Doctorate of Business Administration in Transpersonal Leadership (DBA)

(Hybrid Courses) 

The Doctorate of Business Administration in Transpersonal Leadership (DBA) degree program provides students with a comprehensive and well-integrated immersion in emergent business principles, historical and cutting-edge change theories, and adaptive leadership approaches for an increasingly complex world. The DBA focuses on the development of deep self-knowledge and emotional intelligence that benefit executives across a range of global business settings. The program is designed to provide graduates with tested business knowledge, generative skills, and transpersonal perspectives necessary to foster and lead change and transformation in organizations facing volatile global conditions. 

The DBA program emphasizes best practices and pragmatic business solutions through research-based applied learning. Each student enters with an identified and tangible business challenge and in the learning cohort, examines, tests, and proposes solutions. The student must also focus on the transpersonal dimensions of leadership development to successfully lead the change and transformation required in the project. These change-makers must be grounded in self-awareness, ethical practices, and emotional intelligence as well as engage in academic rigor to be successful. The answers to these increasingly difficult business and social challenges are not clear and will bring forth expected and unexpected results. Leaders grounded in ongoing self-awareness will be best suited to create and respond to the complex needs facing our global and local businesses. 

Core courses provide foundational knowledge in critical thinking, leadership practices and theories, personality and motivation theories, creativity, research, strategy, ethics, and communication approaches to guide research-based strategic actions leading to the enhancement of organizational performance and global sustainability. 

The DBA program provides a balance of business-centric principles with sound transpersonal ideals to prepare students to become transformative, agile, and innovative leaders in today’s complex global business environment. Students are members of a learning community responsible for generative mentoring and receptive to being mentored throughout the three years of the program. As a result, students will be well-equipped to adapt and thoughtfully lead meaningful changes in the global environment.

Requirements for Admission:  The (Domestic) Doctorate of Business Administration in Transpersonal Leadership (DBA):

The Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) is a 54-credit program and, as an applied-learning program, is designed to be completed in three years (normal duration of study, defined by back-to-back coursework quarters without interruption). The DBA requires full-time enrollment. Students, as approved by the academic advisor and the appropriate university, state, or Federal entity, may be eligible for specific leaves of absence or approved vacations. Leaves must be approved in advance by the academic advisor and other designated entities. Approved leaves or vacations extend the duration of the DBA program as designed.

Within this policy, for F-1 International Students who are actively enrolled in the DBA, per additional applicable governing Federal regulation, the length of enrollment to be used for all purposes, and reflected on all official documentation, is the duration of enrollment (three years of back to back uninterrupted coursework quarters) plus one vacation quarter automatically built in and added after the completion of each 3 consecutive and uninterrupted coursework quarters, resulting in a total length of enrollment of three years and nine months.

For admission into the Doctorate of Business Administration in Transpersonal Leadership (DBA) - program, an earned master’s degree from a recognized university is required. Applicants must have a minimum of three or more years of relevant work experience at a senior level with increasing levels of responsibility or demonstrated relevant life experiences. 

These documents are required.

• Application for Admissions
• Official transcripts of accredited undergraduate and graduate work
• Three letters of reference
• Confirmation of 3+ years of relevant work experience at a senior level (Resume or CV required)
• Personal Interview with Chair or Designee upon successful submission of all required documents
• Three-to-five-page statement of a business challenge (template attached).  The business challenge summary requires the inclusion of the potential impact of the project in a community or local or global organization. The potential value proposition should be identified.  The statement of anticipated contributions to the organizational and leadership practice, innovation engagement, technology inclusion, globalization, and sustainability must also be included.  This business challenge should assist the applicant in their chosen field and represent a major business change initiative and most likely, contribute to personal transformation and the skill and ability to lead complex change efforts.