MBA Principles
Understand how great organizations are designed. Learn the practical frameworks servant leaders use to align organizational, operational, and financial strategy to build healthy organizations.
Explore the certificateThe SEU Professional Certificate in Enterprise Leadership
Complete all four to earn the Professional Certificate in Enterprise Leadership and create a potential* pathway toward the SEU Enterprise MBA.
MBA Principles
The mental models of leadership
You are hereOrganizational Behavior
The Human Side of the Three-Legged Stool
03Economics for Operational Excellence
The Economic Models a Leader Actually Runs On
04Live Seminar
A live, in-person capstone experience
*Through Southeastern University's Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) process. Qualification is not guaranteed and is determined through the University's established review process.
Built for People Who Lead
Whether you're leading a team today or preparing for greater responsibility, this course equips you with practical leadership frameworks you can apply immediately.
- New and emerging leaders who want a model they can actually operate
- Founders, operators, and managers building a team and a culture
- Aspiring MBA students who want a head start and a way in
Eight modules, one running company
Follow Citrus Grove Provisions through a continuous case study that helps you connect each framework to your own organization.
The Stool: A Mental Model for Leaders
See leadership as the design of strategy and structure, and learn to think in Systems 1, 2, and 3.
The Seat: The Leader's Inner Game
See reality with humility, own the three things you control, and govern emotions with LIDD.
Organizational Strategy I: Purpose and Influence
Set a purpose worth following, nest it into SMART goals, and lead by example.
Organizational Strategy II: Culture and Freedom
Build a create-together culture and a Freedom V that grows self-governance.
Operational Strategy: Capacity, Data, and Feedback
Build capacity to create value, and use data as the feedback loop that shows you reality.
Financial Strategy I: The Balance and the Cash Story
Manage the balance of fixed and variable costs, and read the cash story behind the profit.
Financial Strategy II: Profitability for the Mission
Grow profit as fuel for the mission, and weigh every investment as a steward.
Tying It All Together: Communication and the Leader in Action
Resolve conflict, win the framing, listen your way to reality, and lead the whole arc.
What is included
An experience designed to be worked, not watched.
Practitioners, not just professors
You learn from the people who built these models: company builders, a servant-leadership author, and the scholars who shaped SEU's graduate leadership programs.
Tim Dunn
Co-founder and CEO of CrownQuest Operating
Throughout his career, Tim Dunn has built and invested in organizations and the people who lead them. The lessons he learned through decades of hard work and investment, grounded in the principles of servant leadership and self-governance, now form the foundation of everything he does. As a practitioner of these principles, he continues to invest in and equip other leaders to build healthy, self-governing organizations.
Dave Kuhnert
Author of "Servant Leadership" and Director of The Crossroad
Dave Kuhnert is a servant-leadership practitioner, author, and executive coach who helps leaders build organizations where purpose, culture, and strategy reinforce one another. As the author of Servant Leadership and Building an Organizational Strategy, he equips leaders to create healthy, self-governing organizations that flourish over the long term.
Michael Steiner, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President of Advancement and Innovation, Southeastern University
Senior Vice President of Advancement and Innovation at Southeastern University, where he leads fundraising and advancement and oversees SEU Fire Athletics. He holds a Ph.D. in business psychology and an MBA, and teaches in the Jannetides College of Business, Communication, and Leadership.
Joshua D. Henson, Ph.D.
Dean, Jannetides College of Business, Communication, and Leadership
Dean of the Jannetides College of Business, Communication, and Leadership at Southeastern University, where he directs the MBA program and holds the rank of Professor of Leadership. He is a widely published scholar of servant and biblical leadership.
Begin MBA Principles
Start the first course in the SEU Professional Certificate in Enterprise Leadership and build toward the Enterprise MBA through the certificate's prior-learning-assessment pathway.
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