Our Curriculum
Leadership is, before all, a process of coming to discovery through discovery. The MAOL synthesizes real-time case methodology with each candidate’s leadership initiative. The MAOL is a framework for creativity through which to explore and implement new learning strategies. In applying learning to their leadership initiatives, candidates invariably make meaningful discoveries about their unique leadership capacities. These discoveries are documented and applied in residential sessions to educate the other members of the cohort. Over time and with practice provided by MAOL faculty, candidates develop the skills to transfer distinctions in leadership to others in ways that invite new leaders to emerge in their organizations.
Through reading materials, class time, and the structuring and execution of the independent initiative, MAOL supports candidates in discovery of new leadership skills that are directly applicable to real-world environments.
The first MAOL session consists of five faculty-taught days – stretch of program time unique in that the candidates themselves join faculty in defining the learning in all subsequent sessions. Across the following six sessions candidates work alongside faculty to educate the cohort – they share and discuss what has been learned and seen throughout their direct experience with designing and executing their independent leadership initiatives.