The Executive Leadership Doctoral Program (ELP) was created to help meet the complex learning challenges facing organizational leaders as they enter the 21st century. The program provides a forum through which students, their organizations, and the University can form a collaborative partnership built on innovative learning and performance solutions. Practitioners gain a greater understanding of their own leadership skills and strategic vision necessary to guide their organizations through continual change.

Doctoral Curriculum

The program focuses on six themes that correspond to semesters, followed by work toward the dissertation:

Leadership: Students focus on their personal leadership development.   Learning: Students focus on learning at the individual, group, and system level.   Research: Students develop research skills by focusing on organizational issues.   Changing Environment: Students focus on understanding and implementing change in organizational systems.   Integration and Application: Students seek to integrate their new knowledge into their organization or an exchange organization.   Specialization: Students focus on one or two specific areas of study that are meaningful to their organization, themselves, and to the field of Human and Organizational Studies. Students meet one Friday and Saturday per month, plus ten consecutive days in June. Coursework is completed in two and a half years. Completion of the dissertation is variable and depends on the topic and depth of study. The cohort format allows for two individual electives that may be tailored to the student's unique interests.