Program Overview
This 7-week academy equips early to mid-career professionals with actionable frameworks for success in cross-border engagements. A collaboration between the URI’s Office of Strategic Initiatives and the URI Department of Political Science, this program is designed to provide participants with strategic insights and practical tools to operate confidently and effectively across borders, cultures, and complex global environments.
Whether you’re managing global supply chains, coordinating multinational operations, negotiating with foreign partners, or leading teams across cultures, your effectiveness hinges on understanding how different societies think, operate, and interact.
Benefits and Outcomes
- Strategic awareness: Decode the current international system and the forces shaping global dynamics, from economic interdependence to geopolitical tensions.
- Cultural intelligence: Learn how culture, politics, and economics influence behavior, decision-making, and negotiation across different societies.
- Operational readiness: Master the critical questions to ask and potential pitfalls to avoid when working with international partners, adversaries, or stakeholders.
- Decision-making framework: Develop a practical mindset for navigating complexity, managing conflicting interests, and achieving objectives in multicultural environments.
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Customization and Flexibility
The Global Fluency Academy (GFA) is offered as a virtual program with online meetings via video conferencing, for added convenience and flexibility. With rolling registration and multiple cohorts anticipated, interested candidates can apply at any time and choose the schedule that best fits their lifestyle.
Program Implementation
The Global Fluency Academy is a 7-week, open-enrollment program consisting of seven 3-hour Zoom sessions.
Cost: $849 per participant. Contact our team for guidance on where you may be able to source funding.
Course Overview
- Week 1-2: Decoding globalization – Understand what drives global interconnectedness and how cross-border flows of trade, technology, capital, information, and people shape your operational environment.
- Week 3-4: The international system in action – Examine power dynamics, institutional frameworks, and the key players shaping today’s geopolitical landscape.
- Week 5-6: Navigating cultural and strategic differences – Learn how societies with divergent values, interests, and worldviews engage, compete, and cooperate – and how to position yourself for success.
- Week 7: Applied integration – Synthesize your learning into practical tools you can deploy in your professional context.
Why Choose This Program
In the modern world, international affairs aren’t confined to diplomats and policymakers anymore. Often times, ignorance of international dynamics could become a liability, and global fluency is an important competitive advantage. From reservists deploying to unfamiliar regions to executives navigating international markets, from law enforcement coordinating across borders to public health officials responding to global crises, professionals at every level need strategic intercultural competence.
Who Should Attend
- Military officers and senior enlisted personnel
- Defense contractors and security professionals
- Corporate executives and international business managers
- Government officials at state, local, and federal levels
- Law enforcement and emergency management leaders
- Supply chain and logistics professionals
- Anyone whose success requires cross-cultural competence