GSTLW — the Global Secretariat for Skills, Talent, Leadership & Workforce

GSTLW was established within Power Up Futures Foundation to give the ecosystem's convening, policy and research work a single institutional home. Its founding premise is that skills cooperation fails less for lack of goodwill than for lack of standing machinery: no common evidence base, no place where governments, employers and universities negotiate together, and no public record of what was promised.

GSTLW advances international cooperation across skills, talent, leadership and workforce transformation through diplomacy, evidence, convening, financing alignment and accountable partnerships.

A world in which capability is recognised wherever it was earned, and where skills, talent and leadership move to where they create shared prosperity.

To convene the institutions that shape skills and workforce outcomes, publish the evidence they need, align the financing that follows it, and hold the resulting commitments to public account.

• Evidence before advocacy — methodology published before findings.
• Commitments in writing — every pledge becomes a tracked compact.
• Separation of purpose — charitable and commercial activity never blurred.
• Institutional restraint — no unsupported statistics, no claimed endorsements.
• Regional equity — the Seat of Honour rotates; no permanent centre.
• Openness — public-interest data and reports published under attribution licensing.

• The PUFF-USA Board of Directors holds ultimate fiduciary and governance authority.
• The Secretariat leadership team holds operational responsibility for convening, research and partnerships.
• An Advisory Council of policy, research, employer, university and youth and women's network representatives advises on agenda and methodology.
• Working groups hold time-boxed mandates with a named chair, a written question and a required output.
• Activation gates: the full policy and fund mandate opens on Years 2–3 governance decisions of the Board, not on announcements.

Named appointments are published as they are confirmed by the Board. Positions currently open for nomination include Advisory Council members, working-group chairs and regional focal points aligned to the APLIS forum regions. Nominations are accepted through the Contact page.

Power Up Futures Foundation (PUFF-USA) is the U.S.-incorporated, IRS-recognised Section 501(c)(3) nonprofit organisation providing governance, philanthropy and public-benefit oversight for the ecosystem. Power Up Futures Foundation, Inc. is a Delaware nonprofit corporation and an IRS-recognised 501(c)(3) public charity classified under IRC Section 509(a)(2). EIN 39-3560214. Financial statements, policies and annual reporting are published on the Foundation's transparency pages.

The Foundation's other properties — Power Up Women Africa and 1M Youths Voices: Africa FutureReady — contribute Tracks A and B of the Global Week and draw on GSTLW evidence and convening infrastructure.