With a lifetime of smashing barriers and achieving at the highest levels of public service, Hillary Rodham Clinton has learned to tap deep wells of resilience to reach her goals. Now the former U.S. senator and secretary of state is teaching the values, lessons, and practical tools that help her rise above, even sharing her never-before-heard 2016 presidential victory speech. Be inspired to own your ambition and make your mark.
Overview
Syllabus
- Meet Your Instructor
- Hillary Rodham Clinton shares why she’s teaching a class on resilience, and describes the foundational experiences that set her on the path to where she is today.
- Discovering Your Mission
- In this lesson, Hillary shares the roots of her value system and how she connected those values to a mission of advocacy, showing you how to create your own values-driven mission statement.
- Hillary's Framework for Hard Work
- Working hard is not a new concept. But in this lesson, Hillary offers a framework for how you can work smarter by being a workhorse, not a show horse, constantly evaluating your prioritization, sweating the details, and always showing up.
- Organizing a Busy Life
- Hillary understands what it means to live with a chaotic and jam-packed schedule. In this lesson, she walks you through a briefing binder, an organizational tool that has helped her be successful throughout her career.
- Preparing for Public Speaking
- Persuasion and communication are important skills to master in our personal and professional lives. Hillary breaks down how she organizes her speeches to maximize effectiveness.
- Studying Persuasive Speakers
- Hillary walks through techniques that she’s observed from three persuasive and effective speakers: Barbara Jordan, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton.
- Maximizing Your Strengths & Learning to Pivot
- As you work on becoming a better public speaker, learn the importance of embracing your unique strengths, knowing how to pivot, and seeking trusted guidance.
- The Fundamentals of Negotiation
- Throughout her career, Hillary has participated in critical dealmaking and many high-stakes negotiations. Here, she shares some of the key fundamentals that have helped her prepare, stay focused, and succeed.
- Navigating Compromise & Trade-Offs
- In this lesson, learn how Hillary factors her core values and mission statement into her decisions on which battles she chooses to fight, and which she looks to compromise on.
- Taking Criticism Seriously, Not Personally
- Whether you’re in the public or private arena, whether you’re facing family, work, or political challenges, you will encounter criticism. Learn how to filter outside voices and opinions so that you can efficiently take in constructive feedback.
- Ambition, Sexism & the ‘Double Bind’
- In this lesson, Hillary shares the key takeaways she’s learned from navigating decades of stereotypes and gender-based limitations imposed on her, and how she’s prevailed despite their constant looming presence.
- Overcoming Setbacks
- Hillary walks through some of the lessons that come with making mistakes, falling short of your goals, and having to pick yourself back up after you’ve been knocked down.
- Daring to Compete
- It can be easy to talk yourself out of trying new or uncomfortable things, but Hillary shares why it’s important to let go of the “perfectionist gene” and work through your fears.
- Bonus: Resilience in Action with Huma Abedin
- Hillary and her current chief of staff, Huma Abedin, have worked together for 25 years. Together, they discuss mentorship and what it looks like to have resilience in the workplace.
- Exclusive: The “Would-Be" Victory Speech
- For the first time ever, Hillary presents the speech that she would have given if she had won the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
- Choosing a Life of Resilience
- Hillary brings the class full circle back to the idea of developing a strong sense of resilience. She encourages you to keep going through the inevitable setbacks and disappointments of life, and to continue chasing your dreams.
Taught by
Hillary Rodham Clinton
