International Listening Association (ILA): https://www.listen.org

• The International Listening Association’s mission is to make listening an integral part of global culture and society by uniting, engaging, and inspiring international groups, organizations, and individuals who promote its practice, training, and research in varied fields and contexts.
• The International Listening Association launched in 1979 to fill a gap in the field of communication and meet the growing need to understand listening. The purpose was simple, “To promote the study and development of effective listening.”
• Today, the ILA leads an unparalleled global discussion on listening excellence. Continuing in the tradition of our founding members and so many others, the ILA offers listening-focused professionals and organizations opportunities to learn, teach, inspire, and collaborate.

The Global Listening movement: https://globallisteningmovement.org

• The Global Listening Movement is a vibrant collective of listening researchers, practitioners, educators, creators, and entrepreneurs dedicated to spreading the transformative power of listening.

Global Listening Centre: https://www.globallisteningcentre.org 

• The Global Listening Centre (GLC) is a dedicated premier international non-profit organization, which promotes the noble cause of listening worldwide and encourages individuals, organizations and institutions to work together to meet the urgent challenges of society. 

I Love to Listen Day, May 16^th: https://www.ilovetolisten.com

• I Love to Listen Day is a global initiative that is designed to include citizens from every country. It is a day to inspire, inform, practice, and create a heightened sense of awareness of the importance and power of listening in our lives.
• I Love to Listen Day celebrate its 20^th anniversary at the University of Maryland Listening Garden on May 16^th 2025.
• Founder: Marva Shand-MacIntosh. Maryland, Washington DC, USA.

Listening Alchemy: https://listeningalchemy.com

• “Listening is the doorway to understanding, the bridge to connections and the foundation of trust.”
• The purpose is to inspire individuals to integrate listening into what they already do in order to take their work to another level. And when great listening happens, we can all work smarter and feel better.
• Listening Superpower Podcast: Join host Raquel Ark to become a better communicator by listening more effectively and in surprising ways. Let’s work smarter and feel better together.
• Founder: Raquel Ark, Germany.

The Listening School: https://thelisteningschool.com

• The Listening School enables people apply effective listening strategies that enhance relationships, promote real time problem solving and increase productivity.
• Founder: Ebele Chukwujama, Lagos, Nigeria.

JUST listening: https://justlistening.net 

• JUST Listening fosters personal, organizational, and social change and transformation through the practice of conscious, intentional, compassionate, non-egoic and non-judgmental communication skills.

• JUST Listening is premised upon the beliefs that:

  • Being heard empowers the speaker
  • People hold the solutions to their own problems within
  • Skilled listening is creative, opening up new possibilities for all involved, and can be
  • a powerful tool for personal and social change.
  • Although rarely consulted or listened to, people on the social margins are the best
  • source of information and ideas about the issues facing them.
  • Skilled listening is possible only when one is actively cultivating self-awareness, and
  • regular habits of reflection.

• Contact: Sharon Browning, Esq. (sbrowning@justlistening.net) and Brenna McGinnis (brenna@justlistening.net)

Someone To Tell It To: https://www.someonetotellitto.org 

• Our vision is a world in which everyone matters, everyone is heard, and loneliness is diminished.
• Someone To Tell It To is a non-profit organization that is working to create better relationships, people, and workplaces through the transformative power that listening well has on creating deeper human connections.
• Founders: Michael Gingerich and Tom Kaden. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA.

Red Shoe Communications: https://www.redshoe.com.sg 

• Red Shoe turns executives into corporate ambassadors. Through training and coaching, we help these leaders maximise their communication skills.  Two of our most well-known programmes are presentation skills and media engagement techniques.  
• Why the name Red Shoe?  Because we help you refine your messaging so clearly, you feel ready to step into red shoes and tell the world. Metaphorically at least!

ECHO Listening Intelligence: https://www.echolistening.com

• ECHO stands for Effective Communication for Healthy Organizations.
• At ECHO, we teach more than “active” listening. We’re harnessing the latest scientific research that suggests that listening is a trainable skill with applications far beyond the old notion of simply paying better attention. Listening is a brain-based function, and no two brains are the same. Therefore, different people often hear things in different ways. This is why ten highly competent people can leave a meeting all with varying impressions about what they just heard.
• In order to work effectively with this cognitive diversity, we developed a scientifically validated assessment which generates the ECHO Listening Profile™. This tool helps each person understand what kinds of information they listen “to” and “for,” and how they apply the information they hear. With an increased awareness of individual listening habits, managers and sales leaders can objectively observe their own management style, shift to increase effectiveness and address any areas to improve communication and the sharing of information throughout all levels of the company.

Empathy Training: https://www.bestempathytraining.com 

• Learn to Facilitate an Empathy Circle and build the Empathy Movement!
• This is an Open Source Empathy Training. This means we invite anyone to use this training curriculum and resources to hold their own trainings. You can use, study, change, distribute and build on it. Just give credit and link back to this training website. We invite you to also help co-host, co-design, co-develop and co-promote the training for the mutual benefit and well-being of humanity and the planet.