Strategic Leadership

Develop your strategic skills, insight and resilience. Enhance your ability to lead in a global context.

Overview

The Strategic Leadership MSc is a part-time, flexible, work-based programme. It's delivered using a blended learning model.

You'll have one-day study blocks on campus each month during teaching time. These support your online learning and will allow you to study flexibly around your commitments.

This Master's is designed for established organisational leaders and for those aspiring to become one. It will provide the development you need to:

• develop a critical mindset
• champion social justice
• embrace sustainability
• shape the future and create actionable change

The curriculum is dynamic and instantly applicable to your leadership practice. It combines:

• world-leading research
• thought leaders from the world of policy and practice
• real-time projects

The programme is also work-based and experiential. It's been designed to enable you to learn through working on real organisational challenges. You'll reflect on your own professional practice and through group action learning.

Throughout the duration of the Master's course, you'll become an ‘Affiliate’ member of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). This will give you access to a range of membership support and resources.

When you graduate, you'll receive a CMI Level 7 Diploma in Management and Leadership (subject to successful completion of all required academic modules). There's also the potential to achieve full Chartered Manager Status (CMgr). This is subject to meeting professional and work experience requirements.

What you'll learn

The programme will develop your skills in:

• critical thinking
• analysis
• self and critical reflexivity

This will enable you to take a 'deep dive' into leadership theory through your own workplace experiences.

You'll develop your own leadership identity and understand what it means to be a business leader in a global context. You'll expand your knowledge of strategic leadership through critically exploring:

• leadership theory
• strategic decision-making in complex systems
• innovation and change
• sustainability
• inclusivity
• reflexivity for mastering leadership practice

This will prepare you and your organisation for the changing world of work.