Center for Business Skills Development - Carol and Tim have been visiting faculty at CBSD, Moscow, Russia, since its creation in 1995. Our work at CBSD focuses on leadership and executive growth. It has included sessions with executives, line managers and human resources executives. CBSD supplies a full range of organizational and personal development services to businesses across Russia.

CBSD was founded to help organizations enhance performance by providing training and consulting services in the dynamic Russian environment. CBSD focuses on bringing about change in thought paradigms, which makes personal and organizational improvement possible. FGI International friend and colleague, Dennis Hopple, is CBSD President in Russia. Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Management, has been the owner of CBSD since October, 1996.

The Center for Creative Leadership - Carol and Tim are proud to have been affiliated with the world-recognized Center for Creative Leadership since 1982. FGI International has a license to distribute the Looking Glass simulation. Carol and Tim also serve as adjunct faculty at the Greensboro and San Diego branches. FGI International was able to contribute to CCL history by being the first to offer the Looking Glass simulation in Russia and the first to offer it in China. Over the past five years FGI International has guided 200 high potential managers from multinational companies operating in Russia through this world-class developmental experience.

The Center for Creative Leadership, headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, was recognized by Business Week magazine as the #1 provider of leadership development in the world (Business Week, October 2003).

Commonway - was founded by Sharif M. Abdullah. Sharif is a leading proponent and catalyst for inclusive social, cultural and spiritual transformation. Commonway is an inclusive social change organization, dedicated to creating a society that works for all. Their goal is to foster inclusive, sustainable human societies on an ecologically viable planet.

If our society doesn't work for everybody, it doesn't work for anybody.

Carol and Tim have worked with Sharif to provide Commons Cafés for over 500 people. Future meetings built on the Commons Café model will take place in other U.S. cities. Carol and Tim are also actively supporting Sharif's Common Society Movement. Please consider getting yourself involved.

Emergenetics International - Geil Browning, Ph.D., is an author, educator, researcher, speaker and businesswoman. She is the CEO & Owner of Emergenetics International and The Browning Group International, Inc. - official distributor of Emergenetics products. Emergenetics is unlike any profile or assessment process you may be familiar with. Emergenetics is based on the fact that our personalities are shaped by our genetics as well as by the characteristics that have emerged from our life experiences.

Institute for Career Advancement Needs - FGI International has been a partner with The Institute for Career Advancement Needs, Inc. (ICAN) since ICAN was founded in 1981. The Institute for Career Advancement Needs, Inc., a not-for-profit training and development organization, has provided programs for over 10,000 women and men. Mary Prefontaine is the Executive Director of ICAN. Our primary work together with our colleague, Geil Browning, Ph.D., is with the leadership development programs Influence and Focus. Carol, Tim and Geil were the original designers and remain the primary faculty of these nationally recognized single-gender, executive development programs which are offered in Omaha, Denver, and Phoenix.

Institute of Noetic Sciences - Carol and Tim have found their membership with The Institute for Noetic Sciences to be one of the most valuable sources of learning, thinking and growing. Our work with IONS has inspired us to move forward with FGISpirit and in our own individual development.

Spiral Dynamics - For over 20 years, Carol and Tim have worked with and studied the Values work and research of Dr. Clare Graves. We have used it in our personal lives as well as in all aspects of our business. Dr. Don Beck of the National Values Center has provided information, education, inspiration and friendship. Their work in Spiral Dynamics is making a great contribution to today's dynamic world.

Spiral Dynamics(TM) is a new way to think about complex things, both in organizations and individual lives. The framework offers a fresh, powerful, and holistic approach to problem solvin and transformation. Spiral Dynamics is based on the pathfinding life work of Dr. Clare Graves.