The purpose of this paper is to present results from a literature review on Quality Management systems and the role of partnership to support sustainable innovative practice. Research shows that partnerships create value for the organizations and are an important component to developing responsive and sustainable systems. In education, partnerships between schools and business and international organizations is showing promise to enhance the quality of education and prepare youth for a sustainable global community as part of the UN sustainable development goals. The primary goal for schools seeking to enter into a partnership with an international organization is to foster the students’ growth as global citizens with an international mind set, and to increase and sustain their customer base. The primary goal for international organizations to enter partnerships with schools is to grow as an organization through their outreach into school communities and to foster students’ growth as global citizens. This research is important in that it will provide insight into the Quality Management practices taken by innovative sustainable partnerships which follow the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal Target 4.7, providing a quality education that promotes “a culture of peace and non‐violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development.” There is a growing need among private schools to create value for their customers by incorporating innovative environmental and sustainability educational opportunities for the students, as global awareness is increasingly growing throughout the customer base. Next steps, following this conference, will include a study which focuses on a private school in the United States that regularly develops and sustains innovative global partnerships. These partnerships are recognized as complex adaptive systems that contain a dynamic network of complex, interconnected pathways of human interaction that evolve and change based on episodes of disequilibrium. The sustainable relationship between the organization and the school depend and develop upon a basic formative structure. As there is a demand for private schools to develop innovative global relationships with organizations, there is also a demand by these schools for a vetted structure that can be implemented in order to develop and sustain partnerships. This topic will be the focus of the research following this literature review.