About

We inspire and equip people to be transformative leaders.

Recognizing a need for transformational leadership, Palm Beach Atlantic University’s leaders envisioned a professional center of excellence that would impact both students and business leaders. The Center for Global Leadership was founded through the collaborative efforts of former PBA President Bill Fleming, former Provost Randy Richards, former Dean of the McArthur School of Leadership Craig Domeck, and PBA Board of Trustees Chair Tim Sotos. Sam Voorhies became the CGL’s first executive director in 2019. Under his leadership, the CGL developed PBA Lead, a transformative leadership program for undergraduate students, and also partnered with the National Christian Foundation to deliver Life Work Leadership, a leadership training experience for marketplace business leaders in the greater Palm Beach area.

Through the dynamic leadership of its new executive director, Stephen Mansfield, its new director, Dawn Barbee, and with a financial gift from the Watson family, the CGL is poised to take the next step in fulfilling its mission of building transformation leaders. In addition to PBA Lead and Life Work Leadership, the CGL team is developing new leadership training opportunities at the university level and leadership education and consulting for non-academic organizations of every kind.

To be a world-class leadership training center that provides exceptional educational programs designed to produce transformative leaders who are catalysts of human flourishing in all their spheres of influence.

We honor God.
We desire to glorify God in all we do.

We serve others.
We serve others in love and humility.

We seek wisdom.
We seek transformative learning that results in wisdom.

We pursue excellence.
We pursue our goals with excellence.