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Develop your personal capacities to lead teams and organizations through complex change. Leadership today requires courage, reflexivity and care.

Specializations in Health and Executive Leadership.

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June 06, 2022

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Programme description

Leadership today requires backbone, reflexivity and an agreement of the complex systems that influence our work. And leadership requires a commitment to values, ethics and care to navigate challenging issues today and in the futurity.

The ii-year Master of Arts in Leadership program can assist you improve your leadership skills, whether y'all wish to advance to a more senior position, make your next career jump, or merely implement effective approaches to creating innovation in your workplace.

Through interdisciplinary studies, you'll learn about theoretical and applied approaches to leadership in personal, supervisory, team and strategic contexts in the following six leadership competency areas:

• personal mastery
• learning, creativity and innovation
• strategic and collaborative leadership
• engaged research
• systems modify
• evidence-based scholarship

Acquire from faculty who are leaders in organizations and communities, and from fellow students who bring a wide range of life experiences and perspectives.

Y'all'll study through a combination of online courses and learning experiences on campus. This means that yous tin apply your learning, while balancing your studies with your career and life.

Your studies will culminate in a capstone project or thesis. You'll help move an organization or customs toward alter to reply to a key challenge or opportunity.

Specialization options

You have the option of taking the standard Master of Arts in Leadership plan for experienced or emerging leaders that come from a wide range of professional sectors. Or you can also choose to complete this program with one of the post-obit specializations:

• Health Specialization, if you are currently a leader in the health organization
• Executive Leadership Specialization, if y'all're a mid-to senior-level leader in the private or public sector

You can build to here

Y'all can apply credits from the Graduate Document in Leadership toward the two-year Master of Arts in Leadership or Master of Arts in Leadership (Wellness Specialization). Or utilize your credits from the Graduate Certificate in Values-Based Leadership, the Graduate Certificate in Executive Coaching and the Graduate Certificate in Corporate Social Innovation toward the 2-year Master of Arts in Leadership (Executive Leadership Specialization).

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Programme outcomes

In one case you have completed this program, yous'll be able to:

• adopt a systems mindset to navigate complex leadership challenges
• lead with greater self- and cultural awareness, courage, confidence, humility and caring
• bring diverse teams together to engage in meaningful dialogue and movement towards alter

You lot can apply the skills you lot have learned in your own system or in other organizations, or communities where you feel called to lead.

While students in this program are already typically mid-career professionals in leadership positions, this degree can help you to accelerate to more senior leadership positions.

Program delivery

The Master of Arts in Leadership is a 36-credit program that'south delivered through a blend of online learning and two on-campus residency intensive of two weeks in duration. The outset takes place at the first of the program, and the second one happens a yr later.

Online courses

Online courses consist of assigned readings, asynchronous and synchronous dialogues, interactive discussions, reflective journaling, guest speakers, and private and team assignments.

You're expected to run into deadlines and contribute meaningfully to your class. Your contributions are a big function of everyone'south learning.

You'll start the program with three blended courses, which run concurrently and integrate the ii-week residency intensive.

Your first three-month term will require about 20 hours of work per week with the exception of the residency intensives, which are total-time.

Y'all then motility to online courses, which require approximately 15 to 20 hours of work per week.

Residency

Residencies are intensive and highly relational. You'll go to know your learning team members well. Many students say this time together is the highlight of their program.

During your residency, you can wait to:

• attend classes full time (e.chiliad., Monday to Fri from 8 a.m. to 5 p.grand.)
• complete homework and individual and team assignments both inside and outside of class hours, and during the weekend in the eye of the two-week residencies
• take part in extracurricular activities

Program options

You can choose from three program options:

1. Main of Arts in Leadership — general multisectoral plan
2. Primary of Arts in Leadership — Health Specialization
3. Primary of Arts in Leadership — Executive Leadership Specialization

Courses

The post-obit are summaries of courses required for the three program options. For composite courses you will take office of the course online and part of form on campus during a residency.

General multisectoral programme and Health Specialization

The following courses are required for the first yr of study:

• three blended courses  (LEAD 526, 527 and 528), which are equivalent to the Graduate Document in Leadership
• the foundational leadership class (LEAD 516)
• 1 constituent

The second residency consists of the composite courses of (Lead 626, 627 and 628) with two capstone options:

• ix-credit engaged leadership project (Lead 640) and a iii-credit cogitating learning course (LEAD 680)
• 12-credit thesis (Atomic number 82 690)

Executive Leadership Specialization

The required first-year courses include the following:

• three blended courses (VBLD 510, 512 and 514), which are equivalent to the Graduate Document in Values-Based Leadership
• three elective courses taken individually or an approved 9-credit graduate document

