Participants in this organizational strategy program will learn what it takes to build game-changing companies that make their teams and areas of responsibility world-class talent factories. They will also discuss the importance of building an innovative company culture and learn from the successes and challenges of various companies that have been on similar journeys of transformation.
Building Game-Changing Organizations: Aligning Purpose, Performance, and People
Certificate Track:
Strategy and Innovation
Location:
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Tuition:
2018: $3,900 (excluding accommodations)
2019: $4,100 (excluding accommodations)
Program Days (for ACE Credit) 2
Game-changing organizations rewrite traditional playbooks. They stand out. They often create disproportionate value relative to their size and resources. They have big dreams but know how to get things done. These organizations have a palpable "buzz" to them. They have a breakaway business model, but they also have a breakaway spirit and organizational culture.
Leaders of these game-changing organizations understand the power and importance of telling their companies' compelling stories. They are hard-edged business leaders but they also embrace what others might consider to be the "soft side" of leading: purpose, vision, and climate. They know how to integrate the hard and soft sides of leadership into a powerful formula that makes them game-changers. These leaders and their organizations are purpose-driven, performance-oriented, and principles-led. The weaving together of these three capabilities simultaneously is what helps them get and stay out in front.
“The course is a well-balanced combination of theory and
practice, with topics that are very relevant to the challenges that
organizations face in terms of the disruptive march of technology and the
massive generational and geographic switches currently emerging in both the
customer and workforce.”
—Biju
K., Past Participant
Participants in this program will:
This program is geared to upper to senior level managers who are responsible for or make strong contributions to their companies' strategy, vision, and operational priorities. In larger companies that would usually mean being among the top 500 enterprise leaders: division, business unit, functional or geographic leadership team members. In smaller firms, it might mean the team that is propelling the company forward. The program will also be extremely valuable for HR professionals who are in senior roles and responsible for contributing to enterprise-wide change or capability building efforts.
Doug Ready is Senior Lecturer in Organization Effectiveness at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
His research into aligning purpose, performance, and principles has led to the popular concept of implementing a company's Collective Ambition. Ready's research and writing also focuses on strategic talent management and enterprise-wide change. He has authored numerous highly popular Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review articles on these topics, including “The Power of Collective Ambition", “Make Your Company a Talent Factory", and “Leading at the Enterprise Level,” among others.
Ready is also the founder and president of the International Consortium for Executive Development Research (ICEDR), an internationally renowned collaborative in talent management and leadership development comprised of many of the world's leading companies and business schools. Ready works with top management teams, helping them to mobilize their leaders to bring about large-scale change. He has led major change and leadership development initiatives for companies including: Continental AG, Ford Motor Company, Four Seasons, Hess Oil, HSBC, LG Group, PwC, Royal Bank of Canada, Samsung Group, and United Technologies Corporation.
Sample Schedule—Subject to Change
| DAY 1 SAMPLE | |
| 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 09:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Building Game-Changing Organizations―Aligning Purpose, Performance and Principles; Practitioners’ Corner: Aligning Purpose, Performance and Principles |
| 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Networking Lunch |
| 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM | Building New Capabilities for a New Economy – Talent & Culture at Work – The BlackRock Story |
| 3:40 PM - 4:50 PM | Crafting Your Story – The Power of Collective Ambition |
| 4:50 PM - 5:00 PM | Reflections on Day I |
| 5:00PM - 6:00PM | Networking Reception |
| DAY 2 SAMPLE | |
| 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | Building a Game-Changing Talent Strategy – cont. |
| 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM | Leading Multi-Generational Teams |
| 11:20 AM - 1:45 PM | Group Discussion: Your Company’s Talent Challenges |
| 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM | Networking Lunch |
| 1:45 PM - 1:55 PM | Certificate Presentations |
| 1:55 PM - 3:30 PM | Developing a Game-Changing Leader’s Mindset |
| 03:40 PM - 04:00 PM | Reflection and Action Planning: Leadership Challenges for Game-Changing Organizations |
| 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Adjourn |
Kate Dennis
BlackRock
Kate Dennis, Director, is a member of the Global Talent team responsible for Executive Talent Management and Succession Planning. Additionally, Kate is the design lead for all talent processes within Workday.
During her tenure at BlackRock, Kate has served as the Head of Talent Strategy & Executive Services as well as a Business Partner for Investments.
Kate joined BlackRock in 2005.
Brian Halligan
Co-founder and CEO
HubSpot
Brian Halligan is Co-founder and CEO of HubSpot. Prior to HubSpot, Brian was a Venture Partner at Longworth Ventures and VP of Sales at Groove Networks, which was acquired by Microsoft. Previously, Brian was a Senior VP of Sales at PTC.
He has co-authored two books, "Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs" with Dharmesh Shah, and "Marketing Lessons From The Grateful Dead" with David Meerman Scott and Bill Walton. Recently, he's been writing about how to turn your startup into a scale-up.
He was a Top 10 Highest Rated CEO by Glassdoor in 2014, 2015, and 2017. He was named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 and an Inc. Founders 40 in 2016.
Brian is a senior lecturer at MIT's Sloan School Of Management where he teaches Course 15.392 called "Scaling Entrepreneurial Ventures."
Brian recently donated $1.6 million to the Southern Poverty Law Center for Jerry Garcia's guitar to support two things he cares deeply about: social justice and music. Around his hometown of Boston, his favorite charity is Camp Harbor View, serving over 1,000 youths from Boston's at-risk neighborhoods through summer camp on Boston Harbor.
