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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

UNICON Spotlight
Paul Kern of Wisconsin School of Business CPED

Paul Kern of Wisconsin School of Business CPED

Paul Kern is the Director of Learning Products and Services for CPED His past roles include: Director of Operational Training, Quality Management, and Government Audit, Director of Operational Training – Enterprise, Manager or Operational Training

Research
Employers See Benefits For Micro-credentials

Employers See Benefits For Micro-credentials

If you are offering (or considering offering) micro-credentials, and if you work with (or are considering working with) intermediaries such as OPMs to do so, here is a short collection of articles you will find

Thought Leadership
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

UNICON News
New UNICON Community of Practice Forming

New UNICON Community of Practice Forming

Salesforce and other CRM Systems Following some table discussions at the Team Development Conference in Vancouver, it was clear that several Schools are implementing or transitioning to Salesforce Education Data Architecture as their CRM of

UNICON Spotlight
Katarzyna Kozicz Fonseca of Nova School of Business & Economics

Katarzyna Kozicz Fonseca of Nova School of Business & Economics

Katarzyna Kozicz Fonseca is Head of International Development of Executive Education at Nova School of Business & Economics. Nova SBE’s success is explained by its focus on a rigorous and demanding approach to teaching and

Conference Highlights
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

Research
UNICON-Sponsored Research: Partnering Effectively With Intermediaries In The Executive Education Market – Tom Ryan

UNICON-Sponsored Research: Partnering Effectively With Intermediaries In The Executive Education Market – Tom Ryan

UNICON sponsored this research initiative that was conducted by Tom Ryan, as part of a series addressing the topic of business model innovation in non-degree executive education. We aim to investigate ways in which university-based

UNICON News
UNICON Board Presents Awards For 2022

UNICON Board Presents Awards For 2022

Several awards were presented at the gala dinner on Wednesday evening, November 30 as the UNICON board showed its deep appreciation for schools hosting recent conferences. Hosting Awards were presented to Cornell University, host of

UNICON News
emlyon business school Joins the UNICON Consortium

emlyon business school Joins the UNICON Consortium

At the November  UNICON board meeting in Vancouver, the UNICON board approved Associate membership for emlyon business school. Founded in 1872 by the Lyon Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Lyon, France, emlyon business school has

Conference Highlights
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

Event News
UNICON Coffee Break Groups Still Going Strong

UNICON Coffee Break Groups Still Going Strong

Consider joining a quarterly conference call with peers from other schools with similar job responsibilities UNICON “coffee breaks” bring people together to discuss shared challenges, strategies and solutions.  And, it's a great way to network! UNICON facilitates these