GLAC is a Partner in the 2013 Women Leaders Brainstorm Challenge working with the
Global Women’s Leadership Network and Innocentive to come up with ideas for the “Global
Women’s Leadership Challenge: 5 million Women Change Agents in 5 years.”
Professor Charles Dranagh of Indiana University will join us as a GLAC Scholar-in-Residence
in Fall semester, 2013.
Colette Menzel, Director of CorraTech’s Project Management Office in Los Angeles has joined GLAC
as a Global- Leader-In-Residence.
GLAC Professors Lester, Osland, and Wells are accompanying a group of ten MBA students
and outstanding undergraduates to Leuphana University May 13-18 for a week-long course
in international human resources.
GLAC staffed an exhibit table at the HR Symposium on May 2, 2013.
Global Leaders-In-Residence Brad Maihack, Dave Wilde, and Colette Menzel critiqued
the social innovation projects of Dr. Lester’s undergraduate global leadership course
BUS165A on May 1, 2013.
Bobbi Makani, Director of GLAC’s Social Innovation Initiative, recently partnered
with CTA and CISCO to have SJSU students work with CISCO engineers at a hackathon
on April 26, 2013.
The Spring Gateway Global Leadership workshop was held April 20 and 27, 2012 for 15
new Passport students and Thompson Global Interns.
The 2013 Social Innovation Leadership Forum on April 5, 2013 was attended by 250 innovators
and leaders and students from business, government, non-profits, and education.
The Forum was coordinated by Bobbi Makani, GLAC’s Social Innovation Director, and
partners from HP, Catholic Charities, Social Enterprise Alliance – Bay Area Chapter,
Global Green Village, San Jose State faculty, and hosted by Santa Clara County, thanks
to Dave Cortese.
GLAC hosted an orientation and GLLab simulation experience for potential incoming
students and their parents attending SJSU’s Spring Open House on March 13,2013.
An EMBA class from Athabasca University in Canada took part in a GLLab session entitled
“Cross-Cultural Experience and Creativity” on March 6, 2013.
Japanese students from various universities who were part of a Saga delegation learned
about global leadership in a GLLab session on March 8th.
Eleven masters students from Leuphana University in Germany joined the MBA-One students
for a week-long GLLab the end of February 2013.