The benefit of learning together with your friend is that you keep each other accountable and have meaningful discussions about what you're learning.
Courtlyn
Promotion and Events Specialist
November 14, 2024
6 Weeks, Online
4-6 hours per week
Participants report that enrolling in a program with colleagues fosters collaborative learning and amplifies their impact.
Please provide your details to get more information about the group-enrollment pricing.
The benefit of learning together with your friend is that you keep each other accountable and have meaningful discussions about what you're learning.
Courtlyn
Promotion and Events SpecialistTuition assistance is live as per below schedule. The full program fee is $2800 as of the start date.
Some organizations, such as Netflix, Google, or Tesla, perform at such elevated levels that their closest competitors cannot keep up. This program reveals the secrets that enable high-performance organizations to generate and sustain innovation and achieve unparalleled levels of excellence. As a participant, you will learn to become a high-velocity leader in your organization, and get resources, tools, and insights to help you curate your own playbook for transforming your organization.
In this program, you will:
Learn best practices from great operational triumphs, and critically examine missteps that have humbled even the most respected organizations across industries, including:
Understand the motivation for developing high-performing organizations in high-velocity industries.
Examine the process, best practices, and lessons learned for cultivating high-velocity capabilities.
Zero in on system failures and practice designing, mapping, and examining organizational systems.
Recognize the importance of creating a high-velocity edge and discover the high-velocity potential in your own organization.
Learn to map and diagnose a complex system to surface problems that impede innovation and improvements.
Get an introduction to the social and cultural barriers to rationality when designing and operating an organization. Through a three-lens framework, you will learn to change, navigate and take advantage of organizational power dynamics and culture.
Recognize the importance of solving problems when and where they occur and learn to diagnose systemic vulnerabilities and other latent conditions that can compound into calamities.
Explore a discovery-based method for solving problems scientifically, preventing them from reoccurring, and sharing knowledge throughout the organization to multiply the impact of local discoveries.
Learn to become a high-velocity leader and propose plans to embark on an organizational transformation journey.
Recognize the importance of creating a high-velocity edge and discover the high-velocity potential in your own organization.
Recognize the importance of solving problems when and where they occur and learn to diagnose systemic vulnerabilities and other latent conditions that can compound into calamities.
Learn to map and diagnose a complex system to surface problems that impede innovation and improvements.
Explore a discovery-based method for solving problems scientifically, preventing them from reoccurring, and sharing knowledge throughout the organization to multiply the impact of local discoveries.
Get an introduction to the social and cultural barriers to rationality when designing and operating an organization. Through a three-lens framework, you will learn to change, navigate and take advantage of organizational power dynamics and culture.
Learn to become a high-velocity leader and propose plans to embark on an organizational transformation journey.
Real-World Examples
Learn from real-world cases across industries
Hands-on Application
Map an actual process from your own work environment and prepare for the real world
Playbook
Reflect on organizational practices and behaviors
Discussion Boards
Collaborate and exchange ideas with your peers
Weekly Office Hours
Address questions with learning facilitators
Roberto M. Fernandez
Steven Spear
Roberto M. Fernandez
William F. Pounds Professor in Management, Professor Work and Organization Studies, MIT Sloan School of Management
Roberto Fernandez currently serves as the co-director of the Economic Sociology PhD Program and served as the head of the Behavioral and Policy Sciences area from 2008–2010. His research focuses on organizations, social networks, and race and gender stratification. Fernandez has extensive experience doing field research in organizations, including an exhaustive five-year case study of a plant retooling and relocation.
His current research focuses on the organizational processes surrounding the hiring of new talent using data collected in 14 organizations. He is the author of more than 50 articles and research papers published in top academic journals in his field.
Fernandez holds a BA in sociology from Harvard University and an MA and a PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago.
Steven Spear
Senior Lecturer, System Dynamics, MIT Sloan School of Management
Steven Spear is a well-recognized expert on how select organizations manage complex development, design, and delivery efforts to create unmatched rates of internally generated, broad-based improvement and innovation. His work investigates how the resulting leadership on reliability, agility, cost, quality, and safety produces sustainable competitive advantage even in the face of intense rivalry.
As a consultant and an advisor, Spear works actively with organizations to develop their capacity for high-speed, sustained improvement and innovation. He played an integral role in developing the Alcoa Business System, which has been credited with saving hundreds of millions of dollars in Alcoa’s annual report, and the Perfecting Patient Care system of the Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative, which helped raise quality and safety of care in area hospitals and which has been credited with saving many lives and much money. His clients include organizations such as Lockheed Martin, John Deere, Intel, Intuit, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He consulted for the MacArthur Foundation and works with Toyota on supplier development efforts.
Spear’s book, The High Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition, has won several awards, including the Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing Research and the Philip Crosby Medal from the American Society for Quality.
Receive a verified digital certificate of completion from MIT Sloan School of Management. This program also counts toward an MIT Sloan Executive Certificate.
