Who Should Attend: Business school deans and others who head higher education business units.

Sponsorship Opportunities

Seminar topics include:

• Leadership and Management of Strategic Change
• Faculty Management
• Building and Maintaining Relationships
• Financial Development
• Accreditation Continuous Improvement Process
• Experienced Deans Leadership Forum

Seminar’s Learning Objectives:

• Create your leadership development plan.
• Take away essential tools and techniques for success and longevity as a dean.
• Prioritize strategic initiatives, create methods to track progress over time in achieving key goals, and benchmark your school's operations against those of a selected group of peer institutions.
• Identify ways to engage all stakeholder groups to raise the school's visibility and increase effectiveness in development and fundraising.
• Glean best practices for generating revenue, including integrating development with marketing, developing fundraising strategies/tactics, and bringing fundraising activities to successful closure.
• Develop strategies and management practices for recruiting and retaining the talent needed to support your school's mission, including managing faculty up to their individual and collective capabilities.
• Integrate these new skills into the school's continuous improvement process.
• Build contacts with deans at other schools. 

Seminar Facilitators:

• John Fernandes, president and CEO, AACSB International
   
• Yash Gupta, dean, Carey School of Business, The Johns Hopkins University
   
• Dan LeClair, vice president and chief knowledge officer, AACSB International
   
• Tim Mescon, president, D. Abbott Turner College of Business, Columbus State University
   
• Gail Naughton, dean, College of Business Administration, San Diego State University
   
• Andrew J. Policano, dean, The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine