The Global Leaders Announces a New Networking Platform

Online, July 23, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Los Angeles, Calif. - July 15, 2010 -The Global Leaders (TGL™), www.tgleaders.com, announces the launch of a global business network that is structured the way business works and is measured. Utilizing the latest Web technologies, TGL™incorporates the most effective way for people from business, government, education and philanthropy to collaborate on global issues that affect them and their business.

Following industry and reporting standards, over 300 structured groups provide a new business development and discussion platform. Founded in 2009, TGL™ already comprises over 100,000 members from high profile companies, philanthropies, government agencies and academic institutions.

"We've created a business platform and launched an easily understood and revolutionary web-site enabling leaders worldwide to interact through a variety of interest based groups," says George Bickerstaff, a TGL™ co-founder and senior level executive with years of Board and C-level experience at Novartis, GE, Dunn & Bradstreet and CRT Capital. "We strive for innovating the way networking is done with an aim of business creation and believe we have found a unique niche with our model."

Features of this new system include:

- Business development tools by position, region and industry
- Complete privacy
- Assurance that members are networking with their peers in the C-suite and boardroom
- Innovation focus in all groups
- Ignore the Member, a unique feature of The Global Leaders
- Sharing of knowledge, information and insight through dialoguing, Blogs, TGL™ University and TGLU™ Bookstore
- Preset groups
- Over 1,200 online professional development courses from Skill Soft, Mind Edge and others

Jim Gitney, a senior executive with companies such as GE, and Black & Decker, and co-founder of TGL™ adds, "Today's executive needs a network that can generate quick answers globally. Currently, sixteen universities, corporations and philanthropies are sponsoring topics of specific interest to Global Leaders - and that number will increase significantly. When coupled with our on-line learning platform of over 1,200 business courses in nine languages, TGL™ provides an unprecedented resource for all of us to be more effective, no matter where we do business."

About The Global Leaders
Founded in 2009, The Global Leaders enables individuals to find and network with global peers to facilitate business and philanthropic relationships through shared information, knowledge, and insights. Members lead or have led over 10,000 companies, with headquarters in over 60 countries that employ more than 28 million people. Visit www.tgleaders.com.