Vision

The Key Executive Leadership Development Program challenges good managers to choose to:

• Become extraordinary leaders who learn and work collaboratively,
• Become a force for personal and organizational change,
• Act with integrity, and
• Model the behavior they seek

Mission

Faculty, staff, and students create a participative and rigorous learning environment where Key students choose to:

• Acquire contemporary public management knowledge, values and skills,
• Develop the personal leadership capacity needed to implement what they learn in their organizations, and
• Choose to transform themselves from good managers to extraordinary leaders.

Goals

1. Faculty, staff, and students create an environment where students work and learn collaboratively and replicate that environment in their workplace.
2. Offer an evolving curriculum that reflects the changing environment, technological advancements, and changing stakeholder, customer, and student needs and ensures students acquire knowledge of substantive public administration principles and practices.
3. Students choose to increase their leadership capacity and change their behavior to become better leaders.
4. Students apply substantive public administration principles and practices, increased leadership capacity, and changed behavior to effectively and efficiently implement public policy and practices needed to create and sustain vital public service organizations.
5. Provide top-notch administrative support services to students allowing them to focus solely on learning.