Professional Certificate Program in

Digital Transformation
in the AI Age
Drive growth through AI led
transformative digital leadership
There is not one
technology that dominates
the current landscape, all
of them complement each
other to provide data and
lead change in companies

Prof. John R. Williams

 09 Participant Profile
Index
10 Instructors

21 Program Outline

22 Methodology and Assessment

23 Impact Project

23 Learning Facilitators

24 Professional Development Webinars

03 In the Midst of the Digital 25 Certificate of Completion

Transformation

04 About the Certificate 27 About MIT Professional Education

05 Certificate Structure 28 Corporate Courses

07 The Learning Experience 29 The Beyond Online Methodology

08 Key Takeaways 30 Benefits of Joining the Professional

Alumni Community

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In the Midst of
the Digital
Transformation

The rapid advancement of new In this complex landscape, success

technologies is reshaping business depends on the ability to align
dynamics and processes, driving technological advancements
constant evolution across industries. with organizational and cultural
Simultaneously, globalization and transformations. Leaders must
cultural diversity require leaders inspire their teams, foster
to embrace a strategic vision that collaboration, and create a culture
combines technical innovation that supports adaptability and
with an understanding of diverse growth. By balancing innovation
perspectives. with human-centered approaches,
organizations can navigate today’s
fast-changing environment,
ensuring they not only adapt
but also thrive in an increasingly
competitive world.

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About
this Certificate

MIT Professional Education’s Certificate and cloud computing. By understanding

Program in Digital Transformation in the technological shifts and integrating
AI Age equips managers with the insights, key technologies within an inspiring
skills, and innovative mindset needed to leadership framework, you will become
enhance leadership, retain talent, and a leader capable of applying practical
build high-performance teams. It prepares solutions while developing authoritative
you to navigate the digital age—in knowledge on the technological factors
particular emerging technologies that are that are revolutionizing business models,
changing the digital frontier, such as AI strategies, and outcomes.

9 months 8-10 hours a week Online

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Certificate
Structure
Professional Certificate Program in Digital Transformation in the
AI Age

This 9-month Professional Certificate in Digital Transformation in the AI Age equips

participants with the insights and skills to integrate technological innovation, strengthen
leadership, and empower teams, fostering adaptability in today’s culturally and
technologically diverse business landscape.

In today’s globalized world, professionals must

navigate a multicultural business landscape
with agility, embracing diversity as a strength.
This course equips professionals with the skills
to foster continuous innovation, adaptability,
5 weeks
and collaboration across cultures, driving
Cultural Awareness for personal and professional growth in an ever-
Global Business evolving environment.

In today’s evolving era, organizations must

merge technical expertise with leadership
skills to inspire innovation, drive strategic
projects, and build a motivated, engaged
workforce. This course equips you with the
insights and skills to lead change, foster
collaboration, deliver creative solutions, and 8 weeks
enhance performance, empowering you to Innovative Leadership:
thrive in today’s dynamic business landscape. Cultivating Impactful Culture

This program equips decision-makers with the

insights, tools, and frameworks to lead successful
AI-driven transformation across their organizations.
In addition to focusing on prominent technologies,
8 weeks the program also dives deep into Generative and
Agentic AI for Organizational Agentic AI - empowering leaders to drive practical
Transformation innovation, navigate ethical frontiers, and create
measurable business value.

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This course delves into generative AI
technologies and their practical applications
across sectors. Through interactive sessions
and hands-on assignments, participants gain
valuable insights and AI-driven skills. It is
tailored for senior leaders, technology heads,
8 weeks
and professionals in innovation, sales, product
Applied Generative AI for
management, marketing, and customer
Digital Transformation
experience.

Digital transformation reshapes businesses

through technological innovation and strategy
to meet evolving consumer and workforce
demands. This course blends theory and
8 weeks practice to explore technologies like artificial
Leadership for the AI Age: intelligence and robotics, and the importance
Driving Digital Transformation of a people-centered culture. Gain tools to
for Competitive Advantage navigate emerging technologies and drive
organizational agility.

