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Executive Education Leadership in Turbulent Times (Webinar)

Executive Education Leadership in Turbulent Times (Webinar)

UNICON's recent webinar, "Leading and Managing Your Executive Education Team in Today's Turbulent Times," delivered critical insights for executive education professionals navigating what experts call a "polycrisis" - multiple interconnected global challenges happening simultaneously.Challenges for

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CRM Challenges in Executive Education: UNICON Group Meeting

CRM Challenges in Executive Education: UNICON Group Meeting

As CRM technology becomes increasingly critical for executive education success, UNICON's CRM Special Interest Group is leading the charge in defining best practices and shared solutions. With 90 members on our mailing list, this thriving

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UNICON’s New EdTech Hub: AI-Powered News & Insights

UNICON’s New EdTech Hub: AI-Powered News & Insights

We're excited to share that our EdTech news aggregator, developed by the UNICON Tech Disruptors Group and the UNICON Team, is now live in beta! This initiative was originally driven by Gene Mage (Michigan Ross),

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FT Executive Education Rankings 2025: UNICON Featured

FT Executive Education Rankings 2025: UNICON Featured

The latest Financial Times Executive Education Rankings 2025 have once again highlighted the strength and growth trajectory of our industry, with UNICON Executive Director Melanie Weaver Barnett providing key insights into the optimistic outlook for

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#UniconDirectors Conference in Hong Kong: Recap

#UniconDirectors Conference in Hong Kong: Recap

Returning from the bustling and intellectually stimulating environment of the #UniconDirectors Conference in Hong Kong, many of us are juggling a plethora of notes with an avalanche of emails. The challenge of distilling and sharing

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Antitrust/Competition Policy: Reminder

Antitrust/Competition Policy: Reminder

As a global consortium of business-school-based executive education organizations which includes competitors, UNICON established an Antitrust/Competition Policy. We remind our members of the policy at the start of UNICON events, and are doing so again

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Melanie Weaver Barnett: Why Universities for Executive Education?

Melanie Weaver Barnett: Why Universities for Executive Education?

UNICON Executive Director Melanie Weaver Barnett A journalist working on a piece for the Financial Times contacted me recently wanting to talk about this. His words: With all the options for executive development out there,

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Businessweek: Women Business Deans Meet to Share Challenges, Solutions

Businessweek: Women Business Deans Meet to Share Challenges, Solutions

Carol Hymowitz March 9, 2023 Bloomberg Businessweek "The underrepresented group is quickly growing, with about 29% of the deanships of US B-schools now held by women." In a conference room at the University of California

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12 Foundations of Values-based Leadership for Sustainability From The 2022 UNICON Team Development Conference

12 Foundations of Values-based Leadership for Sustainability From The 2022 UNICON Team Development Conference

Based on a talk by Daniel Skarlicki, Edgar F. Kaiser Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business "For leaders in executive education, aligning our work with personal values

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Applying the SHIFT model of behavior change to executive education

Applying the SHIFT model of behavior change to executive education

From the UNICON Team Development Conference 2022 – IEDP Applying the SHIFT model of behavior change to executive education As part of our continued efforts to drive increased value to the UNICON membership, UNICON has

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Ten Pieces of Motivation and Inspiration From The UNICON Team Development Conference

Ten Pieces of Motivation and Inspiration From The UNICON Team Development Conference

Motivation and Inspiration from UNICON’s Team Development Conference 2022 – from IEDP Many of us were privileged to gather in person for this year’s UNICON Team Development Conference in Vancouver, hosted brilliantly by the team

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Leadership Academy Completes Important Segment

Leadership Academy Completes Important Segment

  Before the Team Development Conference in Vancouver, the seventh cohort of the Leadership Academy attended an all-day session on "Creating a Value Proposition and a Business Model." The session was led by Mónica Sacristán