2025 Pre-Symposium Workshop

Tuesday, October 21, 2025
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
 

Muma College of Business
University of South Florida
St. Petersburg, Florida, USA

Join us for our latest curriculum review and management workshop which will take place on Tuesday, October 21. Add this workshop on to your 2025 Symposium attendance or feel free to just attend the workshop on it's own. This workshop will provide strategies, frameworks and case studies demonstrating some of the leading practices and technology around the review and management of your graduate management programs. 

This workshop is geared toward individuals and teams planning for an upcoming curricular review, as well as those who are currently in the process of a curricular review. 

New to your role as an academic or administrative program leader? This workshop will be a great introduction to successfully managing your curricular review and innovation responsibilities. Attendees who are new to the process along with those who have already completed a review process are invited to attend this workshop which will be an interactive opportunity to learn from both from the presenters and the attendees who will be participating.  

Discounts for additional team members are available.

• Pricing for the workshop for Roundtable Members: $450 for your first attendee and $350 for each additional attendee from your institution
• Pricing for the workshop for Non -Roundtable Members: $600 for your first attendee and $500 for each additional attendee from your institution

Who should attend: Deans, academic directors, faculty, program directors, administrators, learning designers, and others who have impact on curricular and programmatic innovation, design and delivery of graduate business programs.

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Presenters and Facilitators:
 
Tawnya Means, Assistant Dean for Educational Innovation at Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign  Dr. Tawnya Means is the Assistant Dean for Educational Innovation at Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She leads the development and implementation of innovative ideas, technologies, and approaches across the College's educational portfolio. With 20+ years of experience in higher education, course design, and educational consulting, Tawnya has led teaching and learning teams and taught courses in entrepreneurship, strategy, technology, and leadership in remote teams. Her research interests include online and blended learning, active learning, learning space design, technology innovation, access to digital learning resources, generative AI for education, and faculty preparation to teach.

Mark Thomas  Dr. Mark Thomas is an Associate Professor of Strategy, Management & Leadership and the former Associate Dean of Grenoble EM, France. He holds a PhD from Lancaster University, UK focusing on temporal adaptation and speed in the change process during mergers and acquisitions. He is also an alumnus of Harvard Business School and is a highly active member of the Harvard Alumnus Network. He has worked in higher education in France for the past 25 years as professor, course director, director of business school programs and director of international affairs. He has worked extensively on a variety of international projects in some 30 different countries signed more than 100 international partnerships. Notable agreements signed include the universities of Cambridge, Columbia, Duke, and McGill. He has also created and managed off-site campuses in China, the USA, the UK, and Canada as well as establishing major alliance networks for international recruitment in higher education. Mark has more than 15 years’ experience of working for national and international higher education accreditation organisations (AACSB, EFMD, CEFDG etc.). He has served on the EFMD Programme Accreditation Board for 7 years and has been accreditation peer review member and chair for more than 10 years. He is accreditation mentor for both EFMD and AACSB and is the former Chair of the Associate Deans Affinity Group at AACSB. He has audited and assisted more than 40 business schools across the world in their accreditation process. He has participated in international advisory groups for the French Ministry of Higher Education and worked for the regional council of the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Region. He is the former President of the International Commission for the Alliance of the 40+ Grandes Ecoles of the region (AGERA) and former treasurer for this same organization.  He has taught Corporate Strategy, Strategic Management and Leadership at PhD, Executive Education, Masters, and Undergraduate levels. He has worked extensively with senior executives particularly in the high tech, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, aviation, and non-profit industries. He has taught and consulted for companies such as STMicroelectronics, Michelin, EADS (Airbus), Lufthansa, Valeo, and SwissAir. He has also been invited to teach at the University of Cambridge, UK, the University of Maryland, USA, Tongji Business School & Beihang University, China.​

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Questions?  Please email info@gbcroundtable.org

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