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Master in Human Economy

The Master in Human Economy is a training programme aimed at executives, professionals, entrepreneurs, and organizations seeking to evolve towards a more human, conscious, and transformative leadership model. The programme is designed to expand decision-making capacity, understanding and impact in complex contexts by integrating intuition and critical thinking.

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Introduction

For decades, leadership has been built on data, models, planning, and control. While this approach remains necessary, it is no longer sufficient to address the complexity of contemporary contexts. We live in accelerated, uncertain, and deeply interconnected environments, where the abundance of information, tools, and technological capabilities coexists with a growing sense of disconnection from what is essential. The transformation driven by artificial intelligence, together with the evolution of organizations and social systems, is redefining how decisions are made, ideas are generated, and processes of change are shaped. In this context, there is a clear need to integrate new forms of leadership capable of embracing complexity without losing the human dimension, bringing greater clarity, purpose, and coherence into action.

The Master’s Degree in Human Economy emerges at this turning point as a training programme aimed at developing a new capacity for leadership based on presence, deep listening, and a profound understanding of individual and collective processes. The programme offers a transformative pathway that enables participants to lead with authenticity, activate intuition as a strategic tool, and orient knowledge towards more human, prosperous, and regenerative models. Rather than positioning itself as a process of adaptation to existing frameworks, the master’s seeks to become a space for fostering new ways of perceiving, deciding, and creating, aligned with the challenges and opportunities of the present.

This master is aimed at

The Master in Human Economy is aimed at individuals seeking to expand their leadership capacity and impact in complex environments, incorporating new ways of thinking, feeling, and acting.

+ Executives, entrepreneurs and professionals

Individuals leading teams, projects, or organizations who wish to evolve towards a more human, conscious, and intuitive leadership approach, aligned with current challenges.

+ Change-makers

Profiles involved in social, educational, or organizational transformation who aim to foster new forms of leadership, collaboration, and impact from a more integrative perspective.

+ Organizations

Companies and institutions interested in developing more human, cooperative, resilient, and coherent models, capable of responding to contemporary challenges without losing their core identity.

 Admission requirements

The Master’s Degree in Human Economy forms part of Elisava’s lifelong learning Master’s and Postgraduate programmes. These are professional, own degrees delivered by Elisava and awarded in collaboration with the Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVic-UCC).

1. Access with a prior university degree
To access a professional Master’s or Postgraduate own degree with full accreditation, applicants must hold an official university degree or an equivalent qualification. Eligible qualifications include:

  • Official Bachelor’s degree
  • Licenciatura, Engineering, Architecture, Diploma, Technical Engineering, or Technical Architecture degrees
  • Official or own university degrees with a minimum of 180 ECTS credits
  • Degrees issued by institutions within the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) that grant access to postgraduate or master’s studies in the country of origin

 

2. Access without a prior university degree

Exceptionally, applicants who do not hold an official university degree may be admitted if they can demonstrate relevant professional experience in the field of study or possess the necessary knowledge to successfully complete the programme.

In such cases, upon successful completion of the programme, participants will receive a University Specialisation Certificate instead of the Master’s degree.

Applicants who meet the academic requirements must submit the corresponding documentation to Academic Management within the established deadlines. Failure to provide this documentation will prevent the issuance of the degree until it is regularised.

3. Methodology with international academic validation

The methodology and pedagogical approach of the master were developed, applied, and subsequently systematised during its first edition. This work was presented at the III Latin American Meeting of Possible Territories, consolidating the programme not only as an innovative educational proposal, but also as a contribution validated in an international academic context.

In this way, the Master in Human Economy combines a methodology with academic recognition, aligned with current challenges in education, leadership, and organisational transformation.

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Objectives

The Master in Human Economy proposes a learning pathway designed to support real processes of transformation in the way individuals understand, decide, and lead within complex contexts. Through a pedagogical approach that integrates experience, reflection, co-creation, and practical application, the programme fosters the development of authentic leadership with the capacity to generate impact across individuals, organizations, and territories.

