A Global Forum for Visionary Leadership
The Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit at Case Western Reserve University presents Good Business: A Global Forum, bringing together visionary leaders, entrepreneurs, business professionals, and changemakers who are redefining what it means to do good business.
Today’s organizations function in a connected world driven by fast technological and AI advances. In this new environment, local leadership and cross-sector teamwork are key to creating meaningful global impact.
Across industries, leaders are shifting focus from personal success to collective well-being - enhancing their organizations, communities, and the environment through teamwork and a dedication to positive change.
Why Good Business Matters Now
Collaboration Over Competition
Bring together diverse stakeholders to co-create solutions that strengthen entire ecosystems rather than focusing on individual organizations.
Local Action, Global Impact
Leverage regional insights and community connections to drive sustainable change that resonates worldwide.
Shared Value Creation
Build business models where profit and purpose align, strengthening both bottom lines and communities.
An Experience Like No Other
Good Business brings together innovators, changemakers, and corporate realists who believe business can fuel both profit and positive impact. This is nothing like a traditional conference. There are no long slide decks, no passive audiences, and no dull moments. Instead, you will step into a fast-paced, highly interactive environment filled with bold ideas, dynamic conversations, and the kind of collaboration that sparks real innovation.
Keynote Insights
Known as “The Reinvention Guru,” Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva is a scientist, business theorist, fractional mining executive, serial entrepreneur, and award-winning author specializing in resilience and reinvention.
She has helped global leaders and Fortune 500 companies—including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Coca-Cola, IBM, Cisco, L’Oréal, Henkel, and Knauf Insulation—reinvent their business models, leadership, and culture. A four-time TEDx speaker and author of The Chief Reinvention Offi cer Handbook: How to Thrive in Chaos, her work has reached over one million people and has been featured in Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, and Forbes, where she is a regular contributor.
Live Design Studios
Rooted in Appreciative Inquiry and fueled by cross-sector collaboration, the Live Design Studios create a high-energy, studio-style environment where participants generate actionable solutions, build new partnerships, and leave with a renewed sense of purpose.
In these interactive sessions, you will co-create real solutions with peers who are navigating similar challenges. Together, you will turn big ideas into practical strategies you can begin implementing right away.
The Questions Driving Our Work
What Does Good Business Look Like Today?
When local leaders come together to create global impact, they become the role models redefining what true success means. We will explore organizations that are thriving financially while strengthening their communities and advancing environmental sustainability.
How Can Organizations Collaborate for Shared Value?
Organizations of all sizes can work together to build value that strengthens both communities and local economies. In this session, we will explore partnership models, cross-sector initiatives, and collaborative frameworks that expand what is possible when organizations join forces to multiply their impact.
What Practices Build Resilience and Belonging?
In a rapidly changing world, leaders need the ability to foster resilience, strengthen belonging, and support long-term sustainability. We will identify the leadership practices, organizational cultures, and strategic approaches that help create thriving organizations where people and ideas can grow.
Rooted in Appreciative Inquiry
The Global Forum operates as a living laboratory where business leaders, academics, and the next generation of changemakers co-create solutions that address entire systems rather than isolated problems. Our approach is grounded in Appreciative Inquiry, a strengths-based methodology centered on discovery, imagination, and design.
Instead of focusing on what is broken, Appreciative Inquiry invites people to envision what they can build together. This positive and collaborative framework helps participants identify existing strengths, imagine bold new possibilities, design practical solutions, and commit to creating sustainable, long-term change.
Discover
Identify strengths and successful practices
Dream
Envision bold possibilities for the future
Design
Co-create actionable solutions and systems
Deliver
Commit to sustainable transformation
Who Should Attend
Business Leaders
C-suite executives and senior managers seeking to align profit with purpose and drive sustainable organizational transformation.
Social Entrepreneurs
Innovators building ventures that address social and environmental challenges while maintaining financial sustainability.
Sustainability Professionals
Corporate sustainability and strategy leaders implementing ESG initiatives and driving responsible business practices.
Changemakers
Professionals across sectors committed to using business as a force for positive community and global impact.
More Than an Event — A Movement
The Fowler Center's Global Forum represents a fundamental shift in how we define success in the business world. It's a movement toward a new reality where collaboration replaces competition, leadership is shared across stakeholders, and impact is multiplied through collective action.
Live Design Studios
Collective innovation unleashed
Actionable Solutions
Co-created during the event
Action-Oriented
Tools and strategies you can implement immediately
"Business at its best is an agent of world benefit — a platform for innovation, inclusion, and sustainable prosperity for all. The challenges of our time are deeply interconnected, and so must be our solutions."
The Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit
Hosted by the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management, the Fowler Center has been at the forefront of exploring how business can serve as a catalyst for positive global change. For years, the Center has convened thought leaders, pioneered research, and developed frameworks that help organizations create value for all stakeholders — not just shareholders.
The Center's work is grounded in the belief that when businesses operate with intention and integrity, they become powerful engines for solving society's most pressing challenges. Through research, education, and convenings like Good Business, the Fowler Center continues to shape the conversation about business's role in creating a thriving, equitable world.
Good Business.