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Thrive: Personal and Professional Growth Specialization

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Thrive: Personal and Professional Growth Specialization

Lead, Influence, and Thrive with AI.

Build executive presence, emotional resilience, and AI-powered wellness habits for lasting success.

Mariaan Van Zyl
Starweaver
Anya Soto

Instructors: Mariaan Van Zyl

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from 203 reviews of courses in this program

Beginner level

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4 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Develop authentic executive presence and strategic relationship management skills to lead with impact.

  • Build sustainable well-being habits and emotional resilience using evidence-based strategies.

  • Leverage AI tools for mood tracking, stress reduction, and goal achievement while maintaining critical oversight.

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What you'll learn

  • Identify and develop their authentic executive presence + ROI

  • Manage strategic relationships

  • Develop their own strategic executive presence journey map

Skills you'll gain

Category: Emotional Intelligence
Category: Leadership
Category: Executive Presence
Category: Leadership Development
Category: Brand Awareness
Category: Assertiveness
Category: Personal Attributes
Category: Relationship Management
Category: Collaboration
Category: Professional Networking
Category: Return On Investment
Category: Professional Development
Category: Strategic Planning
Category: Influencing
Category: Communication
Growing your Influence

Growing your Influence

Course 2 3 hours

What you'll learn

  • Learn how to strategically build and leverage professional networks to expand your influence within your industry or organization.

  • Enhance your communication skills, including persuasive speaking and active listening to effectively convey your ideas and influence others.

  • Acquire techniques for negotiation and persuasion to achieve desired outcomes and win support for your ideas.

  • Develop adaptive leadership skills, fostering trust, collaboration, and alignment towards common goals.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Professional Networking
Category: Lifelong Learning
Category: Influencing
Category: Self-Awareness
Category: Adaptability
Category: Growth Mindedness
Category: Branding
Category: Emotional Intelligence
Category: Social Media Strategy
Category: Thought Leadership
Category: Leadership
Category: Personal Development
Category: LinkedIn
Category: Communication
Category: Professional Development

What you'll learn

  • Create a unique identity based on personal strengths, values, and lessons learned from past experiences.

  • Learn strategies to embrace resilience and a learning mindset to overcome challenges.

  • Enhance influence and credibility by showcasing resilience and growth in both personal and professional settings.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Empowerment
Category: Personal Development
Category: Emotional Intelligence
Category: Assertiveness
Category: Growth Mindedness
Category: Lifelong Learning
Category: Goal Setting
Category: Resilience
Category: Accountability
Category: Open Mindset
Category: Self-Awareness
Category: Courage
Category: Willingness To Learn

What you'll learn

  • Recognize the significance of habits in shaping one's life.

  • Explain the process of habit formation.

  • Apply effective strategies for cultivating habits that promote well-being, including exercise, meditation, and gratitude.

  • Address common behaviors like comparison and boundary-setting issues impacting well-being

Skills you'll gain

Category: Mindfulness
Category: Exercise Science
Category: Goal Setting
Category: Behavior Management
Category: Health And Wellness Coaching
Category: Stress Management
Category: Productivity
Category: Health Promotion
Category: Self-Awareness
Category: Mental Health
Category: Growth Mindedness
Category: Personal Care
Category: Resilience
Category: Positive Behavior Support
Category: Preventative Care
Category: Behavioral Health
Category: Personal Development
Track, Analyze & Your Mood

Track, Analyze & Your Mood

Course 5 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Develop personal mood intelligence by recognizing standard valence scales and emotion labels used in mood tracking

  • Apply a mood-tracking app with AI-suggested triggers.

  • Apply evaluate trend charts to identify meaningful patterns in personal emotional data.

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Decision Making
Category: Prompt Engineering
Category: Crisis Intervention
Category: Risk Analysis
Category: Responsible AI
Category: Patient Preparation
Category: Technical Communication
Category: Empathy & Emotional Intelligence
Category: Health And Wellness Coaching
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Model Evaluation
Category: User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

What you'll learn

  • Recall three evidence‑based stress‑reduction techniques for quick reference during high‑pressure work situations.

  • Apply an AI‑guided breathing exercise triggered by real‑time biometric stress alerts.

  • Analyze dashboard data to compare heart rates and build sustainable stress habits.

What you'll learn

  • Transforming vague intentions into SMART goals and building AI-powered tracking systems with personalized reminders using AI tools.

  • Evaluating AI-generated progress analysis to make data-informed adjustments while maintaining human judgment as the final authority.

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Instructors

Mariaan Van Zyl
Coursera
2 Courses 11,597 learners
Starweaver
Coursera
554 Courses 1,029,009 learners
Anya Soto
Coursera
4 Courses 11,812 learners

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