Dear Academy of Management Colleague: Are you interested in
transforming management education to include more significant and
urgent attention to sustainability? If so, then Gordon Rands (of
Western Illinois University) and I invite you to attend and
participate in an upcoming Academy Professional Development Workshop
(PDW) on the topic of Sustainability in Management Education, which
will be held on Saturday, August 13th, from 8am to 10am at the San
Antonio Marriott Rivercenter Salon A. This session will feature a
number of forward-thinking, geographically diverse authors who
published in the Academy of Management Learning & Education (AMLE)
journal fall 2010 special issue on that same topic. The authors will
briefly summarize and update their work and then co-lead small group
discussions with attendees interested in their topics.
This interactive session’s topics include the need for more
transformative sustainability management education, embedding
sustainability into corporate training, sustainability
boundary-spanning across organizations and sectors, training
organizational sustainability leaders, sustainability co-evolution of
disciplines and programs, models of developing sustainability
offerings, as well as several other related and interesting subjects.
Our session goal is to encourage attendees to join the AMLE guest
editors and authors in developing an action agenda (using social and
traditional media) to advance sustainability in management education.
Our ultimate goal is to encourage well-informed commitments to a deep
sustainability transformation of as many of our profession’s
stakeholders, organizations, and societies as possible, as soon as
possible. Join us!
Mark Starik
George Washington University
San Francisco State University