DSL – Strategic Foresight
School of Business & Leadership
First Online Doctor of Strategic Leadership (2001)
Top 3 Best Graduate Online Business (Non-MBA) Programs in Virginia, 2019
312 C-Level Leaders (CEO, CFO, etc)
10 University Presidents
Predict and Plan Like a Pro
We'll teach you the intricacies of organizational change and how to lead strategic initiatives as you identify future opportunities and challenges. Our Doctor of Strategic Leadership (DSL) degree emphasizes leadership, communication, structure, team building and cultural understanding from a Christian perspective. Through this terminal professional degree, you'll become grounded in theory and practical components essential to organizational success.
BECOME AN ANALYTICS EXPERT
Lead a scenario learning process for a leadership team that analyzes trends and tests organizational strategy against a range of possible futures.
LEARN TO LEVERAGE TECHNOLOGY
Map an organization's complexities by identifying stock and flow, links and loops and then use computer models to generate alternative scenarios.
GAIN HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE
Conduct an audit of a client organization and offer suggestions on how they might advance their mission by reworking their planning cycle.
Our award-winning faculty will bring out your inner leader, from performing expert analyses to mentoring teams through change.
Online w/Residency
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TOTAL CREDIT HOURS: 60
APPROVED DEGREE PLAN: Click to download PDF
Take Your Career to the Next Level
After completing our doctorate in leadership online, with a minimal on-campus residency in Virginia Beach, you'll be able to:
- Identify future opportunities and challenges for any organization.
- Understand the intricacies of organizational assessment, organizational change and how to lead strategic initiatives.
- Monitor and assess organizations' skills to innovate learning environments that continually increase effectiveness and efficiency.
- Elevate individuals, teams and systems to their God-given potential.
Career Opportunities
- Corporate, Military & Government Consulting
- Executive Leadership for Business, Nonprofits, Educational Institutions, Government Agencies & the Military
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Relationships between organizational strategy and design/structure in contexts of culture, communication, technology, and leadership cultures.
Strategic leaders’ future orientation as they assess emerging changes in an organization’s external environment, market diversities, competitive complexities, resource changes, socio-political shifts, and across technological discontinuities.
Reading and understanding the sacred texts of the Bible, foundational methodologies of applied biblical exegesis, and the use of simplified socio-rhetorical criticism.
Leadership process and the communication involved, enhancing students’ skills and fostering more effective and authentic collaboration. Interweaves current scholarship and trends with historical perspectives on leadership.
Strategic leadership as it explores the insights and tools of followers in effective partnership with leaders.
The history of leadership theory and research to understand the pattern of exploration and the future path of the study of leadership.
The role of personal and organizational values on the development of ethics and codes of conduct in multiple cultures around the globe.
The intersection between faith and ethics, the formation of ethical frameworks, and how faith, informed by religious principles and teachings, instructs ethics.
Fundamental principles and practices of managing and developing human resources from a senior leadership perspective. Consideration from biblical and theological perspectives.
Understanding of global issues and the significance of global leadership competencies. Prerequisites: LDSL 720, 721, 722, 723, 724, and 725.
Effective decision-making, using data, analysis, and systematic reasoning to improve efficiency, risk-management, and profits.
Principles of consulting that undergird effective organizational change. Examines the knowledge base of the consulting profession focusing on the relationship between theory and practice.
The roles of creativity and innovation in organizations as components for building vibrant transformational entities.
Salient and essential aspects of leadership development emphasizing the importance of finding the balance between personal, professional, community, spiritual and family priorities.
Systems thinking by strategic leaders to map complexity in an organization’s transactional and macro environments through the identification of variables, stock and flows, links and loops.
The 21st century economy’s development as interconnected parts, particularly on economic outcomes for the global South. Examines baseline forecasts of regions or countries and uses computer models to generate alternative scenarios in demographic, environmental, economic and socio-political domains.
