~About Us~
Our Vision
We see the transformation of leaders who, in turn, transform businesses, villages, cities, nations, and peoples across the globe.
Our Mission
Our mission is to equip and renew leaders across the globe and to invest in their lives by providing leadership training and coaching programs.
Our Work
We have been working primarily with business and government leaders in West Africa, North Africa, and the Middle East for the last ten years.
Our Values
We believe that the transformation of businesses, economies, and nations begins with the renewal of its people. That’s why we place a high value on knowing and understanding our neighbors, on our humility as we walk upon this earth for a short time, on sound business practices, on making solid decisions, and on acting boldly.
We focus these values on forging real and lasting relationships with people in business, government, and civil society.
Executive Director & Founder, Go Global, Inc
~About M. A. Mac Curfman~
M. A. Mac Curfman, PMP
M. A. Mac Curfman is an in-demand professional speaker, trainer, and coach. Over the last fifteen years, he has presented nearly 2,600 speeches and training sessions to global business and government audiences.
Mac has built an illustrious and successful 35-year career by serving others! Before his current roles, he served as a senior consultant in a top national consulting firm and as the founder and CEO of a governmental advisory practice. He also spent a decade serving in government as a city manager and as an urban and regional planner.
In addition to his role as Executive Director of Go Global, Mac is the Chief Learning Evangelist for M. A. Curfman Learning, a global training and coaching firm, and the Chief Coffee Guru for Mac’s Java Coffee Roasters, a specialty coffee roasting company.
Mac has been an entrepreneur and a maverick thinker his entire career. His global client list considers him an inventive and transformative business thinker, trainer, speaker, and coach. Mac’s brilliant straightforward style has become his trademark.
Mac has earned a tremendous reputation as a go-to resource and as a non-conventional problem-solver. The breadth of his knowledge and experience in diverse industries, businesses, and government agencies has made him a unique asset to thousands of enthusiastic consulting, training, and coaching clients. In addition to his tremendous range, Mac's deep expertise includes leadership development, organizational development, strategic thinking and planning, project management, sales and marketing, business and personal communication, and business writing.
In addition to his academic credentials from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and the University of Maine, he completed extensive coursework with Dale Carnegie® Training, is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), and a certified Entrepreneurship and Business Life Coach.
Mac has been married to his college sweetheart, Amanda, for over 35 years, and they have two children. Their daughter is also an entrepreneur; she owns and operates a creative marketing firm and wedding photography company. Their son just graduated from university with a degree in Social Studies Education and will be going on the graduate school to pursue a master’s degree in history.
Well-traveled, Mac thrives in diverse cultures. He has traveled to and worked in 46 U.S. states and territories and in countries on five continents. He loves roasting and drinking coffee, is an avid outdoorsman, and is a bibliophile (reading about 100 books a year).
M. A. Mac Curfman will shortly be releasing a series of books he has written on project management and is currently writing a book on leadership, entitled “LEAD!: Important Actions of a Leader.”