15 Best Leadership Development Courses on Coursera
We compared 15 Leadership Development courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $49.00 to $79.00. 13 come from a named university or institution, including Rice University, Macquarie University and University of Michigan. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 15
- Price range
- $49.00 – $79.00
- Providers
- Coursera
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "leadership development" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $49.00 to $79.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Personal Leadership Development Planning and Leading High Performing Teams
Offered by Rice University
An actionable leadership improvement plan enables you to leverage strengths and close the gaps on weaknesses. In this course, you will build your own plan that you can put into practice immediately and realize goals with...
$79.00listed price -
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Professional development: Improve yourself, always
Offered by Macquarie University
The world of work is characterised by rapid ongoing change. In this dynamic environment, one of the most critical skills for leaders is their capacity to learn and to adapt; to engage in the continuous development of the...
$69.00listed price -
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Reimagining Educational Innovation
Offered by University of Michigan
Reimagining Educational Innovation introduces local change agents to collaborative, continuous improvement – a locally grounded approach to innovation that empowers teachers, leaders, families, and community members to a...
$49.00listed price -
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Defining Strategic Business Leadership
Offered by University of Glasgow
What does it really mean to lead strategically in today’s fast‑changing and uncertain business environment? In this foundational course, you’ll explore the core principles of strategic business leadership—what it is, why...
$49.00listed price -
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Professional Skills: Feedback and Coaching
Offered by Arizona State University
Effective leadership hinges on communication. The Feedback and Coaching specialization—built with Elissa Adame, Assistant Professor at the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication—provides a practical roadmap to becoming...
$49.00listed price -
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Be a Leader, Develop a Leader
Offered by Case Western Reserve University
The objectives of this MOOC are to enable you to learn from applying concepts, exercises and learning from the four other MOOCs in this specialization. Learners involved in our programs over the decades have repeatedly t...
$49.00listed price -
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Superbosses: Managing Talent & Leadership
Offered by Dartmouth College
How can a company thrive for the long term? It always comes down to people: finding talented people, retaining those people, and doing it continuously. In this course, Professor Sydney Finkelstein will teach participants...
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Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Reducing Bias in Healthcare
Offered by University of Michigan
Bias in healthcare delivery leads to worse patient care and patient outcomes. Advancing Health Equity: A Guide for Reducing Bias in Healthcare provides you an interactive bias training that teaches skills applicable to a...
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Corporate finance: Know your numbers 2
Offered by Macquarie University
Every manager must have a foundational understanding of financial management. This course will prepare you for responsible and sustainable leadership from a financial management perspective. Via structured learning activ...
$69.00listed price -
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Coaching Skills for Managers
Offered by University of California, Davis
In this Specialization, you will learn the essential skills to coach people for improved performance. You will learn from Executive Coach and UC Davis Instructor Kris Plachy, who has created and transformed dozens of tea...
$49.00listed price -
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Managing Professional Work Teams
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
We often think that managing people looks like a charismatic and courageous person effective enough to be in front pointing out to everyone the direction the group should take, while others follow behind. However, in tod...
$49.00listed price -
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Google People Management Essentials
Offered by Google
Ever wondered what makes a great people manager? In Google People Management Essentials, you’ll learn the skills required to become a confident, effective manager. Designed by The Google School for Leaders, this program...
$49.00listed price -
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Future Ready Company
Offered by London Business School
For a company to stay relevant, the capacity to change inside has to match the rate of change outside. And that’s a tall order in today’s volatile and unpredictable business environment. This specialization from London B...
$49.00listed price -
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Leadership Out of the Box
Offered by Queen Mary University of London
This specialisation will provide you with a holistic set of tools, skills and frameworks to enable you to step up and lead more effectively. You will develop your own leadership identity, as you explore what it means to...
$49.00listed price -
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Storying the Self: How Stories Shape our Identities
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
Explore how artists have come to understand their identities over time, through creative media and scholarly discussions. You will connect with your own sources of creative inspiration, and revisit a major moment in your...
$49.00listed price
Best Leadership Development Courses on Coursera compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Personal Leadership Development Planning and Leading High Performing T... | Coursera | Rice University | $79.00 | View → |
| 2 | Professional development: Improve yourself, always | Coursera | Macquarie University | $69.00 | View → |
| 3 | Reimagining Educational Innovation | Coursera | University of Michigan | $49.00 | View → |
| 4 | Defining Strategic Business Leadership | Coursera | University of Glasgow | $49.00 | View → |
| 5 | Professional Skills: Feedback and Coaching | Coursera | Arizona State University | $49.00 | View → |
| 6 | Be a Leader, Develop a Leader | Coursera | Case Western Reserve University | $49.00 | View → |
| 7 | Superbosses: Managing Talent & Leadership | Coursera | Dartmouth College | $49.00 | View → |
| 8 | Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Reducing Bias in Healthcare | Coursera | University of Michigan | $49.00 | View → |
| 9 | Corporate finance: Know your numbers 2 | Coursera | Macquarie University | $69.00 | View → |
| 10 | Coaching Skills for Managers | Coursera | University of California, Davis | $49.00 | View → |
| 11 | Managing Professional Work Teams | Coursera | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | $49.00 | View → |
| 12 | Google People Management Essentials | Coursera | $49.00 | View → | |
| 13 | Future Ready Company | Coursera | London Business School | $49.00 | View → |
| 14 | Leadership Out of the Box | Coursera | Queen Mary University of London | $49.00 | View → |
| 15 | Storying the Self: How Stories Shape our Identities | Coursera | University of Colorado Boulder | $49.00 | View → |
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 15 priced courses on this page run from $49.00 to $79.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $30.00. The options are closely priced, so cost is unlikely to be your deciding factor. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 13 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Rice University, Macquarie University and University of Michigan — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
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