Theories for the appearance and direction of social order, conflict and action throughout history.
Organizations’ creation of anticipatory management systems to identify, track and remediate policy issues expected to emerge beyond the present planning cycle.
DSL project work. Prerequisites: Successful completion of the integrative paper and formal approval of the DSL project topic.
DSL project work. Prerequisites: Successful completion of the integrative paper and formal approval of the DSL project topic.
DSL project work. Prerequisites: Successful completion of the integrative paper and formal approval of the DSL project topic.
In this exploding age of information, it is the objective of the library faculty to prepare graduates to be on the cutting edge of information technology. Information literacy is the ability to effectively access information for problem solving and decision-making; thus, the knowledge and abilities you glean from this course will open doors to lifelong learning. It is imperative for graduate study research. Since the information learned in this course is a vital foundation for all other coursework, its completion is required within the first semester of study. The course takes approximately ten hours to complete.
2019-2020 Semester Check-In Deadlines:
All new students are expected to check-in for the semester 2 weeks prior to the session start date. Students should apply, be accepted, enroll in their first courses, and confirm a plan to pay for their courses prior to this date.
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Session |
Semester Check-In |
Session Start Date |
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Session A |
Friday, August 9 |
Monday, August 26 |
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Session M |
Friday, September 13 |
Monday, September 23 |
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Session B |
Friday, October 18 |
Monday, October 28 |
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Session C |
Friday, January 3 |
Monday, January 13 |
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Session T |
Friday, January 31 |
Monday, February 10 |
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Session D |
Friday, March 6 |
Monday, March 16 |
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Session E |
Friday, May 1 |
Monday, May 11 |
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Session F |
Friday, June 12 |
Monday, June 22 |
Doctoral Degree Requirements for Admission
When applying to the Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership or the Doctor of Strategic Leadership programs, the admissions committee, comprised of several faculty members, will use a rubric to independently evaluate and score each of the following criteria:
- Academic achievement in bachelor's and master's programs
- Writing quality
- Alignment of personal goals to Ph.D. or DSL outcomes
- Number of years in leadership positions
- Leadership development and impact
- Number of leadership positions held
Prerequisites:
Doctoral applicants must:
- Hold a master’s degree from a regionally accredited institution or an equivalent degree from a foreign institution, as evaluated by a credential evaluating agency.
- Submit all application materials such that they are received by the deadline for the semester to which they are applying. Once the application requirements have been fulfilled, an admissions interview may be requested. Interviews are by invitation only.
Admissions Process:
1. Complete Your Online Application
Submit your application using our Regent University Online Application.
Note: If you are unable to complete our application due to a disability, please contact our Admissions Office and an admissions representative will provide reasonable accommodations to assist you in completing the application.
2. Pay Your $50 Application Fee
Pay the $50 application fee online during the application process, via our Miscellaneous Payments Form, or by check or money order mailed to Regent University, Enrollment Support Services, 1000 Regent University Drive, Virginia Beach, VA 23464.
3. Submit your Unofficial College Transcripts
We are able to examine and view your unofficial transcripts from U.S.-based schools, which indicate successful completion of bachelor's and master's degree programs, in order to review you for an admissions decision. Please submit your unofficial transcript to our Transcript Request team by email to transcripts@regent.edu using the subject line: SBL Doctoral Application Pieces.
Non-U.S. transcripts must be evaluated by an NACES-approved company. For further details, please review the International Admissions Checklist on the International Students Admissions page.
International Applicants: Please visit the International Students Admissions page for a more detailed explanation of the Regent University application information and to determine whether or not you qualify as an international student.
*Upon conditional acceptance to the program by review of unofficial transcripts, Regent University's Admissions Office will attempt to obtain your official transcripts from your U.S. degree-granting institutions, which indicate successful completion of bachelor's and master's degree programs. We will notify you if your previous institutions will not release transcripts directly to us.
