Zayed University is a signatory to the United Nations’ Principles for Responsible Management Education (UN PRME), and this session comprises five, short student presentations that report on assessments recently completed in two courses within undergraduate programs offered by the College of Interdisciplinary Studies; one within the Sustainability degree, and the other within the Business Transformation degree. In both instances, learning and assessment design has been influenced by UN initiatives. The first is AIM2Flourish, an appreciative inquiry methodology inspired by the SDGs that seeks to highlight the motivating factors within businesses that ‘do well by doing good’. The second is the PRME i5 project that seeks to transform business education through five impactful (i5) methods specifically designed to enhance teaching practices within the fields of business education and leadership education to deliver the socially responsible and environmentally sustainable outcomes our societies so desperately need. The main objective of the session is to showcase the students’ research work on UAE-based sustainable enterprise – both real and imagined – and for members of the audience to contemplate the transferability of these approaches to other contexts around the world.

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