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

"The MSLS Master’s programme has had the deepest impact on my path. I would not be where I am today in my life and on my continuous exploration around questions of inner and outer balance, leadership and connection if it wasn’t for the MSLS programme and for the people I have met in that network. No matter your age and background:

If you want to learn (more) about how we can lead in unknown grounds, about how you yourself can make a change, about the connection of science and emotions - this might be your place!"

Meret Nehe, MSLS 2013, Germany
Entrepreneur and Speaker