11
Thursday
11 December 2025
12:00-1:00 pm
GMT (Oxford time)
1:00-2:00 pm
CET (St. Gallen time)
Ice Breaker and GLC Overview Session
Start your journey by connecting with GLC Members from across the globe and sharing your own story in a relaxed, interactive setting. This session not only breaks the ice but also provides a clear overview of the week ahead—its objectives, key milestones, and how the different elements fit together.
1:00-1:45 pm
GMT (Oxford time)
2:00-2:45 pm
CET (St. Gallen time)
GLC virtual Opening Ceremony
We open our program with an energizing session that brings together fresh perspectives from Oxford and St. Gallen. This kick-off sets the tone for five days of exploration, dialogue, and discovery. Together, we’ll align on our shared purpose, spark curiosity, and lay the foundation for meaningful connections and impactful insights that will guide us throughout the journey.
with
Edward Brooks (Executive Director,
The Oxford Character Project)
Anna Penido (Executive Director, Centro Lemann)
Kilian Kaminski (Founder refurbed)
2:15-3:15 pm
GMT (Oxford time)
3:15-4:15 pm
CET (St. Gallen time)
Challenge Partner Dialogue
In this session, you’ll meet your Senior Advisor and discover where our partner organizations are seeking your outside perspective. You’ll engage in a thought-provoking dialogue and receive a concrete challenge directly from the partners—your first spark for ideas that will shape your assignment and guide your journey through the next days.
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Challenge Partner Dialogues:
SwissRe
Lidl - a division of Schwarz Group
St. Gallen Symposium
3:30-4:45 pm
GMT (Oxford time)
4:30-5:45 pm
CET (St. Gallen time)
Team Connect
Start your GLC journey by connecting with your teammates from around the world in a relaxed, informal setting. This is your space to get to know one another, share first impressions, and explore your shared challenge in a comfortable atmosphere. Take the time to build trust, exchange ideas, and set the tone for a week of open, collaborative, and inspiring teamwork.
5:15-6:15 pm
GMT (Oxford time)
6:15-7:15 pm
CET (St. Gallen time)
Design Thinking Session
Enter the world of Design Thinking to have all the rights tools to later start developing your project idea. This session will give you an introduction into Design Thinking to move from a broad SDG towards defining a specific problem to address through your project.
with Dr Rachel Brooks, Head of Curriculum Development for Responsibility & Sustainability at HSG, and Program Director & Lecturer of the SuM-HSG
12
Friday
12 December 2025
12:30-2:00 pm
GMT (Oxford time)
1:30-3:00 pm
CET (St. Gallen time)
GLC Talks:
Celebrating our differences
Engage with someone from another part of the world who has a very different perspective. In collaboration with ZEIT ONLINE, this session will match GLC Members with a conversation partner with different views from your own on controversial questions, to cultivate empathy and cross-cultural understanding.
2:00-3:00 pm
GMT (Oxford time)
3:00-4:00 pm
CET (St. Gallen time)
Responsible Leadership Workshop
Develop a deep sense of purpose and responsibility that will drive and direct your actions as a leader. Building on research at the University of Oxford, this session will focus on questions and values that form the core of responsible leadership.
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3:15-4:00 pm
GMT (Oxford time)
4:15-5:00 pm
CET (St. Gallen time)
Self-managed Group Work
Now it’s your turn to take the lead. Together with your peers, you’ll organize yourselves, set priorities, and decide how to approach the partner challenge—no fixed agenda, just your initiative, creativity, and teamwork. Use this time to experiment, test bold ideas, and shape the direction of your project as a team.
And here’s a little extra motivation: if you bring outstanding ideas and real energy to the table, you might just earn yourself a ticket to Switzerland to join the St. Gallen Symposium in person—on us.
4:15-5:00 pm
GMT (Oxford time)
5:15-6:00 pm
CET (St. Gallen time)
Virtual
Global Fireside Chat
Join us for an engaging conversation with
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Pierre Schalbe,
Chief Financial and People Officer at Lidl International.
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With extensive experience in steering financial and people strategy across global markets, he operates at the intersection of retail, finance, and innovation, and leadership. In this fireside chat, Pierre Schalbe will discuss the evolving role of finance and people leadership in today’s dynamic retail environment - the challenges and opportunities of digital transformation, and how empowered teams and a strong company culture shape future growth and innovation.​
13 & 14
Weekend
13 & 14 December 2025
Self-managed Group Work
Now it’s your turn to take the lead. Together with your peers, you’ll organize yourselves, set priorities, and decide how to approach the partner challenge—no fixed agenda, just your initiative, creativity, and teamwork. Use this time to experiment, test bold ideas, and shape the direction of your project as a team.
And here’s a little extra motivation: if you bring outstanding ideas and real energy to the table, you might just earn yourself a ticket to Switzerland to join the St. Gallen Symposium in person—on us.
15
Monday
15 December 2025
11:30 am
GMT (Oxford time)
12:30 pm
CET (St. Gallen time)
Finishing Your Project
Finalise your project using the presentation template provided and submit it on time!
Be ready to pitch your project in the last Senior Advisor Session.
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DEADLINE TO SUBMIT:
11:30am GMT / 12:30pm CET
11:30-2:00 pm
GMT (Oxford time)
12:30-3:00pm
CET (St. Gallen time)
Prepare Your Pitch
Have a drink and a snack, take a short break, and prepare your Project Pitch session with Challenge Advisors.
2:00-3:30 pm
GMT (Oxford time)
3:00-4:30 pm
CET (St. Gallen time)
Challenge Advisor Dialogue &
Pitch Session
Now it’s showtime: present your ideas to the Challenge Advisors and showcase your team’s thinking. Use this opportunity to impress them, gather sharp feedback, and learn from the ideas of your peers.
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Challenge Advisors from:
Schwarz Group​
Swiss Re
St. Gallen Symposium
3:30-4:15 pm
GMT (Oxford time)
4:30-5:15 pm
CET (St. Gallen time)
Virtual
GLC Closing Ceremony
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As we wrap up our journey, we’ll begin with a brief recap and reflection on the week’s highlights. Our independent expert jury will share quick remarks on the proposed solutions and what impressed them most. Then comes the big reveal: the winning team - who will be flown to St. Gallen - will be announced and will present their final pitch.
Award Jury Members;
Anna Penido
Executive Director, Centro Leman for Leadership and Equity in Education
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Edward Brooks
Executive Director, The Oxford Character Project
4:30-5:30 pm
GMT (Oxford time)
5:30-6:30 pm
CET (St. Gallen time)
Turning Knowledge into Action:
a chat with
Fabien Curto Millet,
Chief Economist at Google
As Google’s Chief Economist, Dr. Fabien Curto Millet stands at the intersection of vast global data and everyday decision-making. His role is to translate complex macroeconomic insights into actionable strategies that shape products, policies, and people’s lives. Working at the frontier between analysis and execution, he brings a unique perspective on how global trends can be turned into concrete outcomes that drive progress.
In this closing conversation, we explore how responsible leaders can bridge the gap between understanding the world and acting on it.