Our history

“Leadership is highly personal. It begins with the self. If you’re not sure about who you are, if you haven’t defined your unique purpose and vision, why should anyone follow you — especially during these times?” Nick Craig, President of the Authentic Leadership Institute

The program was originally developed and supervised as a graduate student project at Columbia University in 2005, supervised by Professor James Mandiberg. Over the next few years, we continued developing the idea and cultivating partnerships, and launched Global Potential officially in early 2007, using Globalhood, Inc. as a platform.

Global Potential entered its pilot year in 2008. Global Potential is currently running entirely on the efforts of volunteers.

It is our hope that by partnering with a foundation with similar values as ours we can obtain seed support to allow us to increase our productivity and further professionalize our operation while bringing it to scale, emphasizing replicability and outcome measurement.