MONARCH BUSINESS SCHOOLDOCTOR OF MANAGEMENT
Executive experience · Reflection · Contribution
Doctor of
Management
You’ve earned your executive experience.
Now earn your doctorate.
Strengthen your authority, credibility and professional legacy. Build on your executive experience to pursue the personal achievement of a doctorate—and share insights that can guide others.
Monarch Business School Switzerland
Executive doctoral study
MONARCH BUSINESS SCHOOLDOCTOR OF MANAGEMENT
Your experience. Your ambition. Your legacy.
Your experience deserves
a lasting contribution.
The Doctor of Management is an executive doctorate for senior managers, executives and organisational leaders with a substantial record of professional practice—typically 20 or more years of experience.
Your career provides the foundation for a reflective manuscript: a substantial written contribution shaped by your experience and perspective. With faculty guidance, revisit pivotal moments, connect your lessons with management ideas and develop insights other leaders can learn from.
Bring your achievements, your perspective and your ambition. Develop a distinctive management contribution, strengthen your professional voice and work towards the pride of earning your doctorate—without leaving your career behind.
What you will develop
Confidence in your judgement. Deepen your understanding of the decisions that shaped your career and bring a more informed perspective to your next leadership challenge.
A distinctive management voice. Express the management lessons you have earned in ways that resonate with colleagues, clients and future leaders.
Credibility grounded in insight. Connect your experience with management ideas and evidence to develop a well-supported contribution you can discuss with confidence.
Broader leadership influence. Develop your perspective on people, responsibility and organisational impact, so your insights can help others navigate complex decisions.
Professional authorship. Create a substantial manuscript that brings your experience, perspective and management insights together in your own voice.
A contribution that lasts. Shape the lessons of your career into a professional legacy that others can learn from and build upon.
MONARCH BUSINESS SCHOOLDOCTOR OF MANAGEMENT
Plan your doctoral journey
Programme facts
The Doctor of Management (D.Man) is a fully online, part-time executive doctorate for experienced leaders. Build on your professional journey through individual mentorship and a reflective manuscript, while continuing your career without relocating.
Admissions can help you choose a study pathway that fits your professional commitments.
| Institution | Monarch Switzerland |
|---|---|
| Department | Monarch Business School |
| Award | Doctor of Management (D.Man) |
| Study mode | Fully online, including the doctoral defence |
| Study format | Part-time |
| Standard duration | 24 months |
| Extended pathway | Available; discuss your study plan with Admissions |
| Designed for | Senior managers, executives and organisational leaders |
| Professional experience | Typically 20 or more years of professional practice |
| Residency | No relocation required |
| Language | English |
| Institution location | Switzerland |
| Principal work | A reflective manuscript grounded in executive experience |
The programme can be completed fully online, including the doctoral defence. An in-person defence may be selected when offered by Monarch.
Completion depends on progress and fulfilment of the programme’s academic requirements. Admission and awards remain subject to academic review and applicable institutional policies.
MONARCH BUSINESS SCHOOLDOCTOR OF MANAGEMENT
Individual guidance. Your next chapter.
Your experience.
Guidance at every stage.
You do not need to arrive with a finished manuscript. Once you choose the Doctor of Management, faculty will guide you in developing your proposal and shaping your experience into a focused contribution.
01 · Select the experience
Start with the decisions, achievements and turning points that matter most to you and the lessons you want to share.
02 · Frame the proposal
Work with your mentor to define your manuscript’s purpose, guiding questions and scope. Together, develop a proposal for academic approval, supported by relevant management scholarship.
03 · Develop the manuscript
Examine what happened, why it mattered and how your understanding changed. Bring managerial storytelling, metaphor and critical analysis together to communicate meaningful insight.
04 · Integrate the lessons
Bring patterns and contrasting experiences into a coherent contribution. Explain the usefulness, limits and context of the principles you develop.
05 · Share your contribution
Present and discuss the completed work in a scholarly symposium, engaging with faculty, peers and invited colleagues.
MONARCH BUSINESS SCHOOLDOCTOR OF MANAGEMENT
Questions grounded in professional life
Turn career-defining moments
into lasting insight.
These examples suggest possible manuscript themes drawn from the richness of executive life. Explore the decisions, relationships and turning points that have shaped your leadership, and work with your mentor to develop a direction that reflects your experience, interests and the contribution you wish to make.
Leading through uncertainty
What can pivotal decisions during disruption reveal about executive judgement, responsibility and the limits of established management assumptions?
Culture, trust and change
How have your approaches to organisational change evolved, and what do critical episodes reveal about trust, resistance and leadership influence?
Stewardship and professional legacy
Which hard-won principles from your career could help other leaders navigate competing interests, ethical tensions and long-term organisational responsibility?
