Georgetown University's Latin America Leadership Program

💡 Inspiring Conversations at the LALP Alumni Impact Session!

We had an incredible time connecting with the GCL 2025 cohort during an engaging session of fireside chats with seven alumni from the GCL and ILG programs representing diverse generations, industries, and sectors.

The dynamic conversation was led by Cristina Ruiz and Peter O'Donnell as alumni shared their journeys, perspectives, and advice.

💬 One of the hottest topics? Networking – unlocking new opportunities, building meaningful relationships, and growing your professional circle.

🔑 Top Recommendations for Emerging Leaders:

🌟 Embrace every networking opportunity
🌟 Build relationships that go beyond business
🌟 Stay curious, be open, stay engaged, and never stop learning

A big thank you to everyone who participated and shared their insights. Let’s keep growing and strengthening the LALP Alumni Network!

📚✨ GCL 2025 In-Person Sessions Kicked Off – And There’s More to Come! ✨📚

Over a week in, our amazing GCL 2025 cohort from 14 Latin American & Caribbean countries is already diving into impactful sessions, expanding their networks, and gaining skills to drive change! 🌍🙌

From supply chains to entrepreneurship, sustainability, and social impact, they’re tackling it all while working on projects in finance, public policy, tech, education, and more!

A huge thank you to the GU faculty, facilitators, and guest lecturers whose expertise and enthusiasm are truly helping these emerging leaders shine. Their dedication is making a real difference in supporting these future changemakers and ensuring they’re equipped to create meaningful, lasting impact in their communities and industries!

We can’t wait for the upcoming sessions and off-campus visits, and we are excited to see the personal and professional growth that is on the horizon for the GCL 2025 cohort and the impact they will make in the region! 💡🔥

🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 LALP Impact Award Winners! 🎉

⭐ Felipe Paullier, GCL 2017 from Uruguay, was recognized with the 2025 GCL Impact Award for his dedication to youth affairs. His efforts transcend his role and responsibilities, and his work is guided by his passion for youth affairs and his commitment to serving others, emphasizing the importance of human connections and relationships: https://bit.ly/4h4zQqg

⭐Isabel Tarrisse da Fontoura, ILG 2020 from Brazil, has been awarded the 2025 ILG Impact Award. This recognizes both her strong professional career – spanning over 15 years in Brazil’s public sector and innovation management, social development, trade, and investment – and her contributions to strategic management in the development, implementation, and growth of a new model for efficient collaboration in administrative support activities among government ministries in Brazil: https://bit.ly/41h6hMx

Congratulations Felipe and Isabel! 🎉

🚨GBEL 2025 Application Deadline Extended!🚨

Great news! We've extended the application deadline for Global Business Executive Leadership (GBEL) 2025 to give you more time to apply.

📅 New Deadline: February 10, 2025

🔗 Apply now: bit.ly/4igiDfs
📖 Learn more: bit.ly/3B8YFT4
📩 Questions? Contact us: [email protected]
💡 Leadership. Strategy. Impact. Are you ready?

🌟Spotlight Dr. Robert Bies: Excellence in Teaching - GBEL 2025🌟

Dr. Robert Bies, Ph.D., is Professor of Management and Founder of the Executive Master’s in Leadership Program at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.

His research focuses on leadership, the delivery of bad news, organizational justice, and revenge and forgiveness in the workplace. He has published extensively on these topics and related issues in academic journals. Professor Bies’s exceptional teaching has garnered multiple accolades for his contributions at both Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.

The GBEL 2025 cohort is in for a fantastic experience, as they will witness his exceptional and dynamic teaching style up close!

We cannot wait to learn from his GBEL session – and to find out who the BOBSCAR winners are in 2025! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoee_7czlf4&t=14s

Join us at GBEL 2025!
⏳ Applications close February 1, 2025
👉 Apply here: bit.ly/4igiDfs
📖 Learn more about the program: bit.ly/3B8YFT4
❓Questions? Contact us: [email protected]

🌟Spotlight Dr. Rachel Pacheco: A Management Thought Leader-GBEL 2025🌟

Dr. Rachel Pacheco is an award-winning author and management professor at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. She was an executive at the JPMorgan Chase Institute, and has lived and worked in Kazakhstan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Indonesia.

The opportunity to gain insights and knowledge at her GBEL 2025 session is going to be incredible!

Here is one of her most recent collaborations on management:
https://lnkd.in/gpyKDwRV

Join us at GBEL 2025!
⏳ Applications close February 1, 2025
👉 Apply here: bit.ly/4igiDfs
📖 Learn more about the program: bit.ly/3B8YFT4
❓Questions? Contact us: [email protected]

Are you a mid-level executive in Latin America or the Caribbean ready to thrive in the global business world? 🚀 Take your career and business to new heights with 2025 GBEL!

