Online M.A. in Organizational Leadership and Certificate Programs

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Realize Your Leadership Potential

Increase your influence and expand your career with an online Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership (MAOL) from Saint Mary’s. This rigorous curriculum and unique online learning structure will build your creative problem-solving skills while empowering you to lead—enabling any team to reach its full potential.

This degree is designed to help you become an adaptable, ethical, and tech-savvy leader who can affect real and lasting change in your organization. You will learn how to overcome organizational challenges, manage conflict, and develop those around you.

In addition to this career-elevating degree, Saint Mary’s offers nine graduate certificates to help professionals accelerate their careers with a valuable credential tailored to enhancing your personal and professional growth.

The esteemed faculty of Saint Mary’s University is forward-thinking in developing curricula that give you the skills to compete in today’s workforce and excel in tomorrow’s professional environment.

  • Ranked among “Best Colleges” by U.S. News and World Report.1
  • Clustered Curriculum Design Categorized by Subject-Area Features Overlapping and Progressive Course Structure.
  • Develop Deep Rapport & Engagement with Peers with the Built-In Cohort Network.

Fine Tune Your Expertise with Certificates

Saint Mary’s offers graduate certificate options for professionals interested in furthering their organizational leadership careers. These 12-credit certificates can be taken alone or applied toward the online M.A. in Organizational Leadership degree.

As part of our commitment to your success, Saint Mary’s is offering an opportunity for you to be awarded digital credentials or digital badges. The badges are a graphic representation of your achievement after completing a specific course or graduate certificate program. For each successful course completion in the Finance, Human Resource Management, Individual and Team Leadership, Organizational and Change Leadership or Project Management graduate certificate programs a digital badge will be awarded. Once the graduate certificate has been completed your achievement will be recognized with a certificate completion badge.

Choose the online certificate that aligns with your goals and gain specialized skills for continued success.

Schools of graduate and professional programs: Graduate certificate badge for Saint Mary's University of Minnesota

12 credits; 2 semesters

Access a hands-on curriculum that provides specialized knowledge and training in essential finance skill sets, including financial markets, security analysis, and portfolio management. Courses are taught by experienced faculty who are industry experts.

12 credits; 2 semesters

Get the focused training you need to lead in a variety of healthcare settings and finish your program in just one year. Learn the fundamentals of modern health and human services delivery and study topics like health policy, finance, and administration to advance your career.

12 credits; 2 semesters

Study a specialized curriculum that provides a foundational study of the human resources skills and approaches you need to be successful, including HR management, compensation and benefits, consulting, and employment law.

12 credits; 2 semesters

Gain the foundational skills you need to excel in project management, including topics like project planning, resource management, stakeholder analysis, quality control, risk management, and more in this PMI-GAC accredited certificate program.

12 credits; 2 semesters

Upskill your management credentials to gain the invaluable leadership qualities that can motivate and inspire a team of employees. The certificate program features four courses covering leadership and ethics, communication strategies, collaboration, and team building. You will earn a digital badge for each class within the certificate program, along with a badge for completing the entire four-course certificate.

12 credits; 2 semesters

Learn how to develop ethical and innovative strategies to solve complex business problems while positively impacting change for an entire organization and its workforce. Credits earned through the certificate program can be counted towards the larger M.A. in Organizational Leadership degree program if desired or can be stacked for credit towards several other Saint Mary’s University master’s programs.

Saint mary’s university is all about awakening, nurturing, and empowering you to live your best life. our faculty and staff are dedicated to quality, diversity, accessibility, social justice, and sound stewardship. join us, and let’s make a difference together.

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Online Convenience, On Point Outcomes

Saint Mary’s online programs are designed to provide excellence in education beyond campus borders. With user-friendly formats and flexible scheduling, our commitment to delivering leading-edge knowledge and valuable credentials allows you to excel in your profession while balancing family and work responsibilities.

Learn a Variety of Leadership Roles

Just as there are different types of people in an organization, there are different types of leaders. With an online M.A. in Organizational Leadership from Saint Mary’s University, you’ll explore each of six identified types of leadership through coursework and learn how to integrate them to best serve your organization. These clusters include:

  1. The Learning Leader: Reflects on individual experience, preferences, and attitudes to build a growing awareness of how a leader influences outcomes with personal style and skills. 
  2. The Connected Leader: Builds the relationships and connections essential for successful organizations. 
  3. The Global Leader: Understands and maneuvers among the cultural, economic, political, legal, and social spheres that influence work. 
  4. The Organizational Leader: Considers both the art and science of managing talent and exploring the dynamics of power and influence to create a positive and progressive environment in organizations. 
  5. The Change Leader: Considers both organization development and organizational effectiveness to address opportunities for positive impact on organizations and their missions. 
  6. The Adaptive Leader: Synthesizes and applies leadership principles from the previous clusters to create a strategic, innovative, and competitive organization. 

Preview just a few of the courses in the online M.A. in Organizational Leadership program:

OL 614 Leadership and Ethics

This course focuses on theories and styles of leadership and the ways in which outcomes are influenced through increased awareness of personal style and skills. Personal and professional ethics are analyzed, and ethical issues in organizations are explored.

OL 634 Economic and Political Contexts

This course focuses on global, economic, and political issues influencing today’s organizations. Contextual factors and trends in world economics and politics are examined.

OL 654 Strategy and Innovation

This course focuses on strategic thinking and creativity in organizational leadership. Innovation is examined as a process to develop the strengths of a system or organization, and to deliver positive results. Evaluation, analysis, and integration based on previous course learning is expected.

OL 646 Organization Development

This course focuses on an overview of the fundamental components of organization development. It is designed to provide students with different perspectives on organization development at the individual, group, and organizational levels of analysis. Students learn theoretical models to evaluate organizational performance, as well as techniques that develop the organization’s ability to manage change.

IACBE Program Accreditation

This program is accredited by the International Accreditation Council for Business Education (IACBE), recognizing our commitment to delivering business education that aligns with the university’s mission of developing confident, competent, and ethical leaders for today’s changing business environment. 

This accreditation not only reflects the high quality of our graduates — who possess in-demand skills valued by employees — but also reflects the strong presence of the Lasallian mission in action, as witnessed by the IACBE in every interaction with students, alumni, faculty, staff, leaders, and external business partners. At Saint Mary’s, we deliver on our promises. They go beyond words — they’re a commitment we live by.

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Good Leaders are Always in Demand

Organizational leadership is a role relevant to a wide range of sectors. Providing positive, effective motivation to a workforce while also achieving your organization’s goals can be a balancing act that requires a specialized set of skills. The online M.A. in Organizational Leadership provides you with those skills so you can achieve success for yourself while helping those around you succeed as well.

2021 Average Mean Salaries

  • Top Executive $107,6802
  • Training and Development Manager $115,6403
  • Social and Community Service Manager $69.9004
  • Human Resources Manager $121,2205
  • Administrative Services Manager $98,8906
  • Medical and Health Services Manager $104,2807

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Sources and Disclaimer

  1. U.S. News & World Report L.P., Best Colleges, St. Mary’s University of Minnesota. Retrieved from https://www.usnews.com.
  2. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, Management Occupations. Retrieved from https://www.bls.gov.
  3. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, Training and Development Managers. Retrieved from https://www.bls.gov.
  4. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, Social and Community Service Managers. Retrieved from https://www.bls.gov.
  5. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, Human Resources Managers. Retrieved from https://www.bls.gov.
  6. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, Social and Community Service Managers. Retrieved from https://www.bls.gov.
  7. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, Medical and Health Services Managers. Retrieved from https://www.bls.gov.

Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, www.hlcommission.org.