Educators
AI-Ready Business Schools: Strategies, Lessons, and the Road Ahead
Webinar Following the July 2026 update to A Framework for Artificial Intelligence in Business Education: Exemplars and Critical Themes for Successful Integration, developed by Inspire Higher Ed, AACSB is hosting a webinar moderated by the report’s author and AI expert, Tawnya Means, alongside a panel of globally and institutionally diverse business schools featured in the report.
The report informing this webinar is the result of a multi-year initiative to collect, examine, and share emerging best practices in AI integration across the business school community. Drawing from a wide range of institutional exemplars and experiences, the project aims to help business schools navigate the rapidly evolving AI landscape while advancing quality, innovation, and impact.
This timely discussion will explore emerging best practices for integrating AI across business schools and the critical factors shaping successful implementation. The conversation will highlight lessons, challenges, and strategies from institutions that are actively advancing AI integration in their schools.
Drawing from insights and emerging best practices identified throughout the report, this webinar will focus on three critical objectives for business schools navigating AI integration:
- Examine how business schools can strengthen faculty development through sustained investment, training, incentives, and support that build faculty confidence and capability in AI integration.
- Explore approaches for democratizing AI education and advancing pedagogical innovation by embedding AI literacy across all learning pathways—not only specialized programs—and leveraging AI to transform how learning occurs.
- Discuss how institutional leaders can navigate AI-driven transformation while balancing the urgency of adoption with institutional mission, values, and academic quality.
Attendees will gain practical insights into how business school administrators and faculty from around the world are navigating AI-driven transformation while remaining aligned with their strategic priorities and educational missions. The webinar will conclude with an opportunity for audience Q&A with the panelists.
Speakers
Dr Linda Dowling-Hetherington is the Director of Assurance of Learning at the College of Business, University College Dublin (Ireland). She holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Master of Business Studies from University College Dublin and a Doctorate in Education from the University of Bath, UK. She is affiliated with the College’s HRM and Employment Relations subject area and teaches human resource management and talent development at graduate level. She has been the recipient of teaching excellence awards at university and College level and has been included on the College’s Dean’s List of Outstanding Teachers. She has considerable experience in the design of co-curricular leadership development programmes, having created the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School's Global Leadership Programme. Linda's research interests focus primarily on talent development; supporting family carers in the workplace; the role of continuous improvement and process excellence in global HR transformation; and the impact of A.I. on student learning. Linda supports faculty in achieving the College’s assurance of learning objectives. She plays a central role on the Teaching and Learning team and leads on many of the College's faculty development initiatives, including new faculty teaching and learning orientation and regular Teaching Insights webinars and symposia.
Tawnya Means is a leading voice in educational innovation with over two decades of experience guiding institutions through technological transformation. As Founding Partner and Principal of Inspire Higher Ed consulting firm, she has worked with universities across six continents on online learning strategy and AI integration. Her work focuses on where ancient educational wisdom meets cutting-edge technology, exploring how AI can create truly personalized, engaging learning experiences at scale. As a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach, she brings both visionary perspective and practical implementation experience to help institutions enhance the irreplaceable human connections that make education meaningful.
Paul serves as Dean and university-wide Lead for Executive Education at the University of Miami. A transformative servant leader, Paul brings a campus-wide vision to higher education, enabling AI-driven innovation, championing research, propelling student success, fostering a sense of belonging, and promoting societal impact. A globally recognized AI thought leader with a record of advancing AAU/R1 institutions as chief academic officer, Paul is passionate about delivering tangible results in student success, sponsored research, revenue growth, interdisciplinary offerings, and philanthropy. Proven crisis leader, steering institutions through COVID-19, fiscal challenges, and pressures through shared governance, while ensuring stability and driving transformative impact.
Jennifer Percival, Ph.D., is Dean of the Schmidthorst College of Business at Bowling Green State University, where she has emerged as a leading voice in the intentional integration of Artificial Intelligence into business education. A strategic technology management scholar with a Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo, Dr. Percival brings deep expertise in technology strategy, process improvement, and organizational innovation to her leadership role. Under her direction, the Schmidthorst College launched the signature "TuesdAI Tip" initiative, a tiered pedagogical framework that meets faculty and students at their individual skill levels to accelerate AI fluency across the curriculum. She has championed the complementary concept of "Human Intelligence (HI)", advancing the philosophy that empathy, ethics, and complex judgment are the enduring differentiators in an AI-reshaped economy. Her impact at BGSU includes prioritizing AI integration and aligning with the complete student experience with workforce transformation including embedding industry-recognized certifications and Signature Work consulting projects into the curriculum. Dr. Percival serves as Vice President of the Mid America Business School Deans Association and an AACSB Regional Virtual Ambassador, where she continues to shape national conversations on the future of business education.
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