Master's in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability (MSLS)

The Master's in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability (MSLS) Programme is a 10-month transformational masters programme in Karlskrona, Sweden that focuses on advancing students' knowledge, skills, and global networks, in order to build their capacity to be strategic leaders in the co-creation of thriving, sustainable societies.

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Master's in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability (MSLS): Programme content

An education for change

This one-year Master's programme in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability aims to educate leaders capable of supporting the sustainable development of society in a way that strengthens their own organization. The programme is built around two themes: strategic sustainable development and leading in complexity.

Strategic sustainable development

Here you learn how to support a transition to global sustainability by creating and implementing economically beneficial development of products, systems, organizations, and societies. You learn about the challenges and opportunities of sustainable development and about the scientifically and practically validated methodology for strategic sustainable development.

Leading in complexity

Here you learn how to handle complexity in a respectful way and enable change efficiently. You explore the complexity of both social change and in your own leadership. You learn about the scientifically and practically validated methodology for leading in complexity to be able to lead collaborations that enable an attractive sustainable future.

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Master's in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability (MSLS): Career

"The Master´s Programme in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability (MSLS) has hosted more than 800 students from more than 90 countries, with great diversity also regarding age, gender, personalities, educational backgrounds and professional backgrounds. This tightly-knit community constitutes an utterly dedicated, competent and unstoppable global `sustainability virus`, which gives me great hope for a better world. I am very proud of being part of the co-creation of this `force of nature` and I welcome you to join our global MSLS family." 

- Professor Göran Broman, one of the programme founders

The MSLS Alumni Community

MSLS has over 800 alumni leading and working towards sustainability across multiple sectors of society in over 90 countries around the world. Explore how MSLS impacted them and how they are positively impacting the world on our interactive map.

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 Master's in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability (MSLS): Entry Requirements

Applicants having a bachelor's degree, English 6 and relevant work experience (internship, volunteer service, full or part time work, extra-curricular activity) over the course of at least 6 months that demonstrates your experience with social and/or environmental sustainability. In order to fulfill the programme requirements regarding work experience, you need to attach an employer certificate (in Swedish or in English). 

Specific eligibility in the English language from upper secondary school for non-Swedish students: TOEFL 575/90; IELTS 6.5 no section below 5.5, or University of Cambridge and Oxford tests.

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Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability - Impressions of your Masters study

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Overview of Masters programmes - Blekinge Institute of Technology

		Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability
		Computer Science
		Electrical Engineering with Emphasis on Telecommunication Systems
		MBA
		Mechanical Engineering with Emphasis on Structural Mechanics
		Software Engineering
		Sustainable Urban Planning

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Master's in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability (MSLS): Want to know more?

Global society's current path is unsustainable. At the same time, exciting possibilities for new ways forward are emerging - ways that bring human activity into harmony with the greater social and ecological systems that support us, while building better lives for all. How do we change course to create this better future? 

We become the leaders and change agents the world needs. We learn to understand our complex world better and to collaborate more strategically and systemically across borders, sectors and disciplines. We transform the ways we think, plan, make, act and lead in order to ‘co-create’ a vibrant, sustainable future.

?Join us in a stimulating, multicultural and multidisciplinary setting to earn your Master's in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability. Strengthen and develop your personal and professional leadership capacities to navigate the complex sustainability challenge:

• Learn about science- and experience-based methodologies for leading the transition towards sustainability.
• Together with a highly diverse group of peers, practice your skills at effectively combining and using these collaborative, solutions-focused methodologies.
• Be welcomed into a supportive, global community of strategic leaders and change agents working across a broad variety of sectors.

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Master's in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability (MSLS): MSLS Alumni Voices

MSLS Alumni Voices

"The MSLS Master’s programme has had the deepest impact on my path. I would not be where I am today in my life and on my continuous exploration around questions of inner and outer balance, leadership and connection if it wasn’t for the MSLS programme and for the people I have met in that network. No matter your age and background:
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If you want to learn (more) about how we can lead in unknown grounds, about how you yourself can make a change, about the connection of science and emotions - this might be your place!"
Meret Nehe, MSLS 2013, Germany Entrepreneur and Speaker

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