Develop your insights with confidence and care.
Your mentor will help you connect recollection with evidence, consider different perspectives and explain the context of your lessons so others can understand and use your insights.
Protect the confidentiality of colleagues, clients and organisations. Agree the appropriate handling of sensitive professional material with your academic mentor.
A contribution to management.
Develop a thoughtful synthesis of experience and insight that contributes to management scholarship. Clarity, critical judgement and a rich account of context help others understand where your lessons can inform their own leadership.
MONARCH BUSINESS SCHOOLDOCTOR OF MANAGEMENT
Executive experience · Scholarly perspective
Mentorship grounded
in management practice.
Dr. Jeffrey Henderson
Professor and mentor · Doctor of Management
Dean of the School · Professor of Business Ethics
Dr. Henderson brings practical executive experience from Bentall Capital, Brookfield Properties, Kolter Properties, Reichmann International and KPMG Canada LLP to his mentoring of experienced managers. He connects commercial experience with the management challenges candidates bring to doctoral study.
Executive and managerial experience
Before his academic leadership at Monarch, Dr. Henderson held Vice-President and senior managerial positions across commercial real estate and consulting. His career included Bentall Capital, Brookfield Properties, Kolter Properties and Reichmann International, providing a practical foundation in property development, management and executive responsibility.
At KPMG Canada LLP, he served as Vice-President within the Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (FIRE) consulting practice. Across his professional career, his work included the development and management of real estate projects surpassing $6 billion in Canada and the United States. This experience brings the realities of large-scale business decisions into his conversations with doctoral candidates.
Practical experience in support of your doctorate
With Monarch since its inception in 2010, Dr. Henderson combines this managerial background with academic experience that includes an affiliate professorship at Grenoble Graduate School of Business and lecturing in real estate finance at McGill University’s Faculty of Management.
For Doctor of Management candidates, this combination offers a mentor familiar with both executive responsibility and doctoral study. He helps established leaders explore significant decisions, interpret professional turning points and shape the hard-won lessons of their careers into a meaningful management contribution.
MONARCH BUSINESS SCHOOLDOCTOR OF MANAGEMENT
Professionals taking their next step
Different careers.
Shared doctoral ambition.
Meet experienced professionals bringing their own ambitions, career achievements and perspectives to the Doctor of Management. Each is developing a contribution grounded in a distinctive professional journey.
Darrell Lines
United Kingdom · Doctor of Management candidate
A quality, health, safety and environmental professional with leadership experience across the energy sector, Darrell brings a background in risk governance, human factors and safety-critical operations. His doctoral interests connect executive judgement with organisational resilience and responsible leadership in high-risk industries.
Amanda Garcia
United States · Doctor of Management candidate
Amanda’s career in the United States federal judicial system spans more than two decades. Her professional experience brings together organisational leadership, policy and team management. Her doctoral interests explore leadership and team effectiveness in complex institutional settings, with attention to ethics, governance and evidence-informed practice.
Explore the decisions and relationships that have shaped your leadership, and develop a contribution grounded in your distinctive professional journey.
MONARCH BUSINESS SCHOOLDOCTOR OF MANAGEMENT
Your ambition. Your next step.
Plan your next professional chapter.
Study alongside professional life.
This doctoral program may be completed fully online, including the doctoral defence. No relocation is required. Candidates may select an in-person doctoral defence when offered by Monarch. Continue your career through asynchronous study and individual mentorship. Optional workshops in Switzerland offer opportunities to exchange ideas and build connections. Admissions can help you explore the study plan and commitment that fit your circumstances. Completion remains subject to academic requirements.
Your experience. Your pathway to admission.
Review considers your professional portfolio, leadership record and capacity for reflective doctoral work. A bachelor’s degree or equivalent is normally expected; alternative educational backgrounds are considered individually. Admission is subject to academic review.
The corresponding master’s milestone.
The programme provides for the Master of Management as the corresponding Master-in-Passing award on successful doctoral completion, subject to applicable award requirements. The corresponding Master-in-Exit offers a separate pathway, with appropriate master’s-level work and academic approval required for the award.
Plan your investment.
Explore current tuition and payment arrangements, and speak with Admissions about your intended study plan.
This brochure introduces the programme. Current institutional policies, academic requirements and individual admission terms govern study and awards.
MONARCH BUSINESS SCHOOLDOCTOR OF MANAGEMENT
Your experience. Your next contribution.
You’ve built your career.
Now build your doctoral legacy.
Your experience. Your ambition.
The pride of earning your doctorate.
Picture your next chapter: the pride of earning your doctorate, a stronger professional voice and a contribution that carries your experience forward. Tell us about your career and ambitions, and take the first step towards your Doctor of Management.
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