Impact

What happens when a global mindset challenges what you believe?

Global Guru Leslie Strazzullo shares how meaningful cross‑cultural experiences spark adaptability, confidence, and the human‑centered skills emerging professionals need to thrive in today’s job market.

Every Spring 2026 Global Guru who answered our survey was satisfied with the experience. Our volunteer mentors explain what mentoring gives back to them, from putting a career's worth of lessons to use to watching a student's global mindset grow.

Employers call human skills like communication, adaptability and empathy essential, but they're hard to measure and even harder to show on a résumé. Here's what happened when Spring 2026 Open Mindset Project students practiced those skills with their Global Gurus, and what they took from it.

A global mindset isn't about passport stamps or memorized definitions — it's a shift in how you think. Our Spring 2026 cohort shows students moving from understanding global concepts to applying them: challenging their own assumptions, communicating across differences, and rethinking how they approach problems.

What happens when a lesson doesn't end when class does? Spring 2026 Open Mindset Project students share how one-on-one mentorship with a Global Guru turned coursework into real-world confidence — with 87.5% saying their mentor helped connect lessons to their careers.