ABOUT NOT AN MBA
An eight-week accelerated executive education programme to develop strategic leaders for the new world of work.
MBAs are long, boring and expensive. Not An MBA teaches you the five key skills of strategic leadership, without all the bore and burnout.
- Comprehensive self-led video curriculum replaces dull reading material
- Interactive online learning sprints replaces boring lectures
- Practical weekly assignments replace pointless essays.
“In this moment, we need leaders more than ever. But as Alicia McKay helps us understand, waiting two years for a piece of paper isn’t required to make a difference. Start where you are and start now.”
- Seth Godin
Founder of alt MBA, best-selling author of 'Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us'
Learning Approach
Not an MBA is quite different from other executive education programmes. All things point to action, with lots of space for discussion and debate amongst your community.
We structure our programmes to inspire curiosity, challenge and creativity and ask our students to do rather than memorise.
There's no such thing as a stupid idea at naMBA, and we learn as much from each other as we do from the course content.
Expert Leadership
Curriculum
The Not An MBA curriculum is based on the five modules of strategic leadership outlined in You Don't Need An MBA: Leadership Lessons that Cut Through the Crap. This is required reading for the course.
Students work through each modules across eight sprints, guided by a series of short, thought-provoking videos featuring Alicia McKay.
Key curriculum areas include:
- Channelling perspective in times of change
- Making strategic decisions
- Setting boundaries around time and energy
- Thinking in systems to solve problems
- Engaging others in change
- Building influence in the workplace.
