The courses for this 21-month Executive MBA program in Kansas City focus on building business skills and knowledge as well as personal and professional development. In addition to the Core Curriculum listed in the catalog and Leader Formation courses, Executive MBA鈥檚 take an elective course.
Leader Formation
Leading Change
Building on the leadership curriculum from the first year focused on self-awareness team management, students in the second year focus on practical applications for how to lead change. Students will learn the essential skills 鈥 communication, gaining cooperation, and providing direction 鈥 for making change happen on projects and for organizational units. These are essential skills for managerial and executive action.
Strategic Management
Closely connected to the leadership outcomes is management development. Students will learn skills for planning, thinking strategically to exploit opportunities, and working through others. The Executive MBA program has partnered with third-party firms that bring focused expertise on management and leadership competence and development. In addition, students will take part in both live case projects and case study analysis to hone critical thinking required of general managers.
Executive Projects
Each student in the second year will identify, plan, and begin the implementation of a strategic/change project. These projects will allow students the change to apply tools of management involving analysis, but are significant projects that are tied to the leading change and general management framework taught in the second year. Students are provided coaching and other resources for them to focus and extend their effort, which makes for significant outcomes that will improve the results of the firm and lead to growth for the student.
Personal Reflection
A strong pillar of Jesuit education and a bedrock principle in the field of learning, students are required to reflect on their experiences to gain lasting insight and understanding. To help facilitate this, students will create their own worldviews that guide them to ethical leadership behaviors. In addition, our students gain reflection skills that they can apply as part of their professional lives. The motto here is to 鈥渞eflect and learn鈥 during and after your academic program.