Consistent with our vision, GSL Leadership for Local Change © curriculum is the core of the training. Seamlessly structured, the curriculum focuses the learning experience on leadership, entrepreneurship, advocacy/communication and information technology. Each element builds upon the other to transform participants at a systematic and integrated pace. The curriculum encourages participants to evolve personal leadership to organizational and community leadership. The curriculum also expects students to develop do-able business plans.

The intent and development of the business plan allow participants to organize their commitment of solving a community problem and expand their understanding of the environmental forces that influence the plan’s delivery. Completed Business Plans include detailed marketing, personnel, organizational information and a full set of financial statements.

GSL Outcomes and Success Stories

Graduates of the GSL program not only acquire the leadership, entrepreneurial, communication skills that allow them to “mature into their potential to become more wise and humane beings. Because, as I [Walter Link] understand it, what we create in the world is the mirror image of the degree of our inner maturation, and our capacity to translate the resulting wisdom into sustainable actions…we therefore need both inner and outer development”.[1]

 GSL Alumni are competent in preparing research and market-based business plans, producing and managing financial statements, delivering impactful presentations, advocating for social and political action and proficiently implementing their plans.

 The hands-on, market sensitive, pragmatic and inspired teaching approach and training has created numerous GSL success stories. Deepening the impact of these business plans is only possible with additional resource investment.