The Global Leadership Academy (GLAC) was established in 2012 commissioned by the Germany Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and implemented in the framework of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. It aimed at creating spaces that enable a collective search for new approaches and initiatives, cross cutting regional and professional silos. This involves personal and collective development, listening and strengthening mutual understanding, as well as building new trustful partnerships. In this spirit, GLAC is deeply dedicated to SDG 17 “Cooperation for the Goals”. The Global Leadership Academy’s interdisciplinary and practice-oriented dialogue spaces aim at improving the innovation capacity and leadership skills of decision-makers and change agents from the fields of policy-making, business, education and research as well as civil society. Since 2012 fourteen Leadership and Innovation Labs have been implemented in collaboration with a broad range of international partners. They provide enabling spaces for global change makers, who might otherwise never have entered into dialogue with each other. The specific problems and challenges brought into the space by the participants are at the heart of the dialogues rather than employing ready-made concepts. The participants of the dialogues, bring together diverse expertise and explore one another’s perspectives to find answers to today’s complex development challenges. They expose themselves to experimental formats to understand the complexity, build trustful cooperation and co-create new approaches and solutions. The network of change-makers that emerges in the process energises them to take the next step and bring change to a higher level. https://www.we-do-change.org/imprint