The “Preparing Global Leaders Summit” (PGLS) is a premiere international educational program for the best young professionals in the world. The program seeks to prepare aspiring global scholar-leaders with the tools that are necessary for effective leadership in an increasingly complex world. PGLS is a component school of Preparing Global Leaders Foundation (PGLF), an educational non-profit dedicated to changing the paradigm of leadership through intensive institutes, seminars and summits.

Students and young professionals take short courses from internationally recognized faculty and participate in a range of leadership simulations. Specifically, participants will learn how to develop an opposable, interdisciplinary mind with an ability to work with and across ideological, national, religious, class and racial differences. They will learn how to communicate effectively, think both critically and creatively with a particular emphasis on how to advance the global public good.

Our mission is to create a global network of scholar-leaders ready to take on the global challenges through a change of the leadership paradigm, especially in the face of increasing international tensions and politics of mistrust.

Recent events have demonstrated the importance of responsible leadership and effective communication, as well as challenges associated with collaborative decision-making. PGLS is about substantive, effective, outward-looking leadership. 21st century trade, government, security, academia and charity all exist in a world where international borders are ever more permeable, and 21st century leaders need to be able to communicate across borders and look at issues from different cultural perspectives. PGLS brings together participants from a wide range of different countries, working in different economic sectors, in a forum to learn how to communicate effectively to a diverse global audience.

The location of PGLS in Moscow gives it the unique ability to attract people from a range of different countries, not just North America and Western Europe. In a world where power is shifting towards rising economies in Asia and South America, coming together in a BRICs country straddling Europe and Asia is a fascinating opportunity for participants to share a great cultural experience inside and outside the summit proceedings.

Preparing Global Leaders Foundation (PGLF) operates programs currently in Russia, Macedonia and Jordan. Delegates in each institute typically hail from 40+ countries and take courses with the most distinguished scholar-teachers in the world.

Preparing Global Leaders Summit 2014 will cover the following topics this summer: negotiation, strategic thinking, public speaking, networking, persuasion, branding, public policy, statistics, comparative politics, demography, citizenship, civil wars, geopolitical strategy, Russia and the West, and Russian politics and history.