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The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a “she-cession” that disproportionately disrupted women-owned businesses, particularly in the service and retail sectors. In its aftermath, digitization became a critical lever for survival, adaptation and growth. Join us for a timely Power Hour featuring Dr. Tatiana Manolova, professor of management at Bentley University and a leading scholar in women’s entrepreneurship, as we examine global research on how women entrepreneurs leveraged digital tools to stabilize revenue, retain customers and navigate unprecedented disruption. Drawing on her forthcoming white paper, Women Business Owners and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Digitization as a Crisis Response, this conversation will explore what drove resilience, where structural barriers persist, and what digital capability means for building stronger, more crisis-ready businesses in an uncertain global economy.

Bentley's Leadership Accelerator is a personalized leadership intensive aimed at career professionals, executives and senior leaders with a minimum of 10 years experience. The program consists of three different leadership assessments to determine your leadership style, three days of in-person classroom training to build on the findings, and four hours of one-on-one executive leadership coaching that provide individualized guidance and support. You'll emerge from the program with a detailed leadership plan and the skills and support to apply it in your existing and future roles. Learn your leadership style, develop a leadership plan, actualize your plan with one-on-one executive coaching. |April 3rd, May 8th & June 5th, 2026

April 7, 2026 | The 2026 Global AI Summit, themed 'The Business of Intelligent Transformation,' is a strategic examination of how organizations translate AI innovation into sustained business value across all industries. Explore how organizations align technology, people, and purpose to navigate complexity, redesign work, and build adaptive organizations across four integrated tracks:

Join Bentley faculty member, Mateo Cruz, Ph.D., for a conversation that explores how everyday acts of courage can shape stronger, more inclusive workplaces.

September 30th, October 1st & 2nd, 2026 | Understand of the role of Artificial intelligence in mainstream and emerging competitive environments. Build a foundation for better business inputs and outputs, leading towards more accurate and insightful results while maximizing efficiency. Learn how algorithms can enhance market leadership strategically and responsibly. Explore the intersection of humanness and technology and the ethical concerns they pose. Learn how to direct AI to help you achieve your goals and boost productivity, guided by faculty AI experts. Gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge prompt engineering tools, building essential skills to craft effective AI prompts that enhance outputs and optimize model training.