DMIN in Transformational Leadership Online Program

Wesley Seminary is excited to offer its Doctor of Ministry (DMIN) with a concentration in Transformational Leadership for the third time, opening online August 1, 2022. Initially launched in 2016, the concentration in Transformational Leadership is available in a cohort format once every three years and is designed to send students into a deeper dive that will equip them to follow God’s call to lead in a variety of contexts.

The curriculum has been intentionally designed to address personal, communal, and societal leadership in culturally diverse settings. The DMIN program offers students the unique flexibility of earning their doctoral degrees while continuing their full-time careers in ministry or other career paths.

The program is designed to allow working ministers to earn a doctorate in leadership while maintaining their pastoral positions. The program is predominately completed online. Content courses are 12 weeks long with 11 of those weeks completed online and one-week completed in person. Research courses are 8 weeks long and are completed totally online.

The first phase of the DMIN ends when the student’s course work is completed and they defend their Project Proposal. When the proposal is approved the student enters the project phase, where the student and his/her Project Advisor implement the study, gather results and draw conclusions. This second phase, where the student finishes their Project, could take as little as a year, although the student customarily has four years in which to finish.

Residencies

Residential Intensives are held for one week in September and May each year for the first three years of the program, with locations varying.

Testimonial

Rev. Curtis Thompson, Adult Ministries Pastor - Kentwood Community Church

"Being part of the Transformational Leadership DMIN program at Wesley Seminary was phenomenal and a life changing experience. The program helped to expand my understanding of principles in leadership, and also to develop a healthy philosophy in promoting change, growth, and transformation within churches, ministries, and people. A key takeaway from the program is this: change and transformation must occur in me first, as a leader, before it can begin in the people, churches, communities, and other parts of the world that I encounter as I live out my God given purpose in life."