New offering brings ExecOnline leadership development to life through immersive, real-world practice
NEW YORK and SAN FRANCISCO — September 18, 2026 — ExecOnline, the leadership development platform co-created with the world’s premier business schools, today announced a partnership with Mursion, whose immersive simulation technology is used by more than a third of the Fortune 100. The partnership pairs ExecOnline’s faculty-led programs with Mursion’s live and on-demand simulations, giving enterprise leaders a place to practice the skills their programs teach.
Leadership development often leaves a gap between insight and application. Leaders finish a program understanding how to give difficult feedback or lead a team through change, then face the real conversation with no rehearsal. ExecOnline’s proprietary methodology, Learning by Doing with Impact, already asks leaders to apply their learning to a live business challenge. Mursion adds the missing step: a realistic, low-stakes environment to practice the human moments before they happen.
Under the partnership, ExecOnline clients can add Mursion simulations to program journeys, anchored to ExecOnline’s faculty-led courses. Mursion clients will be able to cleanly integrate ExecOnline’s catalog of 150+ certificate courses, its global ICF-accredited coach network, and the cohort experiences that turn individual learning into team-level performance.
“We tie leadership development to organizational performance, not learning for its own sake,” said Fletcher Jones, Chief Executive Officer of ExecOnline. “Practice is where that connection gets made. A leader who has rehearsed a hard conversation ten times in simulation walks into the real one differently. Mursion gives our clients that repetition at scale.”
“Our clients know the value of practice — they’ve completed more than 20 million minutes of it on our platform,” said Mark Atkinson, Chief Executive Officer of Mursion. “What they ask us for next is the larger structure around it. ExecOnline builds exactly that. Together we can show a client where practice fits in the broader scheme of learning, which is a question the market has not answered well.”
The companies will host a joint webinar on September 23, 2026, introducing the combined offering to clients and prospects of both organizations. Click here to register for the webinar.
About ExecOnline
ExecOnline connects leaders’ growth to organizational performance at scale. Programs are co-created with the world’s premier business schools including, among others, Berkeley Haas, Columbia Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and IMD Business School. ExecOnline has developed more than 200,000 leaders worldwide and offers 150+ certificate courses, a 100% ICF-accredited coach network spanning 12 time zones and 14 languages, and team based experiences that drive behavior change and AI adoption. Learn more at execonline.com.
About Mursion
Mursion is an award-winning upskilling platform that combines AI + human insight to let leaders practice real-world interactive scenarios, get personalized feedback, and build the skills that make workplace interactions smoother, smarter, and more impactful. More than a third of the Fortune 100 companies use Mursion to develop leaders. Learners have completed over 20 million minutes of practice, rating sessions 91 for relevance and authenticity. Learn more at mursion.com