English Courses

Improve Work Process with Design Thinking

See how design thinking techniques can help teams solve challenges in their work processes.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How to Bring Empathy and Experimentation into Your Work Today

Use empathy and experimentation exercises to apply foundational design thinking techniques to an active work or life project.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How to Be an Innovative Leader - A Jam Session with Stanford Faculty

Explores how design thinking can help leaders build creative collaboration and guide teams through organizational change.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders - Nassim Taleb

Nassim Taleb speaks in a seminar where entrepreneurial leaders share lessons from real-world experience, followed by class interaction.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Business Models for Entrepreneurs and Innovators

A business model serves as a blueprint for planning and building new ventures or new business lines within established companies.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How to Make Innovation a Reality at Your Work

Learn practical ways to make innovation routine at work by understanding customers, experimenting rapidly, and applying design principles in corporate settings.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Stanford Seminar - Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders: Peter Fenton and Jess Lee on Becoming a CEO

Peter Fenton and Jess Lee discuss the traits that define a successful CEO and how to assess the potential of a first-time CEO.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Project Innovation through Design Thinking

See how project managers can use design thinking to reframe complex problems and turn ideas into actionable prototypes.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Good Boss, Bad Boss - A Peek Inside the Minds of the Best and Worst

Professor Robert Sutton explores the mindsets and actions of effective and ineffective bosses through management research, psychology, stories, and cases.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How to Earn the Trust of a Stakeholder

A webinar on earning stakeholder trust and commitment, and why those relationships matter to project and organizational success.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Career Certificate

Telehealth: Strategy, Implementation, and Optimization

Empower your organization’s telehealth integration.

• edX
• 12 weeks, 2-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• $672.00
• 3 courses

Career Certificate

Health Communication: Strategies for Impact and Success

Enhance your ability to facilitate effective communication about health and science, with guidance from Stanford Medicine faculty.

• edX
• 12 weeks, 2-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• $672.00
• 3 courses

Introduction to Healthcare Communication Strategies

Explore the foundations of effective health communication, including active listening and improvisation. Learn the skills required to build strong and trusting relationships from leading Stanford Medi

• edX
• 4 weeks, 2-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Healthcare Ecosystems and Communication: Strategies to Examine Information

Throughout this course from the Stanford Center for Health Education (SCHE), you’ll explore where information comes from, how it spreads, and why misinformation can travel faster and farther than the

• edX
• 4 weeks, 2-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Visual Media for Effective Healthcare Communication

Enhance your ability to connect with an audience using visual presentation. Gain tools and strategies to communicate more effectively via the media, with guidance from leading Stanford Medicine facult

• edX
• 4 weeks, 2-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)