The Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative ''(GRLI)'' is a non-profit community of businesses as well as business schools and other educational institutions. Based in

Belgium Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeas ...

, Brussels, its purpose is to catalyse the development of globally responsible leadership and practice in organisations and society worldwide. The GRLI was founded in 2004 and counts numerous organisations that are its partners and members. GRLI is an official partner of United Nations

Sustainable Development Goals The ''2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development'', adopted by all United Nations (UN) members in 2015, created 17 world Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The aim of these global goals is "peace and prosperity for people and the planet" – wh ...

for Quality Education and Responsible Consumption and Production. GRLI's strategic partners are the

Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) is an American professional and accreditation organization. It was founded as the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business in 1916 to provide accreditation to busines ...

(AACSB), the

European Foundation for Management Development The European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) is an international not-for-profit association based in Brussels. Europe's largest network association in the field of management development, it has over 890 member organizations from acade ...

(EFMD) and the

United Nations Global Compact The United Nations Global Compact is a non-binding United Nations pact to get businesses and firms worldwide to adopt sustainable and socially responsible policies, and to report on their implementation. The UN Global Compact is the world's ...

Mission and role

The mission of GRLI "to catalyze the development of globally responsible leadership and practice worldwide" is in line with the view promoted by GRLI that: :"The management challenge for the 21st Century is to create resilient societies,

sustainable Sustainability is a social goal for people to co-exist on Earth over a long period of time. Definitions of this term are disputed and have varied with literature, context, and time. Sustainability usually has three dimensions (or pillars): env ...

economies and a healthy environment in which all human beings can flourish and prosper. This calls for individual and collective

leadership Leadership, is defined as the ability of an individual, group, or organization to "", influence, or guide other individuals, teams, or organizations. "Leadership" is a contested term. Specialist literature debates various viewpoints on the co ...

that strives not to be the best in the world but the best for the world." The GRLI aims at building a world where leaders contribute to the creation of economic and societal progress in a globally responsible and sustainable way. A starting point for global leadership includes, according to GRLI, fairness, freedom, honesty, humanity, tolerance, transparency, responsibility and solidarity, and sustainability. Considered a resource for

business education Business education is a branch of education that involves teaching the skills and operations of the business industry. This field of education occurs at multiple levels, including secondary and higher education. Secondary education At secondary ...

for cultivating leadership

integrity Integrity is the quality of being honest and having a consistent and uncompromising adherence to strong moral and ethical principles and values. In ethics, integrity is regarded as the honesty and Honesty, truthfulness or of one's actions. Integr ...

, the GRLI challenges business schools and other learning institutions to explain and promote organizational cultural changes toward

social responsibility Social responsibility is an ethical concept in which a person works and cooperates with other people and organizations for the benefit of the community. An organization can demonstrate social responsibility in several ways, for instance, by do ...

. It also cooperates with institutions of higher education to further develop their curricula. The initiative has catalysed the creation of two new academic journals: the ''Journal of Global Responsibility'' and the ''Sustainability, Accounting, Management and Policy Journal''. The GRLI, in partnership with ''Principles for Responsible Management Education'' (PRME) and other networks, has given rise to several projects including: * the Sulitest – an online sustainability literacy test developed and promoted by

KEDGE Business School KEDGE Business School is a triple accredited (AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA) French business school and grande école. The Grande Ecole was founded in 2013 from the merger of two middle business schools: Bordeaux Ecole de Management (ESC Bordeaux), fo ...

in France, * the AIM2Flourish global learning initiative – a global initiative steering future business leaders towards achieving the UN

, with an online platform for sharing positive stories on business as an agent for world benefit, championed by the

Weatherhead School of Management The Weatherhead School of Management is a private business school of Case Western Reserve University located in Cleveland, Ohio. Weatherhead offers programs concentrated in sustainability, design innovation, healthcare, organizational behavior, g ...

at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, USA; * the 50+20 Agenda – a vision and global movement focused on "transforming management education in order to serve people, the planet and profit".

History

The GRLI was founded in 2004 by the

and the

. The initiative's 2005 founding report identified a need for deep systemic change in business, recognizing that this change "needed to take place at the personal, organizational and systemic levels". It was founded with the purpose of developing a next generation of globally responsible leaders through the development and support of projects and initiatives.The Globally Responsible Leader. A Call for Action
, GRLI, 2009, , page 2.

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