Master of Arts
in Organizational Leadership

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.

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.

This course delves into the foundational concepts of strategic management through the lens of Peter Drucker’s “Theory of the Business.” Students will explore Drucker’s insights on the purpose of business, strategic planning, and the formulation of mission, vision, objectives, and strategies. The curriculum covers analytical models for evaluating external environments and competitive positions, while emphasizing practical applications of Drucker’s management theories. By the end of the course, students will be equipped to develop and implement effective business strategies, utilizing self-assessment tools and Drucker’s Five Most Important Questions framework.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This course explores the art and science of leading people in organizations through Peter Drucker’s perspectives on performance, responsibility, trust, integrity, and intrinsic motivation, synthesizing timeless California Institute of Advanced Management wisdom into leadership blueprints that instill productivity, meaning, adaptability, and consciousness across institutions. Students integrate Drucker principles like understanding followers, focusing everyone on strengths, earning credibility through consistency between words and actions, removing obstacles to bring out the best in people, and appealing to internal drives for pride and contribution versus carrots and sticks to equip new generations addressing complex challenges.

The culmination of the coursework for the degree program, this capstone course integrates several aspects of management as a liberal art, engaging with Peter Drucker’s readings and applying Drucker’s timeless wisdom to allow students to demonstrate their growth as reflective critical thinkers and future-oriented leaders. Exploring self-awareness, critical and systems thinking, moral reasoning, creativity, innovation, and the growth of people, participants learn to pursue effectiveness and competence in tandem with personal fulfillment and community contribution. Students synthesize learnings across management and leadership disciplines while expanding intellectual frameworks and ethical sensibilities to envisage sustainable, socially conscious organizations. Centering on Drucker principles to spur personal leadership development and growth amidst disruption, the course deliverables include literature reviews, case analyses, in-depth research, reflective essays, strategic plan development, textual discussions, and a final integrative project that strategically applies liberal arts-based management while focusing on addressing a real-life organizational challenge.