Other MIT Sloan Offices and their Relationship with Student Organizations

Ways your club can get involved:

• Establish an online presence where we can direct prospects to learn more about your club (i.e., a website addressing FAQs from prospective applicants is a great way to share more about your club and minimize email back and forth)
• Host an online event (i.e., moderated panel about your club, conference, or other activity)
• Respond to inquiries from prospective Sloanies
• AdMIT outreach - phone calls, emails, and possible videos
• Content: Share videos, photos, social media posts, etc. about your clubs and conferences so we can share with prospective applicants through our social media and marketing channels. Use #MyMITSloan on social media
• Designate club admissions liaisons to be point persons for prospects and admissions team
• Encourage club members to sign up for individual admissions opportunities to ensure presence in front of prospective applicants (class visits, interview lunches, coffee chats, info sessions)
• We're open to other ideas. Let us know how you'd like to collaborate!

Our leadership approach

The MIT Leadership Center (MIT LC) is dedicated to helping individuals, teams, and organizations develop the skills they need to create positive systemic change. This requires comfort and capability to navigate both analytical and social complexity—the hard skills and the harder skills.

We view leadership as a process of surfacing and solving problems that won't otherwise be handled in an existing system. MIT LC leaders are people who can systemically unlock human potential to address complex challenges from anyplace within a system. Our understanding is not tied to a specific position or role; it doesn’t have a C-suite analogue. This type of leadership involves deep self-awareness and self-acceptance, compassion, curiosity about others, and humility. These skills are foundational to ensuring constructive conflict in diverse settings to tackle today’s challenges.

At core, MIT LC Leadership development fosters a learnable set of skills required to realize innovative change. Our approach recognizes that leadership development is a personal, non-linear journey, but it's not something you do alone. It is a social process that starts with the individual’s ability to lead themselves. This is where we meet students to foster their leadership development journeys.

MIT LC has a teaching-focused mission. Through courses, workshops, events, and experiential learning opportunities, we challenge students to grow as leaders and apply their skills in real-world settings. Our unique approach combines practice, research-informed classroom learning, and personalized leadership coaching to deliver powerful learning experiences.

How we can foster your club’s leadership development efforts

The Center connects with clubs focused on student leadership development. We are glad to:

• Be a sounding board to help develop club objectives and initiatives

• Amplify your message by getting the word out about your club and its activities to current and prospective students

• Collaborate by exploring a role as a cohost of a special event, e.g., guest speaker

• Be curious and receptive to your new ideas and proposals for club-based, leadership development opportunities

The OC works with student clubs and organizations on events and conferences by:

• Producing and distributing Ideas Made to Matter content and the Thinking Forward newsletter. Managing the school's primary social media accounts. Email Thinking Forward with information about your event.
• Conducting proactive outreach to highlight stories about MIT Sloan, faculty, and students in the media. Advising on promotion of student events to media. Review inviting media to attend your event, and responding to media inquiries or interest. Contact the OC if media has reached out to you about your event. Displaying your event on digital signage, providing event branding and templates and visual guidelines. Partnering on brand guidelines and approval of student club logos and branded merchandise. Please use the Student Life Office checklist for promoting your event.

Guidelines / Questions to Consider:

• What are your goals for the event? Who are your audiences, and who do you want to reach? Do you want to increase attendance? Or do you wish to spotlight certain students or a guest speaker? Your goals will shape your resulting promotion.
• Are your guest speakers or collaborating organizations willing to speak with media? Do they want to publicize the event or plan to independently? MIT has use of name guidelines that you should review with all sponsors and collaborators.
• Developing an effective promotional campaign takes time. Please do not hesitate to contact the OC early in your planning process and ASAP when you have set your event date.