Georgetown University’s Global Business Executive Leadership (GBEL) program is a hybrid, transformative experience designed to elevate your leadership and impact. With virtual modules and immersive in-person sessions in Panama City and Washington, D.C., this is your chance to lead with purpose on a global scale.

⏳ Applications close February 1, 2025—don’t wait!
👉 Apply now: bit.ly/4igiDfs

🎓 Hear inspiring success stories from our first cohort: bit.ly/40V5li0
📖 Learn more about the program: bit.ly/3B8YFT4
❓Questions? Contact us: [email protected]

📈 Don’t miss this opportunity to build your legacy—apply today! bit.ly/4igiDfs

🌟 Welcoming the 2025 GCL Cohort! 🌟

We are thrilled to kick off an extraordinary journey with the 19th cohort of Georgetown University's Global Competitiveness Leadership Program (GCL)! 🌍✨

These dynamic leaders from across Latin America and the Caribbean are embarking on an experiential and transformative, hybrid program designed to inspire leadership, spark innovation, and drive impactful change.

Over the next four months, they’ll:
🔹 Engage in thought-provoking sessions with world-class experts.
🔹 Tackle real-world challenges with collaborative solutions.
🔹 Build lifelong connections within a vibrant network of changemakers.

Day 1 highlights included:
🎓 A warm welcome from the LALP team—Cristina Ruiz, Peter O’Donnell, and Guadalupe Ramírez.
📚 An inspiring opening session with Professor Ricardo Ernst, exploring the interconnected forces of globalization, competitiveness, and governability.
🌟 Words of encouragement from the GCL Alumni Network Board of Directors (2024-2027), exemplifying the power of our LALP's alumni community with nearly 1,000 members across the region.

This is just the beginning of a transformative adventure! 🚀 Stay tuned as we share stories of their leadership and innovation in action.

Welcome to the GCL family at Georgetown University! 💼✨

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🌟 Showcase Your Impact: The LALP Impact Awards 2025 Are Now Open!

✨ Let’s kick off the new year calling all GCL & ILG changemakers! ✨ Are you creating positive change in your community, industry, or country? We want to celebrate YOU! ✨

Submit your inspiring success story and:
✅ Gain recognition for your achievements.
✅ Share your impact with a global audience.
✅ Celebrate with visionary alumni driving meaningful change.

📅 Deadline: January 31, 2025
📝 Apply Now: Submit your story via the LALP Alumni Melian platform using your alumni credentials 👉 https://lalp-app.melian.me
💬 Questions? Email us at [email protected]

These annual awards honor the incredible leadership and innovative impact of our GCL and ILG alumni in promoting the multiplier effect of LALP programs. Whether you’re submitting your own story or nominating other outstanding alumni, this is your chance to inspire and amplify the extraordinary work happening across Latin America, the Caribbean, and beyond! 🌎✨

Let’s celebrate YOUR impact and spark even greater change together! 🚀

Are you ready to multiply your organization’s global impact?

Applications are NOW open for the second edition of our Global Business Executive Leadership Program |

APPLY NOW TILL February 1, 2025
👉 https://bit.ly/4igiDfs

Featuring renowned Georgetown faculty and regional experts, GBEL is a cutting-edge and regionally-focused academic initiative, exclusively designed to equip business executives working in the region with the knowledge, skills, and strategic insights needed to navigate the complex global business landscape.

Be part of a unique network of change makers across Latin America and the Caribbean!

Global Business Executive Leadership The Global Business Executive Leadership Program (GBEL) is a cutting-edge and regionally-focused academic initiative, exclusively designed to equip business executives working in Latin America and the Caribbean with the knowledge, skills, and strategic insights needed to navigate the complex global....

Congratulations to the 11th editon of our Georgetown Innovation and Leadership in Government, ! This energetic and committed group of leaders from 13 countries had a week full of thoughtful and dynamic sessions and valuable in-person networking that aims to promote responsible and ethical public leadership and innovation across Latin America and the .

With new analytical frameworks and tools, this cohort joins the alumni network to continue developing and implementing innovative public policies and social initiatives for the common good.

As part of a nourished agenda on and off campus, Georgetown McDonough School of Business Professor Ricardo Ernst, Executive Director of Georgetown University's Latin America Leadership Program (LALP), discussed how shared value can turn companies into engines of change. Meanwhile, Denisse Yanovich, Managing Director at Georgetown Americas Institute presented the institute’s role as a platform for dialogue, research, and impact around the key challenges facing the Latin America and the hemisphere.

