Organizational Leadership

This course introduces students to what it means to lead with a development approach, beginning with self-awareness and growth. Students explore classic and contemporary leadership theories, examine how emotional intelligence influences leadership, and reflect on their own leadership identity. It focuses on how personal development contributes to leadership effectiveness.

This course examines how individuals, teams, and organizations behave and how leaders shape culture and outcomes. Students study motivation, power dynamics, group behavior, and organizational culture. They learn how to foster workplaces that encourage learning, adaptability, and engagement.

This course introduces students to systems thinking and innovation frameworks essential for navigating complexity in modern organizations. Students will explore the dynamics of systems, feedback loops, leverage points, and design thinking as tools that enable innovation. Emphasis is placed on the role of leaders in fostering curiosity, cross-boundary collaboration, and adaptive experimentation within complex and evolving systems.

This course prepares students to lead with insight by applying research, organizational data, and stakeholder feedback to decision-making. Students learn to evaluate evidence, measure what matters, and communicate findings to improve organizational performance. Topics include performance metrics, decision-making biases, and how leaders build cultures of learning and accountability.

This course explores how leaders navigate diverse environments, including multicultural teams, generational differences, gender dynamics, and varied thinking styles. Students gain tools to foster inclusion, equity, and belonging while managing the complexity that diversity brings to leadership practice.

This course emphasizes the role of communication in effective leadership, along with the study of the nature and function of communication within the organization. Students will analyze communication strategies, explore approaches and theories of organizational communication and leadership, and identify common organizational communication problems and their solutions. Emphasis is placed on understanding how to communicate well as a leader and on creating transparent and values-aligned communication in digital, organization, and interpersonal contexts.

This course applies a developmental leadership perspective to building high-performing, adaptive teams. Emphasis is placed on team coaching, mentoring, performance feedback, and psychological safety. Students will learn how to cultivate collective learning and shared accountability, using frameworks that promote growth, resilience, and innovation.

Through a human-centered lens, this course explores organizational systems, functions, and the continuous improvement processes that sustain effectiveness. Students will examine organizational development (OD) theories and practices that promote alignment, adaptability, and long-term value creation, with a focus on how leaders catalyze these efforts.

This course introduces strategic planning and performance management through the lens of developmental leadership. Students will explore strategic thinking, goal alignment, and performance metrics, and learn how to create inclusive planning processes that engage stakeholders in shaping and executing strategy.

Grounded in a human-centered leadership approach, this course explores how leaders facilitate adaptive and transformational change. Students will examine change models, resistance dynamics, communication planning, and stakeholder engagement to lead human-centered change initiatives.