Cohort 1

Master the art and craft of nonprofit strategy.   Become a more effective leader. Build relations with a peer community. 

Sushma Raman

Strategy Masterclass for Nonprofit Leaders

Harvard University

Ford Foundation

Open Society Foundations

Tufts University

UCLA

Your ability as a nonprofit leader to shape, implement, and communicate strategy is essential for your success–and the organization’s survival and impact.&nbsp; You will learn from a leading expert in social impact strategy and leadership who has taught at leading universities, launched and scaled multi-million dollar programs globally and domestically, and coached and advised numerous leaders. You will be part of a peer cohort working on live examples, projects, and deep dive discussions with leading experts.

What you will learn

You are a leader of a nonprofit organization. Your title might be executive director, board member, or a member of the leadership team.

You want to launch a new program or nonprofit organization. You need a compelling strategic plan to raise funds and actualize your vision.

You are leading or part of an organization with established programs, and are desperately in need of fresh, creative, strategic thinking.

Who is this course for

What you’ll get out of this course

Learn to stand out as a strategic thought leader.

Establish and strengthen your personal strategic leadership expertise and credentials

Are you and your team overwhelmed by lack of clarity, conflicting priorities, and new emergencies? We will take a step back to assess the key internal and external forces affecting your strategic and impact using a template I have created specially for this course.

Analyze and interpret the internal and external forces that affect the strategy for your organization

Do you have a mission and vision? What about a theory of change? We'll construct, analyze, and hone these key building blocks of strategy.

Construct and hone your theory of change

What makes your work unique? Project work, worksheets, and deep dive collaboration will help you with distinctive positioning.

Prioritize and apply the concept of “distinctive positioning” to help you design and communicate your unique value-add

The frameworks, templates, and concepts I have developed for this course and will share in the pre-reads, during the live class, and after will be available for you to download and use during the course and after the conclusion of the course.

Access one-of-a-kind frameworks and actionable tactics to help you create, sharpen, or revisit strategy

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First Module

Second Module

Third Module

Course syllabus

Director of Strategy and Communications, Harvard EdRedesign Lab

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Meet your instructor

Wednesday to Friday

January 8th: Strategy Masterclass Session 1 January 9th: Strategy Masterclass Session 2 January 10th: Strategy Masterclass Session 3

January 8th, 9th, 10th, 2025

Work on projects that apply the learnings from the course.

Weekly projects

Course schedule

This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects

Active hands-on learning

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams

Interactive and project-based

Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you

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