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GLOBAL LEADERSHIP & BUSINESS CERTIFICATION CAMBRIDGE 2025

Application Deadline: April 22nd, 2025

LOCATION: England

The Global Leadership and Business Certification Cambridge 2025 has been keenly designed to invite potential leaders and young entrepreneurs and enlighten them on the tenets of leadership, organizational management and business progress. 

ELIGIBILITY:

Age requirement: 16 and above

Ideal for responsible and enthusiastic young entrepreneurs

Student, Professionals & Entrepeneur passionate about learning leadership & business management traits

Individuals working in social development sectors and corporates

No IELTS/TOEFL required for the program application

Topics & Themes for Global Leadership & Business Certification:

Scaling New Heights: Reflect, Evaluate, and Move Forward

Where are You Now on the ‘Mountain to Mountain’ Journey

Reflecting on your transformation journey through critical questions

What might the next steps look like

The Struggle with Transformation: Research Findings and Real-World Experiences

Where are You Now on the ‘Mountain to Mountain’ Journey

Reflecting on your transformation journey through critical questions

What might the next steps look like

Global Strategic Leadership and Decision-Making:

This topic focuses on equipping leaders with the skills needed to make strategic decisions in a global context. It includes the development of a long-term vision, navigating global market dynamics, and managing the complexities of international business environments. This module would cover areas like global market analysis, competitive advantage, and managing multinational teams

Cross-Cultural Leadership and Communication:

Successful global leadership relies heavily on cultural awareness and the ability to communicate across diverse cultural settings. This topic should address how to lead and manage diverse teams, understand cultural differences, and adapt leadership styles to effectively communicate and collaborate with global stakeholders. Key skills would include conflict resolution, team dynamics in different cultures, and fostering an inclusive workplace.

Innovation, Digital Transformation, and Global Business Operations:

As technology continues to reshape the global business landscape, it is critical for leaders to understand the role of digital transformation, data-driven decision-making, and innovation in driving global business success. This topic would cover emerging technologies, digital tools for managing global operations, the rise of e-commerce, and ensuring data privacy and cybersecurity on a global scale.

These above topics collectively address the most important areas for modern leaders to excel in global business, strategy, culture, and innovation.

BENEFIT:

20 Fully Funded seats, 45 Partially Funded seats & 5 Social Media Campaigner seats

Airfare (For Fully funded only)

Accommodation

Global Leadership & Business certification by Global Business Symposium

Invitation letter for Visa Assistance

Access to Professional Training and Workshop Sessions

Networking with successful entrepreneurs and industry leaders

Exposure to international business practices and learning of leadership traits

Interaction with global leaders

Meeting like-minded young & experienced professionals

An opportunity to share your social impacts

Focused group discussions

Group activities

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE CENTRE (ITC) WTO MSME GROUP SMALL BUSINESS CHAMPIONS COMPETITION

Application Deadline: 28 March 2025

LOCATION: Switzerland

Are you an organization that supports the circular business model? Are you a non-governmental organization that empowers small businesses and entrepreneurs to become sustainable? Are you owning a small business implementing or wanting to scale sustainable innovations?

Become a Small Business Champion!

ELIGIBILITY:

The proposal entails:

Initiatives that can include awareness-raising campaigns, competitions, capacity building, training, mentoring and networking programmes related to the circular economy.

Small businesses active in the circular economy with an innovative business concept that, through its operations, reduces, prevents or repurposes waste in equivalent conventional business models.

Applications should have a clear link to international trade and include an action plan. To see examples from past competition winners, visit the MSME Group Small Business Champions website.

Proposals are open to small businesses, enterprises, industry associations, chambers of commerce and non-governmental organizations and should be submitted by 28 March 2025 via this online form:

Small Business Champions 2025 – Formstack
For more information on the Proposal and the Initiative, visit:

English: http://www.wto.org/english/forums_e/business_e/call_for_applications_2025_e.pdf

French: http://www.wto.org/english/forums_e/business_e/call_for_applications_2025_f.pdf

Spanish: http://www.wto.org/english/forums_e/business_e/call_for_applications_2025_s.pdf

BENEFIT:

The winner(s) will be invited to travel to Geneva for the award ceremony on 26 June 2025, sponsored by ICC and ITC. The International Trade Centre will additionally award each winner $4,000 prize money to support the development or further scaling of their winning project and issue an award certificate.

Moreover, training and mentoring opportunities will be discussed with each winner according to their needs, while winning submissions will be promoted by ICC, ITC, UN Trade and Development and the WTO MSME Group through their communication channels.

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