{"id":37463,"date":"2016-10-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glg.tempsite.space\/news\/worlds-largest-professional-learning-platform-glg-now-has-half-million-members-delivering-on-demand-learning\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T08:40:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T12:40:36","slug":"worlds-largest-professional-learning-platform-glg-now-has-half-million-members-delivering-on-demand-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/zh-hans\/news\/worlds-largest-professional-learning-platform-glg-now-has-half-million-members-delivering-on-demand-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s Largest Professional Learning Platform GLG Now Has Half-Million Members Delivering On-Demand Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New York, New York; October 11, 2016<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc.), announced today that its global membership of leading professionals and thought leaders now includes more than 500,000 experts, making it the largest of its kind. The experts, known as \u201cNetwork Members,\u201d include U.S. and global policy specialists, economic advisers, academics, scientists, physicians, former C-level executives, and professional leaders of all kinds. GLG turns first to this base of expertise to deliver timely insight to clients, in addition to recruiting new Network Members for unique client inquiries. GLG now recruits more than 500 new Network Members to its membership weekly, largely in response to individual client requests, yielding approximately 30,000 new Members annually.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur mission is to transform the way the world\u2019s top professionals share expertise, learn, and make decisions, and this unparalleled group of leading thinkers and doers makes that mission possible,\u201d said GLG CEO Alexander Saint-Amand. \u201cWe\u2019re honored that more professionals choose to affiliate with GLG than with anyone else. Having the biggest available network means we can be faster and more responsive. That, combined with our commitment to delivering the right expertise for every question, makes GLG an essential resource for our clients as they tackle critical strategic and operational questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>GLG was founded in 1998 to serve professionals who needed perspective that couldn\u2019t be found in one-size-fits-all industry reports. It began connecting clients with smart people who had firsthand expertise or operational experience. Today, GLG serves the world\u2019s leading investors, entrepreneurs, corporations, consulting firms, nonprofits, and startups. Clients partner with GLG to address their most complex strategic challenges, make better business decisions, and advance their careers through conversations, mentorships, small group convenings, surveys, and other interactions \u2013 all within GLG\u2019s rigorous compliance framework. The company recently opened expanded offices in Austin, London, and Boston as it continues rapid employee and revenue growth in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>GLG requires Network Members to sign its Terms and Conditions of Network Membership, by which they agree to adhere to GLG\u2019s strict compliance standards. Each Network Member is also required to complete an interactive compliance tutorial. The tutorial is sector-specific, contains internal branching for certain questions, and is available in 20 languages. Among other things, the tutorial sensitizes Network Members to their confidentiality obligations and the importance of observing those obligations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More information about GLG Network Members<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GLG has Network Members in more than 200 countries around the world, and in the following regions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>North America: 274,000+ members<\/li>\n<li>Europe, Middle East, &amp; Africa: 117,000+ members<\/li>\n<li>Asia-Pacific: 95,000+ members<\/li>\n<li>Latin America: 14,000+ members<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Network Members are organized by their specialties into eight \u201cCouncils,\u201d as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Healthcare: 110,000+ members<\/li>\n<li>Technology, Media, &amp; Telecommunications: 100,000+ members<\/li>\n<li>Energy &amp; Industrials: 95,000+ members<\/li>\n<li>Consumer Goods &amp; Services: 90,000+ members<\/li>\n<li>Financial &amp; Business Services: 60,000+ members<\/li>\n<li>Legal, Economic, &amp; Regulatory Affairs: 20,000+ members<\/li>\n<li>Real Estate: 16,000+ members<\/li>\n<li>Accounting &amp; Financial Analysis: 9,000+ members<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>GLG\u2019s 500,000+ Network Members include more than 10,000 former C-suite executives from companies with annual sales over $100M, including more than 1,000 from the Fortune 500 and\/or FT Global 500.<\/p>\n<p>GLG recently launched an online video series called Expertise at GLG, to showcase a small sampling of the expertise available to GLG\u2019s clients. In the series, more than 75 GLG Network Members and others offer insight into their fields. New videos are available each week at <a href=\"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">glginsights.com\/videos<\/a>. Highlights so far include Kathleen Sebelius, the former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and Governor of Kansas,\u00a0on the future of U.S. healthcare; Jean-Claude Piris, the former senior European Union legal official,\u00a0on the EU\u2019s needed reforms; George Bodenheimer, former President and Executive Chairman of ESPN,\u00a0on the place of sports in the cable bundle; Dana Fiser, former CEO and COO of Jenny Craig,\u00a0on coming opportunities in the weight loss industry; and Jeff Kindler, former Chairman &amp; CEO of Pfizer,\u00a0on drug costs and research investments.<\/p>\n<p>GLG\u2019s website also hosts a video series, Leading Learners, which features GLG clients sharing how they learn in their work, including from GLG\u2019s Network Members. Those videos are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">glginsights.com\/videos\/ <\/a>and include Dyan Finkhousen of GE, Andrew MacLachlan of Calty Design Research \/ Toyota Motor Corporation, and Karen Sanders of Cisco, among others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About GLG \/ Gerson Lehrman Group<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GLG is the world\u2019s leading platform for professional learning. Business leaders, investors, consultants, social entrepreneurs, and other top professionals rely on GLG to learn in short- and long-term engagements from more than 900,000 members and other experts. Clients partner with GLG to address their most complex strategic challenges, make better business decisions, and advance their careers through conversations, mentorships, small group convenings, surveys, and other interactions\u2014all within a rigorous compliance framework. Global, technology-driven, and nimble, GLG\u2019s approximately 1,200 employees work in 22 offices in 12 countries. For more information visit <a href=\"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/\">www.glginsights.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Contact:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:press@glgroup.com\">press@glginsights.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, New York; October 11, 2016\u00a0\u2014 GLG (Gerson Lehr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[579,580],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}