We are living through a moment of profound transformation
Ecological limits are no longer abstract futures—they are present realities. Inequality fractures communities and erodes trust. The systems we built to create prosperity now perpetuate harm we can no longer ignore.
In this context, leadership cannot mean what it meant before. The old models—optimize, scale, compete—are insufficient for a world that demands regeneration, equity, and systemic care.
What would it mean to lead for the wellbeing of the whole?
This is not a question with a single answer. It is an inquiry that must be held collectively, continuously, across cultures and contexts. GRLI exists to keep this inquiry alive.
Leadership shapes systems
Those with influence in business, education, and governance have outsized impact on collective futures.
Systems need transformation
Current economic and institutional designs externalize harm and concentrate benefit. This must change.
Transformation requires inquiry
Sustainable change emerges from deep questioning, not prescribed solutions.
Inquiry must be collective
No single institution can hold this work. It requires an ecosystem of committed partners.
Four interconnected practices
GRLI works through practices rather than programs—ongoing modes of engagement that allow the inquiry to evolve while maintaining coherence.
Inviting
We bring diverse voices into dialogue—across sectors, cultures, and generations.
Inquiring
Through sustained dialogue, we deepen understanding of what globally responsible leadership requires.
Initiating
We catalyze collaborative action through experiments, pilots, and new partnerships.
Amplifying
We share learning across ecosystems, enabling ideas to take root in new contexts.
Active Initiatives
BE The Tipping Point
BE The Tipping Point is a scaling strategy that aims to mobilise a critical mass of business schools to radically repurpose curricula and practice for a just and sustainable future. GRLI has helped incubate and advance this agenda by convening partners and allies around a shared goal and by contributing peer-learning mechanisms that translate aspiration into practical institutional change. The initiative operationalises a "pay it forward" model: schools that make meaningful changes support oth...
Crucial Conversations
**GRLI Crucial Conversations are 90-minute, purpose-built dialogues for people trying to move responsible leadership from aspiration to practice - especially when the world is messy, polarised, or changing faster than our institutions.** They aren’t webinars or panels. We don’t gather to “signal” a position or sell a framework. We gather to work on the questions that many of us face in business education and leadership development but rarely have space to address honestly: What are we actually ...
GRL4ST Collaborative Course
The Globally Responsible Leadership for Sustainable Transformation (GRL4ST) collaborative course connects students and faculty from multiple institutions into a shared virtual classroom tackling real-world sustainability challenges. Born from the Deans & Directors Cohort, GRLI provides the infrastructure and pedagogical framework that enables partners to co-teach across borders without relying on complex inter-institutional agreements. GRL4ST demonstrates a scalable model for borderless educat...
Latest thinking
What We Learned in GRLI Council Pulse #01
On 18 February 2026, we held the very first edition of what we hope becomes a monthly rhythm. It was intentionally small and experimental, a real working sessio…
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Stewarding GRLI’s Work Into the Next Phase (Board & Guardians)
As part of our renewal and commitment to good governance, GRLI is inviting applications and nominations for governance roles in: The GRLI Foundation Board, and …
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When the world fragments, connection becomes essential
As a new year begins, it is difficult to ignore the wider context in which we learn, live, and exercise leadership. Across institutions, societies, and systems,…
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GRLI is part of a wider landscape—an ecosystem of institutions, initiatives, and individuals working to transform leadership for global responsibility.
Some stewarded by GRLI, some partner-led, some catalyzed historically—all contributing to collective change.
Principles for Responsible Management Education
50+20 Agenda for Management Education
Sustainability Literacy Test
Appreciative Inquiry Platform
Responsible Research in Business & Management
Partners & Associates
Working together across institutions to advance globally responsible leadership
The Way Forward
As we move into 2026 and beyond, our inquiry deepens. The questions we've held for twenty years are more urgent than ever—and the community of practice continues to grow.
We are not seeking to scale GRLI as an institution. We are seeking to scale the inquiry itself—enabling it to take root in new contexts, inform new practices, and catalyze new collaborations.
"The future of leadership is not about individual heroes. It is about cultivating the collective capacity for systemic stewardship."
Foundation
Establishing the inquiry, catalyzing PRME, 50+20, and foundational partnerships.
Expansion
Deepening the ecosystem, launching Sulitest, AIM2Flourish, RRBM collaborations.
Regeneration
Scaling the inquiry itself, enabling new institutional forms and systemic interventions.
If you believe leadership must serve the wellbeing of the whole...
...we invite you to step into the inquiry. There is no single path, no prescribed membership. There are only conversations to join, questions to hold, and possibilities to explore together.