Course Highlights

• Develop a mindset and a skillset for embracing the unexpected—focusing on the paradoxes and tensions that define organizational transformation in a rapidly evolving AI-driven world
• Craft a framework for the future that drives transformation—leveraging exponential technologies, unlocking deeper creative potential within and across organizations, and crafting short-term results that compound into extraordinary long-term gains.
• Build AI-enhanced truth-seeking mechanisms that enable you to ask deeply, cut through organizational blind spots, reveal emerging challenges before they become existential threats, and reinforce reality-based decisions.
• Recognize whether your organization is in a virtuous cycle of change or a death cycle of decline by examining industry-defining successes and catastrophic failures—and then exploring how to shift the trajectory before it’s too late.
• Learn through a combination of frameworks built from diverse research interviews and case studies, interactive exercises, and hands-on applications designed to equip leaders with actionable strategies in an age of uncertainty.
• Earn a certificate of course completion from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

The pace of technological advancement—driven by AI, automation, and digital transformation—is accelerating and compounding at an unprecedented rate. How do leaders not only keep up but also turn this uncertainty into a competitive advantage? 

Guided by innovation expert Hal Gregersen (and based on a research project with Ed Catmull, co-founder Pixar and Turing Award winner), this course helps participants develop the mindset and skillset required to embrace the unexpected while engaging in creative transformation. 

Our future is not a straight-line extension of the past. Compounding technologies are radically reshaping industries in nonlinear, often irreversible ways. Leaders who use the power of AI to detect the implications of these shifts early—and act decisively—build teams and organizations that thrive. Such leaders discern the deep structures of AI-driven change, anticipate the consequences of compounding and combining forces, and make better strategic decisions today that will define their industries tomorrow. 

The ability to navigate rapid, unpredictable, and exponential changes, drawn from the lessons of those who saw the future and acted wisely and those who did not, is crucial for success. But embracing the implications of rapid compound growth is more than just a survival strategy—it's a conduit to innovation and growth. This course offers a transformative learning experience that empowers individuals and organizations to keep human agency and creativity first when crafting solutions to significant challenges in the face of uncertainty.

Through a combination of theoretical frameworks, practical case studies, interactive exercises, and hands-on applications, you will gain valuable insights into the mindset and strategies required to navigate exponential change, leverage short-term wins to drive long-term success, build effective truth-seeking mechanisms, and harness creativity as a catalyst for organizational transformation.

In this immersive learning experience, you will gain the tools to consistently anticipate, adapt to, and leverage the forces of rapid change. Using insights from successful companies like DeepMind, Intrinsic Robotics, NVIDIA, Patagonia, and Pixar, we will learn how to translate long-term intent systematically and broadly across the organization to make consistent, compounding, short-term progress. 

Key topics covered in the course include:

• Seeing the hidden dynamics of rapid exponential change, understanding their implications, and leveraging the opportunities
• Developing an AI-enhanced mindset and a skillset for embracing uncertainty—including the duality and paradox that accompany organizational transformation
• Building truth-seeking mechanisms to ensure that your organization sees reality clearly, avoids value inversions, and acts before it’s forced to react
• Kickstarting virtuous cycles—where collective short-term actions compound into enduring strategic advantage—and avoiding death cycles—where short-term optimization blinds leaders to irreversible industry shifts
• Harnessing humans and AI technologies to make progress on creative transformation

Upon completing the course, you will have examined and experimented with the mindsets, frameworks, and tools necessary to embrace the unexpected more effectively, unlock your organization’s creative potential more successfully, and position your team for long-term success in an era of compounding complexity.

Course Experience
Through a combination of research-backed frameworks, hands-on case studies, and interactive exercises, participants will:

• Navigate uncertainty by crafting a believable framework for the future, with AI-assisted human judgment.
• Explore exponential technologies like generative AI, digital twins, robotics, and automation to identify opportunities for creative transformation.
• See sustained compounding growth in technologies and processes with clarity and understand the strategic implications–even when they might be vague
• Master the art of long-term transformation by using short-term experiments as steppingstones toward sustainable strategic shifts    
• Build and sustain a truth-seeking culture, ensuring that leadership decisions are informed by a full-spectrum view of reality and avoiding value inversions.
• Leverage AI as a creative collaborator, using it to enhance strategic insight and decision-making while avoiding common pitfalls of over-reliance and anchoring bias.

Participants will leave with practical strategies to guide their organizations through unpredictable rapid change, not just reacting to disruption, but shaping the future. 

Guest Speaker

Marsha Dunn

Marsha Dunn has spent over 20-years working as a visual practitioner and facilitator to foster reflective conversation, integrated learning, and collective change. Her work with visuals and facilitation ranges from working with leaders to elucidate complex ideas and organizational challenges to guiding them in the process of co-creating transformation strategies with their teams. 

Marsha has partnered with organizations ranging from global companies and premier academic institutions to international foundations to local nonprofits. She has teamed with top organizations working in the space of creative, collaborative facilitation to develop thought leadership in the field. She teaches workshops and courses in both academic and organizational settings.

She is founder of Marsha Dunn Studios and co-founder of Seguinland Institute where she is the Creative Director and Faculty. She is also co-founded Seguin Tree Dwellings on the Maine coast where she designed spaces intended to foster reflection, creativity, and connection.
 

Applying to the course

We accept enrollments until the offering reaches capacity, at which point we will maintain a waitlist. Many of the courses fill up several weeks in advance, so we advise that you enroll as early as possible to secure your seat.

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