Welcome to the Global Recast Initiative (GRI) — a platform dedicated to engaging global leaders on grit, courage, and economic optimism in a fractured world. All at the intersection of global business, public policy, innovation, development, and diplomacy.

In an era where shocks are simultaneous and interlinked, the next era of global business and policy leadership will not be defined by operational excellence, but strategic resilience and values-led growth.

Global governance is broken. And our world has never been more divided. Many believe it’s a crisis of leadership. In a world of disruption, diplomacy must build trust across divides and adapt to a radically different global playing field—where power is distributed, and legitimacy is earned, not assumed.

The age of disruption demands a new policymaking mindset and business architecture, along with paradigms that are collaborative, adaptive, anticipatory, and context-aware.

Beyond the left-right and North–South binary narratives, GRI has an overarching objective: to recalibrate global strategy, generate actionable insights, and help devise pragmatic solutions to the most pressing challenges of our time.

Global leaders are embracing complexity and uncertainty, but far from history, economic theory, and subjective approximations of reality, to effectively leverage systems thinking for navigating multiple and interconnected global disruptions, grit and courage in leadership must be at the core of the debate. Leadership grounded in clarity, transparency, and empathy is now a strategic asset, not a soft skill.