Leadership is the key to the many economic, social and cultural challenges of our time. The Financial Crisis is causally linked with leadership failures. The same could be said about issues of climate change or a growing sense of inequality. It is beyond doubt that we need good leadership in difficult times. Hence, there is a need to discover new roads to leadership training and ethical leadership.

For years, business schools and corporate universities have been wired to focus on wealth creation. Their programs have largely ignored the creation of a business leadership mindset that is based on creating a “values framework” or exclusivity. This has led to ignorance of responsibility, loss of values, diminishment of moral intelligence, and the erosion of moral fibre.

In recent years companies worldwide have been seen to take important steps to foster new values. The term “Corporate Social Responsibility” is largely used to address enterprises’ socially aware actions.

With this in mind a new programme has been introduced: Ethical Leadership. Taught by individuals with leadership experience from different backgrounds, the course focuses on personal development and personal growth. The programme communicates certain ideas, good practices, conceptual and motivational frameworks and a sense of orientation. In this sense, leadership can be taught in an indirect, non-linear way.

The programme’s innovative and interdisciplinary nature will stimulate intellectual and personal growth, improve self-management skills and increase students’ leadership potential.
Ethical leadership programmes are ideal for:

University graduates who aim to widen the boundaries of the traditional management education in order to boost their employment chances and career opportunities would benefit from studying Ethical Leadership on postgraduate level.
Young managers at early-to-mid stages of their careers, searching for ways to become more successful in their professional lives
Companies already affected by and potentially susceptible to the consequences of the world economic crisis and looking for sustainable alternatives to massive lay-offs of their employees (Job Education Swaps)
Innovative NGOs and non-for-profits seeking to tap into the cutting-edge academic research and business practice in the sphere of leadership
Professionals finding themselves in leadership challenges such as medical doctors, nurses, lawyers, judges, etc.

Studying Ethical Leadership will prepare graduates for leadership challenges and sharpen their profiles as future key personnel. Furthermore, there will be an access to networks through the international trainers and teachers. This programme is an investment in oneself, in a company or institution, in one’s future, and in one’s professional development. Ethics meets success – and success meets ethics.