The second year includes three blended courses (Pb 625, 626 and 627), which pb to the post-obit capstone options:

• Engaged Leadership Project (LEAD 640)
• Thesis (LEAD 690); Prerequisite: LEAD 519

Completion options

You tin can choose 1 of two completion options for this program

• Engaged Leadership Project (ELP)
• Thesis

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Access requirements

At Royal Roads University, the real-life leadership experiences that students bring to the classroom serve to raise everyone's learning. Leadership experiences could include 1 or more than of the following:

1. Formal organizational leadership roles in which you directly supervise staff or complete performance-oriented work with individuals, groups, or teams.
2. Leadership roles in volunteer organizations.
3. Roles in which you consult, negotiate with, or manage diverse interest groups through relationship, in a complex environment.
4. Roles in which yous lead others toward shared goals and outcomes.
5. Roles in which you lot influence, organize, and coordinate groups of people.
6. Overcoming a challenging life experience (for cocky or others), which involved navigating complex systems and resulted in positive community change beyond the individual.

We invite applications from established and emerging leaders who bring a range of professional experiences to the accomplice setting. Nosotros review all applications on a case-by-case ground. If you are interested in either the 1. Health Specialization or 2. Executive Leadership Specialization, delight make sure to see boosted admission requirements at the bottom of the page.

Standard access

• Four-yr (or comparable) undergraduate degree from a recognized mail service-secondary institution, with a minimum GPA of B+ (3.33/four.33).
• Normally a minimum of five years of leadership experience.
• Applicants who meet the degree requirement, just not the GPA, or have been abroad from academic writing for more than ten years, volition normally be required to take the "Bookish Writing and Critical Thinking" course offered through Standing Studies at Royal Roads Academy, and obtain a minimum B+ (77%) prior to commencing the plan. (This course must end a minimum of five weeks prior to your program showtime date.)

Emerging leaders who meet the MA Leadership degree requirement, merely take fewer than five years of leadership experience, still have been in recent leadership or people management role(southward) for two years or more, demonstrate infrequent leadership potential through their professional person and life experiences, are preparing for further leadership roles, and otherwise meet the standard admissions criteria, are encouraged to utilise.

Flexible admission

Applicants who exercise not meet the Standard Access Requirements will be considered for Flexible Access and assessed every bit follows:

• At to the lowest degree 10 years of professional experience, with five of those years of leadership* experience.
• Flexible access applicants will normally be required to take "Bookish Writing and Critical Thinking" and obtain a minimum B+ (77%) prior to commencing the program. (This course must stop a minimum of five weeks prior to your program start date.)

Boosted admissions requirements for specializations

i. Health Specialization

The MA Leadership (Health Specialization) is designed for leaders within the health organization. To be accustomed into the plan, applicants will ordinarily demonstrate five years of leadership experience in a healthcare system, or leadership in a health-related chapters. Given the variety of healthcare leaders, a diversity of experiences are acceptable. While positional leadership in a healthcare organization is recognized, roles of pregnant influence in health-related community organizations, successful advocacy experiences, and health promotion are possibilities. We particularly welcome applicants who accept worked in underserved and challenging areas of healthcare, such as Indigenous communities and emergency medicine. Healthcare related experiences that do non include formal supervisory roles, just crave exceptional and disquisitional controlling skills, such as emergency nursing and various medico roles are adjudicated on a case by instance ground. Applicants are encouraged to present a articulate example for how they see the leadership experience requirement. We also recognize that leadership roles are competitive, and emerging leaders may not accept had the opportunity to obtain a total 5 years of demonstrated leadership experience. We encourage emerging leaders who have a four-twelvemonth available's degree, and five years of professional experience in a wellness-related surface area, which includes 2 years full time equivalent or more of demonstrated leadership experience, to present a case for acceptance into the program. Applicants who do non have a iv-year available's degree may apply with ten years of professional person feel in healthcare, which includes at least five years of demonstrated leadership experience.

2. Executive Leadership Specialization

The MA Leadership (Executive Leadership Specialization) is specifically designed for mid-level to senior leaders and how they leverage values to lead cultural change and sustained successful innovation in their organizations. It focuses on how leaders foster the creation of shared values, vision, mission, strategy and the engagement of people in shaping the organizational culture and structure, in relation to both internal and external realities.

For standard access, applicants will have a minimum of v years of leadership experience including at least three years every bit a designated organizational leader with responsibilities to pb others in delivering a common product or effect with explicit values. Applicants without an undergraduate degree will accept at least 10 years of professional experience, with at seven years in an organisation, every bit well equally five years of leadership experience, with at least three years of positional leadership or designated leadership experience.

