MGLC Program Overview
The online Master’s in Global Leadership in China (MGLC) is a 1.5-year, full-time graduate program delivered over 6 terms. For full-time students, each term contains two three-credit courses.
The program is designed for emerging global leaders seeking to advance into senior, executive, or entrepreneurial roles in complex, international environments. The MGLN program integrates conscious leadership, systems thinking, peer mentoring, and transpersonal psychology tenets to prepare students to lead effectively in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world.
Program Description
In this century, global leaders are facing new and often uncertain and unpredictable opportunities that are characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA). Organizations have identified that conscious and responsive leadership capacities are critical to develop and refine in meeting this ambiguity in the marketplaces and in unique communities.
The online Master’s in Global Leadership (MGLN) supports leaders in developing skills to tackle these complex issues through systems thinking, consciousness, collaboration, empathy, adaptability, leadership development, and critical thinking. Together, these skills and insights contribute to meaningful engagement within organizations of any size and scope across the globe.
Global leaders develop the capacity to lead themselves and others by understanding complex global systems and complexity thinking. Global leaders are also positioned for leadership roles in markets that require global agility, adaptability, and unique leadership capacities in a broad range of sectors.
Courses are customized and learning explorations are widely varied through the engagement of experts in areas such as conflict resolution, strategic considerations, artificial intelligence, technology proliferation, rapidly changing governance, community development, geopolitics, and global civil society.
Program Requirements & Format for Distance Learning
- Fully online (distance education).
- Asynchronous weekly coursework via Canvas.
- Weekly engagement with peers includes online discussions, case-based learning, and peer collaboration.
- Optional live engagements including faculty office hours, guest speakers, or fire-side chats.
- No on-site residency required.
Admission Requirements
Applicants are typically early-career to mid-career professionals with leadership or managerial experience and an interest in global, cross-cultural, and systems-based leadership.
Admissions process includes:
Application Materials
- Online application
- Application fee
- Statement of purpose
- Two letters of recommendation
- Resume or Curriculum Vitae
- Official college or university transcripts
- Proof of English proficiency (if applicable)
- Foreign transcript evaluation (if applicable)
- Form of identification
- Acceptance Fee, if applicable
- Interviews at the Chair discretion
Criteria for Admission and Prerequisites
Applicants are required to have a bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited college or university or international equivalent with a minimum GPA of 3.0.
Course Flow: Two-year Engagement for Full-time Engagement
Phase I: Conscious Leadership & Complex Systems (24 credits)
- Focus on foundations of conscious leadership, critical thinking, personal leadership capacities, dialogue, collaboration, and organizational engagement, including an initial applied project.
Phase II: Global Business Values & Conscious Leadership (12 credits)
- Focus on advanced leadership development, global economy and ethics, technology and innovation, systems change, and final capstone integration.
Capstone development begins in Year One and culminates in Year Two.
- Demonstrate Authentic and Ethical Global Leadership
- Apply conscious, transpersonal and contemporary leadership theories.
- Lead with integrity, discernment, self-awareness, and emotional intelligence.
- Foster ethical decision-making in diverse organizational settings.
- Lead Across Diverse Cultures
- Demonstrate cultural intelligence when working with diverse global stakeholders.
- Build inclusive and innovative trams and navigate intercultural communication challenges.
- Lead effectively in multinational and multicultural environments.
- Apply Systems Thinking for Global Opportunities
- Analyze complex global opportunities using systems thinking.
- Evaluate interconnected economic, social, political, and environmental factors.
- Design sustainable organizational solutions.
- Lead Organizational Change
- Design and implement organizational transformation initiatives.
- Apply change leadership models to improve organizational effectiveness.
- Facilitate innovation and continuous improvement.
- Communicate Strategically
- Communicate effectively with diverse audiences.
- Facilitate collaboration, negotiation, and conflict resolution.
- Present complex ideas clearly in professional and international settings.
- Integrate Global Ethics and Social Responsibility
- Evaluate leadership decisions through ethical and social responsibility frameworks.
- Promote sustainability, justice, and responsible global citizenship.
- Balance organizational performance with societal impact.
- Develop Reflective Global Leadership Practices
- Engage in continuous personal and professional development.
- Integrate reflection, imagination, mindfulness, and lifelong learning into leadership practice.