Credentials

Digital Badges & Microcredentials

What is a GELP digital badge?

A digital badge issued by the Global Emerging Leadership Programs (GELP) is a visual microcredential that demonstrates the learning outcomes and relevant skills you have achieved through participation in our leadership conferences and programs. Each badge is verifiable and shareable. Add it to LinkedIn, your résumé, your university portal, or anywhere you want to show what you have learned.

Reflective Leadership Award badge artwork

What makes a GELP badge.

Built on the open Open Badges 3.0 standard, tied to real criteria, and recognized by the institutions and partners that issue them.

  • Verifiable

    Every badge carries cryptographically signed metadata on the open Open Badges 3.0 standard, so anyone can verify what was earned, when, and why.

  • Portable

    Add badges to LinkedIn, your résumé, your university portal, or anywhere you want to show what you have learned. They go with you.

  • Criteria-backed

    Each badge is tied to specific learning outcomes (participation, reflection, and skill development), not just attendance.

  • Recognized globally

    Issued through programs that span Canada, the United States, India, Mexico, and the UAE. A credential the GELP network already knows.

For institutions & partners

Build your own microcredential with GELP.

We design, issue, and host microcredentials for universities, schools, and organizations, so the recognition your students earn travels with them on the same standard the world's leading credentialing programs use.

What you get

  1. Custom badge artwork designed with your brand and visual language

  2. Criteria definition workshop where we help you turn a program into a credential

  3. Issuance + verification on the open Open Badges 3.0 standard

  4. Distribution through the GELP global network of educators and partners

Earn your first

Want to earn your first digital badge?

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