Learning to Lead in Complexity:

MSLS as a Master’s Programme Designed to Address Today’s Global Challenges

For 20 years the Master´s in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability (MSLS) has been at the forefront of using education to cultivate leadership in the context of the sustainability crisis and create leaders capable of addressing the complex challenges humanity faces. This outcome has been driven by the belief that society needs more strategic leaders, driven by sustainability values and the ability to make wise decisions to cultivate a sustainable future. A leadership that is also required to respond to the increasing disruption and impacts caused by unsustainable systems.

At MSLS, the Leading in Complexity (LiC) course has played a key role in developing these core leadership qualities in its students. The unique pedagogy and approach of the LiC course have meant much interest has developed in the MSLS programme and how it uses learning to teach students to lead in complexity. To explain this and discuss the the programme as a whole, MSLS is hosting an Open House for prospective students where we will clarify more precisely why this type of this education is needed, just how exactly it can be taught, and consider the question why it is important to learn how to lead in complexity.

Hosted by the programme Co-Director Dr. James Ayers, he will talk through the design and content of the Leading in Complexity course and speak to some of the research that had emerged from the study of the MSLS programme that looked at the qualities needed by sustainability leaders to act in complexity.

You will also meet students and alumni from the MSLS programme to learn more about their learning experience and how they apply what they learned at MSLS in their work.

MSLS Open House