Develop your skills as a global leader, a creative problem solver, a social entrepreneur, and a citizen of the world! Learn to develop proposals that attract funds. Enrol, and we will place you on a team of eight members from radically diverse countries.
The Challenge
Your global team connects online to develop a six-page business concept proposal for a profitable venture that addresses a UN Sustainable Development Goal using limited capital. Win awards, prize money, certificates, and seed capital.
Coach Team Members
Learn coaching techniques to improve staff performance and wellbeing. Enjoy peer support from other managers learning coaching skills, and apply your skills to grow our global team members' potential to be changemakers for a better world.
The Te Kaihau Education Trust is seeking partners for the Global Enterprise Experience who would be delighted with what we can offer in return. Perhaps you are interested in developing global leaders who can (and are) making a profound difference, or accessing top graduates around the world, or getting publicity in major press outlets, or promoting your product or services to universities and students, or providing hospitality to business, government and civil society leaders, or fostering thought leadership on global issues.
The Global Enterprise Experience won a United Nations Alliance of Civilizations and BMW Group award for its global impact on growing leaders who can unite across cultural divides to make a difference in our world. Enjoy this UNAOC video describing the contest.
Every year participants from hundreds of universities and organisations across the globe choose to compete for honours in the only contest of its kind.
Enrol as a team memberand at 01:00 UTC on April 30, 2025 you will discover the names and countries of the eight people in your team. Over three weeks, you will unite with your global team, spark creative ideas for a profitable business to address a UN Sustainable Development Goal, then jointly develop a six-page business concept proposal for international judges. GEE-Free is free to enter with no restrictions on who may enrol. You can win awards, certificates, and seed funding.
Enrol in GEE-Plus to supercharge your Global Enterprise Experience. Choose the team leadership role, or to remain a team member. In this experiential programmeyou learn leadership, innovation, social entrepreneurship, and personal growth. Receive personal coaching to thrive in the face of challenges, and business mentoring to apply business skills. Earn an internationally recognised micro-credential from Victoria University of Wellington. Enjoy the peer-support of other changemakers leading team members from across the world.
Enrol as a leadership coach.Learn coaching skills to grow leadership with an experiential online programme. Enjoy deeply social learning sessions, practice coaching with peers, complete self-paced edtech resources, and then offer times you are available to coach GEE leaders. Earn a micro-credential from Victoria University of Wellington. Coaching impacts wellbeing, performance, and organisation culture.
Enrol as a business mentor.Learn how to help entrepreneurs to apply business skills with an experiential online programme. Practice these skills with one-one mentoring of GEE team leaders, as well as facilitating groups of team leaders to learn from each other.
The Te Kaihau Education Trust is seeking partners for the Global Enterprise Experience who would be delighted with what we can offer in return. Perhaps you are interested in developing global leaders who can (and are) making a profound difference, or accessing top graduates around the world, or getting publicity in major press outlets, or promoting your product or services to universities and students, or providing hospitality to business, government and civil society leaders, or fostering thought leadership on global issues.
