Leading Organizations for High Velocity Performance

Why are some organizations able to perform so well that their industry counterparts are competitors in name only? How do these high-velocity organizations consistently achieve breakthrough innovations and sustain competitive advantages and, more importantly, continually widen their leads?

The Leading Organizations for High-Velocity Performance online program reveals the secrets of these performance superstars by introducing fundamental principles for generating and sustaining unparalleled excellence.

As a participant, you will acquire knowledge, resources, and tools to curate your own playbook for transforming your organization to achieve performance excellence in high velocity. Moreover, the program draws insights from research in economic psychology and explains how psychological factors impact decision-making. You will learn to overcome psychological traps and cognitive biases to chaperone changes and realize your high-velocity vision for your organization.

We do not recommend this course if you have already completed Creating High Velocity Organizations, unless you are seeking a refresher of the content.

Learn more about the self-paced online experience.

Learn more about Emeritus technical requirements.

The recommended weekly time commitment for core content is 4-5 hours, taking into account the busy lifestyles of working professionals, with an additional 2-3 hours recommended for non-compulsory weekly extension activities, should you have the time. Each module is released weekly, allowing a flexible but structured approach to learning. You’ll be supported as you engage in individual activities and group discussions, ensuring you feel confident to submit your best work at each weekly deadline.

Upon successful completion of your course, you will earn a certificate of completion from the MIT Sloan School of Management. This course may also count toward MIT Sloan Executive Certificate requirements.

In this program, you will learn how to:

• Examine how high-velocity organizations achieve and sustain unassailable improvements and innovations.
• Diagnose systemic, social, and cultural barriers that prevent your organization from achieving performance excellence.
• Apply principles, frameworks, and tools to lead organizational transformation.
• Formulate strategies to cultivate high-velocity capabilities for achieving performance excellence.

This online program is ideal for senior leaders, functional managers, and entrepreneurs who are interested in driving high-velocity organizational transformation.

The program will be particularly valuable for:

Senior leadership/CXOs who want to guide their organizations toward high performance and build their leadership capabilities to deliver high growth. Representative roles include:

• CXOs
• Directors
• Presidents
• Heads

Functional managers responsible for core products, services, or mission-critical processes who want to drive growth initiatives across their functions or teams. Representative roles include: 

• Managers
• Senior managers

Entrepreneurs in high-growth industries seeking to learn the essentials of leading a high-performance organization and successfully scale their start-up. Representative roles include:

• CEOs
• COOs
• Co-founders
• Owners
• Chairpersons
• Presidents

We do not recommend this course if you have already completed Creating High Velocity Organizations, unless you are seeking a refresher of the content.

MIT Sloan Executive Education is collaborating with online education provider EMERITUS Institute of Management to offer a portfolio of high-impact online programs. By working with EMERITUS, MIT Sloan Executive Education is able to broaden access beyond on-campus offerings in a collaborative and engaging format that stays true to the quality of MIT Sloan and MIT as a whole.

EMERITUS’ approach to learning is based on a cohort-based design to maximize peer to peer sharing and includes live teaching with world-class faculty and hands-on project based learning. In the last year, more than 7,500 students from over 120+ countries have benefited professionally from EMERITUS’ courses.