Congratulations — You Are Now a GMA Ambassador

You are not an ordinary GMA Ambassador.

You are also a valued faculty member, advisor, or co-creator of the City Leaders program itself - someone whose wisdom, methodologies, lived experience, and decades of work is helping shape what this offering is becoming.

We understand that what you have created did not emerge overnight. It has taken years - often decades - of research, experimentation, practice, sacrifice, deep care, and unwavering commitment to developing work that can genuinely help leaders navigate the complexity of our time.

We also understand that your decision to step forward now is not simply a financial one. It reflects a shared recognition that city leaders urgently need new kinds of support - and that the work you have helped create has an important role to play in meeting that need.

Without the willingness of practitioners like you to take this early leap with us, the Global Mayors Academy would not exist.

While this first cohort cannot yet fully reflect the value of what you have contributed, we believe appreciation should begin from the start.

One of the ways we are choosing to honour that contribution is through a superior, dedicated faculty ambassador structure where you earn a much higher referral commission than the Standard Affiliate Commission. As we grow, we will continue to find new ways to recognise your work — for now, this is our way of beginning to say thank you.

We love that we are building this together with you.

Global Mayors Academy is an educational movement for mayors and city leaders of small and medium cities — the cities Harvard and Stanford programs overlook, yet where most people live and where decisions shape everyday life.

In July 2026, the first cohort of the City Leaders Program launches — a seven-month living laboratory where participants transform their cities while they learn.

You are one of more than 70 practitioners, faculty and operations staff across four continents who are contributing to make GMA a reality — people like you, who change cities, working in the field.

and others…

The Founding Cohort is the first step of something we're building together — a serious, peer-rooted program for the cities that have long been the blind spot of leadership education. You're here as a co-author of this beginning.

A mission you already carry

The future of small and medium cities is a question you were holding before we met. Joining as an ambassador is less about taking on a new role and more about lining up the work you already do with the work we're starting.

A cumulative effect, by design

Each conversation you open, each city this program touches, multiplies into the next. The network you bring delivers participants and expands the field of what's possible.

A founding moment that stays

The first cohort, the first methodology, the first wave of cities — what we shape here will be referenced for years. Your name, your way of doing it, your voice in shaping it — these become part of how GMA remembers its beginning.