Doctor of Business Administration - Executive DBA
Key information
The Kemmy Executive DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) is a next-generation professional doctorate designed for senior leaders, policymakers, and change agents who are leading systemic transformation in an age of complexity and disruption.
Developed by a world-class faculty team, the Kemmy Executive DBA is the first programme of its kind globally to integrate systems thinking and sustainability meta-competencies as the foundation for doctoral inquiry and the generation of actionable knowledge.
Delivered through a blended format, this four-year, part-time programme blends rigorous academic inquiry with applied executive practice.
Through immersive residencies, leadership summits, reciprocal peer dialogue and expert supervision, participants evolve from accomplished executives to systemic actors and responsible knowledge creators — leaders who not only respond to complexity but thrive within it.
Work and learn with
- Current/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 disruptors leading cross-sectoral change
- Change agents and systems thinkers working within complexity to reimagine the future
During this programme, you will
Bring a significant complex problem from your own professional context and use it as the foundation for original doctoral research in topics related to leadership, sustainability, systemic transformation and associated knowledge frontiers.
Develop sustainability meta-competencies that reflect the latest emerging research in leadership, sustainability and systemic transformation with a particular focus on systems thinking.
Immerse in week- long residencies once each semester that will support you to develop and strengthen the four tenets of the programme; complex problem, knowledge frontiers, research mastery and the transformative leader. In addition, the two-day Leadership Summit will be a high-intensity forum where your ideas are sharpened into action, and research trajectories accelerate.
Cultivate a praxis of critical reflexivity and inquiry, interweaving scholarship and practice, to facilitate continuous transformational learning regarding worldview, self, epistemology, ontology, behaviour, and capacity.
Evolve from an accomplished executive to a systemic actor and responsible knowledge creator — a leader who not only responds to complexity but thrives within it.
