Businesses
Educators
Enhancing Resilience Seminar (Las Vegas)
Seminar This seminar will begin at 9:00 a.m. and end at 5:30 p.m. The agenda will be posted soon.
Wherever they are across the world, business schools have been, and are, becoming more susceptible to onset, impacts and influences of disasters. Alongside this, and as vibrant places of advanced research, learning and contemporary debate and discussion, they are also increasingly sensitive to the influences and impacts of wider global events that require business schools and their leaders, faculty and students to consider and adapt to. Regardless of the scenario and circumstance, business schools must enhance their resilience and develop specific arrangements for handling the onsets and impacts of crises and disasters that affect them and their wider region and environment. For business school leaders understanding the state of the art in enhancing resilience and the strategic and operational value of resilience is an important component of effective leadership. This includes more effective understanding and management of resilience, risks and hazards, the development of plans, systems, processes and procedures to reduce risks of, prepare for and respond to events and incidents. They also need to communicate effectively with and care for staff, students and stakeholders on and off campus and more widely. There is also increasing potential to grasp technological solutions to enhance further resilience. Business schools, embodied in AACSB’s commitments to and standards relating to societal impact, also have a pivotal role to play in supporting their local, national and international constituencies and communities when crises and disasters occur.
Join a cohort of your peers for highly interactive sessions on how your school can grasp the strategic value of resilience and implement effective resilience strategies to alleviate the impact of events/shocks as well as fulfill the requirements of AACSB’s 2020 business accreditation standards.
Learning Objectives
- Identify the relevant AACSB Accreditation Standards that may relate to enhancing resilience and those where crises and disasters may have significant impact and effect.
- Understand the strategic value of resilience for business schools.
- Generate ideas on how to integrate enhanced resilience into your mission, strategic goals and plans, operational procedures and processes, and resource allocation as part of continuous improvement.
- Gain best practice examples from peer schools around the globe, that are engaged in advanced resilience strategies and activities and learn from the best.
- Connect with business education administrators who recognize the value of crisis management and how it can enhance and transform the management of emergencies and disasters at your business school and more widely.
- Become aware of the growing potential of new technologies to enhance the resilience of your business school.
Facilitator
Lee Miles is the Professor of Crisis and Disaster Management at Bournemouth University Disaster Management Centre and Deputy Dean of Bournemouth University Business School. Lee is an expert in the areas of resilience and risk management, with well over 100 publications and presentations. He has directed over 20 international research projects on resilience and crisis/disaster management subjects across the world and has worked with business schools, universities, local authorities, national governments and agencies, and international institutions, such as the European Union and World Bank on resilience projects. Professor Miles is an established, award-winning thought leader, holding Professorships at the universities of Liverpool (2006-2009), Karlstad (2009-2017), Loughborough (2011-2015) and Bournemouth (2015 -) as well as holding honorary positions at Lancaster University and University College London (UCL). He has also twice held positions as a European Union (EU) designated Jean Monnet Chair recognizing his contributions on European crisis management during his career. In recent years, Lee has provided thought leadership in terms of enhancing resilience and disaster management in Africa and the Caribbean. His research and intellectual contributions have focused on understanding and developing more effective Single Points of Failure (SPOF) diagnostics and techniques that can bridge the gap between theory and practice in crisis and disaster management. This innovative work was recognized by AACSB with the awarding of an ‘Innovations that Inspire’ spotlight to Bournemouth University in 2023. He is a regular contributor to national and international media, receiving two media awards for media contributions on crisis management issues in 2018. Lee is also committed to the practice of enhancing resilience and is an advocate for theeffective use of new technologies. He contributes to the resilience management, strategies, and arrangements at his own business school and is a member of government-led emergency response groups/pillars in Sierra Leone that have handled a wide variety of incidents and emergencies across the city of Freetown in practice since 2021.
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