This powerful foundational module will lay the groundwork for all subsequent modules, as you become more mindful in your life and as a leader. You’ll get access to the most cutting-edge practices in topics such as immunity to change, setting impactful goals, and building a leadership culture. You’ll also learn how your perception informs your reality, and how you can shift that perception to create more impact in both your personal and organizational achievements.

What we will be exploring:

BUSINESS TRACK with Michelle Maldonado  What Does It Mean to Be a Mindful Leader?

INNER-WORK TRACK with Jack Kornfield, PhD  Introducing Mindfulness Daily at Work

CEO/LUMINARY TRACK  Interview with Stewart Butterfield

GOING DEEPER with Amishi Jha, PhD  Attention and Emotion Regulation

We spend a lot of time in business learning how to manage other people. But what about managing ourselves? Self-management skills can be learned by anyone who puts in the time. They help you stay composed, centered, and on purpose, while reducing conflict and misdirected energy. We’ll explore this topic from a mindfulness perspective, as well as the latest findings in neuroscience and how the brain reacts to stress.

What we will be exploring:

BUSINESS TRACK with Jeremy Hunter, PhD  Managing Your Nervus System Is Managing Yourself

INNER-WORK TRACK with Tara Brac, PhD  Meeting Challenges for Personal and Professional Growth

CEO/LUMINARY TRACK  Interview with Melissa Bernstein

GOING DEEPER with Lisa Lahey, EdD  Uncovering Your Immunity to Change

For many cutting-edge companies, EQ is becoming more important than IQ. This challenges the decades-old belief system that tells us to leave our emotions at home. Instead, we’re invited to explore emotions effectively in a work context. The many benefits of emotional intelligence at work include faster conflict resolution and more inclusive and empathetic discussions where everybody feels heard. This naturally leads to more cooperative, creative, and productive teams. Here, we will start to employ strategies and tools to amplify our capacity for emotional intelligence. 

What we will be exploring:

BUSINESS TRACK with Dan Goleman  The Competencies of Emotional Intelligence: Empathy and Relationship Management

INNER-WORK TRACK with Richard Strozzi-Heckler, PhD  Learning Happens in the Body

CEO/LUMINARY TRACK  Interview with Steve Macadam

GOING DEEPER with Lisa Lahey, EdD  “My Personal Life Is None of My Business”

Special LIVE Workshop with Tami Simon  Embracing Our Emotions at Work

In order to stay authentically connected with people at work, we need to develop the skill of engaging in difficult conversations. While uncomfortable, having difficult conversations in a skillful way can release pent-up energy in teams and create clarity, ease, flow, and genuine connection at work. Learning how to prepare for and deliver difficult information with skill and grace is one of the hallmarks of a conscious leader.

What we will be exploring:

BUSINESS TRACK with Jacqueline Carter  The Limitations of Empathy

INNER-WORK TRACK with Shauna Shapiro, PhD  Self-Compassion and the Brain 

CEO/LUMINARY TRACK  Interview with Lorna Davis

GOING DEEPER with Scott Shute  Listening in Difficult Conversations

Special LIVE Workshop with Lisa Lahey, EdD  The ITC Road Map Clinic

The power of Module 5 is that here we create intentional environments where there is an energized flow in the work, environments in which people feel valued and seen, and distinct leadership styles that support the outcomes we seek for our teams. Here, we discover our own collaborative style in pursuit of building cultures of collaboration and kindness. This module truly holds the keys to the impact of the Inner MBA program. 

What we will be exploring:

BUSINESS TRACK with Lex Sisney  Organizational Physics: Keys to Collaboration

INNER-WORK TRACK with Sharon Salzberg  Lovingkindness 

CEO/LUMINARY TRACK  Interview with Ari Weinzweig

Empowering conversation and action to activate inclusion and invite diversity, building teams that reflect the values of our organizations, and acknowledging differences in perspective, history, culture, and socioeconomics requires awareness of the complexities of bias, racism, resistance to change, and the importance of self-awareness and care as we engage with others across what sometimes seems a great divide. The lessons here invite discourse and pursue a human approach to healing what separates us.

What we will be exploring:

BUSINESS TRACK with Dr. Tiffany Jana  Healing Racism

INNER-WORK TRACK with Melissa Carter and Yael Shy  Self-Care and Inclusion 

CEO/LUMINARY TRACK  Interview with Chip Conley

GOING DEEPER with Lisa Lahey, EdD  Testing Your Big Assumptions

Special LIVE Workshop with Melissa Carter  Self-Care as a Path to Inclusion

How do we manifest the changes we are experiencing, the knowledge we are gaining as leaders, in order that the members of our organizations can benefit from our learning, thereby becoming transformative leaders themselves? Here, we explore the value of and impact on the workplace of authenticity, realness, groundedness, being, and above all, courage in revealing ourselves to those with whom we engage. 

What we will be exploring:

BUSINESS TRACK with Steve Macadam  Building Authentic Community

INNER-WORK TRACK with Rhonda Magee  Cultivating the Capacity for Courageous Business & Community

CEO/LUMINARY TRACK  Interview with Bracken Darrell

GOING DEEPER with Scott Shute  Working with Your Inner Critic

In our lifetimes, we have not had such a time of disruption as we are now experiencing. Leaders must engage as humans with their colleagues, and with the communities their organizations serve, with curiosity, courage, and flexibility. Leaders must garner awareness of their own capacity for resilience and response to change, and build the strategies that will carry their organizations through these most challenging times. 

What we will be exploring:

BUSINESS TRACK with Otto Scharmer, PhD  Leading in Times of Disruption

INNER-WORK TRACK with Caroline Myss  What We Need to Know in This Time of Transformation

CEO/LUMINARY TRACK  Interview to be confirmed

GOING DEEPER with Jeremy Hunter, PhD  How Are You Dealing with Change?

The core faculty members of the Inner MBA program gather in this final module of the program to provide scaffolding, support, and confidence to take the deep learning of this program into the world and make change. There is great power in recounting all that has been gained, as well as excitement in discovering the strategies for making it all happen. There is celebration and acknowledgment of how far we have come together. 

What we will be exploring:

BUSINESS TRACK with Ruchika Sikri  The Four Essential Pillars of Carrying Your Vision Forward

INNER-WORK TRACK with Scott Shute  Are You a Mystic?

GOING DEEPER with Jeremy Hunter, PhD  Change You Are Ready to Make

INNER-WORK TRACK with Lisa Lahey, EdD  Your ITC Is Iterative, Stay with It

Special LIVE Workshop with Melissa Carter  Embodying Change