Master of Science in Management and Leadership
The MS in Management and Leadership degree is offered through the Center for Creative Change, which is redesigning its degrees based on feedback from students, employers, community practitioners, and industry thought leaders.
We will not be enrolling new students into the former MS Management and Leadership and MA Communication programs. All current students will be supported through the completion of their degree. Degree requirements for those students will not change.
We encourage you to take a look at C3 master's degrees currently accepting new students. Each of these incorporates learning to manage and lead change in organizations and communities.
MA Environment and Community
MA Organizational Development
MA Whole Systems Design
Recent sampling of alumni jobs:
- manager of student services at a community college
- vice president and chief operations officer at the Museum of Flight in Seattle
- board member of Social Justice Fund Northwest
- business manager at The Boeing Co.
- director of the Family Center at Catholic Community Services
- president and CEO of Northwest Center
Employers of our students have included: Army Corps of Engineers, AT&T, The Boeing Co., the Federal Reserve Bank, FedEX, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft Corp., Nike Corporation, Outward Bound, Pemco Insurance, Starbucks, Verizon Wireless, Virginia Mason Medical Center, the Center for Ethical Leadership and Washington State Department of Health and Human Services.
Develop the capacity to address adaptive challenges and make decisions collaboratively in a rapidly changing environment.
Students’ work and life experiences are a starting point to:
- Understand how businesses and organizations function as systems and how to change them to benefit their communities
- Explore how successful leaders and managers listen, collaborate, plan, and serve their members and communities
- Learn about the personal, organizational, and global dimensions of leading and managing for public benefits
- Develop systemic and transformative awareness – at personal, interpersonal, and transpersonal levels – to create visionary leaders for the twenty-first century.
- Discuss the social, ecological, and cultural challenges facing organizations today.
- Look at leadership challenges from a broad perspective – including human, organizational, community, and global systems
- Learn to diagnose problems and intervene effectively and collaboratively with the members and stakeholders of your organizations and communities
- Study how businesses and organizations can be led and managed in ways that serve their communities
- Learn to respond to rapidly changing dynamics in a global environment
The Center for Creative Change Graduate Student Symposium features your graduate research and community-focused change project. Your work may be published on Antioch University websites and in the community as well.
Building on Antioch University Seattle’s tradition of experiential education and socially engaged citizenship, the Center for Creative Change offers degree and certificate programs so you can become a leader for
- organizational, social, and environmental sustainability
- social justice and
- transformative social change.
All Center for Creative Change programs are based on the understanding that creative change requires a fundamental shift in peoples’ awareness and behavior. Solutions to the complex social and environmental challenges of the 21st century require new ways of thinking. This perspective recognizes the dynamic, interdependent nature of human and environmental systems and honors diverse perspectives, traditions and ways of knowing. As a student in C3, you will learn skills, attitudes and perspectives to be a change leader.
The Gathering, a two-day retreat before the first residency, begins the process of building your learning community.
Interdisciplinary Core Courses
- Communication Design
- Critical Inquiry
- Global Pluralism
- Systemic Thinking for a Changing World
- Sustainability
- Transformative Leadership and Change
- Methods for Sustainable Change
- Applications of Sustainable Change
- Management and Leadership Caucus
- Leadership in Business and Organization
Systems Inquiry - Managerial Finance and Accounting
- Socially Responsible Marketing
- Strategic Thinking and Planning
Sample Elective Courses (4 courses)
- Innovation and Creativity in Turbulent Times
- Coaching
- Economics and the Environment
- Harnessing Human Diversity
- Evoking Spirit at Work Through Islamic Mysticism
- Trauma and Healing in Organizations
- Managing Change in a Changing Context
- Globalization and its Discontents: The Political Economy of the 21st Century
- Specialization and elective courses from other Center degree programs
- Independent Studies
The MS Management & Leadership is 66 quarter credits and can be completed in seven quarters.
Faculty
Click here for to read about Center faculty. For adjunct faculty who teach in the Center for Creative Change, click here.
Katherine S. Davies
DPhil
Center for Creative Change
Farouk Y. Seif
Professor Emeritus
Center for Creative Change
Barbara J. Spraker
MBA
Center for Creative Change
Britt Yamamoto
PhD
Center for Creative Change
Gail Cheney
M.S. Management and Leadership, 2005
She already knew her passion and pathway to integrating Native values of sustainability and community into organizations. She has found it especially helpful to be working full time while a student so she always has a structure where she can experiment with new thinking.
Tres Heffron
M.S. Management and Leadership, 2009
In his studies, he discovered a truth about his Center for Creative Change learning experience he hadn't anticipated: it isn't simply a matter of succeeding in an academic or intellectual environment. It's an experience that involves academic and intellectual successwithin a community.
