It was an honor for me to receive an Executive Certificate with a concentration in Public Leadership from Harvard Kennedy School. I received this certificate after three consecutive one-week long programs on campus on :
- Leading Successful Programs: Using Evidence to Assess Effectiveness
- Mastering Negotiation: Building Agreements Across Boundaries
- Leadership in Crises: Preparation and Performance
Leading Successful Programs:
This one-week program helped me understand how to measure and evaluate program effectiveness, and equipped me with:
- A framework for thinking about various types of evidence—from benchmarking and performance measurement to impact evaluation—and their relationship to one another
- Methods for analyzing administrative data to identify potential points for intervention to improve long-term goals
- Tools to measure the effectiveness of your program as well as strategies for generating short- and longer-term assessments of the impact of your programs on participants
- Tactics for integrating qualitative and quantitative data to assess a program’s effectiveness
- A deeper understanding of how to make decisions about the best way to spend your limited research budget
Mastering Negotiation:
This negotiation strategies program provided with:
- The tools and frameworks to build sustainable agreements
- Strategies for consensus building
- A deep understanding of the role social, organizational and cultural differences have on negotiations
- An opportunity to learn from Harvard faculty and expert practitioners
- A lasting network of peers with similar backgrounds and experience
Leadership in Crisis:
This course provided me and my colleagues with an understanding of:
- The dynamics of emergencies overall and what differentiates crisis situations from routine emergencies
- The role leadership plays in crafting and executing appropriate responses and preparing organizations in advance of a crisis
- The skills leaders need for working decisively in the highly concentrated time-frame of an emergency while maintaining a focus on managing and motivating a team
- The critical demands of large-scale crises that engage multiple response organizations from many jurisdictions and levels of government
- The tensions that frequently arise between senior emergency management professionals and political leaders and how they can work together effectively
