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What is Global Leadership?

The leadership we believe is demanded in response to today’s many complex issues we call global leadership or leading beyond borders. Global leadership is built on the premise of synergy – that all peoples, regions and cultures offer vital elements to forging global solutions. It is truly cross-border leadership, which embraces diversity and fosters collaboration. This kind of leadership, the ability to lead beyond borders, enables us to recognize our common connection, envision new possibilities, innovate new solutions, and support the changes in perspective and systems being called forth. For further details about our understanding of global leadership, please click here and read Leadership is Global, see below as well as Mark Gerzon’s recent book Leading through Conflict.

Current GLN Initiatives

Strengthen our Global Network
With several dozen global leadership practitioners as members, representing nearly every corner of the globe, our network is already engaged in regular regional and international gatherings. We are expanding to include other practitioners, organizations and networks that are similarly inspired. Members’ knowledge and experience is being collected and integrated to create a shared framework to foster our continued work.

Collaborate on a Global Leadership Book
At a time when human conflict and global insustainability threaten our very survival and new paradigms of civilization and leadership are emerging as a response, GLN co-chairs Walter Link (Europe), Thais Corral (Brazil) and Mark Gerzon (USA) have co-edited a diverse and synergetic book by 22 co-authors from around the world. Leadership is Global is the first independent, globally written and designed book on “global leadership.” It was launched on November 2nd with the opening keynote of the International Leadership Association conference in Chicago.

Design Leadership Workshops
In cooperation with its members and partner organizations, GLN offers educational programs and training experiences that further the understanding and application of local & global leadership perspectives and skills. These programs are tailored to fit the culture and specific needs of each group’s participants. They have been offered to leaders in civil society and business, governments and translateral organizations in such countries Brazil, Croatia, the USA and Kenya, where we partnered with Outward Bound International to clime Mt Kilimanjaro in July of 2006 with leaders from all continents, while GLN offered leadership training.

Build Consulting Practice
The GLN has developed a team of experienced practitioners to work with organizations in need of incorporating an understanding of global issues, perspectives and leadership practices into their work. Building on several already successful engagements, the GLN is a unique resource, providing cross-border considerations from both theoretical and practical vantage points to a wide array of organizations finding their way in the emerging global economy and society.