Webinar Series: Skillsoft

Free Webinar SeriesSurvival Mechanisms: Leadership Skills for a New World

Brought to you by

Welcome to MIT SMR’s summer webinar series, Survival Mechanisms: Leadership Skills for a New World. Running through early September and moderated by editor in chief Paul Michelman, this current and relevant series equips leaders with the skills they need now to lead in a world changed completely by COVID-19, economic uncertainty, and roiling social issues. The series offers practical guidance and frameworks on leading with empathy, having essential conversations about race in the workplace, sustaining and enriching culture, and coming back from lockdown.

Check back here for registration opportunities throughout the summer, or sign up to get event notifications delivered to your inbox.

Get event notifications sent directly to your inbox.

On Demand

Coming Back From the Coronavirus as a Stronger Organization

Broadcast Sept. 1, 2020

Presenter
George Westerman is a senior lecturer with the MIT Sloan School of Management, principal research scientist for workforce learning in the MIT Jameel World Education Laboratory, and coauthor of the award-winning book Leading Digital: Turning Technology Into Business Transformation, published by Harvard Business Review Press.

Watch the video

BRAVE Conversations About Race

Broadcast August 5, 2020

Presenters
Enrica N. Ruggs is an assistant professor of management and the director of the Center for Workplace Diversity and Inclusion in the Fogelman College of Business and Economics at the University of Memphis. Derek R. Avery is the C.T. Bauer Chair of Inclusive Leadership in the Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston.

Watch the Video

Motivating Your Team With Empathy and Story

Broadcast July 22, 2020

Presenter
Nancy Duarte is the CEO of Duarte, Inc., a large communications firm, and author of six bestselling books. Known as the “Storyteller of the Valley,” Duarte and her firm have served top executives at the highest-performing brands in the world for more than 30 years.

Watch the Video