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462: Innovations in Leadership Development for Human Flourishing (13240)

Saturday, August 10, 2024
16:30 – 18:00 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)
Location: Hyatt: Grand Hall J
Session Number: 462
PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Teaching,Practice,International,Theme,Research,Diversity
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Calls for advancing a Responsible Management Learning agenda (Laasch et al., 2020) and frameworks of curriculum development that promote responsibility, sustainability and ethics are mobilizing interesting responses in redesigning and not merely rethinking executive education and leadership development (Guttel, 2021; Moldoveanu & Narayanda, 2022). Leadership development reflects a healthy balance of diachronic and synchronic elements in terms of learning practices ranging from innovations in experimental approaches (Birkenshaw & Gudka, 2022); art-based (Antonacopoulou and Taylor 2019a; 2019b); coaching and mindfulness (Badham & King, 2019); responsibility and conscience (Miska & Mendenhall, 2018) alongside established methods like action learning (Revans, 1982); collaborative and appreciative inquiry (Shani and Coghlan, 2021) to name but a few. This PDW builds on the success of last year’s launch of the series of AOM PDWs and other international fora intended to mobilize the momentum and respond to the creative systems changes called for this ‘decade of action’ (UN, 2021) and the priority of responsible leadership to take centre stage (WEF, 2021) in addressing United Nation Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs). We recognise that the achievement of the SDGs through innovations in management education requires creative and pluralistic approaches that embrace both a Global North and Global South perspectives, taking into consideration differences in the challenges of sustainability and the on-going geopolitical inequalities in resources and power. This PDW creates space to contribute to the ongoing problematisations and provocations whilst also showcasing emerging promising practices in management education and leadership development for radical change in the SDGs at different levels – through the way we (1) design and deliver management education, (2) co-create and use technology for transformation, (3) listen and engage students themselves in leadership and transformation, (4) challenge business school structures and cultures, (5) train and prepare those who teach in business schools to deal with the SDGs, and (6) organise and transform shared societal structures to accelerate the achievement of the SDGs. We promote therefore, a grander ambition for the innovations called for and the scope this provides for Business Schools to realize their impact in shaping a better world. We frame this as advancing a human flourishing agenda, which is anticipated to mark the makings of the 5th Industrial Revolution (Antonacopoulou, 2024) which has already catalysed a significant momentum in academic, practitioner and policy fora (Las Heras et al., 2023; VanderWeele, 2017). Business Schools need to develop a learning leadership capacity building orientation that works for the individual learners, that supports directly the leadership across levels (individual, team, organization) and propels impact that is marked by choices based on practical judgements that elevate decisions made as a direct response to grand challenges of our time.