Gain Cutting-Edge Leadership Skills
Golden Gate University’s breakthrough leadership programs are based on extensive input
from corporate partners, industry groups, leading scholars, and leverage the university’s
decades-long successes in developing high achieving leaders in the innovative crucible
of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Learn From Instructors Who Teach What They Do
Courses are taught by instructors who also work in some of the Bay Area’s largest
and most successful organizations. They bring cutting-edge knowledge from the field
to the classroom, teaching skills that are immediately applicable to the real world.
Future-Proof Your Career
The pace of change across industries is quickening. New technologies are disrupting
established businesses at an accelerated rate. We are operating in an ever interconnected
global world. Jobs once performed by professionals will soon be automated or outsourced.
What was certain today well may be uncertain tomorrow. Are you prepared for how management
and leadership will evolve as a result?
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
- Applicants should hold a bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited US institution
or the equivalent from a recognized foreign (outside the US) institution, and provide
official transcripts.
- Applicants whose native language is not English must meet the English Language Proficiency Admission Requirements.
- Applicants are required to submit a statement of purpose and a resume.
- Applicants should have at least 4 years of work experience.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Students who graduate from the Master of Science in Leadership program will demonstrate
the ability to:
- Apply a variety of cutting edge management and leadership frameworks and tools
- Build and lead high performing teams
- Demonstrate adaptive leadership capabilities in dealing with diverse audiences in
rapidly changing, complex and chaoticorganizational situations
- Identify and defend which decision-making methods to use in a variety of common scenarios
- Generate a thoughtful and rigorous self-assessment of team and organizational leadership
strengths and areas ofdevelopment
- Demonstrate an ability to think, act, and influence strategically
- Demonstrate negotiation skills to achieve win-win outcomes
- Integrate leadership and management knowledge, skills, and mindsets into an individualized
leadership philosophy andtoolkit.
