COL Alliance and Horizon Initiatives share a common ethos & approach: broaden our horizons by embracing creative ideas, engaging in cross-cultural dialogue to gain unique insight, and applying our creativity, knowledge and intercultural appreciation to sustainable development problem-solving.

Horizon Initiatives is driven by COL Alliance, a group of social enterprises with a common ethos & approach, and thus, benefits from COL’s Keiretsu system. Steered by the COL Leadership Team, Horizon Initiatives benefits from the invaluable advice from the Group’s Global Joint Advisory Board from COL Alliance and LINS Institute (COL-LINS), which includes senior faculty, research fellows, consultants and graduates - specializing in Sustainable Development, Natural Resource Management, Social Innovation, Food & Water Security, Leadership Development & Education, Management & Strategy, and Media & Journalism - from top-tier universities: Purdue University, University of Florida, Harper Adams University, Cranfield University, University of Nottingham, University of Reading, Iowa State University, Cornell University, Columbia University, University of Wisconsin, The Wharton School (UPenn.) et al.  In addition, our principals, senior consultants and special advisors have served as senior researchers, program leaders and principal investigators on behalf of or in conjunction with international development programs funded & supported by USAID, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, World Food Programme, WHO, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, FAO, et al.

Horizon Initiatives is underpinned by COL’s four key divisions: Social Innovation & Venture Philanthropy, Tourism & Hospitality, Marketing & Media and Research & Education.  Horizon Initiatives, through dynamic partnerships & alliances, has built unique relational capital in North America, Scandinavia, EU, East Africa, Southern Africa, South America (Brazil & Peru), India and SE Asia.  In addition, the Leadership Team has built unique relational capital over two decades with our long-standing partners: the Endeavor Network including IMG, WME, and the Endeavor Foundation | UNICEF partnership. More recently, the Leadership Team has developed partnerships & alliances with industry leaders through organic and bolt-on strategies.

 350-plus years advising and/or overseeing operations on behalf of (or in conjunction with) International Financial Services Centre, Lloyd’s of London, IDA Ireland, Irish Funds Industry Association, European Union, USAID, IMF, WHO, FAO, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, UK Department of International Development, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, NATO, Doctors without Borders, Save the Children, CGIAR, GTCI, Smithsonian Channel, BBC, Sky, ESPN International, Star (Asia), Havas Creative, IPG, IMG, WME...