Through continuous learning
Join an environment where shared learning, diverse perspectives, and real-world collaboration help you grow.
The Forum fosters adaptability and critical thinking, through a dedicated learning and leadership portfolio, equipping you to contribute meaningfully to shared solutions for complex global issues. In 2024–2025, we invested over CHF 2.5 million in staff development, reflecting our deep commitment to personal and professional growth.
Our organisational culture is grounded in a leadership model built on self-awareness and our collective ability to deliver results, strengthen collaboration, drive change, and inspire others.
At the Forum, every role contributes to global progress. We advance together by learning continuously, embracing diverse perspectives, and helping our partners shape solutions that make a lasting impact.
Our culture and values
At the Forum, our values define who we are and how we work. They shape our culture of trusted cooperation, guide our decision-making, and ensure we deliver meaningful, lasting impact through collaboration with partners around the world. We are actively fostering these values, building on them every day as we work to strengthen our culture together.
We foster an inclusive environment where everyone is treated with dignity, valuing diverse perspectives and collaboration across all roles and backgrounds.
We uphold honesty, transparency and accountability in everything we do, building trust-based relationships that strengthen our role as a trusted partner.
We provide an open, fact-based platform where diverse voices can engage constructively, ensuring decisions are guided by our mission rather than individual interests.
We operate on equal footing with all stakeholders, free from immediate pressures, enabling us to take a long-term view and maintain credibility.
We set high standards in our work, driven by innovation, creativity and a focus on delivering meaningful results for our partners and communities.
Guiding principles
Our commitment to these values is embedded in the way we work every day and guided by our Leadership Model, a set of behaviours and capabilities that enable us to drive global, systems-level change.
Self-awareness is essential for building relationships based on trust and honesty. It involves understanding our emotions, values, beliefs, and behaviours, and being mindful of how others perceive us.
Act as role models of respect and integrity, energise others around the Forum's mission, foster an inclusive culture, nurture talent for future needs, and build high-performing teams while ensuring their well-being.
Take accountability by openly receiving and acting on feedback, strive for excellence with clear objectives, manage conflict promptly and respectfully, navigate ambiguity with flexibility, and promote cross-functional synergies in line with institutional priorities.
Forge and mobilise coalitions by building mutual understanding across stakeholders, share information clearly and timely, communicate constructively with honesty and empathy, and value diverse voices with openness and respect.
Display strategic thinking by identifying high-impact ideas and articulating a value proposition, maintain a global mindset by understanding trends and shifting contexts, encourage curiosity and continuous learning, and create space for diverse ideas and experimentation.
Our commitment to you
Our holistic approach to compensation and employee support ensures you are looked after at every stage of your professional journey. We offer competitive financial packages, comprehensive benefits, and a state-of-the-art Employee Assistance Programme.
Competitive compensation
In addition to ensuring compliance with statutory benefits in all its offices, including pension plans, accident insurance, and coverage for loss of earnings due to illness, the Forum recognizes the importance of competitive compensation in attracting and retaining top talent. In all our offices, we offer market-tested salaries and cash allowances, including our Global Learning Award.
Flexible time-off policies
The Forum values work-life balance and provides generous time-off policies across all offices. This includes annual leave, public holidays, and other leave types to support your personal and family needs.
Health and lifestyle benefits
The Forum provides a variety of benefits, including our Global Wellbeing Allowance, access to Employee Assistance Programmes, ergonomic office equipment in all our workspaces, wellbeing programs and arrangements for healthy meals and snacks.
“Our work is about building people to people connections. This starts from within, with self, and mutual care, and extending this to our stakeholders and the communities we are part of.”
