Center for Social Innovation

Build the skills and confidence to successfully drive social change

A transformative experience

Our programs provide intensive and highly interactive learning experiences that will change the way you think for the rest of your career. They will challenge your assumptions and encourage you to devise strategies that will shape the future of your organization.

A program for each social innovator

Our Executive Education portfolio is designed to meet the needs of different breeds of social innovators across sectors and to facilitate the dialogue between them:

• Nonprofit leaders (N)
• Philanthropy leaders (P)
• Business executives (B)
• Government representatives (G)
• Activists (A)

	N	P	B	G	A
Business Strategies for Environmental Sustainability Discover strategies to gain competitive advantage through environmentally sustainable practices.
Corporate Social Responsibility: Strategic Integration and Competitiveness Explore new ways in which companies can incorporate societal and environmental perspectives into strategic thinking, and the challenges and dilemmas involved in the process.
Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders Develop your professional capabilities by relating your experiences to integrated frameworks on leadership and management.
Executive Program for Philanthropy Leaders Develop your leadership capabilities while exploring strategic frameworks to improve grantmaking effectiveness and foster social innovation.
Executive Program in Social Entrepreneurship Explore innovative management frameworks to address social entrepreneurship’s unique challenges, scale your venture, and effect even greater social change for the communities you serve.
Strategy for Nonprofit Organizations Bring your team of senior staff and board members and work together on how to effectively define and execute an organizational strategy and mission.

The Stanford learning model

Our relevant and rigorous academic curriculum provides participants with both the theory and the tools for successful leadership. Research-based management frameworks form the foundation of each of our programs. Stanford’s proven teaching methodologies emphasize bridging theory with practice through a mix of:

• Case studies
• Lectures
• Experiential learning
• Guest speakers
• Small group discussion

Every aspect of our programs has been intentionally designed to broaden the sharing of ideas, facilitate peer interaction, and develop cross-sector networks.

Get a taste for the Stanford Executive Education experience by listening to a sample webinar: Intuition vs. Reason: Making Decisions that Matter

Long-term impact

An investment in the center’s Executive Education programs makes a lasting impact—both on individual participants and the organizations they lead.

Since 2001, more than 1,500 nonprofit, government, and corporate leaders have attended our executive programs. Today, these executives lead with confidence. They think strategically. Years after their transformational experience, they still apply the tools and frameworks they learned at Stanford to achieve high performance.