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Self Study
Start Any Time- Immediate access
- A new module each week for 6 weeks
- Access to your personal training area 24/7
- Newsletter and updates with insights, tips and strategies
- Online Self-Assessment survey for your NGO
- Lists of essential resources
- A Certificate of Completion
- Weekly coaching
PLUS
24/7 PLUS Live Coaching- Start week 1 of your training with Live Orientation and Overview.
- 6 Additional live sessions, with plenty of time for Q&A and mentorship.
- A new module each week for 6 weeks
- Access to your personal training area 24/7
- Newsletter and updates with insights, tips and strategies
- Access to our online Self-Assessment survey for your NGO & other resources & tools
- Information and sneak peeks about about upcoming webinars, online events
- A Certificate of Completion
- BONUS: Mindset Module
- 2 Seats for Additional Team Members
TEAM PLUS
3 Seats Total- Total of 3 Seats, so bring 2 of your team to learn and grow your organization.
- Start week 1 of your training with Live Orientation and Overview.
- 6 Additional live sessions, with plenty of time for Q&A and mentorship.
- A new module each week for 6 weeks
- Access to your personal training area 24/7
- Newsletter and updates with insights, tips and strategies
- Access to our online Self-Assessment survey for your NGO & other resources & tools
- Information and sneak peeks about about upcoming webinars, online events
- A Certificate of Completion
- BONUS: Mindset Module
Now, more than ever, presentation, timing & audience are your keys to impact and influence.
And it’s not just all about the political pull some of the Member States may exert. It’s also about how NGOs go about their work, what they know—and more importantly, what they don’t know and the natural strain that large numbers of NGOs have been putting on the limited resources of the United Nations.
This is all the more reason that in the midst of growing interest of NGOs to engage at the United Nations, the ever-evolving international space means that the NGOs who are going to stand out will need the right tools and core knowledge.

I’ve also helped many regular NGO representatives who don’t have specific global policies they want to impact but do want to better use their organization’s access to the United Nations and the resources it does offer to increase their levels of impact back in their own countries.
Especially if you don’t have years of experience and may even be brand new and hungry to learn—I can show you how to be effective in your particular arena. If you’ve been around the block before and tried your hand at figuring out how to really impact global policy without much luck, I’m confident with a little clarity and a clear strategy, you’ll be able to finally achieve the level of impact and influence you’ve been hoping for.
And if you already have some work underway, perhaps even have a team of volunteers or interns you would like to help make more effective and you feel like you could be getting so much more accomplished, I can help you too! Here’s why…
So how is this going to help you become an effective NGO diplomat? I like to think that I’ve made the 4972 mistakes at the UN so you don’t have to. And so you can end up figuring out quickly, which ones WILL matter and which ones you can turn to your advantage!
After my first, um, less-than-successful foray, I turned myself into a student of success. I found mentors from whom I learned different aspects of what makes for success. I talked to colleagues and their contacts, sat with Ambassadors and other diplomats listening for what they said… and what they DIDN’T say. I wiped out what I thought I knew about outreach and advocacy and started again, this time with a solid foundation under me.
After working with a team of people on a very challenging topic for the UN and initiating what became a series of UN General Assembly resolutions, I new I’d figured out a number of essential secrets. You see, no one wants to tell you this, there is right way to set out to make changes in global policy, and there is a wrong way. My organization tried the wrong way once and then I had to spend years (literally) mopping up the mess and I’ll never go back again. I’ve spent the last few years showing other NGO activists how to avoid the mistakes I’ve made and I can’t wait to start working with you.
- Cover the essentials that an international NGO representative to the UN would need to know to be effective
- Uncover the hidden human undercurrents of many UN interactions that are usually overlooked (and not factored into their outreach strategies) by activists passionate about their programs
- Integrate the main elements of mindset and process so that the flow of information, homework and suggested activities would help any person covering the materials end up “naturally” having a strategic approach if they completed the course.
At the time, I was just thinking about the information I wanted to “get down.” Then I realized I wanted to make this available to as many NGO representatives as possible, not only the ones I had originally served.
So I spent weeks putting it all together—and had to teach myself how to record, script, organize, code, upload, convert, and more of the tech side, to actually make it available (and not just on my computer) to everyone. So now it is available to activists wherever they may be, and especially those who may have to travel huge distances to get to NY or Vienna or Geneva in the first place.
By doing this course before they ever get to NY, they can multiply the investment of their journey to New York so that every moment they spend, they are not wasting it (hopefully) learning on the fly, but they will land prepared and ten times more prepared than they every would be. I know how precious money and time is to NGOs and seeing people unnecessarily, if unintentionally waste them is painful.
And yes, you will hear me repeat one word very often: context, context. It requires a shift in focus, one that when someone is really passionate about a cause, is not always so easy to do unless you are aware of its importance. Walking straight off 1st Avenue and into the UN campus, OK, so there are security measures, but there are loads of not-so-obvious “rules,” code words, invisible borders and no-nos.
