Doctor of Global Leadership (DGL)
Spirit-Filled Leadership for Global Kingdom Transformation
Your calling was never meant to remain confined by geography, culture, tradition, or yesterday’s level of influence.
The Doctor of Global Leadership (DGL) at CMM College of Theology is a premier professional doctoral program created for experienced Christian leaders who sense the Lord calling them to enlarge their capacity, sharpen their discernment, strengthen their leadership, and influence nations for the Kingdom of God.
This transformational program brings together:
- Biblical and theological foundations
- Intimacy with Christ and spiritual formation
- Spirit-led leadership and prophetic discernment
- World class guest teachers-proven apostolic-prophetic, fruitful leaders
- Global and cross-cultural understanding
- Organizational excellence and ethical governance
- Strategic planning and practical implementation
- Doctoral research addressing real-world challenges
The DGL is not designed merely to add another degree to your résumé. It is designed to develop the leader, clarify the vision, strengthen the organization, and multiply the impact of the calling God has entrusted to you.
“Enlarge the place of your tent… lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.” — Isaiah 54:2 NKJV
A Doctoral Program for Leaders Called to the Nations
For such a time as this!
The world is changing rapidly. Christian leaders must be prepared to navigate cultural complexity, emerging technologies, economic uncertainty, humanitarian crises, organizational growth, spiritual opposition, and unprecedented opportunities for the Gospel.
Yesterday’s leadership methods alone will not carry tomorrow’s assignment.
The Doctor of Global Leadership equips experienced leaders to remain firmly rooted in Scripture while responding courageously and wisely to the leading of the Holy Spirit. Students are challenged to move beyond maintenance leadership and develop the spiritual depth, strategic insight, cultural intelligence, and practical skills necessary to lead ministries, organizations, businesses, and Kingdom initiatives with excellence.
You will not simply study leadership. You will examine your own leadership, strengthen what God has placed in your hands, and develop strategies that can produce measurable and lasting Kingdom fruit.
Accredited Degree Programs
The Doctor of Global Leadership is accredited through the American Association for Higher Education & Accreditation (AAHEA), giving students confidence that their training comes from a recognized, faith-based accrediting body committed to Christian higher education.
A Different Kind of Doctoral Experience
Many doctoral programs focus primarily on theory. The DGL integrates rigorous academic study with spiritual formation, mentoring, collaboration, practical ministry application, and original research.
Throughout the program, students apply what they are learning within their current ministry, business, organization, or professional environment. Every course is designed to help you address real leadership challenges, develop healthy teams, strengthen organizational systems, and advance the vision God has given you.
The program emphasizes:
- Biblical Leadership: Leading according to the character, wisdom, and authority of Scripture
- Spirit-Led Discernment: Hearing God clearly and responding faithfully to His direction
- Global Missions: Understanding cultures, nations, people groups, and the Great Commission
- Strategic Vision: Turning God-given revelation into clear, actionable plans
- Organizational Health: Building sustainable structures without grieving the Holy Spirit
- Kingdom Governance: Establishing accountability, integrity, transparency, and trust
- Leadership Multiplication: Identifying, mentoring, empowering, and releasing emerging leaders
- Crisis Leadership: Responding with courage, stability, compassion, and wisdom during disruption
- Sustainable Stewardship: Managing people, finances, resources, and opportunities faithfully
- Applied Research: Developing practical solutions to significant leadership and ministry challenges
“Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it.” — Habakkuk 2:2 NKJV
Who Should Enroll?
The Doctor of Global Leadership is designed for mature, experienced Christian leaders who are preparing for a greater level of responsibility, influence, and Kingdom impact.
The program is especially relevant for:
- Senior pastors and church leaders
- Apostolic and prophetic ministry leaders
- Missionaries and global missions directors
- Ministry founders and organizational presidents
- Christian nonprofit and humanitarian executives
- Marketplace, entrepreneurial, and business leaders
- Christian educators, administrators, and seminary faculty
- Counselors, chaplains, and community leaders
- Government and civic leaders seeking a biblical servant-leadership model
- Emerging global leaders preparing to influence multiple cultures and nations
Applicants should normally possess a master’s degree or approved equivalent and demonstrate significant leadership experience in ministry, missions, education, business, nonprofit service, humanitarian work, or another relevant field.
Program Structure
The Doctor of Global Leadership is a 40-credit professional doctoral program normally completed over approximately 24 months through a flexible online cohort model.
The learning experience may include:
- Live online instruction
- Guided cohort discussions
- Faculty mentoring
- Independent study and reflection
- Leadership assessments
- Strategic ministry assignments
- Applied research
- Cross-cultural engagement
- Supervised practical leadership experience
Qualified students may be considered for an accelerated pathway based on previous graduate education, documented ministry or professional experience, transfer eligibility, and successful completion of CMM College of Theology’s Equivalency Application and academic review.
