Project Management & Stakeholder Leadership

Build practical project management, scheduling, performance analysis, and stakeholder leadership skills for real-world project delivery. Use Microsoft Project and proven communication frameworks to plan, track, optimize, and lead projects with greater confidence. This Specialization develops an end-to-end approach to project planning and stakeholder management. You will structure projects, create schedules, define dependencies, allocate resources, control costs, establish baselines, and monitor progress using Microsoft Project. You will also analyze schedule, cost, and resource performance through critical path analysis, reporting, and earned value metrics such as CPI and SPI. Beyond technical planning, you will learn to identify stakeholders, assess their influence and expectations, design targeted communication strategies, manage resistance, support change, and strengthen engagement across the project lifecycle. Through practical workflows, scenario-based learning, and application-focused techniques, you will build the skills to create realistic project plans, improve performance visibility, communicate effectively with stakeholders, and support successful project outcomes in business, operations, IT, construction, and other project-based environments.