Amanda Garcia Joins the Doctor of Management Program
Amanda Garcia joins the Doctor of Management (D.Man) program at Monarch Business School Switzerland, bringing over two decades of distinguished experience within the United States federal judicial system. She currently serves as Chief United States Pretrial Services Officer for the Northern District of Illinois, where she leads a multidisciplinary team responsible for federal pretrial investigations and community supervision, while overseeing complex administrative, financial, and policy functions within a highly regulated institutional environment.
Her professional trajectory reflects a steady progression through roles of increasing responsibility, from probation officer to executive leadership, alongside national-level contributions to advisory committees and working groups focused on institutional effectiveness, ethics, and operational excellence. This depth of experience, grounded in real-world leadership, evidence-based practice, and public accountability, aligns closely with the philosophy of the Doctor of Management program, which is designed for senior professionals seeking to critically reflect on and elevate their practice through structured doctoral inquiry.
Within the program, Ms. Garcia is expected to explore themes related to leadership and team effectiveness in complex institutional environments, drawing from her extensive experience managing high-performing teams within the federal system. The Doctor of Management program provides a flexible, research-driven framework that enables candidates to remain fully engaged in their professional roles while developing meaningful, practice-oriented contributions to their field. Her decision to pursue doctoral study reflects a commitment not only to personal advancement, but to strengthening leadership practice and organizational effectiveness at the highest levels of responsibility.
Please join us in welcoming Ms. Garcia to Monarch and to the Doctor of Management program.
The Monarch Doctoral of Management Program
Monarch’s Doctor of Management (D.Man) program provides a structured and intellectually rigorous pathway for senior professionals, executives, and institutional leaders who seek to transform extensive professional experience into meaningful scholarly contribution. Designed for candidates who operate within complex organisational environments, the program enables professionals such as Ms. Amanda Garcia to critically examine leadership practice, team effectiveness, governance structures, and organisational performance through disciplined inquiry grounded in real-world contexts.
Rather than separating theory from practice, the D.Man framework invites candidates to draw directly from their lived professional experience and elevate it into applied research that contributes to management knowledge with both practical and ethical relevance. The program emphasises reflective leadership, systems thinking, and the development of actionable insights that inform decision-making within dynamic and high-responsibility settings.
The program is designed in alignment with the principles of the European Qualifications Framework (EQF Level 8), reflecting the highest level of doctoral learning outcomes in terms of knowledge creation, autonomy, and professional impact.
The tuition-based structure supports active professionals who wish to pursue doctoral research without disengaging from their ongoing roles. In this sense, the Doctor of Management functions not merely as an academic qualification, but as an integrative research platform—one that refines executive judgment, strengthens organisational impact, and enables the production of principled, practice-oriented scholarship grounded in lived experience.