Students Complete
- Fifteen advanced Global Leadership modules
- A supervised Global Leadership Practicum
- A Doctoral Research Design Seminar
- An original doctoral dissertation or Kingdom Impact Project
- An oral doctoral defense
What You Will Study
The curriculum addresses essential dimensions of transformational Christian leadership, including:
- The biblical foundations of global leadership
- The inner life and spiritual formation of the leader
- Hearing God and exercising prophetic discernment
- Developing vision, mission, values, and organizational culture
- Leading across cultures and among the nations
- Apostolic leadership and global missions strategy
- Strategic thinking, innovation, and execution
- Building healthy teams and multiplying leaders
- Communication, influence, and organizational alignment
- Conflict transformation and biblical reconciliation
- Governance, ethics, accountability, and integrity
- Financial stewardship and organizational sustainability
- Crisis leadership, resilience, and navigating change
- Revival leadership and sustaining spiritual movements
- Succession, mentoring, legacy, and generational multiplication
What You Will Learn to Do
Graduates will be equipped to:
- Lead from intimacy with Jesus Christ and dependence upon the Holy Spirit
- Discern the times and respond wisely to emerging global challenges
- Translate prophetic vision into strategic and measurable action
- Build healthy ministries and organizations rooted in biblical values
- Lead effectively among diverse cultures, generations, and nations
- Develop sustainable systems without replacing spiritual sensitivity
- Strengthen governance, accountability, ethics, and organizational trust
- Navigate conflict and facilitate biblical reconciliation
- Respond effectively during seasons of crisis, transition, and rapid change
- Steward finances, people, opportunities, and Kingdom resources faithfully
- Identify, mentor, empower, and release future leaders
- Integrate doctoral scholarship with real-world ministry application
- Produce research that serves the Church and advances the Great Commission
- Establish a legacy that continues beyond the life of one leader
Global Impact Through Applied Doctoral Research
The DGL culminates in an original doctoral dissertation or Kingdom Impact Project addressing a significant leadership challenge within the student’s ministry, organization, profession, community, or sphere of influence.
Rather than producing research that remains on a shelf, students are encouraged to investigate real needs and develop practical, biblically grounded solutions.
Projects may address areas such as:
- Church and ministry growth
- Missions strategy and unreached people groups
- Leadership development and succession
- Cross-cultural ministry effectiveness
- Humanitarian and community transformation
- Organizational restructuring and governance
- Conflict resolution and reconciliation
- Marketplace ministry and Kingdom entrepreneurship
- Financial sustainability
- Educational innovation
- Revival, discipleship, and spiritual formation
- Technology and global ministry communication
The goal is research that is academically sound, spiritually discerning, and immediately useful—research that can help strengthen churches, ministries, businesses, missions, and communities around the world.
More Than Education—Transformation
The Doctor of Global Leadership is for leaders who refuse to settle for titles without transformation, revelation without implementation, or influence without integrity.
This is a season to go deeper.
It is a time to strengthen your stakes, enlarge your capacity, and prepare for the people, nations, and opportunities God may entrust to you next.
Throughout the program, you will be challenged to ask:
- What is God saying in this hour?
- What must change in me before I can lead others forward?
- Is my organization prepared to carry the next level of growth?
- Am I building something that can outlive me?
- Who am I intentionally preparing and releasing into leadership?
- How can my experience become a resource for the nations?
You will learn alongside other leaders who carry a hunger for God, a commitment to Scripture, and a desire to see lives, organizations, communities, and nations transformed.
“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations.” — Matthew 28:19 NKJV
Graduate Preparedness
Graduates of the Doctor of Global Leadership will be prepared to serve as transformational leaders who:
Think biblically.
Discern spiritually.
Lead strategically.
Serve humbly.
Build courageously.
Influence globally.
Multiply leaders.
Advance the Kingdom of God.
Whether serving in the local church, the mission field, education, business, humanitarian work, nonprofit leadership, or community transformation, graduates will be equipped to lead with wisdom, integrity, courage, compassion, and a lifelong commitment to Jesus Christ.
Is God Calling You to Come Up Higher?
You may already carry years of ministry, leadership, education, or professional experience. Yet you know there is more to learn, more to develop, and more Kingdom fruit to produce.
The Doctor of Global Leadership can help you bring together your experience, calling, spiritual gifts, and God-given vision within a structured doctoral journey designed for transformation and global impact.
Do not allow the next chapter of your calling to be limited by the preparation of your previous season.
Take the Next Step
Explore whether the Doctor of Global Leadership is the right fit for your calling, experience, and future assignment.
Visit CMMTheology.org or contact info@cmmtheology.org.
Instructors
Dr. Jorge Parrott, Founder and President, CMM College of Theology Global, and other guest teachers.
Tuition and Fees
Tuition is $4,575.00 USD, with a starting fee of $700.00 and monthly payments spread over 8 months, or a prior-agreed-upon monthly cost with the president. (Possible, limited scholarships are available for overseas students.)