Through education, research, and outreach, the Center for Global Leadership promotes three core ideals: cross-cultural awareness, ethical international business relationships, and responsible global leadership. These ideals are firmly rooted in the university’s Augustinian tradition, which focuses on the moral and ethical development of our students and faculty and our contributions to thriving global communities.

Guiding Principles

The Center for Global Leadership promotes the following principles:

• Cross-cultural awareness. Despite globalization and integration among economies, important cultural differences remain. Indeed, globalization has provided greater opportunity for acknowledging and celebrating the rich cultural differences that characterize societies around the world. The center supports sensitivity to and knowledge about cross-cultural differences that are critical to developing productive relationships of mutual respect among organizations and leaders around the world.
• Ethical international business relationships. The importance of ethical decision making in business cannot be underestimated, especially at a global level where different approaches to ethical behavior persist. At the center, ethics training goes beyond the theoretical to teach students and executives how to develop effective, practical management methods and systems that ensure high levels of professional conduct in their organizations as they tackle the challenges that accompany global expansion.
• Responsible global leadership. To be successful, today’s global leaders need to consider the moral implications of their behavior. Now more than ever, executives must make decisions based on core values and shared ideals that enhance both organizations and society around the world. The center helps current and future leaders identify those values and ideals and create ways to bring them to life.

Cross-cultural awareness. Ethical international business relationships. Responsible global leadership.