Organizations of the FutureCoursera

This course equips you to design, lead, and transform high-performing organizations in a rapidly changing world. Over five immersive weeks, you’ll learn how to craft a powerful organizational purpose, manage diverse stakeholders, shape culture, redesign structures and processes for agility, and integrate diversity, ethics, and leadership into everyday practice.

By completing the course, you will be able to develop future-ready workforce strategies, build inclusive and innovative teams, and create organizational blueprints that drive sustainable performance. Real-world readings, practice quizzes, discussion prompts, and graded assessments help you immediately apply concepts to your own context.

What makes this course unique is its holistic and forward-looking approach: rather than treating design, culture, and people management as separate topics, it shows you how they interlock to produce adaptable, ethical, and resilient organizations. Whether you’re an emerging leader or a seasoned professional, you’ll finish with actionable tools and frameworks to future-proof your organization and your career.

Learning Objectives of the Course:

(i) Develop organizational practices geared towards the future.

(ii) Develop people management strategies.

(iii) Re-design workforce practices for agility, adaptability and effectiviness

(iv) Create an understanding of how high performing organziations function

(v) Learn how to create highly effective teams and organizations.