1. Doctoral Program In Leadership Studies
Conceptual Framework

2. Program Mission Leadership is based on a deep understanding
of the self and of the core values that drive
one’s actions.
Leadership requires the development of a
personal vision that engages others
by offering meaning, dignity, and purpose.
Leadership is to build more humane
relationships, organizations, and societies.
Leaders are to develop critical imagination
to embrace individual, organizational, and global
change from a stance of hope and courage.

3. a mature concern for others respect for human individuality
The Jesuit Tradition
self-knowledge
self-acceptance
a restless curiosity
a desire for truth
a mature concern for others
respect for human individuality
a thirst for justice

4. The Doctoral Program centers on :
The leader as person
The leader in organizational systems, and
The leader in global systems.

5. Four Dimensions of Leadership Studies
Research
Personal
Systems
Organizational
Systems
Global, Social
Systems

6. Four Dimensions of Leadership Studies
Research
Personal
Systems
Organizational
Systems
Global, Social
Systems

7. Personal Leadership Identity Reflective Practices Integrity
Transcendence

8. Identity THE WHO OF LEADERSHIP THE WHO OF LEADERSHIP
Identity is a moving intersection of inner and
outer forces that make me who I am, converging
in the irreducible mystery of being human.
Parker Palmer 2000
THE WHO OF LEADERSHIP

9. Reflective Practices THE IMMANENT LEADER THE IMMANENT LEADER
Entering into life with diminished awareness and
understanding of our own mind and how it
Influences our perceptions and our actions limits
our perceptions on what it means to be a person.
Kabat-Zin (1994)
Knowing our inner life becomes critical, for who
we are we take into our leadership, whether we do
so blindly or mindfully.
THE IMMANENT LEADER

10. Integrity THE EXISTENTIAL LEADER THE EXISTENTIAL LEADER
By our own acts we make ourselves what we
are to be, and we do so freely and responsibly;
Indeed we do so precisely because our acts are
the free and responsible expressions of ourselves.
Bernard Lonergan (1968)
THE EXISTENTIAL LEADER
What we say and do, our very own acts, make a
difference in our own lives and in the lives of others.

11. Transcendence THE EMERGING LEADER THE EMERGING LEADER
You knock at the door of reality,
shake your thought wings, loosen
your shoulders
and open
(Rumi, 1997)
THE EMERGING LEADER

12. Four Dimensions of Leadership Studies
Research
Personal
Systems
Organizational
Systems
Global, Social
Systems

13. The Leader in Organizations
Leaders lead within a context
Organizations are living systems
Created by people

14. Machine Repair or Meaning Making?

15. Appreciative Inquiry
Centers of human relatedness
Positive core

16. Problems vs. Messes
Absolve
Resolve
Solve
Dissolve
(Ackoff, 1999)

17. Transformation Change the organization’s thinking
Be open to strange new assumptions

18. Appreciative Organizational Leadership
Focus on strengths
Generate positive alternatives
Lift every voice
Homes of infinite possibilities

19. Four Dimensions of Leadership Studies
Research
Personal
Systems
Organizational
Systems
Global, Social
Systems