Welcome
Thank you for considering LIOS for your graduate education and professional development!
Our unique competency-based MS in Leadership, Management and Organization Development program gives graduates
the know-how and interactive skills to work up, down, and across an organization and to create healthy, well-functioning work groups, which are the backbone of organizational success.
The Leadership Institute of Seattle (LIOS) prepares leaders, change agents, and organization development practitioners
through an experiential residency-based program perfect for busy professionals. Over 2 years and 12 immersive, week-long residencies held in Seattle, students learn core theories and practice interactive and intervention skills in small groups and through a variety of methods. Graduates learn how to create effective groups, navigate and resolve difficult conflicts, think systemically and learn the methods to achieve individual, business, and social justice goals.
Students learn powerful skills in:
Graduates become proficient in implementing advanced methods and using a wide range of process consulting interventions for:
- Developing learning cultures within their organizations
- Balancing management authority with employee involvement
- Applying systemic thinking to workplace issues
- Leading large-scale change interventions tied to measurable goals and sustained results
- Managing projects and other cross-functional work including managing various forms of conflict creatively
- Creating effective groups and leading teams toward higher productivity while maintaining a humane work environment
- Coaching individuals to develop their full capacity and to effectively resolve problems
- Inclusively improving on-the-job work processes