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The Learning Experience

At MIT Professional Education we believe The program is 100% online, and the
in practical applications and encourage virtual campus is available anytime,
participants to implement what they anywhere. It is a space for continuous
have learned. Through our programs, learning, taking you beyond the
participants are given the tools to make limitations of a traditional classroom.
their learning experience as fulfilling
as possible. Participants will have the There are no prerequisites for this
chance to participate in an engaging and certificate. The certificate will guide and
collaborative classroom environment with prepare you to understand all the content
discussion forums and group activities. and complete the required activities.

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Key
Takeaways
Upon successful completion of this certificate program, you will gain the ability to:

01 Blend technical expertise with 05 Automate workflows using

leadership skills. Generative AI ethically.

02 Drive innovation in a fast-paced 06 Integrate digital transformation to

global landscape. boost efficiency and engagement.

03 Adapt and thrive in multicultural 07 Learn to design and apply strategies

business environments. with generative and agentic AI, gain
hands-on experience, and address
ethical, legal, and security risks.
04 Turn ideas into actionable
innovations.

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Tools used throughout the
Professional Certificate

01 ChatGPT: Unlock advanced 04 Glasp: Capture key takeaways and

language generation to boost generate summaries from video
efficiency, support decision-making, sources using AI-driven tools
and enhance digital interactions

02 LangChain: Build AI-powered 05 ChatGPT Writer and WriteGPT:

systems that connect data, Streamline and accelerate written
automate processes, and deliver communication, from emails to
dynamic responses content creation, with AI powered
writing support

03 Glarity: Summarize and translate

video content for faster insights and
better global accessibility

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Participant Profile
This Professional Certificate Program is best suited for:

Professionals with strong leadership skills aiming to drive impactful innovation within their
organizations.

CEOs, General Directors, and Functional Managers looking to optimize operations and
develop new business models.

CTOs, CInOs, and technical leaders interested in exploring transformative technologies.

Entrepreneurs engaged in innovative technological startups.

Professionals seeking to leverage cultural diversity, innovation, and technologies to lead

digital transformation.

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Instructors
A former professor of management, Dr.
Niño has published on leadership, ethics,
corporate culture and the development
of professional management skills. He
has conducted research in cutting-
edge technology environments and is
currently interested in researching how
leadership develops among engineers
and in engineering organizations. Dr. Niño
has taught leadership since 1998 at the
undergraduate, master’s, doctoral and
executive/professional levels.

He is currently a founding officer of the

Leadership Development Division of
Dr. David Niño the American Society for Engineering
Senior Lecturer in the Daniel J. Riccio Graduate
Education and advises professional and
Engineering Leadership Program at MIT executives on leadership and development
issues.
David Niño teaches in the Bernard M. Gordon
Engineering Leadership Program at MIT.
Previously, he was Professor of Engineering
Leadership Practice and Management at
Rice University. During this tenure, he led
the creation of the first four-year certificate
in engineering leadership and was director of
Rice Leadership, the university’s leadership
development program.

“Professionals who want to come to MIT and want to learn how to be

a more effective and more impactful professional will benefit from this
course.”

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 different countries participate in the
classroom, internationals and, recently,
also in those launched in online and
mixed formats. The courses, which cover
such cutting-edge areas as big data,
artificial intelligence, and the Internet
of Things (IoT), combined with other
professional development courses in the
fields of innovation and entrepreneurship,
have benefited thousands of
professionals worldwide.

Mr. Pant was part of the “The Future

of Education at MIT” team, created by
the MIT President, and contributed
Bhaskar Pant specifically to the work of the
subcommittee that was responsible for
Executive Director of MIT Professional Education “opening the doors of MIT to the world”.
Building on Mr. Pant’s initiative, whose
objective was to expand globally, MIT
Bhaskar Pant is the executive director of Professional Education offers short
MIT Professional education, the branch of programs in an increasing number of
MIT that provides technology professionals regions in Asia, Latin America, the Middle
access to MIT knowledge. Under his East, and Europe. Prior to joining MIT, Mr.
direction, the MIT Professional Education Pant held important leadership positions
offering has grown considerably, as have in education and corporate companies
corporate relationships and its global around the world.
reach, as professionals from more than 120

“Much of innovation and leadership is cultural awareness.”

