Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership

3.0 Semester Credits

Scholars have framed leadership using different approaches to understand what makes leaders great, inspirational, and effective people. The focus of all these different leadership approaches has been to discover and explain leadership profiles including characteristics, behaviors, situations and conversely, the followers’ conditions which produce an effective and positive impact over organizations. Students will explore different theories and approaches to gain an understanding about leadership foundations. The course will also address the seven habits of effectiveness and leadership perspectives. Finally, students will evaluate their own leadership behaviors, while developing individual experiential learning projects where each student can execute and increase their leadership competencies.

3.0 Semester Credits

This course explores self-management, leadership development, and purposeful contribution across extended careers, engaging deeply with Peter Drucker's wisdom on knowing your strengths, values, and passions, taking responsibility, continuously learning, focusing on opportunities, and managing time and energy amid complexity. Bridging personal growth, professional excellence, and social impact, students synthesize Drucker's insights to create personal leadership blueprints grounded in moral foundations and aligned to their temperaments, aspirations, and society's needs. The course deliverables center on selfassessments, career planning, reflective essays, case analyses, and a final project to design a futureoriented ethical endeavor to develop knowledge workers and executives as self-aware, adaptable, lifelong learners who make meaningful differences through their unique gifts.

3.0 Semester Credits

Applying Peter Drucker’s concept of management as a liberal art encompassing self-knowledge, wisdom,and leadership, this course explores foundational character virtues and emotional/social aptitudes for values-driven leadership, including integrity, vulnerability, humility, and compassion that orient leaders to dignity and growth; participants assess contexts, balance change and continuity and model behaviors awakening institutional possibility via participative, ethical frames while equipping adaptive skills and systemic orientation for learning-centered journeys grounded in moral meaning; students understand the importance of continually developing self-awareness, regulation, social awareness, and relatability to lead as empowering servants fostering human fulfillment.

3.0 Semester Credits

This graduate practicum integrates Peter Drucker’s leadership philosophy with liberal arts perspectives, offering students an immersive, hands-on experience in addressing complex organizational and societal challenges. Guided by Drucker’s principles of ethical responsibility, results driven management, and a human-centered approach to leadership, students engage in real-world projects and collaborative team exercises that draw on diverse lenses from history, literature, philosophy, and the arts. Through reflective analysis and iterative feedback, students refine their adaptive leadership skills, critical thinking, and empathy. Emphasizing practical application, this course prepares students to lead with both strategic insight and cultural awareness, effectively managing change in dynamic, real-world environments.

3.0 Semester Credits

This course profoundly explores management's art, science, and philosophy through the engaged scholarship of Peter Drucker's perspectives encompassing the social and liberal art dimensions of leading institutions amidst complexity. Students synthesize Drucker's wisdom spanning organizational purpose and ethics, decision making, productivity, leadership development, and humanistic psychology to evaluate and redesign entities for empowerment, adaptation, and conscious evolution. The course deliverables center on literature reviews, case analyses, and project plans applying timeless principles to imagine more humane yet highly effective enterprises, to develop reflective executives committed to exemplary stewardship, enlightened follower development, and leaving healthy legacies advancing lives.

3.0 Semester credits

This course explores optimizing enterprise performance and productivity through engaged analysis of Peter Drucker’s management principles spotlighting economic contribution, opportunities over problems, abandoning yesterday to create tomorrow, concentrating on strengths and results, and responsible decisions leveraging financials, competencies, and social outcomes. Students diagnose complex organizational contexts via lenses of efficiency, effectiveness, and ethics to architect transformations focused on value creation, knowledge-worker engagement, and continuous improvement. Course deliverables center on case evaluations, literature reviews, and final projects to redesign an existing entity’s operational blueprint guided by Drucker's wisdom to develop purposeful, socially conscious institutions where empowered teams find meaning while responsibly advancing industries, communities, and lives.

3.0 Semester credits

This course explores innovation and entrepreneurship as the key drivers of change, progress, and economic growth, with students engaging deeply with Peter Drucker’s perspectives to understand how purposeful innovation, entrepreneurial management, strategies, and mindsets enable creating and capturing value from change. The course synthesizes Drucker’s interdisciplinary approach to innovation as a discipline and social ecology with contemporary entrepreneurial leadership principles, equipping innovators to hunt for opportunities systematically, realize ambitious goals through agile execution, empower knowledge-based teams, and lead sustainable change within organizations and society. Students gain practical entrepreneurial toolkits while expanding their capacities to envisage, architect, and responsibly steward systemic shifts that uplift industries, communities, and lives.

Applying Peter Drucker’s concept of management as a liberal art encompassing systems thinking, ethical reasoning and uplifting human dignity, this course explores organizational development through multiple frames to identify performance gaps and transformation opportunities, evaluates Druckerian insights on empowerment, community benefit and abandoning yesterday to formulate interventions and metrics spanning structural, political, human and cultural dimensions, adopts a social ecologist orientation for students to diagnose contexts, architect development plans embedded with autonomy, creativity and meaningful uplift of teams while equipping an adaptive skillset to foster agility, resilience and cultures of perpetual improvement grounded in moral foundations and liberating organizational members’ energies and passions.

This capstone course explores management as a liberal art through engagement with Peter Drucker’s readings, applying timeless wisdom to develop students as reflective executives and future-oriented leaders. Exploring self awareness, critical and systems thinking, moral reasoning, creativity, innovation and the cultivation of people, participants learn to pursue efficiency and competence in tandem with personal fulfillment, community contribution and addressing society’s major challenges. Students synthesize learnings across management disciplines while expanding intellectual frameworks and ethical sensibilities to envisage sustainable, socially conscious organizations. Centering Drucker principles to spur personal leadership development and inquire into deeper purpose and possibilities amidst disruption, course deliverables include reflective essays, case analyses, textual discussions, and an integrative project to design an ethical enterprise applying liberal arts-based management.