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MIT Sloan School of Management: Inquiry-Driven Leadership

Solve business challenges by learning to ask questions that will drive innovation and organizational change.

Solve business challenges by learning to ask questions that will drive innovation and organizational change.

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This course is offered by , an edX partner
6 weeks
6–8 hours per week
Starts Sep 24, 2025
Enroll by Sep 30, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule
6 weeks
6–8 hours per week
Starts Sep 24, 2025
Enroll by Sep 30, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

About this Course

Asking the right questions has the power to dissolve the barriers to creative thinking: It can move the emphasis away from finding a single correct answer and on to creating larger positive change and greater organizational value.

The Inquiry-Driven Leadership online short course from the MIT Sloan School of Management teaches you to adopt a questioning approach to effectively identify and solve organizational problems. You’ll learn about the conditions and behavioral habits that facilitate the space for asking better questions, and develop the ability to find, frame, and solve challenges within your context.

By learning to facilitate productive inquiry with a question-based mindset, you’ll uncover new business insights and opportunities for innovation. Discover the catalytic questions that foster transformative change, shift behaviors and beliefs, and generate individual and organizational value.

If you’re interested in solving business problems, this online program will help you to develop the inquisitive leadership skills to overcome real business challenges and uncover new opportunities. The productive inquiry tools taught in this program will be of use to professionals across functions and industries. Senior and middle managers alike will benefit from an understanding of why a question-based approach is becoming increasingly relevant in today’s context of uncertainty and disruption. For consultants and strategists, as well as marketing, innovation, and operations professionals, the course will serve to develop your critical-thinking and problem-solving strengths, and assist you in driving profound change in your organization.

Course curriculum

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Discover new business opportunities as you work through the weekly modules of this online program.

Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1: Appreciating the power of catalytic questions

Module 2: Creating the conditions for questions to flourish

Module 3: Building the habits of productive inquiry

Module 4: Understanding and working through the barriers to inquiry

Module 5: Building the questioning capacity of a team or organization

Module 6: Changing the world by changing the questions

Earn a certificate of completion from MIT Sloan

Acquire the expertise to utilise a query-centered methodology in addressing issues within your leadership sphere and earn an official digital certificate of completion from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

This program also counts toward an MIT Sloan Executive Certificate, which you can earn upon completion of four programs where at least three of the four come from your chosen certificate track and at least one is completed in person. Find full details here.

Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you digitally upon successful completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements.

Some facts about the subject

12%

The percentage of global executives who strongly agree that their business leaders have the right mindsets to lead their organizations forward.

_Cognizant (Jan, 2020). _

53%

The percentage of learning and development professionals who identify leadership and management programs as a top priority in 2021.

LinkedIn (2021).

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