Department of Leadership & Innovation
May 9, 2025 2025-05-10 3:41Department of Leadership & Innovation
Department of Leadership & Innovation
Overview
Welcome to the Department of Leadership and Innovation, where strategic innovators and visionary leaders are shaped for the ever-changing and complex business world. Our programs are designed with busy executives in mind, delivering a blend of cutting-edge research and insights from the real world needed to equip and inspire professionals, public sector leaders, entrepreneurs and individuals driving towards meaningful change. This department’s courses drive strategic and innovative thinking, creativity, transformative leadership, and ethical decision-making to drive industry relevance and academic excellence. This makes our diverse curriculum attractive to individuals seeking a competitive edge and deep expertise in strategy, innovation, leadership and public sector management. These courses are carefully designed to meet the unique demand needs of sectors in business, management and leadership domains. Join us at the Department of Leadership and Innovation, where every program is a personal and professional transformation journey. Discover how to become part of a community committed to excellence, innovation, and impactful leadership. Explore our programs in more details and find the pathway that aligns with your career goals and aspirations to make a difference.
Programs
Academic Doctorate Programs
Professional Doctorate Programs
Masters Programs
Message From the Head of Department
Dear Masters or Doctoral Candidate,
Welcome to the Department of Leadership and Innovation at NiBS in Ghana’s capital, Accra. We are glad to partner with you on your master's or doctoral journey, meeting your academic and professional development aspirations in Strategy and Innovation, Organizational Leadership and Public Sector Innovation and Leadership programs. Our programs are specially designed to nurture innovative, strategic, visionary, and transformational leaders through an evidence-based approach to decision-making, churning challenges into valuable opportunities in Africa and beyond.
Top companies in today's business world make innovation a critical part of their strategic operations. As business dynamism increases and disruption threats become the new normal, firms must adopt a more proactive, effective, and focused approach to innovation and strategy. Our program's research-centred approach provides the platform for integrating academic excellence with practice, employing a graduate-on-time model for busy executives. Our department's students benefit from our program's focus on local and global business frameworks, which includes truly Africa-focused research, executive-friendly block format delivery, and insightful case studies. This department, therefore, assists students through a rigorous intellectual discovery journey that seeks to challenge conventional practices, empowering them to be creative, question traditional business model assumptions, and develop practices that align with the dynamism of business innovation, public sector management, leadership and followership in Africa and beyond.
The Department of Leadership and Innovation courses stand out based on the dedication and expertise of faculty, as well as their professional and research experience in business strategy, innovation, organizational leadership, and public sector innovation management. By bridging academia and practice, we foster a learning environment that integrates effective theoretical knowledge into practical application. Our curriculum is developed based on a critical needs assessment from collaborations with professional international bodies and response to dynamism in emerging markets, ensuring that graduates are academically and ethically grounded in theory and practice and excel in the dynamic and competitive business world.
As we advance the course of excellence, curiosity, and experimentation culture-building, I invite students, faculty members and partners to engage in our shared mission of empowerment leadership that redefines the narrative and spearheads impactful change. This is a pivotal time in deciding to prove that you can achieve the highest academic qualification and emerge as a thought leader. Please do not hesitate to contact our academic admission team for further assistance and information. I wish you success in joining our enriching programs at NiBS.
