ONLINE M.B.A. STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP Specialization
Increase your earning potential with the online M.B.A. Strategic Leadership specialization.
You will develop skills in critical thinking, negotiation and conflict resolution, perspective-taking, managing emotions, strategic persuasion and developing a global mindset.
Your degree’s comprehensive focus will enhance today’s top-paying leadership and administrative careers. Complete your Strategic Leadership concentration with 9 credits, or choose the Strategic Leadership major with 15 credits.
With Your M.B.A. in Strategic Leadership, You Will:
- Understand key concepts and theories related to strategic leadership, individuals, groups, teams, organizations and institutions.
- Understand strategic thinking, acting, influence and change.
- Develop the ability to organize information to see relationships and solve multiple interrelated problems.
- Improve your ability to understand and predict the behavior of others in competitive situations and formulate successful strategies.
- Explore the skills and capacities needed to influence others, manage change, set strategic direction and build teams and support networks.
- Navigate the complex analytical and human dimensions inherent in any leadership role.
Strategic Leadership Concentration or Major
Your degree’s online courses will be taught be faculty with years of leadership experience. You will learn how to use strategic leadership skills to make sound, evidence-based business decisions. Complete your Strategic Leadership concentration with nine credits, or choose the Strategic Leadership major with 15 credits.
Sample Courses
BUAD 672 Strategic Leadership & Change - 3 Credits
Examines the organizational processes that influence the ability of organizations to successfully manage change and innovation. Designed to impart theoretical understanding as well as practical tools and frameworks for the management of change and innovation.
BUAD 673 Advanced Topics in Leadership and Teams - 3 Credits
Offers an in-depth perspective of leadership and an analysis of teams and teamwork. Emphasizes the practical application of theoretical concepts.
BUAD 678 Leading Across Boundaries - 3 Credits
Leading Across Boundaries focuses on cultural similarities and differences worldwide and how they impact managers’ effectiveness. Attention is given to general cultural dimensions as well as specific global mindset competencies. This course will focus on cultural similarities and differences, and interpersonal interactions with people who are different from us. By understanding this, students will uncover and improve their own global leadership skills.
With strategic leadership skills from this specialization, you can move into leadership positions in virtually any career path you choose. The median annual wage for leadership and management positions in the U.S. was $102,450 in May 2021, which was the highest of all the major occupational groups.1 You could become a director of leadership development, strategy consultant, senior strategic analyst, director of thought leadership, director of strategic planning and operations, executive director and more.
The Career Outcomes website reports what our graduates do, where they work and the salaries they make.
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AACSB
Accredited
$1,069
Cost per Credit
100%
Asynchronous