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David Fearon, Central Connecticut State University (Professor Emeritus)
Jackie Geraci Bardoorian, Leadership Development Practitioner

The David L. Bradford Outstanding Educator Award recognizes Dave Fearon's lifetime of focusing on teaching and learning. Has he?  Why? Dave puts this to a test in conversation with former student from the 90’s, OB practitioner Jackie Geraci Bardoorian.  Is there something about how Dave taught, and how Jackie learned lasting in impact to this day? Might the prospect of creating everlasting teaching and learning be within reach of all of us? Crib note: Yes.

Christine Rivers, University of Surrey / CMEdu

The value of learning & teaching qualification for doctoral students, ECRs and practitioners

Centre for Management Education, Surrey Business School, university of Surrey, (UK) offers a 6 month, blended Post Graduate Certification in Management Education to doctoral students, ECRs and practitioners who want to pursue a career or transition into academia. This panel session will give an overview of the programme and most importantly discuss and share experiences from students on the programme and facilitators. The PGCert ME is delivered in collaboration with members of MOBTS including Prof Barb Ritter, Dr Kerri Brannen, Prof Paul Hibbert to name few. The panel will also be joined by a representative of AACSB. AACSB has been supportive of L&T qualifications in this space and will add their view of what value one adds to have a recognised qualification when applying for teaching positions in business schools.

Join Fellows Allen Cohen, Gary Coombs, Dave Fearon, Jeanie Forray, Kathy Lund Dean, Barb Ritter, Joe Seltzer, and Bill Torbert in the annual Fellows session in this informal roundtable format.

Belinda Wade, University of Queensland
Tomas Piccinini, University of Queensland

Sustainability management is rapidly progressing from an operational task to a strategic imperative one as environmental and social concerns shape the business environment. Scenario planning is increasingly being used by companies and governments to explore the potential impact of future challenges. Applied in a management education context scenario planning offers teachers of sustainability a tool through which they can promote creativity while developing student knowledge, skills, and abilities, preparing them for work in an increasingly dynamic market environment. Within this article, an instructional innovation is presented as a two-stage workshop designed as an experiential exercise to promote creativity and generate scenarios linked to sustainability. The first stage of the workshop utilizes LEGO to generate creativity before the second stage builds on these creative foundations guiding student teams through the construction of scenarios around sustainability challenges. An evaluation is presented for the instructional innovation reporting its success in producing skills in creative thinking within cohorts of postgraduate students at a major Australian university.