Are you genuinely curious? Open to thinking differently? Willing to step out of your comfort zone to develop ‘future-fit’ leadership skills that positively impact the world? If so, then this special GIE to South Africa will be a powerful part of your undergraduate experience. We will have two, weekend modules (Fri-Sat) of classes in Chapel Hill and a week in Cape Town, South Africa.
South Africa has a unique abundance of cultural and geographic diversity and some of the world’s highest economic inequality levels. It faces distinct challenges of emerging market economies, such as slow growth and socio-political issues. Such a complex and uncertain context is often the impetus for developing innovative products, services, and business models. So, South Africa presents an ideal context for learning about the skills required in leading businesses through the global uncertainty and complexity faced by organizations and societies.
This elective is designed to be a transformative learning and leadership development experience. It requires your full participation, engagement, commitment, and energy throughout. The focus is on stepping into innovation within complexity and uncertainty through engagement with real-life challenges, alongside South African changemakers. This will allow you to build your capacity to use future thinking and innovation principles in aligning business solutions to greater goals (as proposed by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals-SDGs).
Program objectives include:
Our emphasis on learning-through-application requires your full presence, engagement, and participation throughout all aspects of the program – introductory sessions, Chapel Hill classes, and in-country. It’s important to know that this is a full, 3-credit-bearing course. While in South Africa, you should expect to spend ~10 hours per day on program activities.
The program is led by Lecturer Dave Bond, Executive Coach, Change Consultant, and International Facilitator, in collaboration with a team of South African faculty.
UBP students can schedule a meeting with the UBP Global Team to learn more about this and other Global Immersion Electives by clicking on the “Schedule Appointment” link below.
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