Transforming Business Education: Responding to a Rapidly Changing Business Context Tony Cooke, Co-Founder & CEO

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1 Transforming Business Education: Responding to a Rapidly Changing Business Context Tony Cooke, Co-Founder & CEO GBSN 12th Annual Conference, 1-3 November 2017

2 What is OPEN? OPEN (One Planet Education Networks) is a global education non-profit co-founded by WWF to accelerate the mainstreaming of responsible and sustainable business practice. We will achieve this by: developing practical tools that help close the gap between ambition and execution for educators, learners and businesses acting as an honest broker for collaborative innovation between educators, learners and businesses

3 The Changing Global Context 1. Planetary Boundaries

4 Earth Overshoot Day: 2 Aug, 2017 Earth Overshoot Day: 1 Nov, 1977

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6 The Changing Global Context 1. Planetary Boundaries 2. Population Growth

7 Source: DSS Research!

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9 The Changing Global Context 1. Planetary Boundaries 2. Population Growth 3. The Great Shift - S, E & Youth

10 Most of the 3 billion people yet to be born will live in 1,000 cities yet to be built. Most of these cities will be in the Global South and East. Most of their population will be >40.

11 80% of global population! 60% of global GDP by 2030! Source: Population Reference Bureau!

12 3 billion more middle class by 2050! Source: HSBC!

13 The Changing Global Context 1. Planetary Boundaries 2. Population Growth 3. The Great Shift - S, E & Youth 4. Extreme Inequalities

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15 $32,400/yr

16 The Changing Global Context 1. Planetary Boundaries 2. Population Growth 3. The Great Shift - S, E & Youth 4. Extreme Inequalities 5. Rise of the Machines

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18 Robots are expected to replace 47% of current jobs by % of people agree with this. 80% of people don t expect it to affect their job. (Source: Oxford University, 2013 and Pew Research Center, 2015)

19 The Changing Global Context 1. Planetary Boundaries 2. Population Growth 3. The Great Shift - S, E & Youth 4. Extreme Inequalities 5. Rise of the Machines 6. The Global Goals

20 Business is critical to delivering Source UN Sustainable Development Goals!

21 $12 trillion business opportunities from delivering the SDGs Source Business and Sustainable Development Commission, 2017!

22 Business Education Response?

23 WWF / OPEN Insights 1. Based upon a decade of working with business educators to embed sustainability into executive education and M-level formal programmes.! One Planet Leaders - executive education programme for senior managers (just below C-suite) developed with IMD in Switzerland and INSEAD in Singapore One Planet MBA - full-time and exec options developed with Exeter Business School in UK With combined global community of 800 alumni change makers.

24 WWF / OPEN Insights 2. Based upon partnerships & relationships with communities of change makers including:! Impact Hubs - global community of 15,000 change makers based out of 93 city hubs Nudge - global community of 60,000 change makers Business and Sustainable Development Commission - global CEO coalition of pro-sdg businesses SDG Transformation Forum - global multi-stakeholder coalition incl. educators, businesses, NGOs and strategic funders

25 Needs to be met Accreditation Reporting Requirements Low levels of Sustainability Literacy Busines s Schools

26 Needs to be met Shortage of graduates with sustainable business literacy Low levels of sustainability literacy Employe rs

27 Needs to be met Want fit-aroundme education, but can t get it Cost is barrier becoming a real Learner s

28 We need to be developing change agents We have a shared plan for a better world. But we simply won t achieve it through business-as-usual thinking and acting.! We need to reach a critical mass of change agents to catalyse a triple transformation at scale and pace. 1. Personal Transformation 2. Organisational Transformation 3. Systems Transformation Educators have a vital role to play in this.

29 1. Personal Transformation Business, government and civil society need a critical mass of people who care enough about balancing people, planet and prosperity in order to act. People with emotional connectedness to the issues, empathy for stakeholders perspectives, deep listening, collaboration and partnering skills and solutions-orientation are at the heart of this transformation

30 2. Organisational Transformation Business, government and civil society organisations all need to get better and faster at identifying and exploiting $12 trillion opportunities created by SDGs, by being more entrepreneurial and innovative. People able to recognise opportunity, respond creatively, take calculated risk, secure resources and get things done are at the heart of this transformation

31 3. Systems Transformation Achieving the SDGs needs business, government and civil society to work together like never before on solving shared problems People that are systems thinkers and able to span boundaries, build trust, then creatively innovate and get things done together are at the heart of this transformation

32 Business Education Response? 1. Gender equality

33 Gender Equality Worldwide, enrolment on non-mba business programmes is gender balanced.! However, MBA programmes lag behind at 36% female and this has plateau-ed in recent years. (Source: AACSB) This will be critical to addressing C-suite gender balance in the future. Gender equality alone is a $12 trillion opportunity globally. Challenge is partly about offering flexibility, but also content more appealing to women. Sustainable MBAs typically have >50% female.

34 Business Education Response? 1. Gender equality 2. Learner-centred design

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36 Change Agent Competency Framework Emotional connectedness to the world around them, incl. SDG themes! Systems acting & leadership! Empathy for stakeholders perspectives! Solutions-orientated! Responding creatively! Taking calculated risks! Spanning boundaries! Source: Adapted from EntreComp entrepreneurship competency framework Bacigalupo et al (2016) Builds trust! Collaboration & partnering! Spanning boundaries!

37 Needs to be met Want fit-aroundme education, but can t get it Cost is barrier becoming a real Change Agents

38 Business Education Response? 1. Gender equality 2. Learner-centred design 3. Trans-disciplinary

39 Education needs to get out of its silos Develop integrative thinking for SDGs Business Disciplines e.g. leadership, strategy, finance! Technical Disciplines e.g. engineering, design, computer science! Integrative Thinking for SDGs for Educators, Students & Businesses! Business Sectors e.g. agri-food, energy, healthcare! SDG Expertise e.g. gender equality, water security, resource efficiency!

40 Business Education Response? 1. Gender equality 2. Learner-centred design 3. Trans-disciplinary 4. Impact orientation

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42 Business Education Response? 1. Gender equality 2. Learner-centred design 3. Trans-disciplinary 4. Impact orientation 5. Support the 99%

43 The Top 1% hold more wealth than the world s poorest 4 billion people.

44 Questions? Contact Tony Cooke CEO +44(0) One Planet Education Networks Impact Hub Geneva 1 rue Fendt 1201 Genève Switzerland oneplanetbusiness.org