HHI Executive Course
Managing Complex and High-Stakes Negotiations
A Senior Executive Program
on Complex Negotiation
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Lead complex and high stakes negotiations with clarity, authority, and confidence.
This immersive Harvard executive program equips experienced professionals to lead difficult negotiations involving diverse stakeholders, adversarial dynamics, and crisis situations with the support of AI models.
Participants are prepared to navigate real-world negotiations linked to climate, migration, social, security, and other major crises—where decisions directly affect institutional risk, credibility, and long-term positioning.
Lead complex and high stakes negotiations with clarity, authority, and confidence.
This immersive Harvard executive program equips experienced professionals to lead difficult negotiations involving diverse stakeholders, adversarial dynamics, and crisis situations with the support of AI models.
Participants are prepared to navigate real-world negotiations linked to climate, migration, social, security, and other major crises—where decisions directly affect institutional risk, credibility, and long-term positioning.
Key Facts
Key Features
Practical Hands-on
Exercises
Real-world scenarios from conflict, climate and migration negotiations, allowing participants to develop and apply skills in authentic, high-stakes processes.
AI- Enhanced
Tools and Techniques
Building on Harvard's cutting-edge research, this course explores how AI can be of valuable support in negotiation, enhancing strategy, adaptability, and decision-making.
Practical Hands on
Exercises
Essential for learning frontline negotiation providing real-time interaction and immediate feedback, with negotiation experts, simulating high-pressure environments.
AI-Enhanced
Tools and Techniques
Building on Harvard's cutting-edge research, this course explores how AI can be of valuable support in negotiation, enhancing strategy, adaptability, and decision-making.
Live Immersive
Sessions
Essential for learning frontline negotiation providing real-time interaction and immediate feedback, with negotiation experts, simulating high-pressure environments.
Practical Hands-on
Exercises
Real-world scenarios from conflict, climate and migration negotiations, allowing participants to develop and apply skills in authentic, high-stakes processes.
AI- Enhanced
Tools and Techniques
Building on Harvard's cutting-edge research, this course explores how AI can be of valuable support in negotiation, enhancing strategy, adaptability, and decision-making.
Leading with Confidence
Leaders and managers face increasingly complex, high-stakes negotiations across humanitarian action, public policy, and global governance. Success depends not on tactics alone, but on the ability to lead and govern negotiation, setting clear mandates, managing risk, and authorizing compromise while preserving institutional legitimacy.
This course draws on more than 16 years of research and the experience of over 400 senior negotiators worldwide. It equips participants not only with robust frameworks for complex negotiations, but with the judgment and confidence required to apply them under real-world institutional pressure.
Introductory Video
with Claude Bruderlein
Course Audience:
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Humanitarian Professionals
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Community leaders
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Climate negotiators
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Migration lawyers and activists
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Global health professionals
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Graduate students in diplomacy, health or public policy.
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Other domains and people working on the frontline of social issues.
Claude Bruderlein is a seasoned educator in complex negotiation with over three decades of experience in teaching and research at the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard T. Chan School of Public Health,
As a co-founder of Frontline Associates, he brings extensive expertise from his work in high-stakes negotiation environments from Afghanistan to the Middle East and West Afrca.
Claude has founded and led initiatives such as the Centre of Competence on Humanitarian Negotiation (CCHN) and served as Strategic Advisor to the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross. His career spans operational roles with the ICRC and advisory positions at the United Nations, making him uniquely equipped to guide participants through the challenges of frontline negotiation.
Lead Instructor:
Claude Bruderlein, LL.M., Esq
Faculty Instructor, HSPH, HKS,
Senior Researcher, HHI
Live Immersive
Sessions
Essential for learning frontline negotiation providing real-time interaction and immediate feedback, with negotiation experts, simulating high-pressure environments.
Practical Hands-on
Exercises
Real-world scenarios from conflict, climate and migration negotiations, allowing participants to develop and apply skills in authentic, high-stakes processes.
