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The 2026 PRME Pedagogy Certificate Series is a global professional development opportunity for educators seeking to advance and certify their pedagogical practice in responsible management education. Designed for those looking to deepen their teaching beyond content delivery, the programme focuses on how we teach: equipping faculty with the tools, mindsets, and approaches needed to cultivate meaningful, future-oriented learning environments.
Through a five-week programme, participants will engage with pedagogical approaches shaping business education today, including systems thinking, regenerative business, cultural intelligence, active and experiential learning, student agency, and the design of reflective and regenerative learning communities. The series emphasizes practical application, enabling educators to translate these approaches directly into their classrooms while engaging with a global community of peers navigating similar challenges and opportunities.
Offered in two cohorts to support global participation, the programme will feature five, two-hour sessions that combine structured learning with flexibility. Participants follow a consistent weekly journey, engaging in live sessions designed to foster dialogue, exchange, and community, alongside on-demand access to support continuity. Throughout the series, the focus remains on building pedagogical confidence, expanding instructional practice, and contributing to a broader shift toward more responsible, inclusive, and innovative management education.
This programme is designed for educators and practitioners at different stages of their teaching journey, including:
Faculty seeking to strengthen or refresh their pedagogical approach
Early-career educators building confidence in the classroom
Experienced instructors redesigning courses or programmes
Programme directors and curriculum leads embedding responsible management education
PRME Champions, Working Group members, and engaged community participants, as well as those looking to deepen their engagement in the PRME community
By the end of the programme, participants will be able to:
Design learning experiences that integrate systems thinking and regenerative approaches
Facilitate active, experiential, and culturally responsive classroom environments
Apply creative and reflective pedagogical methods to support student engagement
Foster student agency and co-creation in learning processes
Critically engage with AI and emerging tools in educational settings
Translate pedagogical innovation into their own institutional contexts
The series runs over five weeks, with participants following a consistent cohort experience. Each week explores a core area of pedagogical practice:
Week 1: Systems Thinking and Regenerative Business
Week 2: Designing Learning for Cultural and Creative Intelligence
Week 3: Active and Experiential Learning
Week 4: Student Agency and Innovative Learning (including AI integration)
Week 5: Reflective and Regenerative Learning Communities
Participants register for one cohort and attend a weekly two-hour session throughout the programme. To support global participation, sessions are offered in two time options.
Live participation is strongly encouraged to support dialogue and peer learning. If a session cannot be attended live, recordings are made available within the same week. All sessions are offered weekly on Thursdays with the AM cohort sessions running from 9:00 - 11:00am ET and the PM cohort sessions running from 6:00 - 8:00pm ET. Each live session will also offer an optional 15 minute question and answer session with the hosts to help support your certificate journey.
See more details about each session below.
1: From Systems Thinking to Regenerative Business
30 April, 2026
How can educators help students see the bigger picture? This session introduces systems thinking as a foundational lens for sustainability in business education. Grounded in PRME Pedagogy and the SDGs, participants will explore how to teach students to identify interconnections, feedback loops, and unintended consequences across social, environmental, and economic systems. Faculty will gain practical tools: from systemic design frameworks to classroom activities for helping students move beyond linear thinking and understand how the decisions they make as future leaders ripple across complex systems.
What does it mean to design a business that restores rather than depletes? This session will also explore circular economy principles and regenerative business models as essential content for contemporary management education. Participants will examine frameworks for teaching students to envision business models built on principles of regeneration, resource efficiency, and long-term value creation.
2: Designing Learning for Creative and Cultural Intelligence
7 May, 2026
Business education that prepares students for a globalized world must engage meaningfully with diverse knowledge traditions and cultural perspectives. This session explores practical strategies for embedding cross-cultural awareness into your teaching, including approaches that draw on decolonizing pedagogies to broaden what counts as knowledge in the classroom. Participants will work with activities designed to develop intercultural competence, cultural humility, and systemic awareness, equipping students to navigate diverse workplaces and global challenges.
