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A Conversation with EY Entrepreneur of the Year, Stephen Bailey
It isn’t just anyone who can run an organization that has an impact on tens of thousands of leaders in over 100 countries, but ExecOnLine co-founder Stephen Bailey is that person. Prompted by a sense that access to high-quality online education could unleash career breakthroughs for diverse talents, the fast-growing company is a leader in its category.
The online executive education revolution
It was about 10 years ago that I was invited to participate in a partnership between Columbia Executive Education and ExecOnline. Though the idea of online education wasn’t new, the people at ExecOnLine seemed to have cracked many of its traditional problems. These include lack of engagement, boring course design, the inability to do the rich networking that takes place in traditional executive education programs and lack of choice and flexibility in the selection of faculty. These are all reasons why the promise of MOOC’s have proven so disappointing.
Today, ExecOnline is a force to be reckoned with, a pioneer in the world of on-line executive education with…
