Master of Arts in Transformative Leadership and Social Change
Now Enrolling for January 2012
Organizations, and indeed the wider world, are calling for leaders who are skilled at broad and complex thinking, relationship building, and ethical decision making, and who can achieve and sustain social change. Tai Sophia’s groundbreaking Transformative Leadership and Social Change (TLSC) program will prepare you to be more influential and more effective in the workplace and beyond.
Through a unique and comprehensive philosophical framework, the curriculum combines the emerging field of transformative language with evidence-based leadership competencies drawn from contemporary knowledge and global wisdom traditions.
More than a leadership model or theory, the field of transformative language is based on the intentional and rigorous use of language to create positive and sustainable change. Transformative language and transformative leadership examine and address how we think, relate, and work at a fundamental, underlying level.
TLSC graduates are innovative leaders with the capacity and the skills to effectively and successfully meet the challenges of a diverse, ever-changing, and increasingly complex world.
Program Highlights
- Developed and taught by innovators in the field of transformative leadership
- Relevant to a wide range of professions and interests
- Designed for established and emerging leaders
- Presented in executive weekend format
- Two years of core coursework followed by a student-designed individualized application phase
- Eligible for federal financial aid
Program Goals
- Apply leadership skills to positively affect others’ actions, commitment, effectiveness, and productivity.
- Develop a personal style of leadership grounded in ethics, philosophy, service, individual passions, individual talents, and unification.
- Engage in personal transformation through daily practices and through interaction with a community of committed learners.
- Broaden one’s perspective and the ability to generate positive actions and outcomes.
- Mobilize one’s self and others toward social and ethical responsibility.
- Create and sustain positive coalitions and communities.
- Approach complex issues and embrace paradox with clarity, vision, and commitment to personal and professional goals.
- Develop the ability to convert breakdowns into breakthroughs.
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"Throughout my career I have been privileged to take many courses in management and leadership with very prestigious institutions, and have found none as effective and long-lasting as the Transformative Leadership program at Tai Sophia Institute. It is an elegant and holistic approach to self-improvement, awareness, and teamwork. I highly recommend it to those who are tasked with leading and motivating both small and large teams in today’s challenging business environment."
Hamed Faridi, Ph.D., Vice President of Research and Development
McCormick & Company, Inc.
Dr. Faridi is a member of the board of trustees of Tai Sophia Institute and participated in a customized program in Transformative Leadership.
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Program Faculty
Program Director
Cheryl Walker M.L., MCC
Core Course Faculty
Anne Huyler Baker, M.A.
Tom Balles, L.Ac. (U.K.), M.Ac., Dipl.Ac. (NCCAOM)
David Beares, M.Ac.
Dianne M. Connelly, Ph.D., M.Ac. (UK), Dipl. Ac. (NCCAOM)
Bob Devlin, B.A., M.A.
Robert M. Duggan, M.A., M.Ac. (UK), Dipl.Ac. (NCCAOM)
Susan Duggan, M.Ac.
Robert Gordon, M.S., M.A.
Allyson Jones, M.Ac., L.Ac.
Helen Mitchell, Ph.D.
John G. Sullivan, J.C.D., Ph.D.
Transformative Practice Group Leaders
Nancy Takahasi, M.Ac.
Jill Weinknecht Wardell, M.A.
Research & Scholarship
Highlights