Some examples of roles for which the program is designed for are mid-level to senior leadership positions: CEO, VP, Deputy Minister, Banana Deputy Minister, CFO, Manager General. Some examples for designated roles for which experience is required for entry: Director, Managing director, Supervisor.

Please ensure that yous demonstrate your leadership experience in your detailed resume, and clearly indicate how your years of experience meet the standard or flexible admission requirements and, if applicative, for the specialization yous are applying.

English language proficiency

If English language is not your primary language, please review our English language language requirements.

All applications to this program require submission of the post-obit data and supporting documents before your file can be assessed for admission:

Awarding form

In order to apply online, you will be required to create a log-in account using your e-mail address. Yous will exist required to listing all credit courses and/or programs y'all accept completed or are currently enrolled in. A non-refundable awarding fee will be required. If your application fees are beingness paid by a third party, review sponsored student data. Once submitted, y'all may check the condition of your application at any time.

Official transcripts

Applicants are responsible for arranging for the submission of official transcripts from ALL post-secondary (higher education) institutions currently or previously attended, for all credit courses and/or programs. Transcripts are not required for not-credit programs or courses, though some programs may require proof of professional certifications or designations. Transcripts are considered official merely if submitted directly by the Registrar or other recognized authority of the providing institution in the establishment's original, sealed envelope. If the envelope has been opened, the transcripts are no longer official and new (official) transcripts will be required to complete your awarding.

All international transcripts or credentials are discipline to an international transcript and/or credential evaluation.

Personal statement

Your personal statement should be a maximum ii-page alphabetic character that speaks to the following criteria:

1. Your motivation for seeking entrance to the program (please respond to all of the following: why are you interested in this programme? What do you lot hope to learn? What excites you virtually RRU's education and learning model? Why practice you feel called to this program at this moment in time?)
2. The latitude and scope of your leadership experience (using 1 or more of the vi criteria for leadership feel listed on the admission requirements page, please draw your current and past leadership experience(due south) and, how your preparation and/or life experiences demonstrate your leadership capacities and potential).
3. Your experience working in teams and with others from unlike sectors, disciplines, cultures etc., and the specific skills and capacities that yous believe are relevant and applicable to the plan.
4. The gifts or unique strengths you can bring to the plan; and
5. The areas you lot would like to improve upon as a educatee in the program and equally a leader more broadly. If applicable, delight expand upon why yous think your life and piece of work experience and/or related formal education and courses merit adjudication as an Emerging Leader or under the flexible admission procedure.

Note: If applying for MA Leadership Wellness Specialization, clearly speak to your wellness experience. If applying for MA Leadership Executive Leadership Specialization, clearly speak to your mid-level to senior leadership feel.

Writing sample

There are three options for your writing sample:

1. You may include a recent (inside the last 2 years) writing sample from your academic work that includes citations and a list of references.
2. If you practise non accept a recent writing sample on file, you may write an original, maximum 500-word academic essay addressing the question: "What is my leadership philosophy?" Your writing should be clearly organized, should have a position substantiated with evidence from academic books and/or peer-reviewed manufactures, and use examples from your relevant life feel. The paper should be formatted using APA 7 way, which is the preferred referencing style in the School of Leadership Studies. (Note that a sample APA essay is besides available through Owl Purdue.)
3. In lieu of a writing sample, applicants may register in the Academic Writing and Critical Thinking course offered through Continuing Studies at Majestic Roads Academy. Your course may be in progress at the time of awarding. Even so, course completion with a minimum "B+" (77%) is required as a condition for entry to the Leadership plan. Please select a course offering that ends a minimum of five weeks prior to your desired programme starting time appointment.

Delight notation: Applicants must submit a writing sample OR proof of enrolment in RRU Continuing Studies' Academic Writing and Critical Thinking course equally a office of their application package. Applicants who have previously completed RRU Continuing Studies' Academic Writing and Critical Thinking form with a "B+" (77%) or above should submit their final grade confirmation letter of the alphabet.

Detailed résumé

A detailed or structured résumé is one that provides a comprehensive professional profile of applicants, targeted towards their intended program of study. We are interested in knowing where applicants have worked, for how long, and what they were responsible for in the positions held. Provide every bit much information every bit possible, with special attention to demonstratingfive years of leadership feel (and a minimum of 10 years of professional experience for flexible admissions) as described above.  Your detailed resume should include the post-obit:

• Education: List all mail-secondary didactics, degrees, diplomas, and certificates yous accept accomplished.
• Piece of work experience: Please include name of organization, position, length of service (month and yr), and a cursory description of duties.
• Voluntary/ unpaid work experience : List and describe any voluntary/unpaid post-secondary employment and/or community service experience. Delight include the name of the organization, length of service, and a cursory description of duties, and, in particular, any leadership responsibilities. Listing positions you have held in this service.
• Data engineering science preparation and experience : Briefly describe your level of training and experience in the employ of data technology including computers, software and telecommunication networks every bit tools for business, didactics, pedagogy and personal use.
• Professional memberships/affiliations: List memberships and positions you concord/take held in professional associations, service clubs, customs/volunteer sector.
• Other relevant information: Provide whatsoever other information which you believe is relevant to your awarding and volition be of aid to the review commission in assessing what you lot could contribute to the learning community.

