The Global Mobility Academy
The Global Mobility Academy offers a high-quality standard, one-year program designed for Global Mobility Professionals. It is customizable to the client and geared towards a corporate Global Mobility function. The Global Mobility Academy fosters our mission to bring the Human Touch back into Global Mobility and to build a Global Guild of Professionals irrespective of their roles as vendors or in-house professionals. This is a ten-day in-house talent development program to train your GM Team on the processes of Global Mobility. We also teach soft skills to become a better Global Mobility Specialist or Manager. The format, length, and content are adaptable to the client. Each training day consists of four modules that could also be delivered as 40 x 90-Minute sessions.
- Understand the History of Global Mobility
- Link megatrends to Global Mobility
- Understand the various definitions of Global Mobility
- Define how an international assignment is linked to career development
- Understand the different framework components
- Explain how compensation approaches differ
- Be able to classify assignments beyond tax considerations
- Understand Global Mobility data and be able to explain in lay terms to expats
- Learn standard components of cost projections and how to plug in the data
- Understand the difference between advising and managing an assignment
- Learn to develop a basic workflow checklist and work with it
- Go through a standard process for an LTA
- Understand the basics of immigration
- Communicate the Four C’s (Compliance, Cost, Care, and Career)
- Be able to draft an assignment agreement
- Be able to review assignment letter templates
- Understand how all legal components need to be clarified before drafting the agreement
- Gain insight into interdependencies of legal areas
- Go through a full assignment cycle from a Global Mobility perspective
- Go through a full assignment cycle from an Expat perspective
- Understand the selection and nomination of expats
- Name health and safety issues
- Develop metrics for success criteria
- Deal with emergencies
- Understand the impact of digitalization on how we work in Global Mobility
- Define Roles and Responsibilities in the processes
- Practice working with collaboration tools set up electronic assignment files
- Learn which tools make sense for which program size
- Recommend how to set up the Global Mobility Team
- Be able to recognize your gaps in global competency
- Understand basic intercultural dimensions and how they link to Global Mobility
- Understand the basics of intercultural communication and how to become more effective in Global Mobility
- Be able to develop an open attitude and basic etiquette and principles
- Be able to explain when a framework agreement is needed
- Conduct a vendor selection process based on good criteria
- Understand how all participants in the process need to share the same information
- Be able to define handover points to providers, lawyers, and specialists
- Create a value-based service delivery
- Understand how to scope a project
- Develop deliverables in an agile environment
- Staying sane as a Global Mobility Manager
- Business Models for Teams or Barcamp
- Learn more profound coaching and consulting techniques
- Be able to analyze real-life Global Mobility cases and consult peers on how to progress.
- Learn to build a deeper level of trust and handle difficult conversations
- Conduct a full expat and spouse briefing
- Global Mobility Academy Certificates
- Global Competency Assessment
Resources
The New Bible of Global Mobility ebook is scheduled for publication in June 2026. ->> Connolly, J., Weinberger, A. (2026) “Global Mobility: The Taxation and Management of Internationally Mobile Employees.” https://www.claritaxbooks.com/
Please ensure you are still on our “WORKBOOK READER” list to be invited to our upcoming launch party on Friday, 18 September 2026, in Zurich. You can sign up here: http://eepurl.com/dpfrrf or hit reply with the secret code “GMBOOK2026” and we will ensure you get invited. Angie Weinberger is also currently developing a new program and workbook called “The Global Mobility Coach Journal,” for Expat Coaches, which will explain our business model and how to build a business as an expat coach. If you are interested in working with Angie you can request an account on our client platform, the rockmeapp >> https://rockme.app/.
