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INQUIRY-DRIVEN
LEADERSHIP
ONLINE SHORT COURSE
The Inquiry-Driven Leadership online short course from the MIT Sloan School of Management focuses on
a question-based approach to challenges, enabling you to become both a creative problem-fnder and solver
by gaining the tools to ask better questions. In exploring the conditions and behavioral habits that facilitate
productive inquiry, you’ll learn to identify, frame, and solve problems in your own leadership context.
You’ll discover how catalytic, or breakthrough questions, can foster transformative change, shift behaviors
and beliefs, and generate individual and organizational value.
Each module is released weekly, allowing a fexible but structured approach to learning. You’ll be supported as you engage
in individual activities and group discussions, ensuring you feel confdent to submit your best work at each weekly deadline.
Dissolve the barriers restricting your organization’s ability to gain new insights
and drive innovation.
YOU’LL LEARN
Learn more about
THE MIT SLOAN
SCHOOL OF
This online program integrates rich, interactive media such MANAGEMENT
as videos, infographics, and e-learning activities, as well as
traditional didactic components such as traditional written study
guides. There are also opportunities for collaborative learning
through discussion forums. The following modules contribute
to the holistic approach your learning path takes:
ORIENTATION MODULE
WELCOME TO YOUR ONLINE CAMPUS
ONE WEEK
You’ll be welcomed with a personal call and introduced to your
online teaching and technical support network. You will then
begin connecting with fellow students while exploring the tools
of your Online Campus, and will be alerted to key milestones
in the learning path, and be able to review how your results
will be calculated and distributed.
MODULE 1
APPRECIATING THE POWER OF CATALYTIC QUESTIONS
Explore how to apply a question-based approach to challenges
in your personal and professional life.
MODULE 2
CREATING THE CONDITIONS FOR QUESTIONS
TO FLOURISH
Learn how to create and beneft from the conditions
that stimulate catalytic questions.
MODULE 5
BUILDING THE QUESTIONING CAPACITY
OF A TEAM OR ORGANIZATION
Learn how to create conditions and encourage habits
of questioning in your team or organization.
MODULE 6
CHANGING THE WORLD BY CHANGING
THE QUESTIONS
Investigate how you can continue your question-centric approach
to challenges beyond yourself and the program.
HAL GREGERSEN
Senior Lecturer, Work and Organization Studies
Gregersen is executive director of the MIT Leadership Center and a senior lecturer in leadership and innovation
at the MIT Sloan School of Management. There he pursues his vocation of executive teaching, coaching, and
research. In his work, he explores how leaders in business, government, and society discover provocative new
ideas, develop the human and organizational capacity to realize those ideas, and ultimately deliver positive,
powerful results.
Gregersen is a senior fellow at Innosight, a growth-strategy consulting frm, and a former advisory board
member at Pharmascience, a privately held pharmaceutical company based in Montreal, Canada. Before
joining MIT, he taught at INSEAD, London Business School, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College,
Brigham Young University, and in Finland, as a Fulbright fellow.
ROGER LEHMAN
Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management
Lehman is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a professor at INSEAD’s Singapore
campus. At INSEAD, he designs and teaches in both open and company-specifc programs, providing a focus
on executive leadership, personal and professional development, change management, and high-performance
teams. In addition, he is a member of the core faculty at the INSEAD Global Leadership Center. As co-designer
and program director of INSEAD’s innovative Coaching and Consulting for Change Program, he is deeply involved
in supporting leadership transformational processes. Lehman’s clinical, teaching and organizational consulting
career spans over 35 years during which time his experience has included a variety of staff and leadership
positions in both public and private institutions. Over the past 20 years his teaching and consulting have led
him to a variety of international assignments on all continents, including Antarctica. In addition to his extensive
involvement in the Executive Masters Program, Lehman’s current focus is on leader development in Asia and Africa.
RANA EL KALIOUBY
CEO & Co-Founder, Affectiva
and Author, Girl Decoded
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