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Doctorate in Leadership Practice & Skills

A practice-based doctorate for working leaders. You reflect on your own leadership through justice, ethics, tradition, society, teams and strategy — extracting principles you can apply and teach. Built around real case studies and a final Expertise Dissertation.

Doctoral · NQA Level 10 Code DLPS 1 Year · 3 Semesters · 100% Online 100% Online · Practice-based
Curriculum

What you'll study.

Modules are released in sequence and assessed through written work, examinations and a final research project. Course codes match official transcripts.

Semester 1: Foundations of Leadership and Society

  • Module 1 Leadership, Law, and Justice
  • Module 2 Leadership and Religious and Philosophical Traditions
  • Module 3 Leadership, Society, and Public Life
  • Module 4 Leadership, Ethics, and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
  • Module 5 Leadership, Culture, and Organizational Identity
  • Module 6 Leadership, Power, and Influence
  • Module 7 Leadership, Communication, and Persuasion
  • Module 8 Leadership, Decision-Making, and Judgment
  • Module 9 Leadership, Ethics, and Accountability
  • Module 10 Leadership, Change, and Adaptation

Semester 2: Applied Leadership and Organizational Systems

  • Module 11 Strategic Decision Making in Complex Environments
  • Module 12 Leading Organizational Performance and Alignment

Semester 3: Strategic Leadership and Institutional Stewardship

  • Module 13 Leading Strategy and Change at Scale
  • Module 14 Leading Institutions in Uncertainty
How you'll study

Attended online via e-Learning.

This is a fully online tertiary programme. All modules are delivered and attended through our e-Learning platform (Moodle) at online.aspguniversity.com — where you watch lectures, access materials, submit assessments and sit examinations. Your e-Learning login is provisioned after registration, and your grades and transcript stay in sync with your student record.

Career pathways

Where graduates go.

Our alumni step into roles across government, the courts, civil society, the press and the private sector — both at home and across the continent.

  • Executive / C-suite leadership
  • Public-sector and institutional director
  • Board member & governance advisor
  • Leadership coach / facilitator
  • Founder and organisational steward

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