Deans Conference

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19​ – 21​ October
Orlando, Florida, USA
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Leading a business school today means managing constant transformation while balancing institutional strategy, faculty culture, financial sustainability, innovation, stakeholder expectations, and long-term relevance in a rapidly changing global environment. Yet few spaces exist where business school deans can speak candidly with peers who truly understand the realities of the role.

The AACSB Deans Conference 2026 is intentionally designed as an exclusive leadership experience created specifically for business school deans from around the world.

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Bringing together nearly 700 leaders from more than 60 countries, the conference creates a trusted environment for open dialogue, meaningful peer exchange, collaborative problem-solving, and strategic reflection. It is a space where deans can move beyond surface-level conversations and engage directly with fellow leaders navigating many of the same opportunities, pressures, and leadership challenges.

Who Should Attend?

This event is exclusively for deans and heads of higher education business units (the highest academic authority or official of the business unit), and AACSB business members in leadership roles. Registration substitutions replacing one individual with another individual for the same event) will not be granted for this event.

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For more information, please contact [email protected].

Event Bundles

Packages of this event and others are available for a discounted price per attendee.

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2,440 USD/attendee
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Strategic Planning Seminar (Orlando)
17​ – 18​ October 2026
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Pricing (USD)
Business Member Pricing
By 20 September
1,995 USD
On or after 21 September
2,145 USD
Educational Member Pricing
By 20 September
1,695 USD
On or after 21 September
1,845 USD
Educational Non-Member Pricing
By 20 September
1,995 USD
On or after 21 September
2,145 USD

The Deans Conference has added value to both my leadership and my school. We are all having to deal with leadership management and understanding how to really help people innovate and change. Being able to talk to other Deans really enables us to have strategies and approaches that are going to be effective and drive positive differences for our faculty, our staff, and our students.

Frank Buckless, Stephen P. Zelnak Jr. Dean, Poole College of Management, North Carolina State University

The Deans Conference, through all the years I have been a dean, now for almost 12 years, has really been the highlight of the year—meeting all the colleagues, hearing what is happening around the world to get new ideas and to connect.

Hanna-Leena Pesonen, Vice-President, EASAC (European Academies Science Advisory Council); Professor, Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics

One of the ways the Deans Conference helps me as a professional and my leadership to my school is giving me a good context for what is going on, not just locally in my region, but globally: How is business education evolving and what do we need to be doing in our school to make sure we are positioned appropriately.

Ian O. Williamson, Dean, Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine

Attending the AACSB Deans Conference is really important, because that is where you really get to meet strategic decision makers. These are the people who are influencing their institutions’ futures.

Joanne Powell, Head of Advisory Services, QED: The Accreditation Experts