The Innovative Technology Leader

Explore the intersection of innovation, technology, and business, and learn to drive strategic change across your organization.

Apply By May 29, 2026

Start Date June 21, 2026

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: $16,000$16,000

Format
In-Person
Duration
One Week
Starts on
June 21, 2026
Price
$16,000$16,000

Powerful tools for today’s technology leaders.

Strategy. Innovation. Leadership. Today’s technology leaders need skills in all three areas. With change as a constant, the key to success is learning how to keep pace on a global scale, to innovate, and to nurture and develop value-creating ideas across your organization. Over the course of one week, you’ll learn how to anticipate and respond to the complex and rapidly changing issues in the world of information technology. Experience design thinking as you apply this human-centered, prototype-driven process to your own business practice and personal leadership style.

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Key Benefits

  • Acquire data, tools, and techniques to drive change and leverage technology across your organization.
  • Explore how current technology trends in cloud computing, mobile devices, social media tools, and other areas are driving global growth.
  • Leverage technology changes for competitive advantage in an uncertain future.
  • Observe and understand the needs of users and customers through design thinking principles.
  • Strategize about how to create a culture to support innovation.
  • Recognize ways to build personal power and influence in your organization.
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Who Should Attend?

  • Senior-level technology executives with at least 10 to 15 years of management experience
  • Executives with responsibility for building and deploying technology to serve their enterprises
  • Examples of appropriate titles: chief information officer, chief technology officer, chief marketing officer, vice president of information technology, and vice president of product development
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Learning in Action

The program gave me clarity about what it takes to be an innovator and a successful change agent.

Justyna Bak

Head of Product Marketing for Data and AI Cloud

Google

Meet the Faculty Leadership

This program is developed by Baba Shiv and taught by a team of tenured, strategically focused, cross-disciplinary faculty who are experts in their fields. Together, they bring cutting-edge research, thought leadership, and experiential learning to your program experience.

Baba Shiv

The Sanwa Bank, Limited, Professor of Marketing

Director, The Innovative Technology Leader

Earn Your Certificate

Upon successful completion of The Innovative Technology Leader, you will be awarded a Certificate of Completion in recognition of your achievement and the investment you have made in your education and professional development.

Applications due May 29, 2026

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