
Master Program: Doctorate in Organisational Change (ADOC)
Learning purpose
This programme aims to meet the growing need for a reputable qualifi cation focused on consulting. As organisations face the need to respond to ever more diverse and challenging issues, consultants must learn new ways of working with complex and uncertain situations.
Target audience
The programme is for professionals who are keen to take their development as ‘reflective practitioners’ seriously, and for doctoral candidates who seek to make a unique contribution to our understanding and knowledge of consulting. It is designed and delivered by Ashridge Consulting, specialists in organisation development with a global client base.
Programme
The overall aim of the progarmme is to:
- Develop participants’ understanding of organisations as complex social processes and enhance their ability to handle complex situations
- Develop participants’ confidence and effectiveness as reflective practitioners in organisation consulting, and as leaders in their field
- Promulgate organisation consulting as a distinctive and ethical practice
- Promote consulting as a participative act with consequences which may be anticipated but not predicted
- Provide experienced practitioners with a learning forum intended to increase:
– Their understanding of themselves and the attitudes and beliefs they express through their practice
– Their effectiveness in working with clients to resolve recurrent problems - Engage participants in developing their own unique contribution to the field of consulting through a rigorous process of inquiry.

