MIT Leadership Center

Support for EMBA Students

Leadership is integrated into your entire EMBA experience at MIT from day one. Starting from your first week-long module, you’ll be introduced to our approach to leadership. Throughout the program, you’ll work with your executive leadership coach in both individual and team settings to help transform and translate classroom content into tangible actions. You and your learning team will meet regularly to explore your leadership development throughout your first year.

EMBA students arrive at MIT with extensive leadership experience. The EMBA program will help you to capitalize on the leadership development opportunities present in your day-to-day work. Your learning team and leadership coach provide the resources, support, and practice spaces needed for you to investigate your own leadership effectiveness, identify changes you need to make, and apply these changes in your current role.

Executive leadership coaching spans your entire 20-month program, supporting your ongoing leadership development. Leadership coaching helps cultivate a greater sense of self-awareness, creates space to practice leadership capabilities, and can transform how you present yourself as a leader - whether you're bringing your amplified skills to your current organization or applying them as you move into a different role.

The Leadership Center's unique approach integrates science-based frameworks, executive leadership coaching, and practice, creating the ideal environment for your transformative leadership development.

—EMBA Leadership Courses

	Course Title	Filter by Term Fall Spring Summer
15.700	Leadership and Integrative Management	Fall	9 Cr.
	Investigates the different perspectives a general manager must take, how to integrate those perspectives, and the role of leadership in setting and realizing goals. Students work intensively in teams and with multiple faculty, using a deep dive into the challenges faced by a major global firm operating in complex global markets.
15.705	Organizations Lab	Fall	12 Cr.
	Preparation for an organizational change project. Emphasis on applying tools of organizational, operational, and systems analysis in order to effect change. Includes a focus on the challenges and opportunities presented by issues of leadership and organizational behavior. Each student leads a change project in his or her own organization, focusing on fixing a broken or ineffective process. Examples of possible initiatives include a strategic reorientation, organizational restructuring, introduction of a new technology, a worker participation program, etc.
15.708	Global Organizations Lab: Action Learning Project	Spring	15 Cr.
	Helps students discover and develop new and effective ways of managing and working together across national borders; also helps accelerate development of the context awareness and integrative management skills needed to lead in a globalized world. Involves intensive team engagement with a firm where students integrate their understanding of the relevant global and national economic and institutional contexts, industry dynamics, the firm's strategic position and capabilities, and its management organization and processes to provide the management sponsor with insight and effective recommendations.
15.716	Leading Organizations	Summer	9 Cr.
	Promotes awareness of and strategies to meet the key challenges leaders face today (and tomorrow). Acquaints students with some of the psychological and sociological dynamics that regularly operate in organizational settings - the less visible but quite powerful "forces" that shape the way employees and managers respond (or don't respond) to a changing world.

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Executive Programs

Support for EMBA Students

—EMBA Leadership Courses