Bachelor’s in Organizational Leadership

(instrumental music) The organizational leadership major is a very unique interdisciplinary major that integrates theory and practice. I think in recent years there's been this compelling need for people who can lead change and who can lead people through change in organizations, and as a result the organizational leadership major has emerged as an alternative to traditional business programs. In my organizational leadership classes I'm learning about leadership and how to be a better leader, how to be a better follower, it's a lot of HR, learning the different aspects that are in HR and all the different things that go on in the HR world. As we designed this program we talked with senior leaders in the St. Louis region, and asked them what competencies are most important if we were to develop a program that would help leaders to advance in their careers, and they said pretty consistently the ability to lead change, to manage conflict, to lead people, were critical, and so what we really did was took that feedback and designed the program to make it unique. The program really makes me feel ready to go out into the world and deal with people and kind of know how organizations work. We get, we have a lot of theory but there's also exercises where we can kind of take the theories that we've learned and apply them to, you know, simulations we're actually in a company or a business, so it's really neat. (instrumental music)