The B Academics Teaching Roundtable is back!
This October, join us for our 2026 Teaching Roundtable, a virtual event that invites educators and practitioners alike to share how they are navigating the importance and value of business sustainability education. This year’s theme, “A Roadmap for Leveraging the Power of Purpose in Business and Beyond,” will center how organizations can influence industry and encourage growth by developing systems that integrate purposeful, ethical, stakeholder-focused policies. From investing your organization’s time into understanding the new B Lab Standards, to evaluating and overcoming the systemic obstacles of developing stakeholder-oriented business, there’s real value in business for good – and we can’t wait to break it all down.
We are thrilled to announce that Eric Ries, entrepreneur and New York Times best-selling author of The Lean Startup, will be joining us as our keynote speaker! He’ll be bringing years of industry insights and valuable perspective on how to ensure sustainability-centered businesses can actually keep sustainability at the center, regardless of success. Check out his latest book Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad… and How Great Companies Stay Great and follow @ericriesactual on Instagram!
- Incorruptible on Amazon
- Incorruptible on Simon & Schuster
- Incorruptible audiobook on Audiobooks.com
When? Friday, October 23rd
Where? Virtual
What time? 11AM-2PM EST
Who should attend? Faculty, Students, Staff, B Corp representatives, aspiring B corps, community members, B Lab employees and anyone interested!
Agenda
Stay tuned for the full agenda!
Planning Committee
- Kristin Joys, University of Florida
- Saheli Nath, University of Central Oklahoma
- Allen Gunderson, Greater Victoria School District
- Avi Mayerhoff, University of Illinois Chicago
- Jessica Yinka Thomas, NC State University
- Rachel Haynes, NC State University
- Rayna Phillips, NC State University
