What does your business stand for? What is its purpose? How are you contributing to the greater good? How will you ensure that you continue to achieve you what aspire to in a sustainable way?
These were certainly not the questions we were being asked when we established Global Leadership Foundation in 2003. In fact, when we did share what we stood for and what our purpose was, what we sometimes heard back were statements like, ‘Well that’s all well and good, but what do you do?’ It felt as though many businesses just ‘didn’t get it’!
Establishing a private company and putting the profits of that company into a philanthropic fund for the development of leaders in the community was certainly not the norm. Offering probono and low-bono opportunities for clients, holding no intellectual property and raising the emotional health levels of leaders across the globe was definitely a very different approach to business.
Today, those same questions of purpose are being asked worldwide and we are proud to be part of a growing ‘purposeful’ business community that leads by example in using business as a force for good.
The Leadership Experiences we offer, such as our next Spirit of Leadership experience, place attention on exploring these questions with the leaders who attend. Our ‘Tables of Ten‘ Global Initiative is a leading-edge opportunity to experience these questions in action. And colleagues such as Muneesh Wadwha – through the Global Purposeful Leadership Summit, Ginger Lapid Bogda and Uranio Paes are fellow travellers on the journey to raise the emotional health levels of people across the planet.
We welcome you to join us!
Read more about the workshops mentioned here in our latest edition of Global Connections. Read it online here.
