MIT Sloan School of Management
Managing the Human Side of Digital Disruption
Leverage a human-centered approach to successfully navigate the era of digital transformation within your organization.
Start date
30 April 2025
Course duration
6 weeks
Excluding orientation
Language
English
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Effort
6–8 hours per week
Self-paced learning online
Course overview
The percentage of digital transformations that succeed in achieving their objectives.
Boston Consulting Group (Oct, 2020).
The share of survey respondents who believe their organizations’ leaders have the right mindset to embrace the changes their company needs to succeed in the digital economy.
MIT Sloan Management Review (Jan, 2021).
Duration: 6 weeks (excluding orientation)
The acceleration of technological advancement and the shift toward remote work has caused businesses to face greater pressure to digitize quickly. To effectively steer their organizations through this digital transformation, business leaders must acquire the skills to handle the psychological effects of change and transition on their workforce.
The Managing the Human Side of Digital Disruption online short course, offered by the MIT Sloan School of Management, provides you with the necessary tools to approach digital change from a human perspective. During the six-week course, you’ll gain insights from Faculty Directors Hal Gregersen and Roger Lehman's Transition-Curve Framework, which enables them to oversee the progress of their team's roles, abilities, and emotional responses to change. Additionally, you’ll learn how to manage effective change at the individual, team, and organizational levels by using the strengths of purpose and inquiry and establishing the indispensable preconditions of psychological safety and trust. Ultimately, you’ll be able to apply the program's knowledge to forecast change, learn from it, and competently and successfully direct current and future transformations.
Is this course for you?
This course equips business leaders and managers with the necessary skills and resources to effectively guide their workforce through digital transformations, enhancing employee engagement and experience. The program is equally relevant for leaders seeking to analyze the effects of digital change on organizational models and implement appropriate solutions. Business advisors and consultants can benefit from this course by enhancing their knowledge and leadership abilities in digital transformation. Additionally, HR business partners who aim to improve employees' value propositions and experiences in an evolving business environment can benefit from the course's concepts and practices.
Course overview
Course overview
Duration: 6 weeks (excluding orientation)
The acceleration of technological advancement and the shift toward remote work has caused businesses to face greater pressure to digitize quickly. To effectively steer their organizations through this digital transformation, business leaders must acquire the skills to handle the psychological effects of change and transition on their workforce.
The Managing the Human Side of Digital Disruption online short course, offered by the MIT Sloan School of Management, provides you with the necessary tools to approach digital change from a human perspective. During the six-week course, you’ll gain insights from Faculty Directors Hal Gregersen and Roger Lehman's Transition-Curve Framework, which enables them to oversee the progress of their team's roles, abilities, and emotional responses to change. Additionally, you’ll learn how to manage effective change at the individual, team, and organizational levels by using the strengths of purpose and inquiry and establishing the indispensable preconditions of psychological safety and trust. Ultimately, you’ll be able to apply the program's knowledge to forecast change, learn from it, and competently and successfully direct current and future transformations.
Is this course for you?
This course equips business leaders and managers with the necessary skills and resources to effectively guide their workforce through digital transformations, enhancing employee engagement and experience. The program is equally relevant for leaders seeking to analyze the effects of digital change on organizational models and implement appropriate solutions. Business advisors and consultants can benefit from this course by enhancing their knowledge and leadership abilities in digital transformation. Additionally, HR business partners who aim to improve employees' value propositions and experiences in an evolving business environment can benefit from the course's concepts and practices.
What will set you apart
Insight into how people and teams in your organization are affected by digital transformation.
The ability to achieve a competitive advantage by taking a human-centric approach to digitally driven transformation. 
An in-depth understanding of the interactions between role adjustment, capabilities acquisition, and emotional energy to effectively support people through each dimension of the transition process. 
The tools to map your transformation journey and the skills to successfully lead your organization through digital change.Course curriculum
Orientation module
Welcome to your Online Campus
Module 1
Navigating transformational change from the human perspective
Module 2
Transitioning to new roles
Module 3
Leading people through capability shifts
Module 4
Navigating emotions
Module 5
Roles, capabilities, and emotions: A complex mix to manage
Module 6
Mapping the transition journey
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Faculty Directors
Roger Lehman
Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan
Hal Gregersen
Senior Lecturer, Work and Organization Studies, MIT Sloan
About the certificate
Create an innovative leadership strategy for digital transformation and earn an official digital certificate of completion from MIT Sloan.
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.
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