Welcome to Global Footprints

As an employer, you play a vital role in shaping the next generation of skilled, motivated, and inspiring leaders. By encouraging your employee to take up this scholarship opportunity, you’re investing in their growth — and in the future of your business and industry.

Development experiences like this aren’t just meaningful for the participant — Global Footprints Scholars return from their journey inspired, equipped with new ideas, skills, and networks that can benefit your business as well.

Employers of past scholars have found that;

  • their young employee returned a more confident, proactive and loyal team member, ready to step up their responsibility in the company.

  • the experience overseas has ignited an infectious new passion in their employee that spread throughout the business, and

  • they had new ideas and contacts to share to energise the employer’s brand, products and services.

We know that supporting an employee in this program takes time, trust, and flexibility, and your backing is a corner stone of this live changing career opportunity. In the weeks and months ahead your employee might turn to you to share ideas for their scholarship plan, and I hope you will feel just as inspired as we are by the opportunities ahead.

We’d love to help you make the most of this opportunity for your employee and for your business.

Throughout the program we invite you to share your thoughts with us — what’s working, what could be better—so we can keep delivering real value, not just to participants, but to the industries they serve.

.Thank you again and welcome to the Global Footprints Journey.

2024 Employer Supported Pilot

In 2024, we invited businesses and their young employees to join the Global Footprints Employer Teams, a pilot program.

Through this pilot, we learn from employers how the scholarship can help not only their employee’s development, but also their business and their industry, and how we can best support our scholars and their employers to make the most of the opportunities for all.

Scholars benefit from the full support of their employer who also functions as their mentor in helping them to fulfill their scholarship opportunities as well as their work commitments.

Employers support their employee in setting goals for the scholarship that serve both their professional and personal development goals as well as those of the business. They work as a team to decide when the best time to travel might be, where the scholar will find the best learning opportunities and what skills and knowledge would help them get ahead in their career with their employer.

Employers participating in this program hope to offer their employee an opportunity to grow in their career in their business. They may also benefit from the global insights, knowledge and skills their employee brings back from their overseas placement. 

We thank our participating scholars and employers for their time and support of this pilot: