Understand the psychological responses to digital change to effectively lead your team and organization through it
6 weeks
Excluding orientation.
6–8 hours per week
Self-paced learning online
Weekly modules,
flexible learning
Earn a digital
MIT Sloan certificate
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An understanding of how your organization’s human capital is affected during digital transformation and how to achieve a competitive advantage by focusing on people.
2
An in-depth overview of the Transition-Curve Framework, developed by Faculty Directors Hal Gregersen and Roger Lehman.
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Knowledge of the interplay between role adjustment, capabilities acquisition, and emotional energy to create organizational support for each dimension of the transition process.
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The tools to diagnose the challenges of change and map your transition journey, and an approach to confidently lead digital transformation from the human perspective.
Over the duration of this online program, you’ll work through the following modules:
MODULE 1 Navigating Transformational Change From the Human Perspective
Use the Transition-Curve Framework to understand the key human challenges experienced through digital transformations.
MODULE 2 Transitioning To New Roles
Explore the role changes required to support organizational transformations.
MODULE 3 Leading people through capability shifts
Engage with the process of shifting capabilities within digital transformations.
MODULE 4 Navigating Emotions
Learn how to navigate the psychological responses to digitally driven change.
MODULE 5 Roles, Capabilities, and Emotions: A Complex Mix To Manage
Discover how to ensure that the three dimensions of change work together.
MODULE 6 Mapping the Transition Journey
Predict change, learn from it, and practice how to confidently and successfully lead transformations.
Please note that module titles and their contents are subject to change during course development.
Hal Gregersen
Senior Lecturer, Work and Organization Studies, MIT Sloan School of Management
Gregersen is a senior lecturer in leadership and innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management. There he pursues his vocation of executive teaching, coaching, and research. In his work, he explores how leaders in business, government, and society discover provocative new ideas, develop the human and organizational capacity to realize those ideas, and ultimately deliver positive, powerful results.
Gregersen is a senior fellow at Innosight, a growth-strategy consulting firm, and a former advisory board member at Pharmascience, a privately held pharmaceutical company based in Montreal, Canada. Before joining MIT, he taught at INSEAD, London Business School, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, Brigham Young University, and in Finland, as a Fulbright fellow. He is also a former executive director of the MIT Leadership Center.
Roger Lehman
Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management
Lehman is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a professor at INSEAD’s Singapore campus. At INSEAD, he designs and teaches in both open and company-specific programs, providing a focus on executive leadership, personal and professional development, change management, and high-performance teams. He is also a member of the core faculty at the INSEAD Global Leadership Center. As co-designer and program director of INSEAD’s innovative Coaching and Consulting for Change Program, he is deeply involved in supporting leadership transformational processes.
Lehman’s clinical, teaching, and organizational consulting career spans more than 35 years, during which time his experience has included a variety of staff and leadership positions in both public and private institutions. Over the past 20 years, his teaching and consulting have led him to a variety of international assignments on all continents, including Antarctica. In addition to his extensive involvement in the Executive Master’s Program, Lehman’s current focus is on leader development in Asia and Africa.
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