Free online course 

Strategic Business Leadership Online distance learning

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Lead Your Business with Strategic Vision. Define strategic leadership and assess the mindset, skills, and frameworks needed to lead in complexity. Learn to identify disruption, uncover opportunity and innovation opportunities, and lead with agility in uncertain markets. Drive digital transformation by aligning strategy, innovation, and leadership across the enterprise.

  • Length: 8 hours to complete
  • Start date: Anytime
  • Specialisation

Why this course

In a world defined by rapid change and constant disruption, strategic leadership is more essential than ever. The Strategic Business Leadership Specialisation is a three-course journey designed to equip current and aspiring leaders with the mindset, tools, and frameworks needed to navigate uncertainty, shape the future, and drive meaningful transformation across their organizations.

You’ll begin by defining what strategic business leadership truly means—exploring its objectives, key activities, and success metrics. In Course 2, you’ll build upon these skills by learning how to identify and seize opportunities in times of market disruption, moving beyond traditional forecasting and market research to uncover new sources of competitive advantage. Finally, you’ll explore how to lead corporate-wide digital transformation, addressing organizational blockages, unlocking hidden potential, and enabling horizontal collaboration and innovation at scale.

Whether you're a team leader, executive, or entrepreneur, this Specialisation will help you think more strategically, act more decisively, and lead more effectively. Each course can be taken on its own, but the full learning experience is designed to build progressively—so we encourage you to start at the beginning and take the full journey with us.

Applied Learning Project

Tasks and assignments within this Specialisation test both a learner's retention of the materials through practice and graded quizzes of multiple choice style questions. In addition to this, scenarios are created that encourage learners to envision themselves as business leaders and apply their new learning to a real world style scenario through discussion.

How to register

Registration is free. The course is hosted on an external learning platform, Coursera.

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Registration for this course is free, with free time-limited access to content: charges may apply for additional features and extended study.

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