How do we cultivate the creative and relational capacities that responsible leadership demands? This session will also explore the intersection of creative intelligence and emotional intelligence as essential competencies for business education. Participants will examine practical approaches for developing students' creativity, self-awareness, empathy, and interpersonal skills, recognizing that innovation and collaboration are deeply interconnected. We'll explore how to integrate creative problem-solving and social-emotional learning into your curriculum through design challenges, collaborative activities, and real-world scenarios. You'll leave with strategies for creating learning environments where students build both the imaginative and relational capacities needed for responsible, human-centered leadership.
3: Active and Experiential Learning in Business Education
14 May, 2026
Teaching large or diverse groups doesn’t have to mean passive learning. This session equips educators with creative strategies to activate student participation and deepen engagement in any classroom setting. We’ll explore how tools like live polling, structured peer dialogue, and collaborative exercises can cultivate critical thinking and openness to new perspectives. You’ll leave with a toolkit of adaptable strategies, from low-tech approaches to digital tools designed to make learning dynamic and participatory.
Play is a rigorous pedagogical strategy for helping learners navigate uncertainty and complexity. This session will also explore how structured playful pedagogical approaches, such as scenario-based games, simulations, and design challenges can foster creativity, build comfort with ambiguity, and develop adaptive problem-solving skills. Participants will experience these approaches firsthand and gain practical methods for integrating playful pedagogy into their courses.
4: Student Agency and Innovative Learning
21 May, 2026
What happens when students become co-creators of their own learning? This session explores practical approaches for increasing student agency in business education: from co-designed curricula to learner-led projects. Participants will examine how giving students voice and ownership in the learning process develops the leadership, initiative, and self-direction they’ll need as responsible managers.
How can educators harness AI and emerging technologies to enhance responsible management education? This session will also provide practical frameworks for integrating AI tools into teaching while maintaining critical engagement with questions of bias, ethics, and the evolving role of technology in education. Participants will explore how to use AI as a catalyst for reflection, simulation, and deeper engagement ensuring students learn not only to use these tools, but to critically evaluate their implications.
5: Building Reflective, Connected, and Regenerative Learning Communities
28 May, 2026
Sustained pedagogical growth requires connection and community. This session prepares participants for ongoing peer exchange and mutual support by exploring how communities of practice, storytelling, and sensemaking can sustain collective impact. Participants will build the relational foundations for lasting faculty networks and discover how shared narratives can strengthen commitment to responsible management education.
How can mindfulness, reflective inquiry, and regenerative thinking enhance business education? This session will also introduce contemplative pedagogies as tools for cultivating inner resilience, ethical discernment, and the capacity for deep, sustained engagement with complex challenges. Participants will experience these practices firsthand and explore how to weave contemplative moments into their teaching, creating spaces for reflection and renewal alongside rigorous academic content.
The programme offers two certificate pathways designed to recognize different levels of Participation and Applied Practice. Both pathways support educators in engaging with the full five-week learning journey while providing flexibility for those who wish to deepen their learning through reflection and implementation.
Awarded to participants who:
Complete the introductory session
Attend all five sessions within their scheduled weekly timeframe
This pathway recognizes active engagement in the full learning experience and is well suited for those looking to strengthen their pedagogical knowledge and practice through participation and exchange.
Awarded to participants who:
Complete the introductory session
Attend all five sessions, either live or on-demand, within their scheduled weekly timeframe
Engage in weekly discussion and reflection through PRME Commons
Submit a final capstone demonstrating application of learning (by December 1, 2026)
This pathway is designed for educators who want to move beyond engagement and demonstrate how they are applying and reflecting on pedagogical approaches in their own teaching. It provides an opportunity to document practice and contribute to a shared body of knowledge within the PRME community.
Discussion Engagement
Discussion engagement is assessed through authentic completion rather than formal grading. Each week, participants are expected to contribute one meaningful post in PRME Commons and engage with peers (min. 3 comments) in a way that reflects thoughtful participation and connection to the session content. The focus is on being present in the learning community, sharing reflections, and engaging in dialogue that moves ideas forward. Discussion engagement supports the overall learning journey and is recognized based on consistency and quality of participation, rather than being evaluated against a detailed scoring system.
Capstone Assessment
The capstone is the primary assessed component of the programme and is reviewed to a higher standard than the weekly discussion activities. For this submission, participants submit Course Evidence in PRME Commons that documents a course through which they have applied, tested, and reflected on ideas from the programme in their teaching practice.