AI- Enhanced
Tools and Techniques
Building on Harvard's cutting-edge research, this course explores how AI can be of valuable support in negotiation, enhancing strategy, adaptability, and decision-making.
Introductory Video
with Claude Bruderlein
Designed for senior managers and organizational leaders responsible for governing complex and high-stakes negotiations, including:
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Members of senior leadership teams and executive committees
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Heads of departments or functions (operations, policy, legal, finance, partnerships)
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Country and regional directors
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Chief negotiators with authority over mandates and risk
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Leaders in humanitarian action, public policy, global health, diplomacy, and related fields
Lead Instructor:
Claude Bruderlein, LL.M., Esq
Faculty Instructor, HSPH, HKS,
Senior Researcher, HHI
Claude Bruderlein is a seasoned educator in complex negotiation with over three decades of experience in teaching and research at the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard T. Chan School of Public Health,
As a co-founder of Frontline Associates, he brings extensive expertise from his work in high-stakes negotiation environments from Afghanistan to the Middle East and West Afrca.
Claude has founded and led groundbreaking initiatives such as the Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (HPCR), the Centre of Competence on Humanitarian Negotiation (CCHN). He authored the first Manual on Frontline Humanitarian Negotiation and served as Strategic Advisor to the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Lately, he launched the AI Negotiation Challenge and specialises in the design of AI models to support frontline negotiators. His career spans operational roles with the ICRC and advisory positions at the United Nations, making him uniquely equipped to guide participants through the challenges of frontline negotiation.
Course Details
Participants who successfully meet all course requirements, including completing an 8-page paper analyzing a frontline negotiation case, will receive a Certification of Completion issued by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.
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Dates: March 16 - 20, 2026
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Format: Five live, online sessions via Zoom, with interactive exercises supported by Miro Boards.
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Course Materials: Participants will receive a comprehensive handbook on complex negotiation as part of the course.
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AI Tool Access: Participants are encouraged to purchase a ChatGPT Plus subscription (not included in the course fee) to assist in crafting their AI Assistant.
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Participants will receive a free access to the AI Negotiation Challenge Learning Platform for three months, providing exclusive activities and simulation events to enhance their AI negotiation practice.
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Fee: USD 2,200 for the 20-hour course (including access to the AI Negotiation Challenge Platform until May 2026).
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Early Registration Discounted Tuition: $2,000 USD
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Discounts available for humanitarian workers in NGOs, international NGOs, and UN agencies.
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Delivery Mode: Due to the case-based and highly practical nature of the course, sessions are live only
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Recording Policy: No session recordings will be available
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
665 Huntington Ave., Office 1113
Boston, MA 02115
hhi@harvard.edu
HHI Executive Course
Participants who successfully meet all course requirements will receive a Certification of Completion issued by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.
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Dates: March 16 - 20, 2026
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Format: Five live, online sessions via Zoom, with interactive exercises supported by Miro Boards.
-
Course Materials: Participants will receive a comprehensive handbook on complex negotiation as part of the course.
-
AI Tool Access: Participants are encouraged to purchase a ChatGPT Plus subscription (not included in the course fee) to assist in crafting their AI Assistant.
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Participants will receive a free access to the AI Negotiation Challenge Learning Platform for three months, providing exclusive activities and simulation events to enhance their AI negotiation practice.
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Fee: USD 2,200 for the 20-hour course (including access to the AI Negotiation Challenge Platform until May 2026).
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Early Registration Discounted Tuition: $2,000 USD
-
Discounts available for humanitarian workers in NGOs, international NGOs, and UN agencies.
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Delivery Mode: Due to the case-based and highly practical nature of the course, sessions are live only
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Recording Policy: No session recordings will be available
Course Details
Dariha Erketaeva
Negotiation Specialist
Frontline Associates Community
Kirk Kinnell
Founder and Lead Negotiator
Negotiated Resolutions
Mustafa Hatam
Negotiation Specialist
Frontline Associates Community