4. Send Your Professional Resume
Provide an updated copy of your professional resume or curriculum vitae that includes:
- Employment history with details of leadership responsibilities, skill sets and results – the committee looks at both quantity and quality of responsibilities
- School, community and church leadership positions – the committee looks at both quantity and quality of positions
- Service activities in which you have been involved
- Academic and non-academic honors and distinctions you have received
Your resume should be emailed directly to the Admissions Office at apply@regent.edu using the subject line: SBL Doctoral Application Pieces.
5. Complete Your Admissions Questionnaire
Please complete a brief admissions questionnaire based on your professional goals and interests. This should only take a few minutes to complete but please answer the questions completely and thoughtfully. This gives us a better opportunity to get to know you and align your objectives with our programs.
The admissions questionnaire can be found here. Once completed, our admission office will be able to upload this to your application file.
6. Government-Issued ID
To ensure academic integrity, Regent University requires a copy of a government-issued ID. Simply scan and upload a copy of your driver's license, high school ID, passport, permanent resident card or official government ID card, using our secure and convenient online tool. If you would prefer to take a picture of your government-issued ID and email that to our office, please attach your ID and email to apply@regent.edu with the subject line: Government ID.
2018-19 Tuition Rates
| Degree Level / Program | Cost Per Credit Hour |
|---|---|
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Doctor of Strategic Leadership |
$995 per credit (In-state & Out-of-state) |
2019-20 Tuition Rates
| Degree Level / Program | Cost Per Credit Hour |
|---|---|
|
Doctor of Strategic Leadership |
$995 per credit (In-state & Out-of-state) |
Student Fees Per Semester
| Enrollment Deposit | $500 |
| University Services Fee (Online Students) | $550 |
| Residency |
$375 per residency Note: All students are responsible for their own lodging, travel arrangements and incidental expenses. |
| ENGL 500-01 Graduate Academic Writing Course | $70 |
| RU Library Course Fee | $50 (one-time fee) |
*Rates are subject to change at any time.
TITLE IV LOANS: If students are receiving Title IV Federal Student Loans, they are permitted to enroll in the same course number a maximum of only two semesters. Therefore, doctoral students are encouraged to carefully plan the dissertation/final project stage of their program.
Learn more about scholarships and financial aid.The School of Business & Leadership is committed to the historical foundations of the doctoral degree in which a community of scholars is created among faculty mentors and student scholars. Regent University mirrors this historical tradition by using student cohorts, intensive on-campus residencies and a variety of interactive discussion modes that extend beyond topical course discourse.
The Ph.D. and DSL programs in the School of Business & Leadership include two required residencies, each covering four days and held on the campus of Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The first residency covers program orientation and guidelines, the library use course (UNIV LIB Information Research & Resources) as well as in-class instruction for the first two courses of the core curriculum. The second residency focuses on class instruction for the courses to be taken in the semester as well as doctoral program requirements such as comprehensive exams, doctoral dissertation, DSL Integrative Paper and Final Project.
View upcoming residency dates, registration and lodging details.
Hear From Students & Alumni
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Hunter Davis, J.D., 2013
School of Business & Leadership"Regent prepared me for steps I needed to take to start a business, as well as to lead one."
David Segovia, MBA, 2015
School of Business & Leadership"You do have to make sacrifices. But, this is not a negative thing. You can get through it and most importantly, you don't have to compromise your principles. It all works out."
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Roger Orozco, MBA, 2015
School of Business & Leadership"My Regent education gave me a Christian perspective that helps me think outside the box and see how I can use my education to change the lives of many people."
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Doris Gomez, Ph.D.
School of Business & Leadership"This isn't just a job for me — this is a ministry. Whatever I've done at Regent I've always had the sense that this is what God has called me to do."
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Kevin Beery, Ph.D., 2008
School of Business & Leadership"I came away from my program at Regent with an increased confidence in my ability to lead an organization and the skills I needed to do it."
DSL – Strategic Foresight