Short courses

Access bite-sized, high-impact courses designed for busy professionals.

Each course blends academic rigour with practical insights you can apply straight away, helping you upskill in just a few hours a week, wherever and whenever it suits you.

Courses are typically 3 weeks long, with an estimated time commitment of 2–4 hours per week. Some form part of a three-course series that can be taken individually or as a full specialisation. Many courses are available to audit for free, with the option to upgrade for a certificate of completion.

These courses are delivered in partnership with edX and Coursera. When you enrol, you’ll be directed to their platform, which manages registration and course delivery on our behalf, as an official and trusted Oxford Saïd partner.

• Leadership Development: Elevate your leadership skills with a focus on motivation, adaptability, diversity and influence to drive team success and long-term impact.
• Corporate Sustainability Foundations: Drive sustainable value creation by balancing shareholder value and stakeholder engagement, embedding corporate sustainability into profit and purpose.
• Private Market Foundations: Gain expertise in private markets by mastering buying, selling, and managing assets and understanding key industry characteristics.
• Strategy Foundations: Craft a robust organisational strategy by aligning partnerships, processes and key players, ensuring clarity of vision in a complex business landscape.
• Essentials of Leading Strategic Projects: Enhance your project leadership in VUCA environments, turning project risks into strategic opportunities and leading initiatives with confidence and agility.
• Marketing Psychology, How We Decide: Explore marketing psychology and consumer behaviour to master decision-making in marketing, uncovering cognitive biases and psychological drivers behind buying choices.
• The Intersection of Finance, Strategy, and Sustainability: Get to grips with the fundamentals of sustainability, ESG and sustainable finance, with practical examples that make key concepts accessible for finance professionals and managers.
• Foundations of Sustainability and ESG: Learn the fundamentals of sustainability and ESG, exploring how businesses can address global challenges through environmental, social and economic integration.
• Sustainable Finance: Products, Instruments and Future Trends: Discover how sustainable finance is transforming the financial sector through innovative instruments that deliver environmental and social impact alongside financial returns.
• The Business Case for ESG: Explore how ESG integration drives business value, innovation and risk management, and learn to assess ESG reporting frameworks, disclosures and data challenges.
• AI in Financial Services: Foundations Through Future Trends: Understand how AI and Open Finance are reshaping financial services, and gain the knowledge to design, regulate or innovate data-driven, ethical and consumer-focused financial solutions.
• AI Fundamentals in Financial Services: Gain a practical understanding of how AI is transforming financial services through technologies like machine learning and NLP, with insights into strategy, ethics and real-world applications.
• Designing the Future of Finance: Explore how Open Banking and Open Finance are transforming financial services by enabling data-driven innovation, inclusion and AI-powered personalisation through open ecosystems.
• Open Data and Intelligent Finance: Explore the future of intelligent, embedded finance and learn to design ethical, inclusive systems powered by AI, Open Data and platform-based innovation.

These short online courses are a gateway to Oxford’s broader Executive Education portfolio. If you’re ready to go further, explore our full online programmes and take your learning to the next level.