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The Global Leadership Network – a partnership among 10 leading global companies committed to achieving world-class performance excellence in corporate citizenship, along with research partners The Center for Corporate Citizenship and AccountAbility – is launching a global consortium open to leading companies around the world.
The Global Leadership Network was initiated by IBM in partnership with nine other global companies – 3M, Cargill, Cemex, Diageo, FedEx, General Electric, General Motors, Manpower and Omron – all of whom are leaders in their industry or corporate citizenship within their countries. For the last two years these companies have shared their experiences and worked to identify elements of their corporate responsibility programs that not only improve but also drive business performance.
The Center and AccountAbility have captured this valuable knowledge in a first-of-its-kind internal planning and performance measurement framework that helps a company align its own social, environmental and economic performance with core business strategy. The IBM®-designed on-line management tool will allow senior management to engage a cross-functional team to set corporate citizenship strategy and gather the data needed for an annual citizenship report, the GRI process, Global Compact participation and SRI surveys.
In forming the Global Leadership Network, its founders hoped to also help other global companies that favor determining their corporate responsibility strategies based on the interests and needs of the company, not on external compliance standards. Now they are prepared to do this through a global consortium open to leading companies around the world.
Companies invited to join new global consortium
Why should you become a partner in the Global Leadership Network? Because you need to drive your company's corporate citizenship strategy, not have it set by compliance standards and external surveys. As a Global Leadership Network partner, your company will become part of a community of practice focused on achieving excellence in corporate citizenship. You will have opportunities to meet your peers and work together to develop best-in-class strategies. And you will have access to a robust learning platform with:
- Benchmarking and strategic planning tools
- A management framework for continuous improvement
- A global learning community of leading companies
- A proprietary database of best practices
- Access to world-renown experts
Create the network connection that works best for you company
As a Global Leadership Network partner, you choose the level of engagement that meets your business needs:
| Leaders’ circle ($35,000 annual fee) |
- Receive customized benchmarking reports
- Annual leadership dialogue
- Bi-annual company-based workshops
- Consultancy support (may involve additional fees)
- Access on-line benchmarking tool and report
- Access database of best practices from global leaders
- Access to peer examples and contacts
- Participate in quarterly learning dialogues among peers (two conferences and two webcasts)
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Learning collaborative ($15,000 annual fee) |
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- Access on-line benchmarking tool and report
Access database of best practices from global leaders
Access to peer examples and contacts
Participate in quarterly learning dialogues among peers (two conferences and two webcasts) |
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Benchmarking consortium ($5,000 annual fee) |
- Access on-line benchmarking tool and report
- Access database of best practices from global leaders
- Access to peer examples and contacts
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To join the Global Leadership Network or to learn more, contact Michele Kahane at 212.594.94, email kahane@bc.edu. | 
