Católica Porto Business School (CPBS) is actively engaged as associate partner in the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI), an international, multi-sector community focused on catalysing the development of globally responsible leadership and practice. GRLI emerged as a resulting from a strategic partnership between the United Nations, the European Foundation for Management Development and AACSB International.

Among other initiatives within GRLI, CPBS partnered with five other GRLI universities in Asia, Europe and North America to launch an international program on Globally Responsible Leadership for Sustainable Transformation. This is a world-first post-graduate level course that brings multiple perspectives from around the world on leading organisations in a sustainably transformative way.