Using Action Learning Conversations and Social Poetics to explore Striking Moments and support Reflexivity in Business and Management Education

In this paper, we discuss the role faculty at business schools and universities have to support executives in transforming business for good. We suggest Action Learning Conversations (ALC) as a method to support executives in exploring the social poetics of striking moments from a reflexive stance. We illustrate how faculty can support executives in embarking on future-forming conversations that will lead to more humanizing, ethical, and sustainable ways of leading. We present our understanding of management learning processes as relational and reflexive processes situated within “real “ business situations, and discuss how we, as faculty, can create safe learning spaces where seeds for future-forming processes, transforming businesses for good, can be sown. Two empirical examples from a Danish MBA executive cohort are presented and discussed leading to a conclusion that sheds light on how ALC and social poetics can be used to explore striking moments and support reflexivity in business and management education.