Key Themes

The Levers

The GRLI's development strategy aims at effecting systemic change, through combining its current entrepreneurial and customized approach (encouraging individual, bilateral and group actions wherever individual partners have energy to act) with a greater emphasis on collective key lever points:

• Supporting the Implementation of the PRME
• Creating Communities of Responsible Action (CoRAs)
• Concept Development / Research and Publications
• GRLI Ambassadors
• New Approaches to Learning

Action

• Advocating for global responsibility as the highest form of responsible behaviour and for the development of globally responsible leaders.
• Concept Development (Thought Leadership) of new concepts and ideas as well as the identification of existing ones which assist in identifying what it means to be globally responsible and how to develop/educate leaders with that focus.
• Practice/Execution of practical projects that businesses and business schools/learning institutions initiate in pursuit of our goals.

Engagement

• The globally responsible leader – A Call for Action (2008) posits that we can "create economic and social progress in a globally responsible way” if we “focus on education the whole person” through an "on-going inquiry process through dialogue between various stakeholder-actors.
• The globally responsible leadership – A Call for Engagement (2005) argues that "learning institutions need to make corporate global responsibility their responsibility while global responsible behaviour must be internalized within the conduct and activities of the organization."

About GRLI

The Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI) is the largest community of businesses and business schools/learning institutions uniquely focused on developing a “new” generation of globally responsible leaders. To do this we are challenging the issues of the company for the 21st Century, the mission of business schools/learning institutions and the process for cultural change in organisations. Read More

GRLI is a co-convenor, a member of the Steering Committee and an active supporter of the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME).