Webinar Description
As generative AI reshapes business education, the challenge is no longer only to teach students how to use new technologies, but also to cultivate distinctly human capacities that AI cannot readily substitute for, including presence, discernment, ethical awareness, reflexivity, and relational judgment. Recent AACSB work (2025a, 2025b) suggests that AI adoption is prompting business schools to rethink pedagogy in ways that preserve critical thinking, reflection, meaningful engagement, and human connection. At the same time, scholarship on embodied management education argues that learning cannot be reduced to cognition alone, but must also engage experiential, somatic, and practice-based dimensions that support the development of practical wisdom.
This webinar explores how two scholar-practitioners have integrated mindfulness and consciousness-based practices into mainstream and elective courses in a leading French business school. Drawing on concrete classroom experience, we share what has worked, what has not, and what tensions remain. We invite discussion on how management educators can design and foster learning environments that remain intellectually rigorous while becoming more grounded in human experience.
Please note: Due to the interactive and sensitive nature of these wellbeing webinars, these sessions will not be recorded.
As part of our strategic objective to promote wellbeing and positive mental health in business and management academics and doctoral researchers, we are excited to launch our series of webinars which will run monthly on Fridays 12:00 - 13:30 throughout the Academic year 25/26.
These webinars will be facilitated by Professor Sarah Robinson.
Provider Information
British Academy of Management
Who Should Attend?
The event speaks to all Sections, as detailed in the BAM Framework
Guest Speakers
Dr Julie Bayle-Cordier
She began her mindfulness journey in 2015 and obtained her Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) certification in 2019 from the Brown Mindfulness Center at Brown University, USA. Julie is an active member of Initiative Mindfulness France (IMF), a think tank whose mission is to raise awareness among public decision-makers about the benefits that mindfulness, as a secular practice, can bring to society, particularly in the fields of health, education, work, justice, and ecology. Julie’s research focuses on fostering ethics and meaning in organizations and her latest publications explore topics such as board members’ perceptions of corporate social responsibility or the impact of mindfulness on climate policy support. She is currently leading a study exploring the impact of mindfulness practices on French politicians at the French National Assembly.
Since 2017, Julie has developed mindfulness and wellbeing electives for numerous programs (Bachelor, Master, MBA, Executive Education), all of which consistently receive top ratings by students. Julie has facilitated hundreds of mindfulness workshops for faculty and staff, both online and in person.
Dr. Bayle-Cordier views mindfulness as both a profound personal discipline and a strategic lever for fostering meaningful individual and systemic transformation in pursuit of a more conscious and equitable society.
Prof Danny Sandra
He teaches in both bachelor’s and master’s programmes, including Human Behavior, Change Management, Conscious Consulting, and Positive Leadership Development. His teaching and research explore how embodied, reflective, and consciousness-based practices can foster more meaningful learning in management education, with a particular interest in how consciousness-raising experiences and entrainment dynamics shape transformative learning in executive development.
Alongside his academic role, Danny is an executive consultant and PCC-certified coach with over 25 years of experience in transformation, leadership, and organisational development. He has developed practice-based expertise in the application of agentic AI in organisational transformation. He is trained in craniosacral therapy, which has contributed to his interest in embodiment and somatic awareness as dimensions of learning and change. His broader scholarly interests include entrainment, spirituality, leadership, and organisational rhythms. He holds a PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Antwerp.
Chaired by
Prof Sarah Robinson
Sarah Robinson is a Co- Vice chair for the British Academy of Management with a responsibility for Academic Career Development (ACD). She is also leading on the academic wellbeing initiative, which is one of BAM’s current strategic priorities, and will be designing and facilitating this webinar series.
Sarah is currently Professor in People and Organisations at IÉSEG School of Management (Paris). She has research interests in professional careers, professional learning and development and has conducted several projects on academic careers including studies of: early career academics; academic wellbeing; academic doubt and failure; and doing academic careers differently.
Benefits of attending
- allow you to engage with the concept of workplace place wellbeing in business and management academia;
- give you the space to reflect on your wellbeing challenges and how to tackle them;
- offer you the opportunity to think about your own personal boundaries and to receive tips on how to set and maintain them.
Contact
Please contact the BAM Office at [email protected] with any queries.
Event Fee
This event is free for all to attend.
If you are booking multiple paid events as a Non-Member, it may be cheaper for you to purchase a BAM Membership as nearly all BAM Events are free or at a discounted rate for Members.
For more information, please visit BAM Membership
Registration closes on 17th June 2026 at 23:59 BST.
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