Complete at least 24 credits in the MS in Leadership, or MS in Digital Transformation Leadership program
Drive Your Leadership Skills with Cybersecurity Expertise
Advance your career by combining the strategic insights of a Master’s in Organizational Leadership with the critical cybersecurity skills gained from a Graduate Certificate in Cybersecurity. This program is designed to equip you with leadership skills and cybersecurity knowledge, enabling you to lead organizations while protecting them against digital threats. The curriculum integrates strategic leadership, ethical decision-making, and cybersecurity fundamentals to prepare you for leadership roles in today’s digital world.
Lead Your Career Into the Future
- Strategic Leadership: Develop skills in strategic transformation and strengths-based leadership to drive organizational success.
- Ethical Leadership: Gain a strong ethical foundation to lead with integrity in complex organizational environments.
- Design Thinking & Innovation: Apply design thinking principles and foster innovation within your organization.
- Relationship Building: Enhance your communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
- Cybersecurity Expertise: Master key cybersecurity principles, including threat detection, incident response, risk management, and information assurance.
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Academic Excellence and Recognition
Regionally accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education
Ranked among the Best Online Bachelor’s Programs by U.S. News & World Report
Designated as a Military Friendly School for our commitment to the military community
Named the among the best schools with accelerated bachelor's degrees by Intelligent.com
How Can an MS in Organizational Leadership with a Certificate in Cybersecurity Help Your Career?
As organizations face increasing digital threats, the combination of leadership and cybersecurity expertise positions you for high-demand roles that require both strategic oversight and technical knowledge. Graduates of this program are well-prepared for leadership roles that involve safeguarding an organization’s digital infrastructure while driving strategic initiatives.
Potential career paths include positions such as cybersecurity manager, IT project leader, operations director, and strategic transformation consultant.
Sources: Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023
Top Jobs for MS in Organizational Leadership Graduates
- IT Project Manager
- Strategic Transformation Consultant
- Organizational Development Manager
- Leadership Development Manager
- Risk and Compliance Manager
- Management Consultant
Program Details
Learn more about Champlain's 100% online Master's in organizational leadership degree program.
Champlain's online organizational leadership courses encompass the top skills needed by today's leaders.
Explore concepts and frameworks for how to lead effectively in today's ever-changing world. Using an integrative reflective practice approach, students examine their own approach to leadership and create an initial plan for their own leadership development, as well as the leadership development opportunities for their organization.
Examine how to cultivate meaningful relationships across an organizational system, from co-workers, to team members, to broader stakeholders. Attention will be given to how to leverage both formal and informal relationships to create positive impact. Topics include perceptions, motivation, emotional intelligence, building teams, and conflict management.
Explore how to accelerate organizational change by focusing on and leveraging the core strengths of individuals and the collective system. Learn how to challenge the traditional deficit mindset that pervades organizations, and how to use evidence-based appreciative practices to cultivate shared leadership across a system.
Explore organizational dynamics from a holistic viewpoint and how leading ethically and socially responsibly results in enhanced performance at the individual, group and organizational levels. Special focus will be given to exploring one's own ethical orientation, issues of diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as how leading with a higher purpose can result in both accelerated organizational and broader social impact.
Students use a framework to explore the dynamics of human interaction within and between organizations. Throughout the course, they will use a perspective that a key function of management is to negotiate for resources and use that perspective to develop collaborative relationships with employees, vendors, suppliers, and interested communities.
Explore how to strategically lead continual organizational evolution and apply new business models needed for success in today's ever-changing world. Attention will be given to leading sustainable growth with an intraprenurial mindset, managing disruption, the implications of the digital transformation on organizations, and the power of leading with a purpose.
Explore how to uncover creative insights and innovative solutions for today's organizational challenges. Learn about the systematic process of design thinking from a human-centred approach, including how to cultivate creativity in others and create a culture of innovation.
This course culminates in an applied leadership capstone project to support the translation, application and synthesis of core concepts from previous courses to a final capstone project, through action research and reflection. The project will reflect a real-life situation and will include a description of the situation, stakeholder mapping, identification of key leadership opportunities and challenges, and conceptual basis for recommendations derived from data collection as well as prior learnings and content from the Leadership Program.
Prerequisites
In this course, students examine essential cybersecurity concepts in the context of different business environments. Students explore a range of topics, including risk, vulnerabilities, security architecture and design, identity and access management, and incident response.
In this course, students learn about threat actors, and threat intelligence collection, analysis, and dissemination. Students also learn how to analyze cyber threats and develop effective countermeasures and examine the legal and ethical implications of threat intelligence gathering and sharing.
Prerequisites
Take OPSC-506
In this course, students learn how to develop and implement effective cybersecurity policies and procedures, and study legal and regulatory requirements in cybersecurity, including data protection laws and standards. Students also learn how to align cybersecurity strategies with business objectives.
Prerequisites
Take OPSC-506
Graduates of the MS in Organizational Leadership will develop the following competencies:
- Adaptive Leadership in a Complex Work Environment. Leverage advanced leadership theory, practice, and innovation to lead an organization’s strategic transformation.
- Ethical and Purpose-Driven Leadership. Lead with ethics first and a commitment to social responsibility.
- Communication, Relationship Building, and Team Cultivation. Communicate effectively, negotiate fairly, and build meaningful relationships to cultivate high-performing teams and foster inclusive organizational cultures.
- Innovation, Design Thinking, and Action-Oriented Leadership. Apply design thinking and innovation principles to lead the construction and implementation of strategic transformational organization change.
Graduates of the cybersecurity online graduate certificate program will demonstrate the following industry-specific skills, knowledge, and competencies:
- Assess cybersecurity risk and vulnerabilities in information systems and organizations
- Analyze various types of cyber threats
- Evaluate cybersecurity risk management strategies
- Develop cybersecurity policies and procedures
Champlain College Online's business faculty, led by Department Chair Dr. Albert Orbinati, are expert practitioners in the field. Their industry expertise ensures that our business management curriculum is aligned with the needs of employers, and reflects the skills today’s business professionals need for success. Classes led by our seasoned experts will give you real-world insight into the business world, and create a rich community of career-focused learning.
Tuition & Costs
Graduate Tuition Fall '23 - Summer '25
$595
per credit
$1,785*
per course
$450**
PER CREDIT FOR ALUMNI WHO EARNED A DEGREE FROM CHAMPLAIN, ON-CAMPUS or online
$450
per credit military service members (family members see truED tuition)
$150
One-time graduation fee
*Based on a 3-credit course; cost will vary if course is a different number of credits
** Starting Summer 2024, not retroactive
See the graduate cost of attendance and fees here
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Meet the Program Director
Albert Orbinati, PhD
Department Chair and Assistant Professor, CCO Business Programs
Oversees
- Business (A.S., B.S., M.S., Certificates)
- Human Resource Management (B.S., Certificates)
- Leadership (M.S.)
- Management Information Systems (B.S.)
- Organization Development & Human Relations (M.S.)
About
Albert Orbinati, PhD, is Assistant Professor and Department Chair for the undergraduate and graduate business programs at Champlain College Online.
Prior to Champlain, Dr. Orbinati's roles have included Assistant Vice President of Online Learning and Continuing Education at Medaille University in Buffalo, NY; Dean of the School of Professional and Continuing Education at Russell Sage College in Albany, NY; and Director of Online and Non-Traditional Programs at Utica University in Utica, NY. In addition to his career in higher education, Albert is a member of the U.S. military, and currently holds the rank of Major in the Vermont Air National Guard.
Dr. Orbinati holds a B.A. in Urban Planning from Binghamton University, an M.A. in Adult Education from Central Michigan University, an M.B.A from Champlain College, and a Ph.D. in Adult Education from Capella University.
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