GLG Head of Platform Operations Siobhan Hogan Nominated for ABJ’s 2019 Profiles in Power

We’re excited to announce Siobhan Hogan, GLG’s Head of Platform Operations, has been nominated for the Austin Business Journal’s 25th Annual Profiles in Power awards. The awards, which recognize Central Texas’s leading businesswomen, emphasize leadership principles, community service, influence, and a commitment to empowering the next generation of women leaders. On August 23, Siobhan and […]

GLG’s Richard Socarides Talks Gig Economy at Web Summit 2018

Can the gig economy make the world work better? How can technology and gig platforms allow people to use what they know, love, and do best to serve a larger purpose – and get paid while doing it? Those are some of the questions posed to GLG Chief Communications Officer Richard Socarides, The Humanized Internet’s […]

GLG’s Richard Socarides Featured on BBC’s Business Daily

By Vivienne Nunis Are MBAs Worth It? MBAs – or Masters of Business Administration – are often seen as a must-have qualification to succeed in the business world. But now the number of students signing up overall is falling, with admissions down as much as 10 per cent at prestigious business schools in the US […]

GLG vastly expands downtown Austin office to connect more businesses with experts

By Will Anderson Photo by Casey Dunn Gerson Lehrman Group is one of the world’s largest “expert networks” — it charges clients for connecting them with experts in a variety of fields, from technology to banking to product development. It is based in New York City but has its largest office in Austin — 84,000 […]

MBAs And PhDs By The Hour: The Expert Economy Takes Off

By David Goldsmith You don’t need to Uber across town or hire web designers on Upwork to know the gig economy is exploding. More than 57 million people in the U.S. freelanced in 2017, which is about one-third of the workforce. Within it is a less visible but growing class of knowledge workers – professionals with specialized […]

Expert Platforms, GLG Featured in New Report

The Rise of the Expert Economy is the subject (and title) of a new report co-authored by Bruce Reed, co-chair of The Aspen Institute Future of Work Initiative and former Chief of Staff to U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, and Matthew Atwell of Civic, a bipartisan policy ideas company. The independent report, subtitled Could Sharing Wisdom Be […]

Alexander Saint-Amand Guest on Life Skills That Matter Podcast

Alexander Saint-Amand was a guest on the Life Skills That Matter podcast, hosted by Stephen Warley. In the interview, Saint-Amand discusses how GLG came to be, why the best way to learn something is by talking to another person, and how he thinks about maintaining the company’s vision while scaling the idea behind it. Saint-Amand […]

Rethink the Office Kitchen

By Jennie Morton GLG Brews a New Idea Photo by Linda Chow With a mission to promote the exchange of expertise, the company wanted its New York city office to reflect the same values. GLG took the idea of water cooler chat and caffeinated it instead with a coffee bar. “Our previous offices had a […]

GLG CEO Alexander Saint-Amand Featured on Kara Swisher’s Recode Decode Podcast

GLG CEO Alexander Saint-Amand was a guest on Kara Swisher’s Recode Decode podcast. One of the most influential and widely listened to podcasts in the world, Recode Decode features interviews with some of the biggest names in business, media, tech, and politics. Saint-Amand’s episode, entitled “Is ‘Uber meets Harvard’ the future of learning?” sheds light […]

GLG’s Richard Socarides Highlights the Value of Sharing Tech Expertise

By Amy Neumann This article is part of a series of interviews, Future Tech for Good.” The interview is from WebSummit 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal, focusing on future technology for social good – #FutureTech4Good. Richard Socarides is many things: a former Senior Advisor to President Bill Clinton, a passionate advocate for human rights and LGBTQ people, and […]