-ACUC clubs like Oxford and Cambridge University Club in London, UK as well as selected university clubs globally.

COST & NEXT STEP

What is the Cost of the Program?

There is no cost for the program as it is included in your membership, but you have to be a member of Leaders Excellence at Harvard Square for more than 2 years. Access to the LMS is for the duration of your program.

As part of your successful completion of this program, you can order a framed completion certificate in black (8×10) for $49 by clicking here. It includes domestic or international shipping.