The Global Exchange

How is AI reshaping teaching and learning? And is business education keeping up? This episode of The Global Exchange features a rich conversation with Tawnya Means, founder and principal at Inspire Higher Ed, co-founder of AdvancAI Higher Ed, and co-founder of AI Convergence — ventures collectively focused on helping higher education institutions lead AI transformation.Drawing on a multi-year study of nearly 50 institutions, Tawnya unpacks the magnitude of the transformation that's underway and discusses how to use AI "as a learning machine, not an answering machine."The conversation covers the difference between cognitive offloading and cognitive surrender, how AI can support business faculty with instruction and pedagogy, and why the single most critical success factor for schools navigating this moment isn't just the technology, but the faculty development and leadership surrounding it.

Ronit Avni, CEO of Localized, and Dan dig into the growing imperative for “carbon intelligence”—a baseline fluency in sustainability and climate-aware decision-making that is becoming increasingly important to workforce development. But that’s just one piece of what Ronit calls the “skills triad”: green literacy, virtual fluency, and AI competency.

In an age where Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the very fabric of work, education, and societal systems, this session explores a critical question: How do we prepare individuals and institutions for relevance in an AI-driven world? Drawing from CFTE’s whitepaper The AI-fication of Talents, the talk examines how AI is shifting value creation, fragmenting the talent landscape, and demanding new models of readiness.

Michigan Professor and author of Business School and the Noble Purpose of the Market (released on April 8, 2025) has a candid conversation with GBSN CEO, Dan LeClair, about the strengths and limitations of business schools and their role in shaping the future of business and society.

Listen to our discussion featuring Mike Posner, Jerome Kohlberg Professor of Ethics and Finance and the Director of the Center for Business and Human Rights at NYU's Stern School of Business, as he addresses what lies at the root of the challenges global corporations face in addressing human rights failures in his new book, Conscience Incorporated. The rise of new technologies has made it easier than ever to document corporate misconduct -- but many businesses continue to overlook their human rights failures. In Conscience Incorporated, Mike Posner draws from decades of experience in human rights advocacy to provide a blueprint for how businesses can adopt more ethical practices.