Teaching and Researching with the X-Culture Community

Presenter

Professor Jennifer SA Leigh
Nazareth University
Rochester, NY, USA

Abstract

This seminar will target international business faculty and focus on the X-Culture international collective that has provided over 100,000 students with project-based learning in global virtual teams. We will discuss the opportunities and challenges of this approach and strategies for aligning student learning outcomes with the intensive experiential learning approach. Additionally, Professor Jennifer Leigh will discuss the research groups associated with X-Culture, the resources available to researchers, and recent projects developed in the organisation's regular Xachthon paper development workshops.

Biography

Jennifer S. A. Leigh is a Professor of Management at Nazareth University in Rochester, NY, USA. She teaches undergraduate and graduate capstone courses in business leadership, business ethics, and social entrepreneurship. Her scholarship addresses responsible management education, grand challenges, cross-sector partnerships, and humanistic management. Her most recent research examines students’ generative artificial intelligence use in team-based academic work. In her community, she works with refugee resettlement agencies through student service-learning partnerships and as a consultant. Jennifer’s editorial roles have spanned open-access publications, traditional peer-reviewed journals, edited books, and a book series. Currently, she is a Co-Editor of the Journal of Management Education (JME), the 9-book Teaching Methods in Business Education Series (Edward Elgar), and is a recent past Co-Editor for Business Ethics, Environment and Responsibility (BEER). Jennifer has been honoured for her teaching and learning innovations by the MED Division - AOM (2021/2024), QS-Reimagine Education Gold Award – Sustainability Category (2021), Management and Organizational Behaviour Teaching Society (MOBTS) – the Lasting Impact Award (2020), and X-Culture – Best Professor Global Educator Award (2024).