This course builds each student’s understanding of systems models and dynamics as they analyze a variety of complex challenges across industries, the various elements that contribute to both the creation of the problem and its intractability.

Technology is an enabler for outcomes across all sectors, if you know how to use it. This course builds fluency with the language, infrastructure, and application of artificial intelligence and data. Not only will students understand how to leverage artificial intelligence to be more effective, but they will be able to capture new opportunities and communicate a narrative with data analysis based on sounds data principles.

Gone are the days when leaders are expected to have every answer. 21st century leadership is about empowering others and drawing out the unique skills of your teammates with curiosity and humility. This course teaches students to leverage targeted questions and drive individual and organizational outcomes by understanding teammates and identifying productive vs. unproductive conversation and debate.

There is a wide gap between learning a concept and applying a concept, and this course will bridge that gap. Borrowing from methodologies that are taught and well understood in healthcare, understanding knowledge translation will help students drive action based on learnings in any field. This skill is increasingly important as the speed of innovation continues to accelerate across industries, and will future-proof students in their careers.

Process is where good ideas go to die, unless leaders understand how to design for actual, not ideal or imagined, human behavior. Human-centered design has taken root over the last decade in technology and innovation oriented organizations. This course will empower students with the skills to apply this methodology in their own context.

Being a polymath isn’t a commonly discussed concept in the United States, but academic research over the last 15 years have identified the core traits of polymaths – breadth, depth, and integration – as having outsized impact on their capacity for creativity and complex problem solving. Developing a polymathic orientation is a lifelong pursuit, and this course helps students understand and begin executing their own path to polymathy.