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The Inner MBA Curriculum

The Inner MBA consists of nine modules—you and your fellow students will focus on one module per month for the nine-month duration of the program. 

We understand that life can get busy, plus we have students in different time zones across the United States and the world. This is why we’ve designed the program to include both self-paced and live components.

I am beyond impressed with the quality of our faculty. The best leadership course I have ever studied.

Mona Elsamahy

TRIMESTER 1

BECOMING A MINDFUL LEADER

During this very first virtual gathering with Inner MBA faculty and students, we will focus on what you can expect in the program and intention setting to create a solid pathway for your success throughout the program. You’ll also meet with your Inner MBA small group, who will be by your side on this journey.

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

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

INNER-WORK TRACK

Introducing Mindfulness Daily at Work
with Jack Kornfield, PhD

CEO/LUMINARY TRACK

Interview
with Jerry Colonna, CEO of Reboot

MINDFULNESS DAILY AT WORK 

Meditation Series
with Jack Kornfield, PhD
and Tara Brach, PhD

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

Managing Your Nervous System Is Managing Yourself
with Jeremy Hunter, PhD

INNER-WORK TRACK

Meeting Challenges for Personal and Professional Growth
with Tara Brach, PhD

CEO/LUMINARY TRACK

Interview
with Melissa Bernstein, CEO of Melissa & Doug, CEO of Lifelines

GOING DEEPER

Uncovering Your Immunity to Change
with Lisa Lahey, EdD

MINDFULNESS DAILY AT WORK

Meditation Series
with Jack Kornfield, PhD & Tara Brach, PhD

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

The Competencies of Emotional Intelligence in Life and in Work: Empathy and Relationship Management in an Ever Changing, Volatile World
with Belinda Chiu

INNER-WORK TRACK

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

CEO/LUMINARY TRACK

Interview
with JeVon McCormick, CEO of Scribe Media

GOING DEEPER

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

Special LIVE Workshop

Embracing Our Emotions at Work
with Tami Simon

MINDFULNESS DAILY AT WORK

Meditation Series
with Jack Kornfield, PhD & Tara Brach, PhD

TRIMESTER 2

BUILDING EXCEPTIONAL TEAMS

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 to 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

The Limitations of Empathy
with Jacqueline Carter

INNER-WORK TRACK

Self-Compassion and the Brain
with Shauna Shapiro, PhD

CEO/LUMINARY TRACK

Interview
with Lorna Davis

GOING DEEPER

Listening in Difficult Conversations
with Scott Shute

Special LIVE Workshop

The ITC Road Map Clinic
with Lisa Lahey, EdD

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

Organizational Physics: Keys to Collaboration
with Lex Sisney

INNER-WORK TRACK

Lovingkindness
with Sharon Salzberg

CEO/LUMINARY TRACK

Interview
with Ari Weinzweig, Author and CEO of Zingerman’s Community of Business

with Tami Simon, Nataly Kogan, and Tony Schwartz

Building on your now solid foundation of mindfulness and awareness, during this event, two expert former corporate leaders, executive coaches, speakers and authors–Nataly Kogan and Tony Schwartz–will guide you through how to maximize your personal leadership and life potential.

 

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

Healing Racism
with Dr. Tiffany Jana

INNER-WORK TRACK

Embracing Differences with Compassions
with Scott Shute

GOING DEEPER

Testing Your Big Assumptions
with Lisa Lahey, EdD

TRIMESTER 3

MAKING YOUR WORK A FORCE FOR GOOD

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

Building Authentic Community
with Steve Macadam

INNER-WORK TRACK

Cultivating the Capacity for Courageous Business & Community
with Rhonda Magee

GOING DEEPER

Working with Your Inner Critic
with Scott Shute

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

Leading in Times of Disruption with Otto Scharmer, PhD

INNER-WORK TRACK

What We Need to Know in This Time of Transformation with Caroline Myss

CEO/LUMINARY TRACK

Interview with Bracken Darell

GOING DEEPER

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

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

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

INNER-WORK TRACK

Are You a Mystic? with Scott Shute

CEO/LUMINARY TRACK

Interview with Chip Conley

GOING DEEPER

Change You Are Ready to Make with Jeremy Hunter, PhD

INNER-WORK TRACK

Your ITC Is Iterative, Stay with It with Lisa Lahey, EdD

SPECIAL LIVE WORKSHOP

Practicing Gratitude on the Journey with Nataly Kogan

At this final live, virtual gathering with your Inner MBA faculty and community, we will focus on grounding your newfound inner wisdom into your current reality, and the changes you feel inspired to make in your work and life. We will also explore what it means for you to graduate as a transformational leader—someone who brings out the best in others and your organization.

This program has allowed me to integrate contemplative language in the context of business structure and ethos. On a more personal level, the opportunity to fine tune my own “personal declaration” has been inspiring to me.

Mitchell Kurker

PLUS Receive these Four Conscious Business
Accelerator Workshops

Deep-Dive Trainings to Expand Your Skills and Capacities
Accelerator Workshop #1

Conscious Marketing & Sales: Value and Meaning Creation

with Richard Taubinger
CEO, Conscious Marketer, and Digital Marketing Strategist

Richard will cover the fundamental principles of applying a conscious marketing approach for increased personal and organizational success and to create unique positioning in the marketplace.

Accelerator Workshop #2

Conscious Negotiation: Winning from Within

with Erica Ariel Fox, PhD
NY Times Best Selling Author, Harvard Law School Lecturer, and Creator of VoyagerWork

Erica will instruct on the art of mindfully applying conscious negotiation to enhance personal and professional success. Erica will also offer an hour of Live Q&A in the final week of the module.

Accelerator Workshop #3

Conscious Finance 101: Aligning Your Money & Values

with Jenny Kassan

Attorney & Advisor for Mission-Driven Enterprises, President of Community Ventures, Co-Founder of the Force for Good Fund, Certified Coach, and Author

Jenny will offer a 3-part Business Accelerator course focusing on Conscious Finance. She will cover how finance plays a role in an organization and how this role can make a positive impact not only on organizational success but on stakeholders and consumers.

Accelerator Workshop #4

Leadership Matters: How B Corps Reevaluate Business Success

with Bart Houlahan

Co-Founder of B Lab, and Leader of Conscious Capitalism

Bart will present on his business journey and how it resulted in the formation of B Corp. Regardless of whether they choose to become a B Corp, Bart will explain how the B Corp movement provides learners with a guide to transform their leadership and business mindset for organizational success.

I am a physician and I didn’t get to learn anything at all about business or marketing in medical school, residency, or even in post graduation. Inner MBA has been a fantastic opportunity for me to learn about conscious marketing and to grow as a mindful leader.

Pramodini Gosukonda

Closing Commencement Event

Online Training Immersion

May 2022

Our closing commencement event is all about grounding your newfound inner wisdom into your current reality, and the changes you feel inspired to make in your work and life. We will explore what it means for you to graduate as a transformational leader—someone who brings out the best in others and your organization.

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We are taking the health of all Inner MBA enrollees very seriously. We’ve made a few additional options available in your enrollment process.

If you are uncertain about traveling to the in-person immersion events in September 2020 and April 2021, you may now enroll for the Virtual Only Program, and then upgrade later to the In-Person Immersion Events & Virtual Program if you become more comfortable with travel.

Alternately, if you’d like to enroll in the In-Person Immersion Events & Virtual Program, you can downgrade to the Virtual Only option if you need to due to travel conditions.

To support anyone experiencing financial hardship during this time, we have opened up several more scholarships than we initially planned to, to make sure no student who wants to attend is turned away for financial reasons.