Leadership and Innovation, M.S.

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March 21st

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There is a need for organizations to focus more on essential leadership skills, including communication and critical thinking.

Prepare for leadership, team collaboration, and innovation in an increasingly diverse and complex world.

This 36 credit hour program is delivered in two formats and can be completed in 24 months:

  • Winter/January start - Tuesday evening format that meets once a week
  • Summer/ May start - Tuesday evening format that meets once a week
  • Fall/September start - Wednesday evening format that meets once a week

Program Benefits

  • Daemen’s interdisciplinary curriculum emphasizes team building, effective organizational communication, organizational change, systems thinking, and creative problem-solving.
  • Program is designed as a hybrid of face-to-face and virtual learning in a seminar, action-learning model.
  • Cohort meets once a week in the evening to accommodate schedules of working professionals.
  • Program integrates experiential, interactive, and reflective learning in a collaborative environment where students share personal work experiences, evaluate case studies, and engage in action learning.
  • Graduates are empowered as leaders with skills that enable them to skillfully navigate unscripted and unprecedented opportunities and challenges.
  • Alumni serve in leadership roles as executives and team leaders in the business, health care, higher education, and social impact sectors.
  • Program has helped develop leaders locally and internationally for twenty years.

Daemen’s Center for Interprofessional Learning and Simulation (CILS) provides students experiential learning opportunities to promote best practice and collaboration. This leads to improved health and wellbeing outcomes for individuals, organizations, and communities!

Career Outlook

Graduates possess the capacity to integrate diverse perspectives and needs.

They find success in a variety of leadership positions across industries.

  • Executive director 
  • President or vice president 
  • Chief operations officer
  • Educational administrator
  • General manager
  • Corporate director
  • Senior quality analyst
  • Graduate education coordinator

Program Specifics

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