“What if partnering—not competition—became the core principle of corporations?”
Unthinkable? That’s exactly what we want to explore together.
The Partnering Corporation Think Tank Network brings together professionals, leaders, entrepreneurs, managers, academics, and changemakers who believe that business should not only deliver results—but grow humanity.
Together, we’re reimagining how organizations can be designed with a partnering core to steward our economy toward a more caring, sustainable, and equitable future—from the inside out.
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The global cost of our competitive economic paradigm is no longer just material—it’s relational.
Across industries and societies, we’re witnessing a deep erosion of trust, connection, and shared humanity. Though less visible than environmental degradation, this growing relational poverty is becoming just as existential as climate change.
It’s time to initiate a paradigm shift—from the inside out.
The Partnering Corporation Think Tank Network invites us to reimagine organizations with a partnering core—where care, kindness, belonging, and co-creation for the benefit of all take the lead.
Let’s build an economy rooted in our greatest human gift: the relational capacity to co-create—not just results, but peace, equity, and sustainability for us all: The value of we.
Born from a mission-driven commitment by Human Facts AG · The Value of We, this Think Tank is an open invitation to take part in shaping what comes next by asking the bold question:
“What if partnering—not competition—became the core principle of corporations?”
Partnering Corporation
We believe in a new generation of managers, entrepreneurs, and academics committed to building partnering companies—organizations that help steward the economy toward greater care, equity, and sustainability for all of us.
To support this shift, we bring together interdisciplinary knowledge and hands-on practice, creating a space where meaningful change can begin.
Guided by our Partnering Corporation Charter, we explore core themes such as:
Partnering strategies and objectives
Governance, processes, and systems
Performance measurement, rewards, and value distribution
You’re warmly invited to suggest topics at any time—and are welcome to co-host or lead a session if you bring experience or expertise in a related area.
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Become a member in our Think Tank Online Forum for free
Be part of our free space for meaningful dialogue beyond the quarterly Think Tank workshop sessions.
This is where ideas grow, questions deepen, and real-world and research-based contributions come together to advance our thinking about organizations with a partnering core. Whether you bring lived experience, professional insights, or academic knowledge—your thoughtful participation matters and is genuinely welcome.
We’re building this community with people ready to engage, contribute, inspire—and be inspired.
If that sounds like you—join us!
Mission
Our vision is to promote and advance shared standards for a partnering approach to management and organisation design.
Goals
In quarterly online workshop sessions, we will collaboratively explore, elaborate, and develop emerging standards and possibilities for partnering-based management and organisational design.
We will share:
Recent research insights
Ideas and use cases
Innovative practices
The sessions that might also inspire future whitepapers, education or tool developement, conclude with an optional informal networking space—a chance to connect personally with like-hearted people.
Your benefits
Deepen your expertise and expand your network with professionals committed to evolving management and organisational design towards a partnering paradigm.
Broaden your perspective on partnering: discover innovative global practices, explore solutions to common challenges, and find inspiration to apply partnering principles in your own work.
Contribute to change: Help shape a shift toward a more sustainable, equitable, and partnering management paradigm.
Set-up
The Partnering Corporation Think Tank Network is built on two key components that complement and enrich each other:
Quarterly Online Workshops Every few months, we host a 2–3 hour live session on Zoom, each one focusing on a specific theme from our foundational Partnering Corporation Charter. These sessions feature guest experts and create space for co-thinking, exchange, and knowledge building.
→ Learn more about the next session here.
The Ongoing Online Forum Between the live sessions, we gather in our free online network forum —a dedicated space to stay in dialogue, reflect on real cases, share resources, and co-create ideas. It’s where we continue the conversation and grow a body of practice and insight together.
→ Join the online forum for free
Scheduling & Topics
Each online workshop explores a core theme from the Partnering Corporation Charter—such as strategy, business models, governance, performance, or digital collaboration.
Hosted by Eva Bilhuber Galli and featuring guest experts, every session blends real-world insights with conceptual thinking.
Topics and dates are announced via our mailing list (you can sign up at the top of this page) and in our online forum—join us there to stay informed and reserve your spot early.
Have a topic, case, or idea to contribute? We’d love to hear from you - reach out anytime at hello@thevalueofwe.org.
Sponsorship & Support
The Partnering Corporation Think Tank is a mission-driven non-profit initiative, built on the principle that people contribute their time, energy, and expertise generously—without the exchange of funds.
To cover the essential costs of launching and hosting this space, The Value of We – Human Facts AG currently sponsors the initiative. In the long run, we envision these costs being sustained collectively—through support from the community itself—and by donating sponsors, and aligned funding partners who share our vision.
