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Online Leadership Training, Certificate & Courses

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For a limited time, when you purchase any course from Goodwin College’s Online Professional Development Course catalog, you’ll receive the online, self-paced course, Speak With Confidence for free! The link to access Speak with Confidence will be included in your course confirmation email that you receive 24-48 hours after registration.


What is leadership and why is it important? How does a leader encourage change without triggering fearful resistance? What are the key elements to leading an effective team? What is the role of charisma in leadership? How can a leader achieve work-life balance? These online leadership certificate courses address all of these questions and many more. Based on D. Quinn Mills' book, Leadership: How to Lead, How to Live, a text used at Harvard Business School, these courses offer advice on leadership that can help you stand out as a leader among your peers.

The following leadership courses can be taken online individually or in the bundle certificate package at a discounted rate:

Certificate in Leadership

Learn proven methods and tools for leading teams and leading through change, and understand the importance of work-life balance.

  • Length: 20 hours
  • Format: Online
  • Cost: $199

Introduction to Leadership

This course offers a balance of the theory of leadership with some real-world application to help you develop this critical skill for personal growth and success.

  • Length: 5 hours
  • Format: Online
  • Cost: $79

Leaders and Work-Life Balance

Examine the methods and techniques to reconcile work and family as well as the question of personal fulfillment and the needs and demands of leadership.

  • Length: 3 hours
  • Format: Online
  • Cost: $79

Leading Teams

Whether you’re a manager or ready to become one, this course helps you understand how team leaders must account for the special and unique circumstances of working in a team, where responsibility, accountability, communication and leadership are shared.

  • Length: 5 hours
  • Format: Online
  • Cost: $79

Leading and Managing Change

Address the key issues managers face in a dynamic environment by understanding the steps in effecting change and how to overcome resistance.

  • Length: 4 hours
  • Format: Online
  • Cost: $79

Leadership Course Catalog