Unlocking Your Leadership Signature

The demand for inspirational business leaders is both growing and changing. According to a 2022 HR survey from McLean & Company, a perceived leadership gap was the top priority among respondents, with 74 percent rating it as important or very important.

The report concludes: “Addressing the gap in leadership competencies will require more development offerings targeting these competencies at different levels (e.g., first-level managers, middle managers, and senior leaders).” Unlocking Your Leadership Signature provides the transformational approach to leadership development that today’s organizations are looking for. This unique program encourages introspection to help you identify and cultivate your personal leadership signature. It also demonstrates how to apply your leadership signature to your specific circumstances, regardless of where you are along your professional development path.

“The best way that you can lead is leading from who you are,” says Professor Deborah Ancona, founder of the MIT Leadership Center at the MIT Sloan School of Management and faculty director of the Unlocking Your Leadership Signature online program. “What is your leadership signature? What works for you based on your experience, your personality, and your strengths?”

Completing this online course will help you answer those questions. In the process, it will enable you to increase your value to the growing number of organizations that are seeking transformational approaches to meeting their leadership development goals.

Learn more about the self-paced online experience.

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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 to:

• Communicate a comprehensive understanding of your leadership signature
• Articulate how your leadership signature will make you a more inspiring business leader
• Choose one core approach that will improve your leadership signature
• Define future leadership goals and take concrete steps toward achieving them
• Reflect on your leadership signature and what type of team leader you would like to be

Whether you are an aspiring, emerging, or established leader, this six-week online program will instill an introspective approach that will help you identify and cultivate your unique leadership signature. You will also learn to identify and overcome internal barriers to changes as you begin your transformational journey to realize your full leadership potential. The broad range of leaders and entrepreneurs who could benefit from this program includes:

• Established business leaders who want to lead organizations with a better impact and create an
• organizational culture that supports engagement and accountability
• Emerging leaders who want to transition from a functional role to a leadership role
• Aspiring leaders/managers who want to move up the organizational ladder

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.