I want to get you aware of these so you can next get on with discovering how you can nevertheless, get through the access barriers so you can move, work with and influence the decision-makers. To do this, there are quite some basics to review just so you are not playing catch-up months or years later on these basics that sure, you can get by without them, but it’s like walking around with an extra 30 pounds of ignorance wearing on your pace. So you’ll get to know a lot of the UN basics, a little about the history of member states and why that impacts NGOs, the UN structure, history, agencies, commissions, they way it get’s its work done and more.
Plus, UN lexicon is strange and misleading and so full of acronyms that it’s almost impossible to have a conversation with out half a dozen of them stuffed into each sentence. I’ll go over with you in an “Average Jane” approach the essentials of UN structure and decision-making so you can feel empowered, not perplexed.
Getting a handle on how decisions are made formally so you can learn how to target the pivotal informal conversations is one of my favorite hacks to impact and influence.
No matter your area of expertise, being able to use and research the UN website and it’s document system to get your finger on the pulse of what is happening and to be able to craft elements of global policy you wish to impact is essential. Plus In this section, I’ll show you the secret to decoding resolutions so you can make more informed, strategic decisions about your approach at every level.
If you are at the UN to help shape global policy, you are in this as a change leader. You are there to facilitate change at the global level. That means you need to be aware that there are many pressures that those tasked with decision-making are under. Sometimes the sheer force of timing, expertise, and global events will make what you are endeavoring to do a slam dunk. Mostly that will not be the case. You will be one who foresees more than most, and you will need to help “lead” the change process.
This module in conjunction with the next, provide you with essential components of change leadership.
This section builds your “impact and influence self-awareness” and ups the chances that you really can make the difference you have only up until now dreamt about.

Self Study
Start Any Time- Immediate access
- A new module each week for 6 weeks
- Access to your personal training area 24/7
- Newsletter and updates with insights, tips and strategies
- Online Self-Assessment survey for your NGO
- Lists of essential resources
- A Certificate of Completion
- Weekly coaching
PLUS
24/7 PLUS Live Coaching- Start week 1 of your training with Live Orientation and Overview.
- 6 Additional live sessions, with plenty of time for Q&A and mentorship.
- A new module each week for 6 weeks
- Access to your personal training area 24/7
- Newsletter and updates with insights, tips and strategies
- Access to our online Self-Assessment survey for your NGO & other resources & tools
- Information and sneak peeks about about upcoming webinars, online events
- A Certificate of Completion
- BONUS: Mindset Module
- 2 Seats for Additional Team Members
TEAM PLUS
3 Seats Total- Total of 3 Seats, so bring 2 of your team to learn and grow your organization.
- Start week 1 of your training with Live Orientation and Overview.
- 6 Additional live sessions, with plenty of time for Q&A and mentorship.
- A new module each week for 6 weeks
- Access to your personal training area 24/7
- Newsletter and updates with insights, tips and strategies
- Access to our online Self-Assessment survey for your NGO & other resources & tools
- Information and sneak peeks about about upcoming webinars, online events
- A Certificate of Completion
- BONUS: Mindset Module
Remember: There is NO RISK to you.
I understand that I have 30 days to request a FULL refund, no questions asked. That is:
- If “The Advocacy Algorithm” doesn’t prove to my satisfaction that it will help me get up to speed on the UN: its structure, organization, members, history and more.
- PLUS provide tips, tactics and strategies for effective outreach at the UN…
- If it doesn’t take me step-by-step through the training in basic public relations and advocacy skills for use at the United Nations…
- or if it I don’t think that it will continue to provide me the quality training I need to get my organization’s UN relations work on steroids…
then I have a full 30 days to request a full refund. No Questions Asked!
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FAQs
Can I access my training on my tablet and phone too?
Yes, you should be able to work through the training on any devise. Sometimes there are issues with the videos if internet access is not strong on mobile devices.
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Can I download mp3s and listen on the go?
Where are the bonuses?
Online bonuses will be available in your membership area where relevant. In the case of live events, you will be added to the list of attendees and be sent the relevent information and access as you get closer to the event.
After the event, replays etc. will become available in the membership area.
Still Got Questions?
Remember: There is NO RISK to you.
I understand that I have 30 days to request a FULL refund, no questions asked. That is:
- If “The Advocacy Algorithm” doesn’t prove to my satisfaction that it will help me get up to speed on the UN: its structure, organization, members, history and more.
- PLUS provide tips, tactics and strategies for effective outreach at the UN…
- If it doesn’t take me step-by-step through the training in basic public relations and advocacy skills for use at the United Nations…
- or if it I don’t think that it will continue to provide me the quality training I need to get my organization’s UN relations work on steroids…
then I have a full 30 days to request a full refund. No Questions Asked!