Ph.D. in Leadership

The Ph.D. in Leadership is a 3-year, interdisciplinary studies degree that aims to prepare students for high-level careers in leadership and service across a range of professional sectors. Our goal is to equip professionals to pursue challenging, high-level responsibilities requiring advanced knowledge, training and rigor, and to do so with the highest levels of integrity, ethical understanding and behavior.

Choose from two concentration pathways:

Policy
Students focus on developing understanding of public policy theory, research and practice. The curriculum develops knowledge and skills of how public policy is conceptualized, developed, adopted and implemented, how to analyze policy issues, develop evidence-based solutions and contribute to the field through relevant and original research.

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Strategic Innovation
Students focus on developing knowledge and skills of strategic planning, entrepreneurship, innovation, change, conflict, organizational turnaround, strategic advocacy, proposal writing and how to produce relevant and original research. The curriculum explores how organizations and communities imagine, conceptualize, analyze, resource and implement innovative solutions to organizational and social problems, while exploring the role of emerging technologies.