This document summarizes a 3-year Masters in Organisational Analysis and Leadership program aimed at executive and senior management. The program takes a blended learning approach combining online and experiential seminars. It is designed to help organizations shift from good to great by developing leadership capacity and leveraging diversity within the organization. Participants complete an organizational transformation project in the third year to create impact aligned with the sponsoring organization's strategy and opportunities.

1. The Masters in Organisational
Analysis and Leadership
From Good to Great: A 3-Year Work-Based
Blended Learning Programme for Executive
and Senior Management
THE GRUBB SCHOOL IS A SCHOOL OF

2. Masters in Leadership and Organisational Analysis
Enabling Organisations to Bring About What They
Were Created For
Is Your Organisation Inhibited by ‘Wicked’ and ‘Adaptive’ Challenges?
Taking a ‘workademia’ approach and designed for participants in executive and
senior organisational roles with significant accountability, participants take part on
behalf of their organisation to transform themselves and the teams they lead from
‘good to great’.
Blended Learning through Experiential Seminars and Online Study
The masters programme is open to participants from anywhere in the world but
recruitment is principally focused on Europe, following a highly successful pilot
programme focused on Southeast Asia and Australia. The programme will be
delivered through a combination of Crossfields Institute’s virtual learning
environment (VLE) and experiential face-to-face intensive seminars. The programme
membership will come from a wide range of organisational and personal
backgrounds, providing a rich and multi-disciplinary context.
“In most leadership development programmes the
main object of study is the thinking and theory of
others. Whilst this kind of learning is important, by
itself it can often leave you wondering how it relates
to the unique challenges you face right now, in your
own environment. In this radical and co-created
programme the object of study is your own
experience ‘in role’.”
Aarti Kapoor, Grubb School Masters pilot programme participant, is an
international lawyer from the UK and is based in Southeast Asia
Enabling Your Organisation to Do What It Was Created For
In particular, the programme’s design is to release the untapped human energy of imagination
and resilience present in an organisation to enable the organisation to bring about what it
was created for.
The programme pays particular attention to what
happens when people work together in
organisational life. This includes within the
organisation, between organisations and across
various sectors. The functioning of the
programme itself is regarded as a lived example
which is open for study. In short, it sees the
world as a functioning whole.
The programme illuminates the political, spiritual, social and economic dimensions
of organisations and their influence on both process and outcomes. It works at the
critical need to integrate these in order for the organisation to both create
productive working environments and at the same time have a positive impact on
the broader society.
"Coming together is
a beginning; keeping
together is progress;
working together is
success." Henry Ford
The Investment
The cost over three
years is GBP £24,000,
payable in three annual
instalments over the
duration of the
programme.
Discounts are available
subject to future
commitment and
participant numbers per
organisation.
Contact us to register or
for more information.
Case Studies
For examples of how this
programme can transform
corporations, NGOs,
schools, religious and
educational institutions,
communities, political
organisations, local
authorities and more visit
Programmes > Action
Research on our website:
grubbschool.org.uk

3. What Are the Benefits for Your Organisation?
Five Reasons to Engage in Order to Improve,
Change and Transform
Improved Leadership Capacity
It assumes that organisations are engaged with the programme in order to improve, change or
transform themselves and their contexts, and that they seek this through improved leadership
capacity. They regard participants as learning on behalf of their organisation: they take part on
behalf of the organisations that send them as well as for themselves. This also means that the
impact of the programme increases when an organisation nominates several people to participate.
Shifting from Great to Good
It assumes that organisations select people for the programme who have accountability for parts of
the organisations they belong to, where ‘wicked’ and ‘adaptive’ challenges are inhibiting the
organisation from shifting from ‘good to great’.
Leveraging Latent Potential
It takes it as read that these organisations have people who have to work together, who come from
“This programme, delivered in collaboration with Crossfields
Institute, now allows more people and enterprises to access
the Grubb’s work at the cutting edge of leadership
education which began in 1957. I have found in my own
career that an understanding of how organisations work
and develop provides a far greater chance of leaders
achieving success.”
Simon Bazalgette, Group Chief Executive of The Jockey Club, the largest
commercial group in British horse racing, and Chairman of the Grubb Institute
various professional disciplines, cultures and backgrounds and that these differences can be
leveraged as resources during the programme in order to be utilised for the benefit of all.
Return on investment
The organisational transformation project, carried out
in the third year is negotiated with the sponsoring
organisation to ensure the change it brings about is
aligned with strategy and current organisational
opportunities and challenges.
Most academic programmes discourage participants
from studying their own organisation in depth; this
one is based on the assumption that learning from
the lived experience of one’s own organisation is the
most potent form of learning.
Value for Money
The cost, when compared to current top-ten
consulting rates for major change or transformation
projects, is the equivalent of approximately eight
days consulting time. This makes the programme a
small investment over two and a half years.
About the Masters
The Masters of Arts in Philosophy of
Social Innovation with Specialisation in
Organisational Analysis, is accredited
through a Crossfields Institute university
partnership.
It emerges from a 55-year history of
theory and practice in organisational
thinking developed by the Grubb Institute.
The programme comprises a cross-
disciplinary approach that provides the
opportunity to explore through various
learning methods the skills, knowledge,
tools and imagination needed to
transform the way organisations operate.

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