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 of Defense (DOD). In password security,
Dr. Sanchez led the design of a password
firewall (negative authentication) for the
Intelligence Advanced Research Projects
Activity (IARPA) agency. In machine
learning, addressing fraud detection,

Dr. Sanchez designed a situational

awareness framework that exploits
different perspectives of the same data
and assigns risk scores to entities for
Accenture. He led the design of a global
data infrastructure simulator, modeling
follow-the-sun engineering, to evaluate
the impact of competing architectures
Dr. Abel Sanchez on the performance, availability, and
reliability of the system for Ford Motor
Executive Director of MIT’s Geospatial Data Center Company.

Dr. Sanchez led e-Education software

for Microsoft via their I-Campus
Dr. Abel Sanchez holds a Ph.D. from the
Program and was faculty co-founder of
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
the Accenture Technology Academy,
(MIT). He is the Executive Director of MIT’s
an online resource for over 200,000
Geospatial Data Center, architect of “The
employees. He teaches MIT courses on
Internet of Things” global network, and
cybersecurity, engineering computation,
architect of data analytics platforms for SAP,
and data science and has produced over
Ford, Johnson & Johnson, Accenture, Shell,
1000 educational videos. Learners from
Exxon Mobil, and Altria.
45 different countries have taken Abel’s
courses.
In cyber security, Dr. Sanchez architected
impact analysis of large-scale cyber-attacks
designing Cyber Ranges for the Department

“We cannot bet on the artificial intelligence, or the human being

separate. We must get the fusion of both.”

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 SAP Research, Microsoft Research, Kajima
Corp, US Lincoln Laboratory, Sandia National
Laboratories, US Intelligence Advanced
Research Projects Activity, Motorola,
Phillip-Morris Inc., Ford Motor Company,
ExxonMobil, Total, and ARAMCO. His
international collaborations include Oxford
and Cambridge Universities, HKUST, KACST,
Alfaisal University, PolyU Hong Kong, Imperial
College of Science and Technology UK,
Malaysia University of Science and Technology
(MUST), and Masdar Institute of Science and
Technology Abu Dhabi. He organized the first
Cyber-Physical Security Conference in the UK
(2011) and along with Dr. Sanchez, he runs
Prof. John R. Williams the MIT Applied Cyber Security Professional
Education summer course. At MIT he teaches
Professor of Information Engineering, Civil and courses Architecting Software Systems (MIT
Environmental Engineering and Director of MIT
Geospatial Data Center 1.125) and Engineering Computation and
Data Science (MIT 1.00/1.001).

John Williams holds a BA in Physics from Oxford In data engineering and data science,
University, an M.Sc. in Physics from UCLA, and early work included simulation of Ford’s
a Ph.D. in Numerical Methods from the Swansea global network, analysis of SAP smart grid
University, Wales. His research focuses on billing system. For Altria, he analyzed the
the application of large-scale computation to performance of item level tagging and their
problems in cyber-physical security and energy. implementation of an anti-counterfeiting
He is director of MIT’s Geospatial Data Center system using the Electronic Product Code
and from 2006-2012, was Director of the MIT (EPC).
Auto-ID Laboratory, where the Internet of Things
was invented. He is the author or co-author of In password security, Professor Williams was
over 250 journal and conference papers, as the principal investigator who developed
well as books on Rock Mechanics and RFID the algorithms for a negative password
Technology. He contributed to the 2013 report authentication system for the Intelligence
for the UK Office for Science Foresight Project- Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA)
The Future of Manufacturing. Alongside Bill agency.
Gates and Larry Ellison, he was named as one
of the 50 most powerful people in Computer Dr. Williams advises companies in the
Networks. He consults with companies including Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia.
Accenture, Schlumberger, Shell, Total, Exxon,

“Once you climb that first mountain of knowledge, you will be able
to teach yourself many things.”

