Strategic Leadership Development in Business Education is an immersive, two-day AACSB Academy workshop designed to support current and aspiring business education leaders across industry and academic staff, faculty, and administrative roles as they navigate the realities of strategic leadership in today's complex global environment. A defining feature of this experience is its guest-speaker-led model, with distinguished leaders guiding the learning through real stories, practical lessons, and candid advice drawn from their own leadership journeys and philosophies across diverse institutional and cultural contexts.
Participants gain insight into leadership pathways, early credibility-building moves, strategic decision-making under pressure, common pitfalls to avoid, and how to shape culture and influence across varied governance structures and stakeholder environments. Through structured reflection and self-assessment, peer dialogue, Q&A with guest speakers, interactive exercises, and action planning, participants leave with increased confidence, motivation, clearer direction, and a personalized roadmap for leadership growth and next steps.
Facilitators
Jasmina Selimovic is the former dean and professor of finance and quantitative economics at the School of Economics and Business University of Sarajevo (SEBS). Previously she held the position of SEBS's Vice-Dean for Academic Affairs and International Cooperation for six years, in two consecutive mandates. Selimovic's fields of professional interest include quantitative finance, more particularly insurance, finance, financial mathematics, actuarial mathematics and risk management. Selimovic has extensive professional experience in quality assurance and management in higher education and has led the SEBS's Accreditation Team in the processes of obtaining the two most prestigious international accreditations in higher education, namely The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD). In 2017, Professor Selimovic became a member of the EFMD's EPAS Accreditation Board and served in two consecutive mandates until 2023. She was engaged as chair of the European Advisory Council of AACSB for three years. She regularly serves as a peer review team member for the AACSB and EFMD institutional and programme accreditations. She is a member of many International Advisory Boards. Professor Selimovic has been guest lecturing at University of Istanbul, Fatih University, University of Nebraska Lincoln and many other institutions. She has participated as a leader, co-leader, researcher, consultant, and associate in various scientific and consulting projects and studies. She is also engaged in projects for World Bank, European Union and Regional Economic Forum.
Sarah Vaughan is external Senior Advisor Quality Enhancement for ICN Business School, France. She has over thirty years’ experience in senior leadership roles (both faculty and professional support services) across a portfolio of activities including program design, learning innovation, internationalization, strategic planning and initial and maintenance accreditation processes for national and international bodies (AACSB, AMBA, EFMD). Sarah currently is an AACSB mentor for schools in the Middle East, serves on a number of international Advisory Boards and chairs accreditation visits for French, Swiss, Belgian and European accreditation bodies. Vaughan is a graduate of the University of Leicester (UK) and holds a master’s degree from the University of Poitiers (France).
Who Should Attend:
- Aspiring, new, and experienced deans and associate/assistant deans
- Department chairs, program directors, and center leaders with strategic or cross-functional responsibility
- Senior professional staff leaders in areas such as strategy, accreditation, quality assurance, operations, and external relations
- Faculty leaders serving in school-wide or institutional leadership roles
- Industry and business member leaders partnering with business schools on strategy, talent, innovation, and mission-aligned impact.
To get the most value from the experience, participants should have current or emerging responsibility for leading people, initiatives, or strategic priorities within their organization.
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