ONLINE COURSE
Innovative Leadership: Cultivating Impactful Culture
Unlock Your Leadership Potential in the Age of Innovation
Innovative Leadership: Cultivating Impactful Culture is an 8-week online course from MIT Professional Education designed to help you lead with confidence, inspire your teams, and drive meaningful innovation in today’s most transformative era. Through this course, you’ll learn how to turn fresh ideas into actionable innovation, develop a global vision for projects, and leverage your unique leadership style to spark creativity and change. Whether you’re seeking to accelerate innovation in your organization or lead transformative initiatives with lasting results, this course equips you with the practical tools, strategies, and insights to lead with adaptability, vision, and collaborative impact.
What You Will Learn?
Understand how leadership makes innovation possible through creating strategies, structures, and work cultures that support creativity.
Recognize the links between creativity (a new or useful idea) and innovation (the execution and adoption of new ideas).
Propose a new way to identify and define problems so that they promote creativity and innovation.
Improve the perception about the strengths of leadership and the effect that they have on creativity and innovation in a group focused on obtaining results.
Articulate perspectives that inspire others to develop intrinsic motivations, which are key for successful innovation.
Why Enroll in This Course?
Strengthen your approach to leadership by enhancing decision-making and problem-solving skills.
Foster a dynamic culture of innovation and creativity that transforms your organization.
Develop a global vision to lead innovative projects and effectively engage stakeholders.
Engage in two live sessions with MIT instructors, and up to eight live sessions with learning facilitators, industry experts, and peers.
Networking opportunities establish professional connections with industry experts and your cohort.
Access to rich supplementary resources provides additional materials and content for a more thorough educational journey.
Certificate of Completion
All the participants who successfully complete their program will receive an MIT Professional Education Certificate of Completion, as well as Continuing Education Units (CEUs)*.
To obtain CEUs, complete the accreditation confirmation, which is available at the end of the course. CEUs are calculated for each course based on the number of learning hours.
*The Continuing Education Unit (CEU) is defined as 10 contact hours of ongoing learning to indicate the amount of time they have devoted to a non-credit/non-degree professional development program.
To understand whether or not these CEUs may be applied toward professional certification, licensing requirements, or other required training or continuing education hours, please consult your training department or licensing authority directly.
Course Outline
The course merges the development of leadership skills with the vision needed to address the innovation processes of organizations. The values of leadership and innovation are in the DNA of MIT, which has developed this course for participants to learn through a practical approach and with tools that can be put into practice from day one.
Introduction and objectives
Innovating in a fast-changing world
Methodology of creative thinking
The role of leadership in innovation
References and resources
Identifying leadership skills
What do you stand for?
Forces conditioning us
Learning how we have learned
Elements of a Shared Vision: “Who are we?”
Elements of a Shared Vision: “Where do we come from?”
Elements of a Shared Vision: “Where are we headed?”
Presenting your strategic vision
Review of Previous Modules
Introduction to the Final Activity
Course Farewell
Who is This Online Course for?
Professionals with an interest in innovation, determined to create an impact on their organizations' processes and drive success.
CEOs and other managers of companies undergoing transformation processes for which innovation is central to success.
Entrepreneurs of tech start-ups with innovative aspirations.
Technical experts with a strong interest in technology and innovation, and in leadership positions.
Instructor
Senior Lecturer, Daniel J. Riccio Graduate Engineering Leadership Program, MIT
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