Apps for Stanfords New Online Exec Program Now Open

Applications for Stanford Graduate School of Business’s new, online model for executive learning are now open. The new model recreates the intimate and academically rigorous on-campus Stanford experience in an interactive online environment. Participants will engage with a select cohort of peers, collaborate on projects, interact directly with coaches and faculty and gain insights from successful global leaders.

The new model will launch with the Stanford LEAD Certificate: Corporate Innovation, which aspires to help participants learn, engage, accelerate and disrupt. It is aimed at professionals who wish to drive new initiatives and effectively implement change within their organizations. The eight-course program will help participants develop their abilities to identify the ideas that deliver the most impact and to overcome organizational barriers.

The program integrates real-time class discussions, ongoing feedback from world-class faculty and high-quality peers, engaging instructional video, online exercises, group projects, live-streamed events at Stanford GSB and access to Silicon Valley leaders.

Unlike Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), participants in the Stanford LEAD Certificate will be chosen by application into a select cohort of executives. This will enable all participants to interact directly with faculty, receive meaningful feedback, and benefit from a learning community of like-motivated peers.

Participants will be chosen based on their motivation for developing new products, services, cultural changes, or strategic pivots in their organizations. Professionals from large and small global companies, public institutions and nonprofits are encouraged to apply.

Applicants will be asked to upload a short two-minute video about why they wish to take the certificate program and in what area of their organization they want to have impact as well as to show demonstrated resourcefulness and capability to affect change in an organization.

Applications are open now until March 25, 2015 and can be completed online. No more than 100 participants will be admitted to the first 2015 cohort. The program will begin on May 5, 2015.

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