Leadership for Flourishing

"Leadership for Flourishing" is an online course, combining research on leadership, character and flourishing in an engaging 5-module programme. It is designed to help people across settings exercise leadership where they are, furthering the good of their teams, communities and organisations. While the world is still recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic, this is a time for our understanding of leadership to break beyond formal positions and structures to a dynamic process that enables people to act courageously for the good of others. This course will enable you to consider the nature and purpose of your leadership; to develop the character needed to lead others in uncertain times; and to meet, with confidence, the challenges of leadership in your own setting.

The programme will introduce the research through reading and interviews with experts from Oxford, Harvard (including Amy Edmondson), the Wharton School of Business at UPenn (including Adam Grant) as well as other universities. The application of this research in practice will be explained and you will be set challenges to build your repertoire of tools for improving wellbeing and, therefore also performance, in your organisation. Each of the five modules includes inspiring stories from leaders around the world, interviews with expert practitioners and academics, case studies, core readings, quizzes, challenges, and reflection exercises.

Executive Director of the Oxford Character Project and head of the Global Leadership Initiative.

Co-director of the Wellington Leadership and Coaching Institute, and co-founder of the Young African Leadership Programme.

Director of Empirical Research at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University's Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences.

Co-founder of Global Social Leaders, Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow, Oxford University Department of Education, Deputy Head, founder of the Wellington Leadership and Coaching Institute.