Global Leadership Diploma
Cohort start dates: Feb 1, April 15, July 1, Sep 15
Develop your leadership potential
Choose at least one course from each core area. You may choose both options within a core area, with the second course counting toward your electives.
Choose 2 additional electives to complete your Diploma journey:
Your diploma program includes:
Upcoming cohorts: April 15th & July 1st!
Ready to grow your positive impact?
Take your leadership skills to the next level
With only five courses required and flexible payment plans available, our Global Leadership Diploma is designed to empower you to become a global leader of positive change. Join us online, onsite at the University for Peace (UPEACE) campus, or choose to do a bit of both, with a custom hybrid program.
It exceedingly clear that our world is delicately interconnected and needs strong, compassionate, holistic leaders who can see the big picture and take concrete action. Far beyond politicians, we need global change makers across sectors pushing forward new ideas in business, education, and the non-profit world. Be a part of positive change. Begin your global leadership journey today!
Your Path to Success
We offer a wide variety of online courses and on-site workshops to fit into your busy schedule. Grow your network by engaging with a global network of participants who are facing similar issues in different cultural contexts.
Your Path to Success
We offer a wide variety of online courses and on-site workshops to fit into your busy schedule. Grow your network by engaging with a global network of participants who are facing similar issues in different cultural contexts.
Why Choose the Global Leadership Diploma?
Here at the UPEACE Centre for Executive Education we believe that everyone has the potential to make a difference. It is our goal to unlock the passions and strengths of participants to help them become agents of change. Whether you’re currently a leader looking to make sure you’re doing things right and connect with your purpose, or a budding professional choosing your path, this diploma program you will develop the skills, mindsets, networks and inspiration to make a positive impact.
Practical Tools
Global Network
Boost Credentials
Expert Guidance
Leadership Training
Personalized Coaching
Flexibly Designed
You’ll have the opportunity to choose from an online, onsite, hybrid online or hybrid onsite diploma program. Customize your learning experience that aligns perfectly with your professional development goals and current commitments.
Four flexible ways to complete your Global Leadership Diploma
Whether you want to learn fully online, come to Costa Rica, or combine both experiences, the Global Leadership Diploma gives you a flexible pathway to build your leadership practice with intention.
Online: global connection, fully from home
The online pathway is ideal if you want the full UPEACE experience while staying rooted in your work, community, and schedule. Join live virtual and online courses with professionals from around the world.
Onsite: immersive leadership learning in Costa Rica
The onsite pathway is designed for those who want face-to-face connection, campus energy, and a deeper immersion in Costa Rica’s living laboratory of peace, sustainability, and wellbeing.
Online Hybrid: build momentum online, then meet in person
This pathway is perfect if you want the flexibility of online learning with the added value of a powerful in-person experience. Start from home, then come to UPEACE for a short, high-impact onsite course or event.
Onsite Hybrid: make UPEACE part of your leadership journey
This option is ideal if you want to spend meaningful time on campus while using online courses to complete your Diploma with flexibility. It works especially well for participants in Costa Rica or those planning multiple visits.
Your 4 complimentary coaching sessions
Why coaching, and how does it work?
Every Diploma participant receives personalized one-on-one coaching through our partnership with the Humanitarian Coaching Network (HCN). This collaboration ensures you have a trusted guide throughout your learning journey—someone who helps you clarify your goals, anticipate challenges, and stay grounded in what matters most.
Your HCN coach is both a thought partner and a mentor. They are there to expand your perspective, challenge your assumptions, support your growth, and help you translate your learning into meaningful, real-world action. These four sessions are designed to help you make the most of your Diploma experience and accelerate your impact as a leader and changemaker.
GLOBAL LEADERSHIP DIPLOMA INSTRUCTORS
Our course facilitators are hand-picked experts with amazing experience and credentials. Hailing from countries all over the world, they include best-selling authors, Harvard graduates, university professors, and executive directors. Each and every one of them is not only extremely knowledgeable, but actually lives and breathes the subject they’re teaching about. As practitioners in their respective fields of interest, they can truly guide participants towards creating impact and change.
And what’s more? The UPEACE Centre facilitators make themselves very available throughout their course for participant questions and concerns, programing 1-1 calls outside class hours to talk through specifics of the course. The facilitators are just as invested in the experience as you are and want to make sure that you’re getting the most out of it!
