Business, Management, and Leadership Minor
Discover Your Purpose. Build Your Impact.
The Business, Management, and Leadership (BML) Minor cultivates who you are alongside what you do. Where understanding your values and motivations is as important as building your skillset—a minor that integrates personal discovery with professional development.
- Explore your profound purpose while building practical skills
- Learn from successful, impactful business leaders
- Work on real projects that challenge you to grow personally and professionally
- Graduate ready to lead with conviction in any field
Business Leadership That Starts From Within
This minor recognizes a powerful truth: The leaders who create lasting change—in organizations, communities, and the world—are those who understand their own values, purpose, and voice. They lead from authentic conviction as well as proven techniques.
Through BML, you’ll develop an applied business mindset and skillset while exploring fundamental questions: What’s your concept of profound purpose? How do leadership decisions impact human lives? How can business promote social good while achieving success?
What You'll Develop
The BML minor uniquely interweaves personal discovery with professional capability. Every course connects inner development with outer impact, preparing you to lead with both purpose and practical skills.
Personal Discovery
- Identify your core values and ethics
- Develop your authentic voice
- Explore what profound purpose means to you
- Build self-awareness and confidence
Professional Capability
- Master business fundamentals
- Practice real-world problem solving
- Lead teams through actual challenges
- Create value for organizations and society
Your Path to Purpose-Driven Leadership
The BML minor requires 15 credits that fit naturally within your course load over 2-3 years. Discover your leadership style, explore business fundamentals through the lens of personal purpose, and round out your learning with electives that connect to your passions and major.
Foundation Course
Discover your leadership style
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Theory and practice of leadership. Development and application of leadership skills across a range of contexts including startups, corporations, and nonprofits. Focus on developing self-awareness in preparation for leadership positions.
Core Courses (Select 6+ Credits)
Explore essential business skills through the lens of personal purpose
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Introduction to sound money management in personal and professional finance. Creation of greater financial awareness, and development of financial vocabulary. Financial requirements across life stages including student finances, purchasing the first home planning, and investing for life events and a comfortable retirement. Basic business finances, such as budgeting, accounting statements, and taxation.
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Development of effective verbal communications skills across a range of personal and professional scenarios, including public speaking, interpersonal communication, storytelling, public narrative, speeches, presentations, interviewing, and networking.
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Practical examination of marketing from startups to nonprofits, including opportunities to gain hands-on, applicable experience, emphasizing the mindset and skillset to apply marketing principles. Consumer behavior, market research, audience targeting and segmentation, positioning, digital marketing, and the elements of the marketing mix. Importance of personal branding and the application of marketing principles in professional settings.
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Exploring the skills and knowledge needed across an individual's career. Planning for internships and placements, preparing for a job search and gaining the skills and confidence for interviewing and starting a job. Students will develop the skills and knowledge needed to plan for a successful and fulfilling career.
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By taking a holistic view of life and leadership, this course will challenge students to explore practical and profound questions related to living a purpose-driven life both personally and professionally. The course will address issues such as work/life balance, personal ethics and effectiveness, self-knowledge, discovering one’s own authentic voice and vision, and how to contribute to a global society with an ethical mindset and cultural sensitivity.
Elective Courses
Choose courses that connect your major with your mission
Complete your journey with elective courses from across TGI’s portfolio of courses in Technology, Management, and Leadership (TML), Engineering Management (EM), and Entrepreneurship (ENT)
Where BML Graduates Lead
BML alumni are leaders who defining the next era of leadership:
- Nonprofit or NGO leaders addressing and solving complex social problems.
- Teachers and scholars advancing knowledge and training the next generation.
- UI/UX designers innovating the ways consumers connect with products.
- Museum art directors designing programs and public spaces that connect diverse audiences.
- Human resources managers fostering productive environments in which employees can flourish.
- Marketing managers creating compelling brands and communications that inspire.
The common thread? They combine business acumen with creativity, profound purpose, and human connection to reimagine the ways that businesses and individuals can thrive.
Real Questions from Students Like You
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BML includes dedicated courses on personal purpose and values as core requirements. You’ll explore questions of meaning, ethics, and social impact as an integral part of your business education. It’s for students who want to develop both personally and professionally through their business studies.
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Absolutely. Employers increasingly seek leaders who combine business acumen with emotional intelligence and ethical grounding. BML alumni work across all sectors—from Fortune 500s to social enterprises to startups.
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Perfect—that’s why you’re here. BML is designed as a journey of discovery. You don’t need answers; you need curiosity about the questions.
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Yes. The 15 credits for the minor fit within normal elective slots. Most students find BML enhances their major by adding leadership and business context that makes everything more meaningful.
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Ideally, take your first course in the minor by your sophomore year , but juniors can still complete the minor.
Minor Declaration and Certification
Students must declare the minor with the Registrar’s office. Please visit the Major and Minor Declaration page below to learn more about this process. You can complete this process at any point during your experience with the BML Minor.
After declaring the minor with Student Services, complete the Minor Certification Form below—this can be done before finishing all courses or receiving final grades. We'll email you a signed copy to bring to Student Services by your graduation deadline.