Global Listening Centre

What Global Listening Centre does

Global Listening Centre is a UK-headquartered, US-incorporated non-profit organization founded in 2014 that operates as an international platform for the research, education, and promotion of listening as a discipline. Its core offerings comprise The Global Listener newsletter (reaching Issue 13), The Listening Connection blog, video interview series, annual Global Listening Festival, and four formal award programs — Listening Legend, Leadership in Listening, Outstanding Research, and Outstanding Article — plus the flagship Top 25 Outstanding Women Listeners (OWL) recognition run in partnership with the Cayman Islands Ministry of Education. The organization is governed through a Global Listening Board structured into divisions covering Healthcare, Environmental, Technical, Academic, Education Policy, Listening in Law, Listening Disorders, and Spiritual listening, with 100+ volunteer directors drawn from universities on six continents.

Underlying technology is a content and community platform rather than a productized software stack: a WordPress-hosted website, newsletters, video interviews, webinars, and event pages. There is no proprietary AI/ML, no app, no API, and no licensed data product described. The platform architecture is essentially a portfolio of digital content channels and governance committees layered over a public website.

The business model is non-commercial. Revenue is described as coming from donations (a 'Giving' page) and member/community contributions, with operations funded through academic partnerships and events. There is no disclosed pricing, no customers list, no payments infrastructure, and no third-party funding rounds or parent organization. The go-to-market is community-led and event-driven — recruiting volunteer academic directors, running award cycles, and publishing research-adjacent content — rather than sales-led. The organization serves academics and scholars (primary), healthcare professionals, educators, peace practitioners, and environmental researchers, with no reliance on any single revenue counterparty.

Name

Global Listening Centre

Legal name

Global Listening Centre

Website

https://globallisteningcentre.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Global Listening Centre is a UK-headquartered non-profit founded in 2014 that operates an international platform for listening research, education, and recognition, serving academics, healthcare professionals, peace practitioners, and educators through awards, publications, and an annual festival.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Communication Research and Education

NAICS

Professional Organizations (81392), Business Associations (81391)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Conversation Clubs & Speaking Practice Groups (EDAMAFAB)

Keywords

• Listening research
• Communication education
• Academic conferences
• Peace negotiations
• Healthcare communication

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership and Community Programs: The organization appears to operate through membership-based community engagement, with various director and leadership roles held by international academics and professionals who contribute to the organization's mission.
2. Donations and Giving: The organization maintains a 'Giving' section on its website indicating donation-based support for its mission to promote effective listening for global peace.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

The Global Listening Centre is a non-profit organization that promotes effective listening for global peace through research, education, advocacy, and community building. Its core offerings include award programs recognizing excellence in listening (Listening Legend Award, Leadership in Listening Award, Outstanding Research Award, Outstanding Article Award, Outstanding Women Listeners Program), publications (The Global Listener Newsletter), annual events (Global Listening Festival, Thank You for Listening Campaign), and structured divisions spanning healthcare, environmental, technical, academic, and listening-disorder domains.

Product overview

Global Listening Centre is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting effective listening for global peace. The organization operates as a platform-based structure with multiple specialized divisions including Healthcare Listening, Environmental Listening, Technical Listening, Academic Division, and Listening Disorders Research. The organization's core offerings include award programs (Listening Legend Award, Leadership in Listening Award, Outstanding Research Award, Outstanding Article Award), publications (The Global Listener Newsletter), campaigns (Thank You for Listening Campaign), and events (Global Listening Festival). The Outstanding Women Listeners (OWL) Program is a signature annual recognition initiative. The organization serves academics, healthcare professionals, peace negotiators, and the general public through research, publications, interviews, and educational initiatives.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• The Global Listener Newsletter
• Outstanding Women Listeners (OWL) Program
• Listening Legend Award
• Leadership in Listening Award
• Outstanding Research Award
• Outstanding Article Award
• Global Listening Festival
• Listening Interviews Series
• Thank You for Listening Campaign

Quantifiable outcome

• More than 500 wars occurred worldwide between 1946 and 2021, with only a quarter ending through peaceful negotiation, highlighting the urgent need for listening-based conflict resolution approaches.
• +1 more outcomes

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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No

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Ministry of Education, Government of Cayman IslandscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023Collaboration for announcing the Top 25 Outstanding Women Listeners in the World 2023 award program. The Ministry of Education partnered with GLC to promote and recognize outstanding female listeners globally, supporting the organization's mission to highlight women leaders in listening practices.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• International Communication Association: Global academic association for communication research including listening studies; a broader incumbent spanning hundreds of institutions worldwide that includes listening within a wider portfolio of communication subfields.
• Harvard Program on Negotiation: Established academic initiative at Harvard Law School focused on negotiation and conflict resolution including listening-centered approaches; an institutional incumbent in the related peace/negotiation space in which GLC operates.
• National Communication Association: A large, established communication discipline association of which GLC's Executive Chair is a Past President; covers listening as one of many sub-communication areas with conferences, journals, and member services at much larger scale.

Others

• Center for Nonviolent Communication: International non-profit focused on empathy, listening, and compassionate communication in conflict resolution; adjacent mission overlap with GLC's peace and listening domains.
• Institute of General Semantics: Non-profit studying symbolic behavior, language, and listening; GLC's President (Academia) Lance Strate is also President of IGS — a thematically adjacent organization with overlapping scholarly contributors.

Regional players

• World Soundscape Project: Academic initiative at WLU focused on acoustic ecology and soundscape research; comparable to GLC's Environmental Listening Division with overlapping scientific community.

Emerging players

• World Listening Project: Project dedicated to phonography, soundscape studies, and acoustic ecology; aligns with GLC's Environmental Listening Division and Technical Listening acoustic focus.

Direct peers

• Compassionate Listening Project: Non-profit dedicated to deep, empathetic listening in conflict zones and peacebuilding; overlaps with GLC's peace negotiations and Listening Legend/Peace division content.
• International Listening Association: Direct peer; a long-established membership organization dedicated to listening research, publications (Listening Perspectives journal), and annual conventions — overlaps directly with GLC's mission in the same listening-research niche.
• Academy of Communication in Healthcare: Professional association focused on healthcare communication research and provider-patient listening; directly comparable to GLC's Healthcare Listening Division and Listening Disorders focus.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles29 records

Funding overview

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