Executive Formation

The Executive Ed.D. program at BC offers a doctoral journey that focuses on developing multi-dimensional, integrated, and authentic leaders. This course is designed to be a transformative experience for participants, inviting them to explore four dimensions of their lives wellness, voice, management, and mission with the goal of enhancing their executive leadership skills. Through a community-oriented approach, participants will have the opportunity to learn from one another and develop a lifelong commitment to leadership development. Our goal is to help you grow as a person and to thrive as a leader. Decades of scientific research prove that personal growth has a significant impact on leadership and professional success. In keeping with the Jesuit tradition, this course poses questions, creates spaces, and encourages practices where students and their cohort uncover, analyze, and strengthen the qualities that enable individual and collective leadership. Students and their cohort will practice the art of asking questions of themselves and each other as part of an ongoing leadership journey. The holistic approach to leadership development in this course focuses on how cura apostolica (care for the work) is integrally related to the better-known idea of cura personalis (care for the whole person). The course focuses on executive leadership development that involves but goes beyond individuals to encompass the whole community that belongs to each other. The course invites doctoral students into communities to serve with and for others to use their talents to address the worlds greatest needs.