Mastering Negotiation and Influence
Negotiation strategy and influence without authority, practised in live negotiations with feedback, and the reciprocity behind Axelrod's tit-for-tat.
Twelve courses from 2023 to 2025 across management and leadership, strategy and innovation, and technology and operations: eleven at MIT Sloan and one joint MIT-IMD course, in person at IMD. They add up to three Executive Certificates and, in May 2025, the Advanced Certificate for Executives in Management, Innovation, and Technology (ACE).
Executive Certificate in Management and Leadership, December 2023 · six courses
Negotiation strategy and influence without authority, practised in live negotiations with feedback, and the reciprocity behind Axelrod's tit-for-tat.
Catalytic questions, finding the problem before solving it, and building cultures where questions are welcome.
Talent, system, leadership and culture in high-performing teams; sports analytics applied to technology teams.
Neuroplasticity, resilience, mental models and decisions under pressure.
MIT's RELATE framework: adapting to the audience and the context, and building trust.
The TOP-T framework, graph and presentation design, and telling the same data to technical and non-technical audiences.
Executive Certificate in Strategy and Innovation, May 2025 · three courses
Finding unmet customer needs, rapid prototyping and iteration, human-centred design.
Questioning, observing, networking, experimenting and associating; jobs to be done; a personal diagnostic against 20,000+ professionals.
Innovation from concept to commercialisation, MIT's integrative value-chain framework, incremental and disruptive innovation. The joint MIT-IMD course.
Executive Certificate in Technology and Operations, March 2025 · three courses
Dynamic Work Design, the A3 approach to continuous improvement, and the principles of good work design.
Commonality across product families: shared components, processes and infrastructure, platform economics, modular design.
Operations strategy, global networks and supply chains, and resource optimisation in distributed systems.