Global Collaboration and Leadership

The Global Collaboration and Leadership micro-credential will enhance your personal and professional leadership skills through self-awareness and reflection with peers from around the world.

UB Leadership Empowerment Academy Certification Program (LEAP) participants will receive this micro-credential. Through a collaboration between the School of Management's Global Programs Office and the Center for Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness (CLOE), you will engage with peers from different countries, reflect on your experience and showcase your own development journey.

To be eligible, you must be a working professional or a graduate student or exceptional undergraduate of one of these partner institutions:
- University of Cape Coast (Ghana)
- University of West Indies (Jamaica)
- Riga Business School (Latvia)
- Tangaza University (Kenya)
You must be nominated and selected by a committee of faculty members of the partner institutions
You must show a commitment to attend the yearlong experience with full engagement, including self-reflection, discovery and collaboration with peers from around the world

Online

Non-credit-bearing (you will not earn university credit)
In addition to the micro-credential, you will receive a certificate of completion

Attend orientation and all program/workshop sessions
Submit weekly journal entries
Meet with mentors
Complete all required assessments
Collaborate on Global Challenge team project
Oral defense of yearlong experience, including a documentary video of your experience
In-person visit (optional): two-week, in-person visit to the University at Buffalo in May/June