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The Geospatial Leadership Certificate

Designed for geospatial professionals, this course builds leadership and soft skills to help managers champion innovation, influence change, and create impact.

9 months to complete
2 hours per week
Online course
€ 3,250
21 September 2026
Course access until: 21 June 2027
Intermediate
Certificate of Completion
Accredited Certficate
€ 3,250
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Application starts: 28 June 2026 00:00
Application ends: 18 September 2026 00:00

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The geospatial industry is creating many new and exciting solutions to address today’s global problems, such as climate change.

However, there is intense competition for the resources and the funding needed to deliver these solutions. At the same time, the geospatial industry is poorly served with the leadership skills needed to define, promote and develop new solutions.

There is a well-recognised gap in the availability of soft skills training, which would enable middle managers, in both the developed world and the global south, to play leadership roles in promoting new solutions. This Global Leadership Certificate Course is designed to bridge this gap.

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Learning objectives

Why this course?

  • Tailored to Industry Needs

    Designed specifically to address the skill gaps in geospatial leadership.

  • Make an Impact on the Planet

    Equip yourself with the leadership skills to drive innovation and better decisions

  • Practical, Actionable Skills

    Focused on real-world applications to immediately enhance your skills.

Course content

  • Module 1: Leadership

    • What is meant by leadership?
    • Styles, their applicability to different situations and relationship to personal strengths and ambitions
    • Strategies to help you realise your leadership potential
    • Emotional intelligence: What is it and why is it important in the context of leadership
    • Personality types: Why understanding them is key to relationship building (using the DISC Model)
    • Strategies for dealing with conflict
    • Putting what you have learnt into practice
  • Module 2: Team Development

    • Fundamentals: It’s all about people
    • Defining roles:
    • Beyond the job description 
    • Team profiling 
    • Useful methodologies to developing balanced teams
    • Practical experience: Sharing insights from the experts
    • Team building techniques:
    • Aligning around goals
    • Minimising ambiguity
    • Developing inter-personal skills
    • Problem solving
    • Defusing tensions
    • Common challenges:
    • Virtual working
    • External constraints
    • Workplace politics
    • Next steps:
    • Links to other modules
    • Further learning
  • Module 3: Building the Business Case for Investment

    • What is a business case and why is it needed?
    • Economic principles:
    • The Nature of Value
    • Demand and Supply
    • Methodologies:
    • Multi-criteria approaches
    • Cost-benefit analysis
    • Computable general equilibrium modelling
    • Quantifiable use cases:
    • Principles and selection
    • Assembling primary evidence
    • Benefits Transfer
    • Qualitative use cases: Adding political, social and environmental benefits
    • Assembling the economic model
    • Applying risk assessment
    • Benefits realisation
  • Module 4: Effective Communication with Decision Makers

    • Storytelling:
    • Structure
    • The elevator pitch concept
    • Insights from the experts
    • Principles:
    • Developing a communications strategy
    • Using the right language
    • Creating a simple to follow link between cause and effect
    • Knowing your audience:
    • Research their careers – likes, red flags, interests outside work
    • Reading the room – who are the decision makers, influencers and blockers
    • Responding to “push back”
    • Delivery:
    • Establish credibility
    • Keep it short
    • Leave time for discussion
    • Assess and refine the message


Besides the 4 modules, we offer additional modules:

  • Module 5: Geospatial Project Management

  • Module 6: Marketing Strategy and Implementation

  • Module 7: Geospatial Maturity Assessment and Governance

  • Module 8: Sustainable Business Models

  • Module 9: Basic Sales Techniques

  • Module 10: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Geospatial

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Is this course for you?

  • Target Audience

    • Geospatial practitioners
  • Knowledge prerequisites

    Participants should have a basic understanding of agent-based modeling and related concepts such as complex systems, agent interactions, and decision-making, the modeling cycle, and documenting agent-based models. Furthermore, participants are expected to…
  • Any other prerequisites

    A computer with the latest version of NetLogo installed. A reliable internet connection, camera and headset as this course will require interaction with teachers and fellow participants.

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