Claudia Apel is a project manager and facilitator who understands the Global Leadership Academy's programs as a great way of exploring what it can look and feel like to take on new ways of thinking and acting, in order to bring forward more impactful formats for international cooperation and ultimately a world that works for all. Apel brings to her work the expertise from both of her diplomas in neuroscience and organizational psychology. She has published on the scientific impact evaluation of human capacity development programs, is a trainer for nonviolent communication and currently pursuing training in deep democracy.