Renowned academics, researchers, and guest lecturers Silverio Zebral, Jennifer L. O’Donoghue, Alberto Rodriguez, and Pilar Jerico led provocative, thoughtful, and practical sessions on diverse topics, including , , policy, public policy, and personal and organizational .

The cohort visited the Inter-American Development Bank for a talk with experts Miguel Porrua and Jose Luis Hernandez Carrion on digital government and cyber security. In a conversation with Miriam Kornblith Luisa Guzman Gabriela Dutra and Ondrej Jurk at the National Endowment for Democracy they learned more about the foundation’s work to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world.

At the culmination of the program, Ricardo Ernst had a fireside chat with distinguish journalist, writer and guest speaker Moisés Naím about , , , and the role of public and private sector in the improvement of Latin America. Dr. Naim just recently published his book "What is Happening to Us: 121 ideas to make sense of the 21st century."

To close the day, Daniel Morales (ILG 2015) was recognized with the ILG Impact Award for his contributions through successful initiatives that foster the entrepreneurship in Ecuador.

We encourage you to learn more about our Innovation and Leadership in Government (ILG) program at
https://lalp.georgetown.edu/topics/innovation-and-leadership-in-government

The annual call for applications for will be from April 21 to June 23, 2025. ILG 2025 program dates are September 15 – October 25, 2025.



You can also learn about our other programs Global Competitiveness Leadership Program, Global Business Executive Leadership (GBEL), and custom programs at lalp.georgetown.edu

Georgetown University's Latin America Leadership Program presented the inaugural edition of its Global Business Executive Leadership (GBEL) program. This new academic offer, which kicked off in Panama last June and then continued virtually for eight weeks before a final in-person residency at Georgetown University in September, is the latest annual flagship program of LALP, specially designed for regional business leaders who seek to advance their organizations in the new global arena and strengthen their leadership skills to further support their teams.

Read the full story here https://lalp.georgetown.edu/visual_stories/celebrating-gbel-2024

Congratulations to all the members of our first-ever GBEL cohort!

now joins our extended LALP alumni network across the region
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Georgetown Innovation and Leadership in Government

Celebrating GBEL 2024 Georgetown University's Latin America Leadership Program (LALP) presented the inaugural edition of its new Global Business Executive Leadership (GBEL) program. This new academic offer, which kicked off in Panama last June and then continued virtually for eight weeks before a final in-person residenc...

Open Call for Applications
2024

Apply by June 14 at https://georgetown-ilg.smapply.io/prog/innovation_and_leadership_in_government_ilg_program_application_platform/

More info at https://lalp.georgetown.edu/topics/innovation-and-leadership-in-government

Abierta la convocatoria de la 11a edición del Programa de Innovacion y Liderazgo en Gobierno- Georgetown Innovation and Leadership in Government -de Georgetown University's Latin America Leadership Program

Se aceptan postulaciones desde hoy 15 de abril hasta el 14 de junio en https://georgetown-ilg.smapply.io/prog/innovation_and_leadership_in_government_ilg_program_application_platform/

ILG es un programa inmersivo que reúne cada año a un grupo selecto y diverso de líderes latinoamericanos de los sectores público, social, multilateral y de cooperación internacional para avanzar conocimientos, intercambiar ideas y analizar oportunidades de innovación frente a los desafíos más urgentes de la región. Este programa anual otorga a los participantes con herramientas y marcos de referencia analíticos necesarios para la elaboración y ejecución de políticas públicas e iniciativas sociales innovadoras, a la vez que les brinda oportunidades de desarrollo de liderazgo para que puedan fomentar nuevas ideas y programas en sus respectivas organizaciones. Como el Global Competitiveness Leadership Program y el resto de los programas estrella de Georgetown University's Latin America Leadership Program, los participantes admitidos tienen que presentar un proyecto aplicado durante el programa.

tendrá una duración de 6 semanas, del 16 de septiembre al 11 de octubre y del 21 al 25 de octubre de 2024 en formato híbrido: las primeras cuatro semanas, del 16 de septiembre al 11 de octubre, en formato virtual, tres días a la semana (lunes, miércoles y viernes por la mañana), con una semana de receso y preparación de proyectos con mentores para la última instancia presencial de inmersión, a tiempo completo en Washington DC, del 21 al 25 de octubre 2024.

Para mas información, consulte nuestra página web https://lalp.georgetown.edu/es/topics/innovation-and-leadership-in-government
o escríbanos un correo a [email protected]

Congratulations to all the members of our cohort!