The Course Evidence should present a clear picture of the course, including its learning outcomes, key concepts, pedagogical approaches, course description, and relevant SDG themes, alongside supporting materials such as a syllabus, teaching statements, readings, presentations, or images. Participants are also asked to reflect on the impact they are making on their students, helping to show how the course advances responsible management education in practice.
This submission is assessed for clarity, depth of reflection, coherence between course design and pedagogy, and evidence of meaningful application. While the weekly discussion boards demonstrate ongoing engagement and peer learning, the capstone is the main component used to determine successful completion of the Certificate of Applied Practice.
Recognizing that course-level change takes time to implement, participants will have until 1 December to submit their Course Evidence capstone in PRME Commons. This allows time to apply ideas from the programme in practice, collect supporting materials, and reflect on their impact.
To enroll in the 2026 PRME Pedagogy Certificate Series, participants must:
1) Register for either the AM or PM cohort by 30 April 2026
2) Complete the on-demand introductory session, including the accompanying activity, which will be sent upon registering. Once enrolled, participants follow their selected cohort across the five-week programme.
Our 2025 pedagogy certificates are more than just a recognition of participation, they’re a way to demonstrate growth, practice, and excellence in responsible management education. That’s why, beyond the Certificate of Participation, the Certificate of Practice and Certificate of Excellence ask for evidence of your work.
Evidence helps ensure that these certificates truly reflect the skills and impact you bring into the classroom. By sharing this, you not only validate your achievement but also contribute to a growing community of educators who are learning from one another.
Submissions have moved from a form to a dynamic discussion board to encourage reflection, exchange, and shared learning. We encourage you to submit to the 2025 PRME Pedagogy Certification Evidencing Board. If you need access to a PRME Commons Member account, please reach out to your PRME account administrator to receive an invitation.
Criteria for High-Quality Submissions of Evidence
We will review the quality of evidence according to the following criteria, which will be applied to both tiers of certificate submissions (Practice & Excellence).
A High-Quality Submission Should Be:
Evidence comes directly from real classroom or institutional practice, not hypothetical examples.
Materials demonstrate actual implementation (lesson plans, student work, outcomes).
The process is clearly documented, not just the polished end product.
Shows how decisions were made, what resources were used, and what steps were taken.
Explicitly connects evidence to the values of responsible management education.
Demonstrates how the pedagogy promotes responsibility, ethics, sustainability, and inclusion.
Goes beyond what happened to explain why it matters.
Includes critical reflection on successes, limitations, and lessons learned.
Materials are well-organized, easy to follow, and free of unnecessary jargon.
Evidence is presented in formats accessible to diverse audiences (e.g., clear slides, annotated notes, structured documents).
Certificate of Excellence Evidence Submission
Those who wish to attain the certificate of Excellence shall choose two from the following three outputs as evidence of tangible student outcomes:
Examples: anonymized assignments, project reports, presentations, design prototypes, or creative outputs.
Examples: short survey results, reflective journal excerpts, or quotes from students about their learning experience.
Examples: pre/post assessments, rubric scores, participation metrics, or skill progression (quantitative or qualitative).
This certification is exclusively for PRME Signatory Members and offered free of charge.
The Certificate workshops are designed in a new format by experts from winded.vertigo and meant to see educators leave with engaging activities and conversations they can use in the classroom. If you were certified in 2025, we welcome you to join us again in 2026!
All workshops are 2 hours with an optional 15 minute Q&A.
All of our sessions will be recorded and available on-demand. If you cannot make a live session, you must watch the on-demand to receive attendance credit. You still need to register and complete the introduction session to enroll.
The PRME Secretariat will be tracking participation in all the sessions for the Certificate of Participation. Once you've met the requirements, your certificate will be issued in 2- 3 weeks.
Great! We recommend you engage in the Certificate Series to receive tools and facilitation guides you can take back to your university and/or school. If you have additional questions, please reach out to pedagogy@unprme.org.
Yes! If you have any feedback, please share it with us at pedagogy@unprme.org.
Each session will have a 15 minute Q&A at the end to answer any questions you may have. If your question is not answered there, or in the FAQs, please write to us at pedagogy@unprme.org.