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 he researches digital transformation and
innovation culture. As a pioneering researcher
on digital transformation, George regularly
conducts keynote presentations, senior
executive workshops, and Board presentations
worldwide. George is the author of three
award-winning books, including Leading
Digital: Turning Technology into Business
Transformation. He has also written numerous
contributions for publications such as Sloan
Management Review, Harvard Business
Review, and academic journals. As a principal
research scientist for workforce learning in
MIT’s Office of Learning, George conducts
transformative research aimed at improving
Dr. George Westerman job readiness and career advancement for
workers around the world. His research
Senior Lecturer and Principal Research on transforming corporate learning and
Scientist, MIT Sloan School of Management
development processes, bridging the gap
from educators to employers, and improving
career development has received widespread
Dr. George Westerman is a world-recognized attention from leaders around the world. He
thought leader in leading transformation and is also the founder of the Global Opportunity
competitive advantage through technological Forum, which is building a community of like-
innovation. He works at the intersection of minded academic and corporate leaders to
executive leadership and digital innovation co-create the future of workforce learning.
to provide continuous valuable insights to
leaders in all industries. As a Senior Lecturer
at the MIT Sloan School of Management,

“Whatever approach you choose, you need to create appropriate levels of

digital technology synergy, brand integration, investment coordination, skill
development, vendor management, and innovation over the long term.”

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Faculty Contributors
Armando Solar-Lezama is a Professor in
MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science. He is the Associate
Director and COO in the Computer Science
and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
(CSAIL), where he leads the Computer
Assisted Programming Group. Solar-Lezama
and his research group focus on program
synthesis, a research area at the intersection
of programming systems and artificial
intelligence.

He is currently the lead PI of the NSF funded

Expeditions project “Understanding the
World through Code” and is also the founder
Prof. Armando Solar-Lezama of playskript.com, an online platform for
creating interactive presentations. Solar-
Professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Lezama earned a PhD from University of
Engineering and Computer Science; Head of
Computer-Assisted Programming Group and California, Berkeley.
Associate Director and COO of MIT Computer
Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

“Code is such a powerful and expressive mechanism for describing

the world and how things work.”

Affiliations
• CSAIL: Vertical AI Community of Research; Applied Machine Learning Community
of Research; Computation Structures Group; Center for Deployable Machine
Learning (CDML)
• Associate Director and COO, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory
• LEAD: Computer-Aided Programming Group

Areas of Interest and Expertise

• Programming Systems with a Focus on Software Synthesis
• Programming Tools for Parallel and High Performance
• Computing
• Cybersecurity

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 and control physical systems. His work
involves systems analysis and design and
calling upon mechanical, electrical, and
optical engineering, along with computer
science and optimization, to create solutions.
The focus of Dr. Anthony’s research is in
computational instrumentation—the design
of instruments and techniques to measure
and control complex physical systems.
His research includes the development of
instrumentation and measurement solutions
for manufacturing systems and medical
diagnostics and imaging systems. In addition
to his academic work, he has extensive
experience in market-driven technology
Brian Anthony innovation, product realization, and business
entrepreneurship and commercialization
Principal Research Scientist, MIT Mechanical at the intersection between information
Engineering | Associate Principal Research Scientist,
MIT Institute of Medical Engineering & Science | technology and advanced manufacturing.
Director, Master of Engineering in Manufacturing His teaching interests include the modeling
Program | Associate Director, MIT.nano of large-scale systems in a wide variety
of decision-making domains and the
development of optimization algorithms and
Dr. Anthony is Director of MIT’s Master of software for analyzing and designing such
Engineering in Manufacturing Program, Co[1] systems. He has extensive experience in
Director of the Medical Electronic Device market driven technology innovation as well
Realization Center, and Associate Director, MIT. as business entrepreneurship.
nano. With over 20 years experience in product
realization—Dr. Anthony won an Emmy (from
the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences)
in broadcast technical innovation—Dr. Anthony
designs instruments and techniques to monitor

