Embedding Sustainability and Responsibility into the Curriculum Workshop

This interactive workshop equips attendees with practical tools, ideas, and collaborators to bring sustainability, responsibility, and global challenges into the business school curriculum. Through small group sharing of current practices, resource exchange, and design sprints, participants will explore innovative content and pedagogical approaches to teaching topics such as ESG, human rights, and the UN SDGs. The program culminates in peer-reviewed curriculum modules and concrete action plans, enabling faculty to return to their institutions with ready-to-implement strategies for advancing responsible management education.

Facilitator

Erik Foley, Antea Group USA 

Erik Foley works as a Senior Consultant at Antea Group USA, an environmental health & safety and sustainability consultancy that serves 20% of the Fortune 100 and hundreds of other companies across technology, energy, consumer and industrial goods, and financial services. Erik is part of Antea Group's Sustainability Practice with service lines focused on water and climate risk, carbon accounting and disclosures, sustainability reporting, and materiality assessments. In his role as Senior Consultant reporting to the CEO, Erik specializes in providing strategic ESG advisory services to C-suite, legal counsel, and investor relations, as well as coaching and mentoring of junior employees. Clients have included private equity, oil and gas, cosmetics, consumer goods, fast food, banks, office supply retailers and more. Before joining Antea Group, Erik started the Center for the Business of Sustainability at Penn State's Smeal College of Business. He served as the founding director of the center while also developing and teaching courses in sustainability strategy, sustainable supply chain management, and social entrepreneurship. In this capacity, he assembled a Sustainability Advisory Board of executives from IBM, Verizon, Walmart, Amazon, Interface, PepsiCo, Caterpillar, International Paper, and Hershey. He was faculty director of the Business Sustainability Strategy Graduate Certificate Program, and co-faculty director of Penn State Executive Programs' "Building a Sustainable Supply Chain" short course whose participants have included private companies and the US Department of Defense. 

Barbara Ritter, The University of Toledo

Barbara Ritter is dean of the Neff College of Business and Innovation at The University of Toledo. She earned her PhD in industrial organizational psychology in 2004 from the University of Akron. Working under the tutelage of Robert Lord, Ritter studied and published in the area of implicit leadership theory, gender, and justice. In these fields, and in the area of management pedagogy, Ritter has more than 100 presentations and publications in outlets such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Relations, and Journal of Business Ethics. Prior to joining the Neff College, Ritter served as dean of the Wall College of Business at Coastal Carolina University for seven years before becoming dean at Jacksonville University in 2020. Ritter is an elected member of the AACSB Board of Directors and co-chair of the Eligibility Committee. She has previously served on the AACSB Initial Accreditation Committee and on the boards of Beta Alpha Psi, the Southern Business Academic Administrators, and Beta Gamma Sigma. She also served as division chair for the Academy of Management, Management Education and Development Division, and as an associate editor for Organizational Management Journal. Ritter is a recipient of a number of awards, including the Management and Organizational Behavior Teaching Society (MOBTS) Peter Frost Mentoring Award, which acknowledges individuals who are distinguished as gifted teachers and scholars and who unselfishly impart these gifts through mentoring students, colleagues, and associates. In 2020, Ritter was recognized by MOBTS with the David L. Bradford Outstanding Educator Award, which acknowledges a person with consistently demonstrated achievement over a lifetime, focusing on teaching and learning excellence, and in 2024 was awarded the Susan B. Herman Service Award which recognizes outstanding service above and beyond the call of duty, identifying and thanking those whose contributions represent the epitome of altruism, enthusiasm, and selflessness across management education.

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