If you're interested in contributing to or supporting this Think Tank, we warmly welcome your ideas, reflections, and engagement. Just reach out to us at hello@thevalueofwe.org.
Meet
Dr. oec. Eva Bilhuber Galli
Eva is the founder of Swiss consultancy HUMAN FACTS AG with 20 years of experience in leading transformation with a partnering leadership approach across companies, networks, and ecosystems.
She is passionate about building trust in collectives—personally, organisationally, and digitally—and advocates for introducing Relational Capital as a company performance value to shift from a “me” to a “we” economic paradigm.
As founder of the Partnering Leadership Academy, she inspires new ways of leading in an interdependent world, and co-initiated the Partnering Corporation Charter with international peers.
Eva holds a doctorate in strategic management from the University of St. Gallen. She regularly publishes, among others in Leadership Quarterly, Harvard Business Manager, NZZ libro and Handelsblatt.
She previously held leadership roles in organisational and management development at UBS AG in Zurich and Frankfurt.
The Partnering Corporation Charter - Our letter of intent
This initial Partnering Corporation Charter is meant as a normative guiding framework for driving the discussion in our Think Tank across academia and practice, to advance the thinking about partnering as not only a social, but an economic paradigm.
No economic growth without advancing healthy human relatedness
As a partnering corporation, we see the relationships with our stakeholders and the interdependencies we are embedded in not as a means to be used and exploited for creating corporate business gains.
On the contrary: We see it as our purpose to serve this net of human relatedness as the highest common good of our shared humanity through our business activities.
In that, partnering is for us not only a behavior. It is our worldview, attitude, value, and our operational and organizational principle - in short, it’s our purpose, core role, and identity.
As a partnering corporation, we commit to become a driving force for healthy, stable and resilient human relatedness in everything we do – be it in our direct interaction with our stakeholders or indirectly through the strategic priorities, products or services, systems and processes we design. [...]
The rationale behind this Think Tank Initiative
The competitive economic market model has taken its toll.
There’s no doubt that it has brought material prosperity and helped reduce hunger and poverty in many parts of the world over the past century. Its visible shadow side—the depletion of our planet’s existential resources—is now widely acknowledged and increasingly being addressed.
What remains largely unaddressed is the invisible erosion of “we.”
In business, politics, and everyday collaboration, heated competitiveness comes not only at the expense of our environment—it also creates social divides that erode belonging, trust, kindness, peace, and shared humanity.
Our increasing relational poverty is not a side effect—it’s an existential challenge.
The competitive logic has reinforced a rugged individualism of “me versus you” and “us versus them.” It breeds mistrust, polarization, and loneliness—and, at its worst, fear, hostility, and violence. The current state of global and individual wellbeing makes one thing increasingly clear: what we are witnessing today is the long relational shadow of a societal system that, for generations, trained us to treat everything as a competition—hunting successfully for “what’s in it for me” as our Mantra to survive.
In an interdependent world, relational poverty hits us all.
From the boardroom to geopolitics, an accelerated competitive “winning over others” mentality leads to destructive stakeholder activism, corruption, unfair value distribution for the benefit of a few, and unsustainable practices. These dynamics spark conflict and war—while steadily eroding the possibility of trust, shared responsibility, and peace. This rising depletion of both individual human life and planetary wellbeing has one common root: a system logic that fails to nurture and grow what may be our most essential human source—belonging.
The good news is: our relational superpower is not lost—it’s only dormant.
Our unique capacity to connect heart, mind, and hand—to create what only a “we,” not an “I,” can unfold—is, spoken in competitive terms 😉, hard to copy or automate (even for AI). It has simply been sidelined as we perfected competitiveness over the last century. Now is the moment to reactivate this human superpower—and place it at the heart of our corporations to evolve, develop, and refine it for the benefit of all.
It’s time to reinvent corporations with a partnering core.
It’s time to set off a partnering, “all-of-us” economy—one that builds on our core human strengths: kindness, care, collaboration, and connection. And it starts with us—the entrepreneurs, managers, lecturers, researchers, and changemakers—who begin to value partnering success as much as business success.
Transforming long-standing paradigms isn’t easy—but it is possible.
And as Margaret Mead once said so wisely, it always begins with a small group of people. It begins with open dialogue, shared curiosity, and the courage to ask a simple but fundamental question: What kind of economy do we want next? And then, to take aligned action from within.
Thank you for being part of this shift—whether you're quietly planting seeds in your surroundings or courageously leading at the front lines.
Dr. Eva Bilhuber Galli
Founding Host Partnering Corporation Think Tank Network