The programme is structured as a journey across four stages, enabling the progressive integration of new capacities for perception, action, and transformation:

  • Deprogramming: A process of reviewing beliefs, patterns, and conditioning that limit individual and collective potential, fostering openness to new ways of understanding and acting.
  • Co-creation: The activation of collaborative intelligence and emergent thinking to design and prototype new realities in complex environments.
  • Integration: The alignment of values, purpose, and action, strengthening a more coherent, conscious, and deeply connected form of leadership.
  • Catalysis: The expansion of impact through decisions, relationships, and projects with transformative potential, aimed at generating sustainable value across different contexts.
Programme of the Master in Human Economy
1 Foundations of Human Economy

Introduces the framework of Human Economy as a new economic paradigm that integrates awareness, values, intangibles, and purpose, aimed at generating positive impact on individuals, organizations, and social systems.

 2 Leadership and creative management of complexity

Explores new leadership models in highly uncertain contexts, promoting decision-making aligned with purpose, internal coherence, and the transformation of teams and organizations.

 3 Comparative transformative economies

Critically analyzes the main emerging economic models that are redefining value creation, integrating ecological sustainability, social impact, governance, and alignment between values and practices.

 4 Collaborative intelligence

Approaches collective intelligence as a key capability based on trust, relationships, and co-creation, applied to teams, organizations, and complex human systems.

 5 Harmonious finance and conscious investment

Provides a comprehensive view of the financial field from an ethical and regenerative perspective, integrating the relationship between money, values, awareness, and impact in economic decision-making.

 6 Organizational vitality and well-being

Deepens the development of personal and collective energy as a foundation for sustaining leadership and transformation processes, linking wellbeing, awareness, and capacity for action.

 7 High-calibre communication

Understands communication as an essential practice of conscious leadership, aimed at expressing purpose, building trust, and mobilizing individuals and organizations towards shared goals.

 8 Catalytic prosperity

Reframes the concept of prosperity from a systemic and regenerative perspective, exploring how sustainable value is created when purpose, action, and human systems are aligned.

 9 Regenerative evaluation and continuous improvement

Proposes a vision of evaluation as a dynamic process oriented towards learning, coherence, and impact, integrating quantitative, qualitative, and relational dimensions.

 10 Transformative science

Introduces new scientific paradigms that integrate complexity, awareness, and intuition as a foundation for understanding and facilitating processes of individual, social, and ecosystem transformation.

 11 Master’s Final Project (TFM)

Development of a transformative project applied to a real context, such as an organization, community, territory, or entrepreneurial initiative. The project integrates purpose, systemic vision, feasibility, and impact generation within the framework of the Human Economy.
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How we do it

The Master’s Degree in Human Economy combines different learning formats designed to integrate knowledge, experience, and practical application from the very beginning of the programme.

+Live classes

Synchronous online sessions that combine academic content, shared reflection, and experiential learning.

+Learning community

A collaborative environment designed to build connections, exchange perspectives, and foster collective learning.

+Practical application

Direct transfer of learning into real contexts, facilitating the progressive integration of content into professional and organizational settings.

+Inspirational sessions

Sessions with professionals and leading figures who share experiences, trajectories, and perspectives related to transformation and contemporary leadership.

+Real case studies

Analysis of real-world experiences applied to personal, organizational, and social transformation processes, helping to contextualize and expand learning.

Do you want to know more about the Masters’ School?

Each academic year, students with very diverse professional and cultural profiles of more than 80 nationalities from all over the world attend their master’s or postgraduate training at Elisava. We want to promote connections and networks among students beyond the context of each master’s degree to promote the exchange of knowledge through very diverse projects: we organize interdisciplinary workshops and conferences; transdisciplinary projects with students from several master’s degrees; collaborations with companies, institutions and NGOs…

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