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Who this is for: College Regents in DAVT-51 and the thinking public in the second half of life who are entering an intergenerational phase of vocation and want to contribute remotely.

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The invitation

This doctoral track equips experienced practitioners and scholars to serve as wise decision-accelerators in complex missional environments. The program is designed for candidates who want to make multi-sector impact by strengthening the judgement, discernment, and execution capacity of gifted individuals and teams.

Program aim

Graduates will be able to:

• Design and lead applied research that improves real-world decision quality in high-stakes environments.
• Translate field observation into repeatable frameworks for leadership, learning, and community formation.
• Mentor and multiply gifted individuals toward faster, better decisions under pressure.
• Integrate theology, history, geography, and on-the-ground intelligence into coherent missional strategy.

The Khanh Hoa Academic Mission (core concepts)

This PhD stream is anchored in a living field laboratory: Khanh Hoa Province, studied as a whole system.

• History and people-groups formation (from Champa to modern Vietnam)
• Geography and livelihoods (landforms, watersheds, bays, mountains, mobility corridors)
• Economy and social structure (how place shapes opportunity, risk, and community resilience)
• Missional practice (reaching, building, discipling communities with measurable fruit)

Candidate profile (what we look for)

• Demonstrated maturity, stability, and the ability to work independently.
• A track record of leading, teaching, mentoring, or building institutions, communities, or initiatives.
• Comfort with ambiguity and complexity. You can make progress without perfect information.
• Willingness to submit work to critique and to revise quickly.