[THEME: FUTURE][YEAR: 2026][STATUS: EMERGING]
The Way Forward

Looking toward 2030 and beyond

After twenty years of inquiry, we are not winding down. We are asking: how can the next decade be even more generative? How do we scale the inquiry itself?

Our Commitment
"We commit to ensuring that by 2030, the question of global responsibility is embedded in leadership education worldwide—not as an add-on, but as the central organizing principle."

This is ambitious. It requires not growth of GRLI, but growth of the inquiry across every institution, network, and conversation we can reach.

2025-2027

Strategic priorities

While we resist rigid strategic plans, we hold clear priorities that guide our attention and resource allocation.

01

Deepening the Deans Network

Expanding peer learning among business school leaders committed to transformation, with regional cohorts in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

In progress
02

Scaling Sustainability Literacy

Working with Sulitest to embed sustainability assessment across more institutions and create new specialized modules.

In progress
03

AI & Responsible Leadership

Launching a new Innovation Circle exploring how AI reshapes leadership responsibilities and education requirements.

Emerging
04

Regenerative Business Models

Developing case studies and teaching resources on businesses that create net-positive impact.

Emerging
05

Intergenerational Dialogue

Creating structured conversations between established leaders and emerging voices on the future of responsible leadership.

Planning

Evolution, not growth

GRLI will not become a large institution. That is by design. Our power lies in being small, nimble, and catalytic—able to move quickly, convene authentically, and catalyze without accumulating.

What will grow is the inquiry itself: more institutions holding the question, more educators embedding it in their practice, more leaders orienting their work toward global responsibility.

Our success is measured not by GRLI's size, but by the extent to which our central question becomes embedded in the DNA of leadership education worldwide.

Success Indicators
01

Number of institutions where the inquiry is embedded in core curricula

02

Quality and depth of dialogue across our ecosystem

03

New initiatives catalyzed and successfully stewarded to independence

04

Diversity of voices actively engaged in the inquiry

05

Impact of ecosystem partners on policy and practice

The future is not predetermined

What happens next depends on who steps into the inquiry, what questions they bring, and how we learn together. We cannot predict where this leads—we can only commit to holding the space with care.

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