Leading organizations on a global scale require a keen and nuanced understanding of differences in culture, values and ethics when striving to meld organizations from around the world.

Designed and taught by a dedicated team of management professionals and academics, the DM with a concentration in Global Leadership has been designed to encourage the professional development of managers through mentoring, action research, and practical projects, helping them to make key leadership contributions in their area of expertise. You will be challenged to project a plan for successful worldwide organizations.

Courses in our project-based Professional Learning Model™ are taught in an executive format and delivered online. Twice each year, students attend an intensive residential symposium lasting four and a half days.

The DM with a concentration in Global Leadership is a three-year program that challenges students to project a plan for successful world-wide organizations in this dynamic global environment and beyond.

• Year 1: The Foundations
  The beginning of the program focuses on research. Each student can spend the first year learning about classic and current management literature and developing competence in research methods. A review of the literature will be completed and work will begin on an action research proposal.
• Year 2: Acquisition of Knowledge
  Once the foundation is in place, year two is the time the student chooses an area of concentration and begins to form a personal understanding of the management research and methods used in that area. Course work can focus on the concentration area: Global Leadership.
• Year 3: Leadership and Professional Advancement
  In the final year, leadership skills and the ability to manage change are developed. Students can use qualitative methods and strategic processes to be able to predict future trends, furthering a mastery of a concentration. The final year will result in the production of a series of articles or a dissertation that must be approved by a three-member committee.

Successful completion of the DM with a concentration in Global Leadership can provide students with an applicable foundation of industry-related knowledge and skills, including how to:

• Attain familiarity with the body of knowledge in current management theory.
• Become a subject-matter expert in a specialized area of management.
• Develop a leadership style based on ethical and philosophical consideration.
• Effectively manage change through strategic design and research.
• Predict future trends through effective research and qualitative methods.
• Contribute to management literature via literature reviews, practitioner articles and research.
• Investigate the strategic, social and financial implications of global leadership.
• Critically evaluate, analyze and solve problems within global leadership.

The concentration in Global Leadership provides the student with an opportunity to learn in-depth knowledge of management theories, and the background to participate in global organizations. For example:

• In The Influence of Culture on Global Organizations, students can develop an understanding of the moral dilemmas and behavioral choices and challenges in melding these in organizations from around the world.
• In Strategic Thinking in Global Organizations, the course can develop the capacity for concurrent action and ‘birds-eye’ perspectives of ongoing organizational activity by studying various typologies and methods of exploration and an examination of heuristics and biases.
• In Futuring and Innovation for Global Leadership, students can develop a socio-technology plan and as they look at formal models of innovation and diffusion of innovation. They can also have the opportunity to talk with futurists and futures organizations, becoming involved in the World Futures Society and tech trending with leading electronics and aerospace companies.

Additional concentration courses in this program include:

• Global Leadership and Trans-organizations
• Advanced Action Research
• Special Topics in Global Leadership

The Doctor of Management program includes twelve 5-credit instructional courses, taken one per quarter for three years*, plus a research-and-writing class taken each quarter. Each class is conducted online. Twice each year, students attend an intensive residential symposium lasting four and a half days. Core courses include:

• Fundamentals of Management
• Research and Writing I
• Research Methods and Design
• Research and Writing II
• Qualitative and Ethnographic Methods
• R&W III: Action Research Theory
• Quantitative Methods
• R&W IV: The Practice of Action Research
• R&W V: Process Consulting & Intervention Theory
• R&W VI: The Practice of Process Consulting & Intervention
• Research and Writing VII
• Research and Writing VIII
• Philosophy of Science, Values, and Ethics
• Research and Writing IX
• Leadership
• Research and Writing X
• Research and Writing XI
• Research and Writing XII

Successful completion of this program also requires students to communicate your research results and prepare them for publication. Students can have the option to complete a dissertation, or a number of publishable-quality papers.

*Program length may vary.