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 powers Salesforce Commerce Cloud—and
was responsible for product management,
engineering, data science, and cloud
production operations. The Einstein platform
uses analytics techniques to predict and
influence the shopping behavior of hundreds
of millions of unique shoppers monthly. The
path that led Rama to Salesforce started
in July 2010 when he founded a startup,
CQuotient, to build a data-science-based
personalization platform for retail and e[1]
commerce. Backed by funding from Bain
Capital Ventures, Rama built and grew the
company to a successful exit to Demandware
(NYSE: DWRE) in October 2014.
Prof. Rama Ramakrishnan
As a member of the Demandware executive
Professor of the Practice at the MIT Sloan School of team, Rama was involved in the successful
Management
sale of Demandware to Salesforce in
July 2016 for $2.8 billion. CQuotient
technology, now known as Salesforce
His teaching, research, and advisory interests
Einstein for Commerce, is one of the top B2C
center on the practical application of Predictive
recommendation engines in the world and
and Generative AI techniques to problems and
influences the shopping behavior of billions
opportunities in industry and in the creation of
of consumers annually. Prior to founding
intelligent products and services. Prior to joining
CQuotient, Rama taught analytics at MIT
MIT Sloan, Rama was a tech entrepreneur and
Sloan, was chief scientist and vp of R&D at
executive for over 20 years. He has founded
ProfitLogic, was chief analytics officer and
or has been a senior executive in four software
vp of R&D for the retail business of Oracle,
companies that have exited to technology titans:
founded two analytics companies, and was a
Oracle, Salesforce, and Demandware. He is
consultant at McKinsey & Company. Rama
active in the startup ecosystem as an advisor,
has a BTech degree from the Indian Institute
angel investor, and board member. Most
of Technology, Chennai and MS and PhD
recently, Rama was senior vice president at
degrees from MIT.
Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) and chief data scientist
for Salesforce Commerce Cloud. In this role,
he led Salesforce Einstein for Commerce—
the analytics/machine-learning platform that

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MIT Research Contributor
Katie M. Lewis received her PhD from
MIT in Developing Domain-Specific
Generative Models. As a Research
Assistant, she developed the GIST
method to generate fine-grained image-
specific text descriptions using LLMs.
She also developed a learning-based
method to align sparse, clinical MRI brain
scans with higher accuracy on 92% of
subjects and 100x faster on the CPU.

Some of her generative machine learning

publications include At the Intersection
of Conceptual Art and Deep Learning:
The End of Signature, Generating Image-
Katie M. Lewis Specific Text for Fine-grained Object
Classification, and Machine Learning for
MIT Research Contributor Healthcare (ML4H) at NeurIPS 2018.
She recently defended her dissertation
under the supervision of John Guttag and
Frédo Durand and has interned twice
with Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman’s team
at Google.

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Industry Contributors
Jacob DePriest is the VP, Deputy Chief
Security Officer at GitHub where he is
responsible for managing the GitHub
Security team. Prior to GitHub, Jacob
was a senior executive at the National
Security Agency where he built and led
the Developer Experience program,
was the Agency’s executive sponsor for
open source, and led a number of IT
and security transformation initiatives.
DePriest counts on over 15 years of
experience as an engineer in the field of
cybersecurity, cloud architecture, and
organizing technical teams.

Jacob DePries

Deputy Chief Security Officer at GitHub

Mark Schwartz is an award-winning CIO

currently working as Enterprise Strategist
at Amazon Web Services, where he
helps senior executives from some of the
world’s largest companies to formulate
strategies and overcome impediments
to succeeding in the digital era. Mark
Schwartz is also an accomplished author,
and his most recent work titled Adaptive
Ethics for Digital Transformation touches
on how the act of digital transformation
requires a change in the moral outlook
and ethical assumptions of a business.
In 2010, Mark Schwartz was named
one of the Premier 100 IT Leaders
Mark Schwartz by Computerworld Magazine for his
contribution in technology leadership,
CIO and Enterprise Strategist at Amazon innovative ideas, and effectively
managing IT strategies.

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 Susan Doniz is the Chief Information
Officer of The Boeing Company and
Senior Vice President of Information
Technology & Data Analytics, where
she leads all aspects of information
technology, information security, data
and analytics. She also supports the
growth of Boeing’s business through
IT and analytics-related revenue-
generating programs. Doniz is a member
of the company’s Executive Council.
Before joining Boeing in 2020, Doniz
was the Group CIO of Qantas Airways,
where she expanded the airline’s digital
ecosystem and adopted new technology
Susan Doniz to support the needs of the business
and its customers. Previously, during a
Chief Information Officer of The Boeing Company 17-year career at Procter & Gamble, she
and Senior Vice President of Information Technology
and Data Analytics led IT and Analytics programs in support
of sales, research and development,
the supply chain, as well as a cross-
functional program to digitize the
company. Doniz also worked at SAP,
where she was a strategic adviser to
the global chief executive officer on
transformation and technology issues in
support of customers, and Aimia.

