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Starts 22 June 2026 14:43
Ends 22 June 2026
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Overview
Microsoft Leadership and Innovation prepares you to build leadership skills as a manager or team leader, enabling you to lead with clarity, discipline, and accountability. As leadership demands evolve amid accelerating change and AI disruption, organizations need leaders who can adapt, guide innovation, and deliver results¹.
Designed for professionals leading teams or cross-functional initiatives, this certificate strengthens leadership capability aligned to Microsoft’s leadership ethos, including growth mindset, customer impact, collaboration, and accountability. Prior experience leading initiatives and familiarity with business strategy and Microsoft tools are recommended.
You’ll identify high-impact opportunities, prioritize under constraint, intervene when execution drifts, and evaluate outcomes. You’ll strengthen your ability to influence through feedback, conflict navigation, and communication.
AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot are introduced as decision-support capabilities. Through applied scenarios and real-world activities, you’ll practice guiding teams, making decisions under pressure, and translating innovation into execution.
You’ll also develop leadership artifacts, decision frameworks, and communication tools demonstrating readiness for expanded responsibility. By completing this program, you’ll strengthen your leadership skills and ability to support and guide innovation as a manager or team leader.
¹DDI. Global Leadership Forecast 2025.
Syllabus
- Course 1: Leading with Foresight & Impact
- Course 2: Practical AI Use in Leadership
- Course 3: Turning Ideas into Sustainable Results
- Course 4: Influential Leadership
Taught by
Microsoft
Subjects
Artificial Intelligence
