What we do
Connecting leaders and bright heads all over the world
Arianna Huffington visiting our NY office
GLG is a professional learning platform. We pair top professionals with our Council Members - more than 400,000 leading experts - thousands of times a week and around the world, to teach and learn from one another. This all happens within our rigorous compliance framework.
A world of increasing complexity and connectedness demands agility, accuracy, and insight. Professionals have countless options to learn, make better decisions, and grow. GLG’s principles of learning set us apart:
✴︎ Specificity
Precise expertise to gain complete understanding of any topic.
✴︎ Availability
Expertise – fast, within a few hours or days, ensuring learning is timely.
✴︎ Interactivity
Ongoing conversations that facilitate superior knowledge exchange.
✴︎ Trust
Learning one-on-one or in small groups, making it easy, effective and comfortable for the learner.
GLG makes connections from 22 offices in 12 countries around the world.
Why we do
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Our team sweating it out by joining Cycle for Survival to benefit rare cancer research
GLG is driven by the curiosity of approximately 1,000 employees around the world who are transforming the way the top professionals share expertise and learn.
Soon after its founding in 1998 GLG began connecting top professionals across fields and around the country. Over time, we became a membership of leading experts providing business decision-makers with insights to create better, more informed outcomes.
Today, we are the world’s largest membership network for one-on-one professional learning, comprising more than 400,000 thought leaders and practitioners, including business leaders, scientists, academics, former public sector leaders and the foremost subject matter specialists. We serve users at more than 1,400 client companies in 40 countries. These clients include Fortune 500 companies in nearly every sector and the leading professional services firms and financial institutions.
GLG’s industry-leading compliance framework allows clients to learn in a structured, auditable, and transparent way, consistent with their own internal compliance obligations and the highest professional ethical standards. Our compliance standards are a major competitive differentiator and key component of the company’s culture.
GLG is headquartered in New York with 22 offices globally and 1,000 employees.
How we do
GLG's Head of Digital Marketing Khalid El Khatib, TED's Head of Partnerships and Strategic Projects Ronda Carnegie, and GLG's Head of Public Affairs Richard Socarides
2014 GLG Social Impact Convening
✴︎ Who are GLG clients?
Our users include top professionals and business leaders at the world’s leading corporations, investment firms, professional services firms, startups, and nonprofits.
✴︎ Who are GLG experts?
Our experts include 400,000 former C-suite executives, academics, scientists, policy specialists, former public sector leaders, and other top professionals.
✴︎ How does GLG work?
GLG clients learn from experts about what they need to learn about, when they need to learn aboutit. We meet their unique learning needs through our four learning principles: specificity, interactivity, availability, and trust.
This approach makes GLG an essential resource to clients who have experienced the power of what professional learning can be.
✴︎ What do people learn about?
Clients use GLG for a range of needs, including learning about their most complex strategic challenges, testing hypotheses, getting market feedback, or seeking mentorship from a
former executive.
✴︎ Can anyone be a client?
Many of the world’s leading companies and investment firms have long-term relationships with GLG. We also encourage smaller companies and startups to apply for membership. Clients mostly subscribe to GLG annually.
✴︎ How does GLG find experts?
We recruit top professionals from around the world for specific projects and invite them to apply.
People can also apply to be members on our website.
✴︎ How is GLG different?
We believe strongly in our mission- and values-driven culture. Our core values drive our success. They are: learning & curiosity, responsibility, courage, judgment, fresh perspective, service, and integrity.
We are proud of the investments we have made and continue to make in compliance and in technology – key parts of our culture.