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Program Outline

Course 1 Courses 4
Cultural Awareness for Global Business Applied Generative AI for Digital
Transformation
• Introduction to Cultural Awareness
• Intercultural Communication: The role of • Embracing the Future
verbal and non-verbal communication • Democratization of Data & AI: The Neural
Network Revolution
• LLMOps
Course 2 • Ethics
Innovative Leadership: Cultivating • Cultivating an AI-Ready culture
Impactful Culture • Speed of Learning
• Building on LLMs and the Future of Jobs
• Why leadership matters in the innovation • The AI-Enabled Economy
process?
• My leadership skills
• Creating and communicating a shared Courses 5
• vision Leadership for the AI Age: Driving
• Analysis of a real project Digital Transformation for Competitive
Advantage
Course 3
Agentic AI for Organizational • The New Era of Digital Transformation
Transformation • Making Sense of Artificial Intelligence
• Thriving in Webs of Connectivity: The
• Foundations of Generative and Agentic AI Internet of Things and Digital Twins
• The Rise of Agentic AI and Emerging • Living and Working with Non-Human
Platforms Collaborators
• Connecting Agents to Digital Ecosystems • Driving Transformational Change
• Agent Risks, Disinformation, and Systemic • Building the Capability to Thrive
Impact • Peeking over the technology horizon
• AI Agents by Business Function • Co-creating the future
• The Last Mile – From Pilot to Practice
• Governance, Compliance, and Agent
Testing
• Strategy Capstone – Leading the Agentic
Future

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Methodology
and Assessment
All the courses included in the Professional Certificate in Digital Transformation take place in
highly collaborative environments, fostered by discussion forums and group activities. In this
practical, results-driven program you will get a hands-on learning experience based on the
case method. Plus, you will acquire skills and tools that you can immediately use to benefit
your organization and your career. Participants will be guided throughout all courses by expert
facilitators who will be on hand to answer any questions and respond to comments.

• Practical activities • Additional resources: Videos and

• Self-assessment recommended readings
• Review activities • Guided group forums
• Live online sessions: By professors • Case applications
and industry experts who will teach
real-life applications and respond to
participants’ questions

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Impact
Project
The Impact Project is a cross-cutting and connect the knowledge acquired in
project that runs throughout the each of the courses and perform, together
Professional Certificate. It is group work, with their working group, a presentation,
which serves as a culminating academic and defense of the proposed solution to
experience. the business challenge posed.

This project is designed for the student to In addition to the above, the project
reflect on the topics covered throughout has several additional objectives
the certificate, make a practical such as enhancing teamwork, verbal
application of such knowledge, integrate, communication skills, research skills,
planning and the ability to solve complex
problems.

Learning
Facilitators
The program will be supported by
Learning Facilitators. These senior
consultants are subject matter experts,
with vast industry experience. They will
be available to answer questions, to probe
to generate deeper discussion, and to
facilitate a collaborative, positive learning
experience via discussion forums and live
video sessions.

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Professional
Development Webinars
Throughout the professional certificate, participants will be able to participate in
professional development webinars with subject matter specialists. Each of these sessions
will last ninety minutes.

The topics to be covered in these sessions are as follows:

Session One Personal Branding

Session Two Communication Skills

Session Three Negotiation skills

Session Four Networking and the headhunter ecosystem

* Sessions may change depending on the availability of the

speaker and MIT Professional Education’s academic portfolio

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Certificate of Completion
All participants who successfully In order to obtain MIT CEUs, participants
complete the Professional Certificate must complete a required MIT CEU
Program in Digital Transformation will confirmation form. MIT CEUs are
receive an MIT Professional Education calculated based on the number of
Certificate of Completion. In addition, learning hours in each course.
they will also earn 31.6 Continuing
Education Units (MIT CEUs*).

The Continuing Education Unit (CEU) is defined as 10 contact hours of ongoing learning to indicate
the amount of time they have devoted to a non-credit/non-degree professional development program.
To understand whether or not these CEUs may be applied toward professional certification, licensing
requirements, or other required training or continuing education hours, please consult your training
department or licensing authority directly.

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Welcome to
the gateway
to MIT knowledge
and expertise for
professionals
around the world.