Professional references

We require two professional person references. Reference messages should be completed by someone from your current professional network (within the past 5 years) who can attest to your commitment, cognition, skills, and ability to complete a demanding academic program. References from direct supervisors are preferred wherever possible.

References will non be accustomed from members of your family.

If applicable:

• Applicants declaring permanent resident or Convention Refugee condition in Canada must submit a re-create of their Permanent Resident Card (PR bill of fare) along with their application.
• Transcript evaluation fee or credential evaluation written report, if submitting international transcripts.
• An official English linguistic communication proficiency score written report or other testify of proficiency if English language is not your primary language.
• Other information or documents as may exist requested to determine your eligibility.

For information on how and where to send your supporting documents, please refer to the document submission guidelines.

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Specializations

Add an optional specialization to your Master of Arts in Leadership to customize your caste. You can choose from the following options, if y'all meet admission requirements:

1. Health Specialization
2. Executive Leadership Specialization

Wellness Specialization

If you're an experienced or emerging leader in a health system, the Primary of Leadership (Health Specialization) can help you develop your self-awareness and capacity as a leader to lead amidst complex modify.

Larn to guide organizations and communities to navigate and respond to current challenges in the health system. Your courses will be taught by instructors with wellness-related expertise and will build from your wisdom and experiences as a wellness leader.

Study with other health leaders and continue to work while you lot learn. The program includes a combination of online courses and two intensive two-week residencies on campus.

Executive Leadership Specialization

The Principal of Arts in Leadership (Executive Leadership Specialization) is specifically designed for mid- to senior-level leaders in public, private and civil sectors. Students are serving in roles such every bit deputy government minister, assistant deputy minister, director, president, CEO, VP, CFOs, directors, health care administrator, commissioner, assistant superintendent and chief.

Recognizing the importance of values and cultural alignment, y'all'll develop your capacity to lead organizational culture, change and innovation. Study with industry experts and a group of other working professionals from a multifariousness of sectors.

Continue to work while y'all learn. The program includes a combination of online courses and ii intensive residencies on campus. The Graduate Certificate in Values-Based Leadership  serves as the get-go term of the Chief of Arts in Leadership (Executive Leadership Specialization). Deepen your learning with iii elective courses, which you tin take individually or as an approved ix-credit Purple Roads University graduate document. Lead alter in practise by completing an organizational leadership project.

Plan completion options

You can cull from two completion options for the Master of Arts in Leadership programme.

Both capstone options are engaged and activity-oriented. As a alter leader, you'll be expected to collaborate with a partnering organization or community effectually an issue of importance or concern to them.

Guided past the principles of leadership every bit engagement and making a deviation in the globe, yous'll create opportunities or possibilities for meaningful change.

Engaged Leadership Projection (ELP)

If you lot choose this choice, you'll consummate a project involving an event or opportunity faced by leaders in your system, customs, network or community of practice.

To complete your project, you'll need to do the following:

• pattern a project to meaningfully engage a group of people in an organization or broadly-defined community to collectively motility towards positive change
• genuinely stretch in your leadership chapters
• apply your learnings in do
• develop a concluding study and a artistic cognition production to aid sustain the changes that emerged from your project

Thesis

The thesis selection allows y'all to engage in a systematic and scholarly study of an organizational opportunity or challenge with the goal of creating positive change with the organizational stakeholders. Your systematic assay will create the possibility of knowledge of involvement to the broader profession or field.

You lot need get approval from the program caput and thesis coordinator to ensure you qualify and obtain access into the thesis capstone for your program.

In your thesis yous'll need to do the post-obit:

• design an activity-oriented enquiry that meaningfully engages the stakeholders of an organizational opportunity or challenge and helps them align their thinking on next footstep actions
• follows the scholarly procedure of creating and analyzing data to generate findings, conclusions, recommendations, and and then, across traditional ideas of scholarship, helps the system create an activeness-programme for side by side-step implementation
• synthesize, compare and dissimilarity relevant scholarship from the theoretical, research and professional practice literature with your own study findings to support the conclusions, implications and recommendations

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