LEADER PROGRAMME
The experience
Be a member of a global team designing a social enterprise. (See the Team Member tab for details). Supercharge the experience with adding Leader for:
Training: Enjoy lively webinars on leadership skills, personal development, innovation, creating a business concept proposal, social enterpreneurship, and the UN SDGs. Get the full details here.
Networking: Share learning with other changemakers from around the world in facilitated network sessions. Receive guidance from colleagues and professionals.
Leadership coaching: One-on-one coaching that helps you lead your team, form deep insights into yourself, align with your goals, amplify your strengths, and overcome the blockages that sabotage your best intentions. Book times for one-hour online sessions that suit you with your chosen coach.
Business coaching: One-on-one coaching that helps you to apply creativity techniques to hone your team's business idea, develop your business strategy, market it, evaluate the economics, and address other business issues.
Lead a global team: Leadership enrolees get priority rights to lead a global team. On the enrolment form, let us know if you would like to be invited to lead - either on your own or with a colleague. Team leadership is a powerful leadership experience and takes about double the time of being a team member. Past graduates say the experience was the most significant factor in transforming their lives and landing their dream job.
Recognition: Your leadership will be recognised with a certificate and letter of commendation and you can win the Global Leader Award.
Add a qualification: Leader enrollees can have their work marked to earn a micro-credential issued by Victoria University of Wellington. This is New Zealand's capital city university and is ranked in the top 2% of universities in the world. We will offer you this optional extra on completion.Both qualifications are recognised internationally. They are a full qualification on their own, or can be used toward undergraduate and graduate diploma qualifications:
Leadership in the Global Enterprise Experience Micro-credential, (12 points at Level 7 - i.e. third year university). Only team leaders are eligible.
Peer-Leadership in the Global Enterprise Experience Micro-credential (8 points at Level 6, i.e. second year university). All Leader enrolees who chose to remain as a team member are eligible.
Cost
Enrolment in the Global Enterprise Experience is free.
Add the Leader programme for USD 1,210.
Add the optional micro-credential qualification for an additional USD 190.
Invoices are sent to your chosen payers after enrolment.
Leader enrolment
Enrol here between February 25 to April 16 on the Global Enterprise Experience. Select the Leader option on the enrolment form.
2025 contest dates
At 01:00 GMT on April 30 you will receive details of your eight team members. For three weeks you will work together to develop your proposal to submit by May 21. The Leader programme starts on April 24 to prepare you for leadership.
Who may enrol
Anyone in tertiary education, the workforce, or contributing to a voluntary organisation can enrol in the Leader Programme and receive training and coaching.
An invitation to lead a team is limited to Leader enrolees who:
Expressed interest in leadership on their enrolment form, and
Have been selected for Leader scholarships (e.g. from MFAT, NZ Police, TPK, Ministry of Ethnic Communities, UNDP, universities), or
Are graduates, or
300 level or above university students, or
Who have some leadership experience.
