From associate dean to the deanship. You don't have to walk it alone.
WIBE is the year-round room you join as a chair and stay in until you're the dean. Real peers in your exact seat. Every month. For as long as you need them.
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A focused gathering for the hardest seat in the building. Real strategy, real peers, and the conversations you can't have anywhere else. Built for associate and assistant deans ready to lead what's next.
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The room, in real life.
One day they're your colleagues. The next, you're their boss.
The day you stepped into leadership, the people who made academia bearable became your direct reports. Or your critics. The work you love arrived with budgets, personnel, accreditation, and crisis weeks no one trained you for. And the higher you go, the lonelier the room gets.
You don't need another conference that fades by November. You need people in your exact seat. Every month. People who already know what you walked into this year.
That's what WIBE is for.
The path to the deanship, made visible.
Most organizations sell you a program with an end date. WIBE gives you the room between the programs. The years where the career actually happens. You don't graduate out of WIBE. You move up through it.
Pioneers
The frontline. Where you learn to lead people, programs, and performance before the title fully catches up to the job.
Navigators
The hardest seat in the building. Faculty, budgets, accreditation, and programs all at once. The room that prepares you for the chair you actually want.
Deanovators
Where the decisions only deans face get made. With company instead of alone.
We can't out-credential the accreditor. We don't have to.
A standing room, not a cohort
The same 6 to 8 peers, matched to your exact role, every month, for as long as you stay. Not a five-day institute. Not a card you collect at a conference.
Built for the calendar you have
Only 8 percent of deans say they have time for their own development. WIBE is built for exactly that. One hour a month. Everything else on demand.
No one's permission required
No president's nomination. No institutional champion. No selection committee. A decision an academic leader can make, and fund, on their own.
Specific to your world
Accreditation cycles, rankings pressure, corporate partnerships, donor relations. We speak the language of the business school, not higher ed in general.
Still here in month thirteen
When the dean search finally opens, the conference network you built last spring is long gone. Your circle isn't. That's the whole difference.
Innovation brought to life
Workshops, speakers, and a network that help you think outside the box, in a room with the psychological safety to actually try.
Real leaders. Real rooms.
A few of the people who stopped doing it alone, and found a room that gets the job.
You never arrive alone.
WIBE is not only virtual. We bring members together at the conferences you already attend, and in the cities worth exploring. A palace in Vienna. The Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. Deep dish in Chicago. We connect members globally, so there is always a familiar face waiting when you walk in.
For more than 20 years I worked with business school leaders across six continents. I saw a leadership world that was exclusive, slow to change, and closed to the people who needed a way in the most.
So in 2020 I built the room I couldn't find. A place where leaders in business education could get honest counsel from people in their exact seat. No waiting for a title. No nomination. No one's permission.
What started in 2020 has become WIBE, open to every leader in business education. The heart of it has never changed. No one should have to carry academic leadership alone. If you're reading this, consider it your personal invitation.
Founder & CEO
No one should have to carry academic leadership alone.
Different beats better.
We don't compete on credentials. We build the one thing the institutions can't, real community and connections.
No permission required.
No nomination. No sponsor. No selection committee. A decision a leader can make on their own.
Drop the mask.
Real growth happens where people can be honest. We protect that room fiercely.
The need for this room isn't going away. The room is.
Support built for people in your exact seat is getting harder to find, not easier. WIBE curates it for you. And there's room right now.
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