Master of Arts in Leadership

Navigate challenges and opportunities for today and in the future

This two-year program is designed for today's leaders. Improve your leadership skills, make your next career leap, or implement new approaches to create innovation and change in your workplace.

Continue working while you study

This program offers a blended model of online courses and short on-campus residencies so you can continue working while you study. Or you can complete your degree fully online.

Enhance your leadership abilities 

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

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

Program options

Choose the specialization tailored to your goals

We offer specializations in Executive Leadership and Health Leadership for those looking to tailor their degree.

• MA in Leadership for experienced or emerging leaders that come from a wide range of professional sectors. 
• MA in Leadership - Executive Specialization: for mid-to senior-level organizational leaders in the private, civil or public sector. Develop your capacity to lead organizational culture, change and innovation, recognizing the importance of values and cultural alignment.
• MA in Leadership - Health Specialization: for leaders in the health system or those working with underserved and challenging areas of health, such as Indigenous communities, community health and emergency medicine.

What you'll learn

Within the program, you will:

• Explore pressing challenges facing today’s leaders and consider diverse worldviews and perspectives to expand your orientation to possibilities for change.
• Learn from faculty who are leaders in organizations and communities, and from fellow students who bring a wide range of life experiences and perspectives.
• Study through a combination of online courses and learning experiences on campus. This means that you can apply your learning, while balancing your studies with your career and life.
• Culminate your studies in a capstone project or thesis. You'll help move an organization or community toward change to respond to a key challenge or opportunity.