Waldorf University’s Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership offers a variety of applied leadership concentrations, allowing you to align your studies with your specific career goals. Our comprehensive applied leadership degree program equips you with the skills to become a transformative leader who can drive positive change within organizations.

The MA in Organizational Leadership: Applied Leadership curriculum emphasizes self-assessment, guiding you through the process of evaluating your personal talents and opportunities for leadership. As you earn your applied leadership degree, you’ll develop leadership knowledge and skills that can be directly applied to your chosen career field, sharpen your decision-making as a leader and learn how to shape organization culture.

The Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership is a 36-credit program, with a minimum of 15 credits required for your chosen applied leadership concentration. You also have the option of completing a second applied leadership concentration by successfully meeting the 15-credit requirement for the additional concentration.

Waldorf’s MA in Organizational Leadership: Applied Leadership program is only available online.

Master's Degree in Organizational Leadership: Applied Leadership Concentrations

Earning your master’s degree in organizational leadership from Waldorf University is a solid step toward achieving your career and personal goals. With an applied leadership degree, you’ll add to your skills and offerings and stand out in a pool of job applicants.

Waldorf’s MA in Organizational Leadership degree program allows you to focus your studies on a career area in which you are interested. In addition to completing the requirements for the Organizational Leadership: Applied Leadership degree, you will choose one or more concentrations in the following areas:

Criminal Justice Leadership

The Criminal Justice Leadership concentration allows you to take a deep dive into the primary areas of criminal justice, including law enforcement, courts and corrections.

Emergency Management Leadership

The Emergency Management Leadership concentration allows you to take courses in the emergency management arena, including Homeland Security, Fire Science Administration, and Business.

Fire Rescue Executive Leadership

The Emergency Management Leadership concentration allows you to apply organizational leadership principles to fire/rescue career fields. You will complete courses in fire/rescue management and leadership. 

Health Care Management

The Health Care Management concentration allows you to delve into the issues and challenges specific to health care delivery, health care management and health care administration.

Human Resource Development

The Human Resources Development concentration allows you to focus on the human resource development aspects of organizational leadership. You will complete courses in human resource management, leadership and organizational development

Public Administration Leadership

The Public Administration Leadership concentration allows you to develop your skills in managing teams, coaching employees, finance, budgeting, public policy and local government planning.

Sport Management

The Sport Management concentration allows you to study sport management, sport sociology and sport administration to prepare you for a career in a sport-related industry.

Teacher Leader

The Teacher Leader concentration allows you to mature and grow as a leader in your own school and opens avenues for your future professional growth and advancement in the education field.

Why Earn Your Master's Degree in Organizational Leadership Online From Waldorf?

Earning your master’s degree in Organizational Leadership: Applied Leadership online from Waldorf offers you flexibility, convenience and control. Our courses and course delivery systems allow you to apply what you learn into your current job and career. Earning your degree online through Waldorf offers you a number of advantages.

Earn Your Degree Online Around Your Busy Schedule

Waldorf has honed our convenient and flexible online course delivery format to make it easy to earn your degree full time or part time around your schedule. We understand that you may be busy with a job, family responsibilities and other personal commitments. We offer our online courses through the latest interactive technology and remote course delivery systems, allowing you to learn at your own pace while still being able to interact with your professors and classmates.

Learn From Experienced Organizational Leadership Faculty

Waldorf’s faculty members who lead our Organizational Leadership program and teach our Organizational Leadership courses possess a PhD or other doctoral degree in Organizational Leadership. They bring their knowledge and expertise to their classes to help you gain real industry knowledge and insights as you prepare for your career path. Our faculty members also act as mentors and advisors to help you succeed in your education and beyond.

MA in Organizational Leadership: Applied Leadership Curriculum Overview

Our Organizational Leadership: Applied Leadership curriculum features required courses designed to develop your organizational and applied leadership expertise, including:

• Personal Leadership Development
• Leadership Theory and Practice
• Culture of Learning Organizations
• Diversity and Inclusion in the Organization Culture
• Leading Complex Change

Depending on your interests and possible additional chosen concentration, you will take courses to satisfy the requirements for the particular concentration.

This program is available online only.

Available Concentrations

• Criminal Justice Leadership
• Emergency Management Leadership
• Fire Rescue Executive Leadership
• Healthcare Management
• Human Resource Development
• Public Administration Leadership
• Sport Management
• Teacher Leader

Master's Degree Requirements

• Completion of 36-credit hour curriculum
• Minimum 3.00 cumulative GPA
• Grade of B or higher in all required courses and professional electives