Strategic Planning Courses

Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management

32 ratings

Learn to scope, sequence, and schedule projects: analyze stakeholders with a power/interest grid, find the critical path, assess risks, and monitor progress with earned value.

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

Program Management Fundamentals – Governing with Excellence to Drive Strategic Change

27 ratings

Learn the practices behind program delivery excellence, stretch your ability to connect program stakeholders to purpose, achieve meaningful change, stay focused on the program’s mission, then drive in

• edX
• 4 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Strategic Supply Chain Management in Turbulent Times

27 ratings

Learn how supply chain decisions drive cost savings: apply newsvendor and continuous review inventory models, build flexibility and incentive alignment, and adopt digital technologies.

• Coursera
• 9 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Initiating and Planning Projects

19 ratings

Plan projects from the start: define the project manager's role, identify stakeholders and their information needs, and build a project charter, scope statement, and WBS.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Fundamentals of Financial Planning, with Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women

21 ratings

Build and interpret a Cash Flow Forecast for your business: analyze your cash flow cycle, predict financial challenges, and evaluate growth opportunities with confidence.

• Coursera
• 3 hours 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Strategic Finance for Nonprofit Leaders

Designed for current and aspiring nonprofit leaders, this course helps learners build the confidence needed to make stronger financial decisions in mission-driven organizations.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Career Certificate

Strategic Leadership for Mission-Driven Organizations

Build the strategic, financial, entrepreneurial, and leadership skills to strengthen mission-driven organizations, create public value, make data-informed decisions, design sustainable solutions, and

• edX
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Introduction to Negotiation: A Strategic Playbook for Becoming a Principled and Persuasive Negotiator

11 ratings

Learn a "theory of the pie" framework for negotiation: prepare cases, use BATNA and ultimatums, reveal information strategically, and negotiate when you have no power.

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

Career Certificate

Healthcare Risk Management: Planning, Response, and Recovery

Learn how to navigate a healthcare organization through a crisis.

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

Telehealth Optimization: Practice Considerations, Workflow Planning, and Healthcare Accessibility

Learn how to plan a telehealth care journey to improve the patient experience, with guidance from Stanford Medicine faculty. Discover how telehealth can be used to make healthcare more accessible.

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

Interactive Imitation Learning: Planning Alongside Humans

How robots learn from human feedback and predict people’s intentions while planning alongside them.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

When Design Equals Planning - Computational Approaches to Robot Design

Exploring the intersection of robot design and planning, this seminar discusses computational approaches to simplify design processes and make formal statements about design feasibility across various robotic systems.

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

Odyssey Planning

This course focuses on creating 'Odyssey Plans' to help you explore curiosities and design the life (or lives) you want. Odyssey Plans are a key part of Stanford's 10-week Designing Your Life course,

• edX
• 4 weeks, 1-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Stanford Seminar - How the Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction

Examines how China’s 50c Party uses fabricated social media posts and strategic distraction to shape public opinion and suppress collective action.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Personal & Family Financial Planning

16 ratings

Personal and Family Financial Planning will address many critical personal financial management topics in order to help you learn prudent habits both while in school and throughout your lifetime.

• Coursera
• 9 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course