Leadership for the 21st Century: Chaos, Conflict and Courage is an executive education program offered jointly by the Dubai School of Government and Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. The course delves into why we lead the way we do. The program offers a personal, stimulating, and challenging four days that invites you to learn how to act both courageously and skillfully when exercising leadership.

The program is different from most other leadership development programs, which focus on building a distinct set of skills and tactics. Leadership for the 21st Century does more — by pushing you to reflect on your deepest assumptions and most strongly held values, and encouraging you to consider how your values and beliefs may have limited you in the past. It challenges you to look beyond formulating quick technical solutions that act as "band-aids" to deeper organizational challenges, and instead asks you to examine yourself and the competing commitments and loyalties in your organization or community.

Where is your leadership taking you? Do you have the courage and skills to exercise leadership for the purposes you care about most? Leadership for the 21st Century is a provocative seminar that introduces a set of conceptual frameworks and a unique teaching method designed to challenge your fundamental assumptions about how you can courageously and effectively exercise leadership and authority during hard times.