Develop future-ready leaders with self-paced courses from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Now available in the edX Enterprise subscription.
Bring Oxford-Caliber Learning Into Your Organization
According to the World Economic Forum’s 2025 Future of Jobs report, leadership skills rank among the top core competencies employers are seeking, alongside essential soft skills like analytical thinking, resilience, flexibility, and agility. These qualities are vital for both emerging graduates entering the workforce and experienced professionals navigating today’s complex business environment. Whether your focus is closing leadership pipeline gaps or preparing students for real-world success, one thing is clear: today’s workplace demands more than just online learning content. It requires trusted, expert-led learning that equips professionals to lead with agility, solve complex challenges, and drive long-term career growth and business success.
That’s why Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, has reimagined some of its most impactful Executive Education modules into self-paced online courses which are now available through the edX Enterprise subscription. This launch is part of an expanded partnership between Oxford and 2U. Read more in the official press release.
Learn from Oxford’s Business Experts
These are not generic business courses. Each self-paced module is built in collaboration with Oxford Saïd Business School, drawing directly from their world-class Executive Education portfolio. Designed and taught by Oxford faculty and expert practitioners, the courses offer academically grounded, real-world instruction in high-demand topics across business, management, economics, and finance.
Caroline Williams, Executive Director of Oxford Saïd Online commented “We’ve built learning experiences rooted in the world-class expertise of our faculty and shaped by the real demands professionals face today. From core skills to executive insight, we’re opening Oxford’s doors to learners worldwide, flexibly, accessibly, and on their terms.”
Structured as introductory, standalone learning experiences, each course includes a minimum of six hours of content and is fully online and self-paced. Ideal for busy professionals and learners on the go.
Through graded assessments and verified certificates; learners gain more than just knowledge; they build meaningful credentials that support career mobility and professional growth. For organizations and institutions, it’s a low-barrier, high-value way to offer Oxford-caliber learning at scale, with the flexibility to grow into deeper learning pathways over time.
Courses Oxford Saïd Business School Now Available in the edX Enterprise Subscription Catalog
A total of 16 open courses on leadership, finance, strategy, sustainability, innovation, venture finance, and entrepreneurship will be launching over the coming months. The first 6 are now available to explore:
- Private Markets Foundations: Gain expertise in private markets by mastering buying, selling, and managing assets and understanding key industry characteristics.
- Leadership Development: Elevate 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.
- Strategy Foundations – A Broader View: 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 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.
Why It Matters For Businesses
- Leadership gaps are growing and skill demands are shifting fast: Across industries, companies are struggling to keep pace as the need for strategic thinking and leadership outpaces existing capabilities. Oxford’s courses help teams build the real-world skills required to lead through change and drive business growth.
- Not all content libraries deliver value. This one does: Many L&D teams have invested in platforms that looked promising, only to see low engagement and little impact. Oxford’s reputation commands attention, and its academically rigorous content keeps learners coming back with insights that apply directly to the work.
- Deployment needs to be seamless, not another headache: In a world of complex systems and stretched teams, ease of access matters. Companies need learning solutions that are easy to roll out and prove their value quickly. These Oxford courses are included in the edX Enterprise subscription that can seamlessly integrate into your LMS or accessed directly with licenses.
- Flexibility that powers upskilling at scale: Modern workforces are distributed, busy, and diverse. Oxford’s self-paced format allows organizations to roll out learning across teams, geographies, and job levels without sacrificing depth, quality, or impact.
Ready to bring Oxford-caliber learning to your teams? Get in touch to learn how these self-paced leadership and strategy courses can help meet your organization’s goals.
Why It Matters For Higher Education
- Support Student Employability with Recognized Credentials: Institutions are under growing pressure to demonstrate workforce outcomes. Oxford’s leadership and business courses help students build practical, in-demand skills and earn a verified certificate from the world’s #1 university. It’s a powerful way to boost graduate confidence and career prospects.
- Enhance Business School Curriculum Without Adding Workload: Business schools need future-focused learning that’s global, practical, and easy to integrate. These self-paced Oxford courses complement existing programs with real-world case studies, strategic insight, and flexible delivery without requiring faculty to develop new content from scratch.
- Stand Out in a Competitive Education Market: Oxford’s globally respected brand doesn’t just add academic value it strengthens recruitment, retention, and reputation. Offering these courses signals quality and prestige, while verified certificates offer students a tangible return on their education investment.
- Seamless, Scalable Access for Your Institution: Already included in the edX Enterprise subscription, these courses offer a plug-and-play solution. Institutions can provide top-tier instruction at scale without added administrative overhead or custom integrations.
Want to offer Oxford learning on your campus? Contact us to learn how Oxford’s self-paced leadership and business courses can support student employability, enrich your curriculum, and deliver globally recognized credentials at scale.
Ready to Upskill Your Teams with Oxford-Caliber Learning?
Scalable, Subscription-Based Access via edX Enterprise
Oxford’s new collection of self-paced leadership and strategy courses is now fully integrated into the edX Enterprise subscription alongside 2,300+ offerings from world-class institutions like MIT, Harvard, IBM, and Google. Whether you’re enabling 50 team leads or thousands of students and professionals across regions, this content is built to scale and bring lasting impact to your organization.
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