155
Participants from
155 countries

+1600
More than 1,600
online activities

92%
92% of Professional
Alumni rated
their experience
as outstanding
About MIT MIT Professional Education
fosters the development of
Professional innovative leaders equipped
to address complex problems
Education globally

MIT Professional Education provides MIT Professional Education is central to

continuing education courses and lifelong MIT’s vision. It fulfills the mandate to connect
learning opportunities for science, practitioner-oriented education with industry
engineering, and technology professionals and incorporate industry feedback and
at all levels, from around the world. Worthy knowledge into MIT education and research.
of note is that MIT professors and lecturers
lead and teach all MIT Professional The Institute is committed to generating,
Education offerings. Some of our programs disseminating, and preserving knowledge
have a long history. Others are relatively new. while working with others to apply this
knowledge for the benefit of humankind.
Our Digital Plus Programs go beyond
online, blending innovative content delivered
using the best of online technology and
traditional classroom instruction in a flexible,
collaborative learning environment.

Bhaskar Pant
Executive Director of MIT Professional Education

“MIT Professional Education’s goal is to make education

accessible to everyone everywhere. We welcome
everyone who wants to advance in their career or
grow their business to unite and be part of the MIT
Professional Education all-inclusive community.”

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Corporate
Courses
At MIT Professional Education, we are committed to accompanying organizations as they
aspire to provide their professionals with the ongoing education critical for success in
today’s competitive environment. That’s why we offer plans for companies who wish to
train their professionals with us.

1
Which program Standard Program:
Teams or groups of at least 10 people will
best suits your obtain special conditions in their registration
organization’s for any of our programs.
needs?

2
Custom Programs
Custom-made to meet the specific needs of
each organization and its professionals.

3
Private Cohorts:
Available in Open Enrollment courses with a
minimum of participants.

For more information on our Programs for Organizations,

please contact us at: [email protected]

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The Beyond Online
Methodology
MIT Professional Education is revolutionizing You will have access to one of the most
the digital learning experience. In fact, we innovative e-learning platforms that utilizes
are no longer talking about online-only, the latest technology.You will also have an
but rather an interactive and collaborative opportunity to meet and work with some of
learning experience that’s digitally powered: the world’s leading subject matter experts in
a Beyond Online experience. their respective fields.

With MIT Professional Education, you’ll have an opportunity to:

• Attend select live webinars • Fulfill your reskilling and

with MIT Instructors. upskilling needs in this fast-
changing environment.
• Collaborate and engage
with world-renowned MIT • Master the technical and
Instructors. human skills necessary for
effective leadership.
• Learn from expert learning
facilitators, guest speakers, • Meet and network with other
and subject matter experts program participants from all
from industries. around the world.

• Weekly live webinars from

learning facilitators.

Clara Piloto
Director of Global Programs at MIT Professional Education

“MIT Professional Education’s programs tackle all

the technologies that are at the heart of the digital
transformation, enabling dedicated professionals to meet
new challenges in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and lead
change within their organizations.”

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Benefits of Joining the
Professional Alumni Community
MIT Professional Education offers a number of benefits for
participants who successfully complete our courses:

1
Certificate Award Ceremony at MIT’s Campus in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, where participants will
receive a physical diploma

2
Two years’ access to the virtual campus once the
program is completed.

3 Unlimited news updates.

4 Unlimited access to webinars.

5
20% discount for MIT Professional Education online
programs and short duration in-person programs.

6
Exclusive announcements of new courses, programs,
and events through our virtual Professional Alumni
Campus: Professional Network.

7
Invitation to the MIT Professional Education
Professional Alumni LinkedIn group.

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Networking opportunities with other MIT
Professional Education Professional Alumni.

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In addition to academic facilitator, you’ll be
assigned a coach.

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 Are you ready to
champion digital
transformation in
your organization,
industry, and the
world?
Frequently Asked Questions For more information, please contact us:
+1 (857) 766-8188
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://professionalprograms.mit.edu

MIT Professional Education is collaborating with online education provider Global Alumni to offer a portfolio of online programs.
These programs leverage MIT’s leadership in innovation, science, engineering, and technical disciplines developed over years
of research, teaching, and practice. Global Alumni collaborates with institutions to manage enrollments (including all payment
services and invoicing), technology, and participant support.