Mainstreaming Sustainability
A lot of my work involves exploring how we can mainstream sustainability into business education at all levels. I approach this from various angles but always with a focus on how to make it relevant and useful to your audiences. For ten years I shared my thoughts on my blog in collaboration with the UNPRME called PRiMEtime, in a regular column with AACSB and articles in other publications. Today I share best practices on my blog Giselle’s List.

Sustainability and Management Education (recent)

Opinion Piece
Business Schools need to get serious about sustainability. Too many institutions are not living up to their own green rhetoric. Here’s a four point plan to change that.
Financial Times, January 18, 2022

Journal
Business education and the SDGs: A critical look at whether and how schools are engaged, what is missing and how to move forwards (based on data from 2015-2020)

Journal
From challenge to opportunity – Management education’s crucial role in sustainability and the SDGs – An overview and framework (July 2017, International Journal of Management Education
Recent

Giselle’s List
Every Monday I share a carefully curated list of ideas and resources focused on mainstreaming sustainability into higher education.

Mapping
An overview of how business schools are mapping the SDGs and what they are mapping.

Students
Recent (2021) paper on how management education is engaging students in the SDGs in the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education
Specific Guidance (selection)
- An overview of how schools are mapping the SDGs (SDSN September 2021)
- How We Talk About Responsible Management Education (AACSB, 2017)
- The State of Sustainability in Management Education - Challenges and Opportunities (AACSB)
- The Greening of Business Schools (Corporate Knights, 2017)
- The Transformational Model ( co-author)
The Future
COVID
- Why Now is the Right Time to Act on Sustainability (AACSB, 2020)
- Adapting and Leading in the New COVID-19 Reality (AACSB, 2020)
- The new outside my window and working from home (part 1 and part 2).
- List of Resources to Support Your COVID-19 Response
- How Business Schools are responding to COVID-19 – examples from the PRME community
- Adapting to a New COVID-19 Reality – 9 Tips and Tools for Schools (part 1 of 2)
- 18 Ways to bring the SDGs into classroom discussions and assignments (Giselle's List, 2022)
- Moving Forwards: SDGs and Business School (AACSB, 2019)
- Why the SDGs Matter to Your Busines School (AACSB, 2018)
- Management Education’s Role in the SDGs isn’t limited to providing quality education (SDG4). It is broader and more important than that.
- How Business Schools are Engaging in the SDGs - Examples from SDG 1 -9 and 10 to 17 (2021)
Examples
- Business and Business School Collaborations (AACSB, 2017)
- 9 Tips for Successful Business School and Industry Partnerships (AACSB, 2016)
- The Importance of Partnerships for the SDGs - Experiences from INSEAD (2021)
- National, regional and global collaborations for sustainability - Universidad External de Colombia (2020)
- Hosting International Networks at Universities – Reykjavik University and the Arctic Circle
- Integrating Sustainability into the Finance Curriculum - Experiences from Gustavson School of Business (2021)
- Impact Investing in the African Context – University of Cape Town
- Fostering Discussions around Impact Investing Internally and Externally – Sauder School of Business
- Impact Investing at Business Schools – 7 Impact Investing Competitions for Students
- Impact Investing Series – 10 Ways Schools are Bringing Impact Investing to Campus
- Training the next generation of impact investing professionals through the Social Finance Academy – Smith School of Business
- Special Feature October: Impact Investing at Business Schools, What’s happening and why you should be taking note
- Journal Paper: How Management Education is Engaging Students in the SDGs. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education July 2021.
- AACSB: Reaching All Students: Business School's Responsibility to Society (April 18, 2017)
- Creating Sustainable Mindsets - SDG focused Action Learning Projects at Antwerp Management School (2021)
- Experiential learning for and by students - Fordham (2021)
- Engaging the Next Generation of Business students in the SDGs - Examples from Around the World (2021)
- Engaging Every Student in the SDGs Every Day - Swinburne Business School (2020)
- Engaging Students in the School's Sustainability Strategy - IESEG (2020)
- For Students, By Students – Student Engagement at TBS Business School, France
- Engaging Secondary Students in Responsible Management and Sustainability
- Research Focus on Food – Huddersfield Business School
- 30 Ways Business Schools are Supporting SDG 2 Zero Hunger – World Food Day
- Empowering Women to Innovate (AACSB, 2019)
- 18 Schools, 18 Approaches – International Women’s Day (3 part series)
- Empowering Women on and off Campus – Monash University Malaysia
- Empowering Women on and off Campus – Munich Business School
How I can help

Lectures and Training
Speaker at events, faculty training and lecturer on various sustainability topics.

Research
Conducting multi-stakeholder research on various sustainability topics in relation to management education and beyond.

Strategy Development
Advise on a school’s sustainability strategy in particular how to communicate and engages stakeholders.

Content Development
Writing articles or reports on sustainability related topics.
A Selection of Articles Exploring Business and Sustainability
Get in Touch
Interested in developing new innovative approaches to sustainability? Have an interesting approach you would like to share? I’d love to hear from you.