Master of Arts in Transformational Leadership and Coaching

At Wright Graduate University for the Realization of Human Potential, people often ask why our programs combine leadership and coaching . Can there be one without the other? Of course, there can be; however, we argue that to be a successful leader you must be a great coach.

We designed the Master Of Arts In Transformational Leadership And Coaching at Wright Graduate University for a different kind of leader and coach.

What if you could…

• Develop as a change agent, facilitating the emergence of those you lead and coach?
• Facilitate clients’ social-emotional intelligence, self-expression, goal achievement, and personal emergence?
• Earn credit while you experiment, practice, and apply what you learn day-to-day and moment-by-moment?

Experience an education that gives you the leadership skills today’s market demands, AND the human skills that empower you as an authentic leader.

Curriculum Applied to You

From day one you’ll direct your learning toward your own most pressing challenges . How? Wright Graduate University faculty have spent 30 years perfecting an applied educational format.

In the personally-applied curriculum, we call performative education, you’ll take on bite-size daily leadership and coaching challenges that you can implement anywhere, in any career and life path, from day one. You’ll also practice the critical coaching skills of leading groups, applying what you learn immediately.

Education Your Way: Online, On Campus, or Both

At times in your education, you may want an in-person community, and at other times you want to learn in your own space. That’s why we invested in technology to create a seamless hybrid learning experience for our students in all programs. You get to choose whether you want to learn fully online or meet your cohort and faculty in person.

Experience the freedom to have your curriculum adapted to your life rather than you having to adapt to the curriculum.

Learn by Doing

You wouldn’t learn a musical instrument or a sport by reading about it – you’d play. The same goes for leadership and coaching: you learn by doing .

Chances are that if you’re thinking of undertaking a master's, you’re already doing leadership in some regard - coaching, measuring, planning, monitoring, holding others accountable for results, and so on.

Imagine a program where you earn credit for consciously applying your studies to what you are already doing, rather than contrived group work, far-off case studies, or anything other than directly impacting your life and business where you are.

Our faculty are player coaches who will give you feedback from the perspective they’ve honed on the playing field themselves.

Become a Master of Many Trades

Forget the idea that a jack of all trades is a master of none. Today’s workplace demands that you constantly learn, grow, and adapt to an ever-changing environment

That is why we take a transdisciplinary approach – diving deep into leadership, coaching, philosophy, psychology, educational methodology, and neuroscience to develop leaders who win the hearts and minds of those they lead.

Accreditation

Wright Graduate University is accredited by the Distance Education Accrediting Commission, 1101 17th Street NW, Suite 808, Washington, DC 20036; 202.234.5100.

The Distance Education Accrediting Commission is listed by the U.S. Department of Education as a recognized accrediting agency and is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).

Wright Graduate University’s M.A. in Transformational Leadership and Coaching, Graduate Certificate in Transformational Coaching, and Ed.D. in Transformational Leadership and Coaching have been formally recognized by GSAEC as the first school meeting the GSAEC Academic Standards of Graduate Coach Education.

At Wright Graduate University, personalized learning doesn’t just mean small classes: you experience an integrated approach to education that lets you apply your studies to your most pressing challenges, earning credit as you lead your life and business.

We believe a pragmatic education is more valuable than a prestigious one–and recent research confirms this. If you’re going to invest in a degree or certificate, it should do more than check a box to earn you a credential. It should address the skills that make the difference between average and star performers, and between short-term gains and sustainable results.

At Wright, you experience what you study, receiving coaching to apply the methodologies to your own development, making you an authentic guide to those you lead and coach. The Wright approach gives you doable, bite-size daily challenges that you can implement anywhere in your career and life.

Wright faculty are scholar-practitioners – business owners, consultants, entrepreneurs, and coaches – who have brought together the most effective learning methodologies from their thirty years of research and leadership development practice with high performers.

Each program features a core curriculum of transformational leadership, giving you practical experiences of personal leadership (self-awareness and development), one-on-one leadership (coaching), and group facilitation and training from day one of your program.

This transdisciplinary approach dives deep into both new and historic research in business, philosophy, psychology, educational methodology, and neuroscience, giving you the tools to understand what universally drives and motivates human beings.

If you are ready to challenge yourself to discover new ways of thinking and operating in your life and career every day to tap your potential in your career, your relationships, and the dreams and goals that matter most to you, Wright Graduate University is the right education for you.

About us

Wright Graduate University was established in 2006 by Drs. Bob Wright, Judith Wright, and Michael Zwell, to offer graduate degrees in the emerging fields of leadership and coaching. This institute of higher learning offers future leaders and executives the tools to develop leadership skills to encourage, support, motivate, and inspire their employees and colleagues, creating positive change and success in organizations and companies.

Wright Graduate University (WGU) is committed to the highest standards of academic excellence and values, where the students’ experience is positive, personalized, and supportive. Because WGU provides access to a broad range of programs and classes, we have earned a reputation for excellence, discovery, and knowledge. WGU’s broad range of classes in scholar-practitioner programs are renowned for focusing on the unique educational and professional development needs of adult students. Working adults from all over the country are achieving their academic goals while balancing the demands of full-time jobs, family, and community responsibilities. Graduates may apply their education to their jobs and professions while they learn on WGU’s innovative virtual technology system.

WGU prides itself on making higher and professional education available to everyone, with an array of innovative, diverse, and rigorous course offerings that will challenge, inspire and motivate students to achieve their goals of a new beginning, a higher education, and even a new career path. Wright Graduate University is a positive step in the right direction. The common thread in all of WGU’s course offerings and certificates is, “Education as it should be.”