He has a BSEE from the University of Vermont and an MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management.
In his spare time, he practices his guitar, plays tennis, and follows the Red Sox.
Charles Hatami
Managing Director, Global Head
BlackRock's Financial Markets Advisory Group
Charles Hatami, Managing Director, is the Global Head of BlackRock's Financial Markets Advisory Group. The Financial Markets Advisory Group provides a wide range of advisory, capital markets and innovative analytical solutions for its clients, which include banks, insurance companies, official institutions, and other financial intermediaries. Mr. Hatami is a member of BlackRock's Global Operating Committee and Human Capital Committee.
Prior to joining BlackRock in New York in 2010, Mr. Hatami served as the Managing Partner of Sentinels Capital Management, a global macro hedge fund he founded in London, UK. Previously, he worked at Banco Itau in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he helped execute fixed income arbitrage strategies for the bank's principal investment area. Prior to that, he worked as a research analyst at a hedge fund in NYC and in risk management at BNP Paribas in Frankfurt, Germany.
Mr. Hatami earned an MBA degree with concentration in finance from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management in 2010, and an MSc. in Financial Engineering, with honors, from Leonardo Da Vinci Engineering School in Paris, France.
Matt Kapszukiewicz
Human Capital Director
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Matt Kapszukiewicz is the Human Capital Director in PricewaterhouseCoopers' Midwest market where he is responsible for providing leadership and driving human capital strategy. Matt also provides leadership and expertise on national teams focused on onboarding, organizational design, talent management, mobility and talent development for the Firm.
Matt’s PwC career began in Washington, D.C. where, in addition to HR generalist responsibilities, he focused on talent acquisition and staffing, while gaining exposure to International HR matters.
While based in Houston, TX, Matt led talent acquisition at some of the firm's largest sources.
Following Houston, Matt led the Human Capital function for PwC's Global Capital Markets Group across 25 countries in Europe and Asia during a four-and-a-half year assignment based London.
Matt was based at PwC's headquarters in New York leading Human Capital for the U.S. Transaction Services practice prior to his current assignment in the Midwest.
He earned B.A. in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts and a Master's Degree in Human Resources from the University of Cincinnati. He holds the SPHR designation from the Human Resource Certification Institute, SHRM-SCP from the Society of Human Resources and is a member of SHRM. He's an avid runner, little league coach and scuba diver.
He lives with his family in Ohio.
Effective organizational leadership means connecting the dots between vision and strategy. MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Douglas Ready provides a leadership formula with game-changing results. Watch now.
VIEWTruly game-changing organizations are, at the same time, purpose-driven, performance-oriented and principles-led.”
VIEWIn theory as well as organizational practice, the discussion on organizational purpose currently seems to be en vogue. For many years, Doug Ready has been at the forefront of research in this field.
VIEWHal Gregersen, executive director of the MIT Leadership Center, sits down with Doug Ready, Sloan School of Management professor, to talk about “game-changing organizations” that aim to put trust back into business.
VIEWIn this article, Doug Ready discusses the five embedded tensions that cause transformation difficulties and what can great change leaders do to improve these odds.
VIEWMIT Sloan Professor Doug Ready on game-changing organizations.
VIEWWhen you need to rally the troops behind a new company goal or mission, what do you do?
VIEWAspiring corporate leaders first learn to build and implement visions for their individual business units. But as they advance in their careers, executives also must learn how to lead with an enterprise perspective.
VIEWLeadership thinking can be learned but is difficult to teach. It is a matter of asking questions and presenting challenges that help someone discover the mental model that enables their “best leader” to emerge.
VIEWAs Douglas Ready wrote in the MIT Sloan Management Review, research on storytelling in executive development found storytelling outperformed many other development initiatives in creating leadership skills.
VIEWJessica Vasquez T: Great Program. I liked especially the practitioners` corner and panels.
Dan C: I thoroughly enjoyed the content and delivery. It was practical subject matter that is immediately valuable. I also enjoyed the outside talent Doug brought in because it made the course objectives more tangible and clearly applicable.
Mario S: Carefully designed, great course with valuable insights and useful practitioners corner. Excellent facilities and remarkable overall experience.
Felipe T: Great course, highly recommended. Engaging in discussions with Doug is a unique experience. It really helps to understand the dynamics inside a company. The course was also nicely delivered combining real life cases (executives from successful companies coming to share their experiences) and cutting edge theory.
MacDara H: Really good mix of high level training mixed with "Practitioner Corner" real life examples of the process in action. Gives great direction, agnostic of your industry, of how to make game-changing moves regardless of where you are in the corporate levels
Mark B: Highly relevant, well prepared and expertly delivered. Outlines how the alignment between purpose, principles and performance is so important for optimizing enterprise-wide culture and executing best practice talent strategies in order to build outstanding organizations.
Aubrey S: Absolutely awesome! Well delivered.
Jeromy M: Wonderful engagement from beginning to end. Quality lecturers from diverse backgrounds add a valuable touch to the class as well.
Erik M: Great experience; i especially liked the mix of mit speakers and external speakers
Derek M: Very interesting and important topics discussed in this class. It was great to hear from executives utilizing these methods in their day-to-day, and to learn their candid challenges and successes. There were lots of tangible ideas discussed and opportunity to critically think about how these ideas/methods can be applied in your own world. One thing I would like to learn more about, still, is what (or how) new technologies can be used in strengthening and aligning business purpose, performance, and principles.
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