During the NBTA Convention last month in San Diego, 14 industry professionals completed the final chapter in the Foundation’s educational programming—the Global Leadership Professional (GLP) Designation. The GLP designation builds upon the principles of the GLP program coursework, the industry’s only master’s level course. The program is a partnership between the NBTA Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.
The new designation was created in response to significant demand from those who had completed GLP coursework to expand upon that knowledge through project-based work. The GLP designation is available to corporate travel professionals who have completed the GLP certificate of professional development, which requires completion of one five-day course and three two-day sessions conducted by Wharton School professors on topics such as leadership, finance, marketing and management. To earn the designation, participants worked for 12 months in teams on an industry-related project, the findings of which where shared with the business travel community during three sessions at the NBTA Convention.
The first education session, presented on Monday, August 24th, Harness the Power of the Millennial Generation, focused on research that assists in interpreting this generation’s different values, use of technology and buying habits and illustrates how it will affect your travel management programs.
Tuesday morning in San Diego, the second GLP team delivered From Blocking and Tackling to Strategic Managing: Meeting your CFO's Expectations. This education session focused on the what, the how, and the why as it relates to delivering travel data being requested from and presented to C-Suite executives. Travel professionals gained leading business acumen on performance management and communication techniques. Attendees also heard the guiding principles in upward communication, what is valuable to CFO's, and key strategies common to successful travel professionals. Presenters of this session created a Tool Kit 2.0 which allows travel professionals to deliver meaningful, timely and concise information to their management.
During the second round of education sessions on Tuesday morning, the third GLP Designation Team delivered, Golden Green – Strategic Collaboration for Long Term Success. This session focused on best practices in creating a green travel program and green travel policy and how to practically communicate, apply and track that program. Panelists focused on a unique aspect of the program describing the successes and how they were achieved. Session presenters distributed a “How To” document indicating the steps to success, the timeline to achieve success and the stakeholders to invite for each of the aspects of the process being discussed.
All 2009 GLP Designation presentations are available for download. To view any of the GLP team presentations, please click here.
Congratulations to the 2009 GLP Designation recipients:
Dan Baillie, CCTE, GLP
Maylena Burchfield, CCTE, GLP - ADTRAV Travel Management
Janice Crawford, GLP - AREVA NP, Inc.
Cheryl Geib, CCTE, GLP - Grant Thornton
Kelly Henry Luedtke, CCTE, GLP - BNSF Railway Company
Colleen Kempf, GLP - Omni Hotels
Susan Long, CCTE, GLP - Alliance Data
Joni Miyashiro, GLP
Debi Scholar, CTE, CMM, CMP, CTT, GLP - PricewaterhouseCoopers
Yasuo Sonoda, CCTE, GLP - Sonoda Travel Management Solutions
Martin Stoll, GLP - GoSeeTell Network
Karin Thompson, CCTE, GLP - ViaSat, Inc.
Karen Vanbuskirk, CCTE, GLP - Perot Systems
Eve White, GLP - HRG North America
