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Managerial Communication

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Miro Kazakoff

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Miro Kazakoff is a Senior Lecturer in Managerial Communication at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he focuses on how individuals use data to persuade others. 


At MIT, he developed MIT Sloan’s Communicating and Persuading With Data courses. His courses help individuals improve their ability to persuade within their organizations by speaking, writing, and visualizing data more effectively. He teaches a number of courses in the MBA, EMBA, Sloan Fellows and MFIN programs including Communication for Leaders, Communicating with Data, and Communication and Persuasion through Data for Executives.


Miro co-founded Testive, an education technology company that combines an adaptive online learning platform with live human coaching to help students meet their educational goals. Prior to that he worked in a variety of sales and client service roles at Hubspot, Compete.com (sold to media conglomerate WPP), and Bain & Co.  


Miro holds a BA from Georgetown University where he studied English and Computer Science and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Courses

Management and Leadership

Communicating Data Through Storytelling

Negotiation & Communication

EARN 2.0 EEUs
Communicating Data Through Storytelling
Self-Paced Online

STARTING

Aug 6–Sep 23, 2025

LOCATION

Online

DURATION

6 weeks

COMMITMENT

6–8 hours/week

TUITION

$3,250

STARTING

Aug 6–Sep 23, 2025

LOCATION

Online

DURATION

6 weeks

COMMITMENT

6–8 hours/week

TUITION

$3,250

Sep 24–Nov 11, 2025

Online

6 weeks

6–8 hours/week

$3,250

STARTING

Sep 24–Nov 11, 2025

LOCATION

Online

DURATION

6 weeks

COMMITMENT

6–8 hours/week

TUITION

$3,250

Nov 12, 2025–Jan 27, 2026

Online

6 weeks

6–8 hours/week

$3,250

STARTING

Nov 12, 2025–Jan 27, 2026

LOCATION

Online

DURATION

6 weeks

COMMITMENT

6–8 hours/week

TUITION

$3,250

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Management and Leadership

Persuading with Data

Business Analytics

Negotiation & Communication

Organizations & Leadership

EARN 2.0 EEUs
Persuading with Data
In Person

STARTING

Nov 20–21, 2025

LOCATION

Cambridge, MA

DURATION

2 days

COMMITMENT

8 hours/day

TUITION

$4,700

STARTING

Nov 20–21, 2025

LOCATION

Cambridge, MA

DURATION

2 days

COMMITMENT

8 hours/day

TUITION

$4,700

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