Download BrochureNote: After successful completion of the program, your verified digital certificate will be emailed to you in the name you used when registering for the program. All certificate images are for illustrative purposes only and may be subject to change at the discretion of MIT Sloan.
After reviewing the information on the program landing page, we recommend you submit the short form above to gain access to the program brochure, which includes more in-depth information. If you still have questions on whether this program is a good fit for you, please email learner.success@emeritus.org, and a dedicated program advisor will follow-up with you very shortly.
Some programs do have prerequisites, particularly the more technical ones. This information will be noted on the program landing page, as well as in the program brochure. If you are uncertain about program prerequisites and your capabilities, please email us at the ID mentioned above.
Note that, unless otherwise stated on the program web page, all programs are taught in English and proficiency in English is required.
More than 50 percent of our participants are from outside the United States. Class profiles vary from one cohort to the next, but, generally, our online certificates draw a highly diverse audience in terms of professional experience, industry, and geography — leading to a very rich peer learning and networking experience.
Check back to this program web page or email us to inquire if future program dates or the timeline for future offerings have been confirmed yet.
Each program includes an estimated learner effort per week. This is referenced at the top of the program landing page under the Duration section, as well as in the program brochure, which you can obtain by submitting the short form at the top of this web page.
We have designed this program to fit into your current working life as efficiently as possible. Time will be spent among a variety of activities including:
The program is designed to be highly interactive while also allowing time for self-reflection and to demonstrate an understanding of the core topics through various active learning exercises. Please email us if you need further clarification on program activities.
More than 300,000 learners across 200 countries have chosen to advance their skills with Emeritus and its educational learning partners. In fact, 90 percent of the respondents of a recent survey across all our programs said that their learning outcomes were met or exceeded.
All the contents of the course would be made available to students at the commencement of the course. However, to ensure the program delivers the desired learning outcomes the students may appoint Emeritus to manage the delivery of the program in a cohort-based manner the cost of which is already included in the overall course fee of the course.
A dedicated program support team is available 24/5 (Monday to Friday) to answer questions about the learning platform, technical issues, or anything else that may affect your learning experience.
Peer learning adds substantially to the overall learning experience and is an important part of the program. You can connect and communicate with other participants through our learning platform.
Each program includes an estimated learner effort per week, so you can gauge what will be required before you enroll. This is referenced at the top of the program landing page under the Duration section, as well as in the program brochure, which you can obtain by submitting the short form at the top of this web page. All programs are designed to fit into your working life.
This program is scored as a pass or no-pass; participants must complete the required activities to pass and obtain the certificate of completion. Some programs include a final project submission or other assignments to obtain passing status. This information will be noted in the program brochure. Please email us if you need further clarification on any specific program requirements.
Upon successful completion of the program, you will receive a smart digital certificate. The smart digital certificate can be shared with friends, family, schools, or potential employers. You can use it on your cover letter, resume, and/or display it on your LinkedIn profile.
The digital certificate will be sent approximately two weeks after the program, once grading is complete.
No, only verified digital certificates will be issued upon successful completion. This allows you to share your credentials on social platforms such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.
No, there is no alumni status granted for this program. In some cases, there are credits that count toward a higher level of certification. This information will be clearly noted in the program brochure.
You will have access to the online learning platform and all the videos and program materials for 12 months following the program start date. Access to the learning platform is restricted to registered participants per the terms of agreement.
Participants will need the latest version of their preferred browser to access the learning platform. In addition, Microsoft Office and a PDF viewer are required to access documents, spreadsheets, presentations, PDF files, and transcripts.
Yes, the learning platform is accessed via the internet, and video content is not available for download. However, you can download files of video transcripts, assignment templates, readings, etc. For maximum flexibility, you can access program content from a desktop, laptop, tablet, or mobile device.
Video lectures must be streamed via the internet, and any livestream webinars and office hours will require an internet connection. However, these sessions are always recorded, so you may view them later.
Yes, you can register up until seven days past the published start date of the program without missing any of the core program material or learnings.
The program fee is noted at the top of this program web page and usually referenced in the program brochure as well.
Yes, you can do the bank remittance in the program currency via wire transfer or debit card. Please contact your program advisor, or email us for details.
Yes! Please email us with the details of the program you are interested in, and we will assist you.
Please email us your invoicing requirements and the specific program you’re interested in enrolling in.
Yes, the flexible payment option allows a participant to pay the program fee in installments. This option is made available on the payment page and should be selected before submitting the payment.
Please connect with us via email for assistance.
Emeritus collects all program payments, provides learner enrollment and program support, and manages learning platform services.
Program fees for Emeritus programs with MIT Sloan Executive Education may not be paid for with (a) funds from the GI Bill, the Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Act of 2008, or similar types of military education funding benefits or (b) Title IV financial aid funds.
For the program refund and deferral policy, please click the link here.
Flexible payment options available.