The primary objectives are to develop a breadth of functional skills, to facilitate behavioral change in self and others through self-knowledge, cultural sensitivity and team dynamics, to develop the demonstrable skills for the effective leadership of people guided by ethical values, and to nurture critical thinking and analytical skills needed to effect self and organizational change. The Master of Science in Executive Leadership program employs the Executive Education Learning Model. The MSEL is a cohort-based program where all students progress together through a series of 12 courses in slightly less than two years. Students actively learn both business and leadership processes through intense involvement in cohort groups, organizational and self-analyses, as well as class activities. This competitive program is designed for the committed organizational member who will use his or her organization as a learning laboratory.
All classes are team taught by two instructors.
A typical candidate for the MSEL program has at least five years experience as a professional, and is currently in a position of leadership. He or she wants to learn how to more systematically leverage the leadership experience into accelerated personal growth. Because the program takes classroom lessons and requires that they be put into practice, all students must continue to work in leadership positions throughout the duration of the program, in effect creating a laboratory of one's work environment. The MSEL has similarities and differences with MBA programs. Both build on an interdisciplinary core of fundamental business disciplines such as information technology, customers and markets, financial management, financial controls, and others.