Immersion here. Acceleration out there.

Unsure about taking a year away from your job? Within days of arriving at MIT, most fellows realize that this year may well prove to be the most important of their careers. Indeed, many say that they would need a decade to do everything they want to do at MIT. The MIT Sloan Fellows Program is not a year off, it is a year of total immersion in personal and professional growth. It could take you decades to achieve the same benefits out in the workaday world.

During this period of intense immersion in a globally oriented environment, you strategize with international colleagues on some of the steepest organizational challenges of our day. The program’s innovative, team-based learning format maximizes the value of the interactions between fellows and makes it possible for you to work closely with everyone in the program.

Why one full year of immersion?

Spending 12 months at MIT offers an unprecedented opportunity to

  • devote your full attention to solving company challenges
  • forge strong, lifelong ties with program fellows and faculty
  • investigate issues vital to your growth as a leader
  • learn to turn inspired ideas into productive innovations
  • immerse yourself in the program’s legendary learning environment
  • tap the vast resources of MIT and the Cambridge–Boston area
  • build a brain trust of experts from a wide variety of disciplines and nations
  • link connections across MIT to develop solutions—or new enterprises

Stepping away or “unplugging” from the immediate work environment affords you a fresh vantage point on challenges and a holistic perspective on your life. You will return reinvigorated by knowledge and ideas and prepared to take your organization—and your career—to a higher level.

Immersion in the MIT Sloan Fellows environment is not just about rigorous academics. It’s about the accelerated learning you experience by being at MIT full time: the dozens of thought leaders who visit campus each week, the spontaneous brainstorming sessions over coffee, and the exploration and reflection you never have room for in your normal routine. Amy Gowder Graban, SF ’10
United States
Director, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company

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