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The Advanced Certificate for Senior Executives (ACSE) is an intense, intimate, transformative learning experience designed to fit the time constraints of seasoned, mid-career executives. This senior executive program is selective and purposely limited to 25 participants who seek “something beyond an MBA” and are willing to create and sustain a learning community.

Held on campus at MIT Sloan in Cambridge, Massachusetts, ACSE is an exceptional way to:

• Engage with MIT Sloan’s world class faculty around both their latest research in advanced management tactics and the “tried and true” in such areas as strategy, system dynamics, and innovation
• Make new, life-long connections with experienced business people from a wide variety of geographies
• Leverage multiple perspectives to advance an important business project away from day-to-day operating pressures
• Develop critical leadership and change management skills via individualized 360° feedback and coaching
• See new ideas emerging from the labs, centers, and businesses that are part of the MIT/Sloan/Cambridge “innovation cluster.”

“A holistic experience of the best concepts and faculty MIT Sloan can offer—plus practical advice for taking action.”         
                                                        -Region Head, Pharmaceutical Firm

How ACSE Works
ACSE delivers on its purpose as the leading senior executive program by combining a number of powerful features:

• Exposure to MIT Sloan’s world-class faculty and their latest research
• Access to the “innovation ecosystem” around MIT through company visits, executive panels, a tour of labs and centers in the area
• Learning variety: classes and case studies, business simulations, leader panels, 360° feedback and 1-1 leadership coaching, team-building experiences, and work on personal assessments, surveys, and projects
• Connection with other participants of similar experience and ambition through ACSE-specific courses, open-enrollment executive programs that draws global participants, and the ACE/ACSE alumni network

“I have two business degrees, an engineering degree, and over 20 years of business experience….only now I can confidently say I understand macro economics and how to apply it to planning in my business.”       
                                                   - Supply Chain Leader, Multi-National Mining Company

The guiding purpose of the ACSE senior executive program is to deepen the ability of experienced executives to make significant and systemic changes in their companies and the world. ACSE participants will acquire new frameworks and skills for which MIT Sloan is world-renowned; make connections that will last a lifetime with colleagues who share similar experiences; and develop a renewed and expanded sense of themselves as leaders. In short, ACSE helps participants take another step in their career and be more effective change agents in the future.

What Makes ACSE a Unique Program for Senior Executives
ACSE is designed to help seasoned executives succeed in a world that is increasingly more, unpredictable, competitive, and complex. ACSE alumni tell us their experience with MIT and the ACSE program is distinctive and special in a variety of ways, including:

• Participation in the experience of the MIT culture and heritage, especially around innovation
• Strong focus on taking practical action: “How does what I’m learning make me a better leader and a more valuable contributor to my business?”
• Personal learning journals that track insights and growth over the program’s duration
• Individual Projects: content application to a project of real importance and value to each participant and their organization
• Systemic, cross-functional, and cross-border lenses applied to current business issues
• Faculty, coaches, and alumni who are committed to applying and generalizing from the latest management thinking and frameworks
• Integration of personal leadership concepts, skill-building, and coaching with large scale macroeconomic and systems thinking frameworks and tools

“ACSE offerings are practical, loaded with real-life examples, and useful to my business and my goals.”                                 -CEO, International Software Design Firm

Ideal Candidates for the ACSE Senior Executive Program
ACSE is an intense and demanding experience. The best ACSE candidates are seasoned executives who carry significant leadership roles in their companies either as: general managers, leaders of functions or business lines, or who have direct responsibility for profit/loss. All the key elements of the ACSE experience – the professors, their content, the scope of the project work, 1-1 leadership coaching, simulations, etc. are designed specifically for senior executives with:

• 15-20 years of work experience, across several different functional and business lines
• A graduate degree
• Significant international exposure
• An urgent agenda for change
• Confident fluency in written and spoken English

ACSE Alumni Gathering
At the close of the program schedule, ACSE participants will convene and learn with ACE/ACSE alumni, past participants of the International Management Program, and selected Sloan alumni. A themed agenda will bring together all of these friends of MIT Executive Education to reconnect on campus, learn, and share experiences. Past themes have focused on a particular geography such as China, or an integrative, strategic issue such as reverse innovation. 

"The ACSE program brought a diverse group of senior executives from all over the world together during an intense five week course. The open environment, the exchange and application within the MIT network made the experience very valuable and created friendships that will last a lifetime."
                                                        -Finance Executive, U.S. Biotechnology Firm

ACSE Participant Benefits

• An MIT Sloan email-for-life (new for 2013)
• A 20% discount on additional Executive Education programs
• Invitations to select MIT Sloan events
• Participation in the MIT Sloan network
• Inclusion in the MIT Sloan alumni directory

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  Truely Inspirational!!! As a Sr. executive with 25 years of experiance, two bachlor's degres's one in engineering and one in business and having worked on my MBA 10 years ago, I really did not know what more I would learn from a 5 week course at MIT. The experiance of ACSE was tansformational for me. I entered the course as a catipiller and emerged a butterfly! I learned so much and really appreciated MIT's combination of theory, backed by scientific evidence and then the opprotunity to apply this in action learning setting. There was termendous value in being able to collaberate with people from all over world which in my experaince fostered innovative thinking and an opprotunity to learn on another level. I recieved value from every course I took and the overall experiance of being able to reflect for probabley the first time in my career.

  
  
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  This program is a unique opportunity to review some of the fundamental areas of leadership, strategy, environmental analysis and people management. I have enjoyed dynamic modular content of the program which allows for both small group in-depth discussions as well as bigger group networking interaction. I highly recommend this program to senior leaders who want to re-connect with academia in a multicultural environment.