Decision Making Courses and Certifications

LeadDev

Lost and Alone Over the Pacific

Discover how a Navy pilot's harrowing Pacific survival story teaches valuable lessons about navigating challenges when technology fails and uncertainty strikes.

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

Devoxx Poland

Worth a Million Arguments - Making Effective Technology Decisions

A keynote on making better software decisions by learning from the practices of artists, scientists, and architects.

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

Finance for Everyone: Smart Tools for Decision-Making

5 ratings

In this introduction to finance course from Michigan learn to apply frameworks and smart tools for understanding and making everyday financial decisions.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 5-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Coursera;  University of Illinois Career Certificate

AI Foundations for Executive Decision-Making

1420 ratings at Coursera

Apply AI to executive decisions: learn how machine learning and generative AI work, address bias and governance with the NIST AI RMF, and build an organisational AI strategy.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 5 courses

Ethical Decision-Making in a Social World

Examine how stereotypes, conformity, moral emotions, and power shape ethical judgment, and apply strategies to resist unethical pressure and lead with integrity.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Healthcare Quality Improvement and Decision-Making

Develop healthcare quality improvement initiatives: create project charters, apply quality science decision-making tools, run plan-do-study-act cycles, and build a culture of safety and high reliability.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Data Augmented Technology Assisted Medical Decision Making

Use AI to augment diagnostic decisions: interpret ML performance measures, critically appraise AI/ML diagnostic studies, and weigh the legal, ethical, and bias issues in patient care.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Alumni Share Job Search Strategies and Decision-Making Tools - Job Searching with Purpose

Alumni demonstrate practical ways to track openings and compare opportunities by scoring job criteria while balancing analysis with intuition.

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

Data Use for Disease Control & Global Health Decision-Making

Conduct epidemiologic surveillance for disease control: study polio eradication in settings like Nigeria and the DR Congo, and collect quality data for program decisions.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Supply Chain Management: A Decision-Making Framework

7 ratings

Learn how to make rational and confident supply chain decisions, by understanding how they impact the finance, market and strategy of your company.

• edX
• 10 weeks, 6-8 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Accounting for Business Decision Making: Measurement and Operational Decisions

190 ratings at Coursera

Learn how cost information is created and organized for operational decisions: cost concepts, cost-volume-profit analysis, product profitability, pricing, and managing operations and sales.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

The Royal Institution

The Psychology of Thinking - Exploring Human Reasoning and Decision-Making

6 ratings

Richard Nisbett shows how statistical tools and everyday assumptions shape human reasoning, and how better reasoning can improve decisions.

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

Decision Making and Reinforcement Learning

25 ratings at Coursera

Model sequential decisions and implement RL algorithms: multi-armed bandits, MDPs and POMDPs, value and policy iteration, Monte Carlo control, SARSA, Q-learning and n-step TD.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Critical Thinking and Decision Science

5000 ratings at Coursera

Apply model-based reasoning, decompose problems into algorithms, judge evidence from statistics and experiments, and build GenAI prompts that surface assumptions, sources, and alternatives.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 4 courses

Career Certificate

Data-Driven Decision-Making for Agile Organizations

59 ratings at Coursera

Design agile dashboards, interpret data for actionable insights, and apply decision-making frameworks to monitor KPIs, anticipate trends, and optimize performance in complex environments.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses