PhD in Leadership and Change Students
The program’s students are active professionals dedicated to the study of leading change in their fields of practice. The program admits annual cohorts of approximately 25-30 students who come from across the country and around the world.
Take a look at the diversity of experiences and backgrounds of our student community.
Review what our students are saying about their experience in the program.
“The Antioch University PhD in Leadership and Change creates a unique translational educational environment that provides each student with a robust learning community and the individualized mentoring and unwavering support required to transform working adult students into practitioner-based scholars.”
Thomas Crawford, Cohort 11
Faculty, Department of Urology
Chief Operating Officer, Prostate Disease Center
College of Medicine
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Health Services Research, Management, and Policy
College of Public Health and Health Professions
University of Florida
“At the beginning of my second year, I am finding the program to be a marvelous bridge between practice and theory. I am fully engaged in intentional, large scale change with my organization the Lighthouse for the Blind. The program has given me models and tools which I have been using in implementing change. The research-based support of change theory is giving me an increasingly firm foundation on which to build our shared vision and systems change. The program has also given me fresh insights, new angles for contemplation and renewed energy to pursue the changes I know are necessary for our organization.”
Kirk Adams, Cohort 10
President & CEO
The Lighthouse for the Blind, Inc.
“My Antioch experience met and exceeded every expectation: The phenomenal faculty, the supportive and knowledgeable staff, the rigor and relevance of what I have learned has gifted me with insights that enrich both my personal and professional worlds – every single day. Absolutely no regrets!!!”
Nora Antoine, Cohort 9
Faculty, Sinte Gleska University
“As an international student, I was drawn to the flexibility and low residency aspect of the Antioch Leadership and Change program, which allowed me to continue my life and work at home, while studying with my mentor in my chosen profession of music therapy. Antioch University’s inspiring faculty creates new learning. Studying leadership and change has made me a better educator and leader for my university students and has encouraged me to develop academically. The program has challenged me to dig deeper within myself, finding the resilience, commitment and determination needed to complete a PhD program on the journey to becoming a reflective practitioner scholar. The real gift in this program is each person in my interdisciplinary cohort, who is a unique and exceptional “book” for me. As we share our lives, our experiences and our common humanity, we continue to learn, live and grow together in community.”
Susan Summers, Cohort 9
Music Therapist and Educator
“The PhD in Leadership and Change Program has given me the incentive and the opportunity to reframe my understanding of my work in terms of critical, scholarly insight, breathing new life into my professional commitment by asking me to see longstanding leadership issues in utterly new ways. And it has done so by almost miraculously creating a community of learners (both student and faculty) that stay in close, intimate contact no matter the geographic distances between us all.”
Norman Dale, Cohort 6
Public Policy Professional, British Columbia, Canada
“Personally and professionally, I have never been so fully engaged and challenged to apply the scholarship of leadership and change to my area of interest…the richest learning I have undertaken…”
Wayne Hartz, Cohort 6
Associate Professor, Safety Occupational Health & Applied Sciences
Keene State College
