First Year

OLMA 501 Foundations Of Organizational Leadership: History, Theory, Development, & Application.
Students will explore history, theory and development of organizational leadership from the wisdom literature from the evolution of leadership/management throughout history.

OLMA 502 Organizational Development: Consulting, Design, Intervention & Evaluation
Students will explore organizational structure and organizational life-cycle development. This course will prepare students as the role of the leader to learn consulting, design, and intervention of organizational development as an organizational architect. The course examines the role of the Organizational Development (OD) specialist and how leaders intervene in their own organizations, as well as how consultants intervene in other organizations.

This course explores how culture affects psychological processes and organizational behaviors including motivation, cognition, social networking, leadership, and teams. Students will assess how organizational culture builds a meaningful work environment. The course teaches adaptive and innovative techniques to improve culture. Through the study of the change process, students learn the steps to lead change within their organization.

OLMA 503 Advanced Lifespan Development
Examines organizational communication, including dyadic, small group, formal and informal communication, as well as the relationship of communication to organizational satisfaction and effectiveness. In addition, students study how communication defers in leader-member exchange and mass-communication of charismatic leader/large group interaction.

Students will develop skills related to the principles, processes, and techniques of conflict management and negotiation and will be equipped with the innovative negotiation strategies needed to excel at the bargaining table and develop effective conflict resolution strategies. Students will also learn Biblical principles to resolve conflict.

OLMA 504 Coaching, Strategic Thinking, Planning & Organizational Change
Compares and contrasts strategic thinking with strategic planning and presents the value of both. Furthermore, this course aims to explore the roles of coaching in the leadership needed for this task. Students study the leader’s role in organizational change by use of coaching methods – creating and preventing change, as well as determining the organization’s readiness for change.

In addition, students explore the reasons for resistance to change and strategies for coping with resistance. This course introduces the student to the basic concepts and tools of strategic business planning and management. The overall framework within which leaders plan and make decisions is studied. Here, coaching is studied as an instrument for this strategic management of an organization. Students explore the notion of strategy and how it relates to competitive advantage and success.

OLMA 505 Research, Analysis, and Writing
Qualitative and quantitative research methods and data analysis that leaders and consultants use in organizations with particular attention to interview and observation.

Second Year

OLMA 601 Leadership Coaching: Theory and Practice
Students will be introduced to the core concepts of coaching and mentoring. This course prepares the student to understand the coaching process, ethics, coach-client relationships, and to explore a biblical worldview of coaching. It also examines a combination of direct training and mentoring, and coaching experience. Students will explore how to build strong coaching partnerships with their clients, and begin to develop the coaching skills required to be a world class leadership coach.

OLMA 602 Psychology of Coaching and Mentoring
The students will explore key contemporary research to provide an in-depth, international, and competencies-based approach to the psychology of coaching and mentoring. Students will build theoretical models, efficacy, ethics, training of coaching and mentoring on this research of psychology.


OLMA 604 Leadership Coaching Integration
Students will integrate what they’ve learned in the leadership coaching system modules and create a plan and structures of support for their own ongoing learning. Students will demonstrate the ability to complete coaching relationships and design systems of support for ongoing reflection and learning for their clients. Students will practice coaching and receive feedback in preparation for their final-coaching practicum. students will be able to Demonstrate an ability to work with a whole leader – mind, body, emotion, spirit, and identity in the context of a complex system.

OLMA 605 Coaching Convergences and Practicum
Students will study group formation and group development, as well as the intricacies of coaching, mentoring, and discipling. Students study organizational behavior and explore how OB concepts affect leadership effectiveness.

This course will prepare the students to interact with variant issues and alternatives, and design coaching interventions. This course helps the student to conduct a feasibility analysis in preparation for starting a coaching consultancy or improving an existing consulting operation.

OLMA 603 Holistic Leadership and Spiritual Formation (Interchangeable with MC506)
This course examines how character development and spirituality can enable leaders to become more authentic in their working relationships and more effective as transformational leaders through their organizations.

Students in the MAML or MDiv program will take this course under the course # PT 606, described above.