MSLS - learning - MASTERS IN STRATEGIC LEADERSHIPTOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY

LEARNING

systemic. participatory. innovative.

THE CHALLENGE

THE SOLUTION

Global society's current path is unsustainable. At the same time, exciting possibilities for new ways forward are emerging - ways that bring human activity into harmony with the greater social and ecological systems that support us, while building better lives for all. How do we change course to create this better future?

We become the leaders and change agents the world needs. We learn to understand our complex world better and to collaborate more strategically and systemically across borders, sectors and disciplines. We transform the ways we think, plan, make, act and lead in order to ‘co-create’ a vibrant, sustainable future.

OUR INVITATION TO YOU

Join us in a stimulating, multicultural and multidisciplinary setting to earn your Master's in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability (MSLS). Strengthen and develop your personal and professional leadership capacities to navigate the complex sustainability challenge:

Learn about science- and experience-based methodologies for leading the transition towards sustainability.
Together with a highly diverse group of peers, practice your skills at effectively combining and using these collaborative, solutions-focused methodologies.
Be welcomed into a supportive, global community of strategic leaders and change agents working across a broad variety of sectors.

MSLS PROGRAMME OVERVIEW

The MSLS curriculum revolves around two integrated core themes: Strategic Sustainable Development (SSD) and Leading in Complexity (LiC)

Over the course of 10 months, students move through a spiral learning process focused on developing both theoretical understanding and practical experience of using SSD and LiC methodologies to enable and engage individuals, organizations, and institutions to take tangible steps towards sustainability.

CORE THEME 1:
STRATEGIC SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

SSD is about creating and executing economically viable approaches for evolving products, systems, organisations and communities in a way that supports global society’s transition towards sustainability. MSLS students learn about the sustainability challenge and related opportunities, and how to use a field-tested and science-based methodology known as the Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD), and many related concepts, methods, tools and other forms of support, to perform strategic sustainable development in any context, at any scale.

Learn more about the FSSD here.

CORE THEME 2:
LEADING IN COMPLEXITY

Leading in Complexity is about dealing respectfully with the complexity of the world today and effectively facilitating change in this context. Students are invited to explore the meaning and implications of complexity for social change and their own leadership. They will learn and practice field-tested leadership and co-creation methodologies and develop skills for facilitating the change needed to build a vibrant, sustainable future together with others. On the path to becoming change makers, they will learn to recognize and work with many ways of seeing the world.

ALUMNI VOICES

Sophia Horwitz
Canada
MSLS 2010
Co-Director and Social Innovation Facilitator at Co*Lab

“The complex challenges of our time demand us to learn, reflect and come out of our silos to find common solutions together. Through on-the-ground experience, MSLS allows you to immediately apply the leadership approaches and strategic framework you learn, to work through complex issues.”

Michelle Dyer
USA
MSLS 2006
Director, Joint Venture TSA Program Management, American Express Global Business Travel; Founding Member, American Express Sustainability Task Force.

“The understanding I gained from the MSLS programme on sustainability, leading profound change, and working in diverse groups of people has been extremely valuable professionally. I can't imagine working in the sustainability field without having had the experience.”