Course Highlights

• Develop a mindset and a skillset for embracing uncertainty—including the duality and paradox that accompany organizational transformation—in a rapidly evolving AI-driven world
• Learn through a combination of theoretical frameworks built from diverse research interviews and case studies, interactive exercises, and hands-on applications
• Gain valuable insights into the skills and strategies required to make a shift in strategic gears and processes by building a believable framework for the future, leveraging exponential technologies to co-create that future, unlocking deeper elements of an organization’s creative potential, and crafting short-term results that compound into extraordinary long-term gains
• Confers a certificate of course completion from the MIT Sloan School of Management

Is your organization prepared for the unexpected? Can it be? In the face of uncertainty, can you inspire others to make investments, take risks, and create sustainable value for the future?

The ability to navigate rapid, unpredictable, and exponential change is crucial for success. But embracing the unexpected is more than just a survival strategy—it's a conduit to innovation and growth. This course offers a transformative learning experience that empowers individuals and organizations to harness creative solutions to significant challenges in the face of uncertainty.

Guided by MIT Sloan innovation expert Hal Gregersen and Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull, this unique new course leverages insight from their research interviews and diverse case studies to explore the leadership mindset and system level actions required to tackle large scale challenges and catalyze a believable framework for the future—a future state that cannot be realized without years of sustained effort so that compounding growth occurs across an entire ecosystem.

Through a combination of theoretical frameworks, practical case studies, interactive exercises, and hands-on applications, you will gain valuable insights into the mindset and strategies required to navigate uncertainty, respond to short- and long-term challenges simultaneously, and leverage creativity as a catalyst for organizational transformation.

You will also learn from successful companies like DeepMind, Intrinsic Robotics, NVIDIA, Patagonia, and Pixar that have translated long-term intent systematically and broadly across the organization to make consistent, compounding, short-term progress.

Key topics covered in the course include:

• Seeing and understanding the hidden dynamics of rapid and exponential change
• Developing a mindset and a skillset for embracing uncertainty—including the duality and paradox that accompany organizational transformation
• Identifying and leveraging creative opportunities amid disruption
• Kickstarting productive power cycles across ecosystems
• Harnessing humans and technology to drive creative transformation
• Building strategies for managing change in turbulent times

Upon completing the course, you will have examined and experimented with the mindsets, frameworks, and tools necessary to embrace the unexpected more effectively and to unlock your organization’s creative potential more successfully in the face of rapid change.

What makes this course unique?

Participants will also benefit from the opportunity to learn about key dynamics and real-world events at creative companies that have made and continue to make an outsized impact in the world.

Applying to the course

We accept enrollments until the offering reaches capacity, at which point we will maintain a waitlist. Many of the courses fill up several weeks in advance, so we advise that you enroll as early as possible to secure your seat.

You can begin the application process by using the red 'Enroll Now' bar at the bottom of the screen.

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Have questions?

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