Leadership at the Edge of Transformation
The Executive DBA is designed for senior leaders operating in the world’s most dynamic and uncertain contexts where digitalisation, sustainability transition, and organisational transformation converge.
You will work alongside world-class supervisors whose expertise aligns with our Knowledge Frontiers: the evolving domains where leadership, systemic transformation and sustainability meet. If you see your own context reflected in these frontiers, this programme is designed for you.
Our knowledge frontiers
Each Knowledge Frontier represents an emerging domain of leadership inquiry. A space we are actively shaping through cutting-edge research and practice, together with senior leaders who are advancing new forms of knowledge in their own contexts. These are the spaces where new ways of seeing, strategising, transforming, and innovating are being defined. These frontiers mirror the supervisory expertise of our faculty and the real-world arenas where our candidates are generating impact and insight.
They include:
- Systems Thinking, Reflexive Futures and Systemic Intervention
Developing the capacity to see whole systems, anticipate emergent futures, and intervene reflexively to shape transformative change.
- Responsible Leadership
Cultivating value-based, stakeholder-focused leadership grounded in moral courage and adaptive integrity, enabling ethical, accountable decisions that create shared value and trust in times of change.
- Responsible and Social Innovation
Designing and scaling innovations that generate social and environmental value, embedding ethics, inclusion, and sustainability at the heart of transformation.
- Sustainable Production, Consumption and the Circular Economy
Reimagining value creation through regenerative design, responsible supply chains, and circular economic principles that balance prosperity with planetary boundaries.
- Sustainable Development Policy, Governance and Accountability
Advancing systemic approaches to governance and policy that align economic, social, and environmental priorities through transparent and accountable leadership.
- Responsible Digitalisation, Datafication and AI
Navigating the technological frontier with wisdom and purpose, ensuring digital transformation, data ethics, and AI innovation serve human and planetary wellbeing.
Who this programme is for
The Executive DBA convenes a global cohort of senior leaders, change agents, and system innovators working across private, public, and civil society sectors.
Our candidates are people who recognise that today’s challenges cannot be solved with yesterday’s logic. They are ready to deepen their practice through inquiry; learning to navigate complexity, paradox, and transformation systemically and sustainably.
- Current and aspiring C-suite executives, directors and VPs redefining strategy and stewardship.
- Senior leaders driving transformation, governance, and sustainability agendas
- Policymakers and public leaders shaping systemic interventions
- Social innovators and entrepreneurs scaling responsible and regenerative impact
- Senior consultants and industry disruptor’s leading cross-sectoral change
- Change agents and systems thinkers working within complexity to reimagine the future
This programme meets you where you already lead and takes you further.
